Back to Jim Crow intimidation, or maybe we never left it behind in the first place.
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Black 14-year-old Carrying a Puppy Tackled and Choked by Police for Giving Them a "Dehumanizing Stare"
Steven Hsieh
Nor do I think that it can be shrugged off as just "the South."
From the war on drugs to the war on terror, law enforcement's battle against minorities serves as pacification.AlterNet
1 Black Man Is Killed Every 28 Hours by Police or Vigilantes: America Is Perpetually at War with Its Own People
Adam Hudson
Oh, and then there's the women.
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Dartmouth Quick to Punish Rape Protestors Instead of Actual Rapists
Katie J.M. Baker
And this is just one day's posting at AlterNet!
And this is just one day's posting at AlterNet!
Keep them (the 99%) divided so they don't first notice the financial raping and pillaging and secondly so they can't get together and stop it.
ReplyDeleteJim Crow never left. We went straight from the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act to Nixon's original War on Drugs, because, as he said, "We have to do something about the Blacks." I read today that there are more African Americans in prison today than there were slaves.
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