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Related: About this forumHillary 1996: The Super-predators must be brought to heel
Fear mongering and race baiting:
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Hillary 1996: The Super-predators must be brought to heel (Original Post)
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
OP
For sure. These kinds of racial scare tactics helped build the mass incarceration state
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#6
From Super-Predators to the 'Knockout Game': Looking into a trend that isn't
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#4
valerief
(53,235 posts)1. Takes one to know one. nt
peacebird
(14,195 posts)2. +infinity!
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)6. For sure. These kinds of racial scare tactics helped build the mass incarceration state
2 million people in prison.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)3. So sweet, kind, and understanding.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)4. From Super-Predators to the 'Knockout Game': Looking into a trend that isn't
"Since the days of slavery, into the days of super-predators, and now the time of the Knockout Game, there has always been a strong need to believe that hordes of young black men will overrun the country in a fit of raping and pillaging. It's how we justify ourselves. Information can't compete with national myth."
-CoatesCheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)5. A term that just chills me when hear it...
She uses a term that it just chills me when I hear it and that is super predator. I am of that generation of super predators. Thats where I come from and our current policy today has been an absolute, absolute disaster.
-Coates