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sheshe2

(83,940 posts)
Fri Oct 20, 2017, 06:58 PM Oct 2017

This 23-year-old clip.

https://www.facebook.com/ATTNVideo/videos/1766621330309487/

This 23-year-old clip about racial profiling is going viral because it's still relevant today. This from the TV show Family Matters.

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From the comments:

Dena Presley This is why the professional athletes are taking a knee! They are not doing it out of disrespect for their country, they are doing it to bring attention to racial profiling and unnecessary police brutality.

Salma Malma One cold fall night I was driving home, saw one of my neighbors kids who was walking home from school after a basketball game being stopped by a cop I pulled over and it talked to him it was bc he was wearing a hoody in a white neighborhood I said he’s only 15 he’s a good kid from a good family he’s my neighbor, didn’t let him take him or talk to him any longer I took down his name, told the kid to get in my car it was a quite sad drive home.

Sharhonda Oda My heart breaks for him because I see it all the time, I know that demeaning feeling that he felt. God bless you for stopping and standing up for him, when most people would have kept driving ❤


Robert Payne And they have been using those excuses for years. "He ran a stop sign" or "He fit the description..." and even if Carl didnt have access to all the car jackin suspects, that reason STILL doesnt make ANY sense. He said "It was was dark and he is a black guy"🤔

Then how in tf can you say he matched the description of a suspect if its too dark to see his face clearly???👀

And they have been getting away with that for years.
THATS why they kneel.

There is a different set of rules with the way our communities are policed.
And those open and fluid interpretations of the law lead to MANY injustices.

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Nothing has changed other than in this TV segment he made it out alive.
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