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In reply to the discussion: It is going to be a FUCKING REVOLUTION! [View all]Number23
(24,544 posts)just makes me want to do exactly what my man in your card was praying for.
And we all want to do something about the militarization of police. But the idea that a) they just got militarized on Obama's watch or that b) everything was super de dooper swell between black folks and the cops BEFORE the cops starting playing soldiers is just so fucking IGNORANT and is so typical of the shit that gets posted here over and over and over again complete with the +1s and attaboys from the equally privileged and fucking clueless. This ain't got shit to do with the goddamned Third Way. This is shit America has ALWAYS done.
Cops have been killing black folks FOREVER. Every cop in the country could be issued one of those musket guns that they used in the Revolutionary war and there'd STILL be DEAD NEGROES in every town. I'm just so goddamned sick of the endless attempts to obfuscate and distort. Until cops can stop seeing every person with melanin as a threat and as a criminal, and until this country gets serious about providing a more holistic approach to affirmative action, including providing our children with more opportunities and improving schools in our neighborhoods, then nothing is going to change. And typing "THird Way!! ThirD Way!!!" in every 2nd post might give you tons of high fives from morons on DU but it won't do anything to address what is really going on.