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kpete

(72,018 posts)
Sun Aug 17, 2014, 04:58 PM Aug 2014

Police won’t ‘kill your child’

Police won’t ‘kill your child’



Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson on Sunday called on President Barack Obama to use his position to explain to white Americans that they do not continually have to fear that police would “kill your child” as African-American parents do.

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“I’m saying to you that if he can inform American society that, ‘Look, yes, we must keep the law. Yes, we must keep the peace. People must calm their passion. But let me explain to you why people might be hurt, why they might be angry, and why they might be upset,’” Dyson continued. “He has a responsibility to tell that truth.”

“Especially white people, whose white privilege obscures from them what it means that their children can walk home and be safe, they’re not fearful of the fact that somebody will kill their child who goes to get some iced tea and some candy from a store,” he remarked.......

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/17/michael-eric-dyson-spells-it-out-for-white-people-police-wont-kill-your-child/

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Police won’t ‘kill your child’ (Original Post) kpete Aug 2014 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author Courtesy Flush Aug 2014 #1
Look at how he got criticized for his Treyvon Martin comments n2doc Aug 2014 #2
Obama CANNOT say that. MohRokTah Aug 2014 #3

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MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
3. Obama CANNOT say that.
Sun Aug 17, 2014, 05:32 PM
Aug 2014

Just like Jackie Robinson COULD NOT respond to the racist cat calls.

It's not fear. It's simply the fact of how the African American "first" MUST conduct themselves.

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