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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou're told it's your fault
Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII 19hYou're killed police, you're told it's your fault. You're killed by covid-19, you're told it's your fault. You live in neighborhoods saturated with poverty, you're told it's your fault. Rarely are you told about the policy, about the history, about the literal knee on your neck. twitter.com/ClintSmithIII/status/1266441789524901889
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You're told it's your fault (Original Post)
bigtree
May 2020
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spicysista
(1,663 posts)1. The "coroner" needs to go, too.
This system of white supremacy doesn't work because of just one bad apple. It takes a support network to be effective.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)3. exactly
...an entire infrastructure of state-sanctioned racism operating right in front of us, unashamed and emboldened by the highest office in the land.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)2. Any "potential intoxicants in his system?" WTF?
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)4. In other words, he shouldn't have stopped breathing
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)5. Does he look like this guy?