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Jonah said:
Soul on Ice and other writings by Eldridge Cleaver give another perspective as Cleaver advocated a more radical direction.
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Eventually became a Republican and joined the LDS church. This was from a couple years before joining the church.

 
Nice job. Definitely trying to de-escalate things here. Way to lead Biff

 
I've been reading more today about the ****** stuff LAPD did to protestors. They rounded up and illegally attested a bunch of people. They mass attested peaceful female protestors and locked them up in vans and small storage units. Some of them were locked up for over 12 hours with their hands tied and had to piss over themselves. Some of them were dropped off in the middle of the night with dead cell phones in bad neighborhoods and told to fend for themselves.

De-funding police is sounding more reasonable to me. Clearly it's more than a few bad apples. It's a bad system.
 
Ron Mexico said:
I've been reading more today about the ****** stuff LAPD did to protestors. They rounded up and illegally attested a bunch of people. They mass attested peaceful female protestors and locked them up in vans and small storage units. Some of them were locked up for over 12 hours with their hands tied and had to piss over themselves. Some of them were dropped off in the middle of the night with dead cell phones in bad neighborhoods and told to fend for themselves.

De-funding police is sounding more reasonable to me. Clearly it's more than a few bad apples. It's a bad system.
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Link? I haven't heard about any of this.
 
Saturday, June 6, 2020. America. The world.









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London, Ontario:

https://mobile.twitter.com/permacultureppl/status/1269399246152830981?

London, England:

https://mobile.twitter.com/quicktake/status/1269249485881958400?ref_url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/images-show-massive-floyd-protests-saturday.html

Paris:

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DasJazz said:
It's almost as if Corona virus is not and has never been quite the threat it's been made out to be. Crazy!
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Or did you consider that the sheer brutality of Floyd’s Murder captured on video was so bad that it shocked people into protesting about injustices and societal inequities that have been around much longer than coronavirus? Do you need to watch the video again? I’m curious, what literature have you read about being black in America? Have you read Just Mercy, White Rage, Black like Me, Understanding Mass Incarceration, or anything that informs about racial inequalities? How would you feel being a black person in this country? It’s obvious they’re treated far worse then whites. Where’s your empathy for their plight? Judging by the masks I see in those videos, people are still aware of the coronavirus. But they judge systemic racism and police brutality to be a greater threat to our society.

I personally haven’t been at a protest. I doubt I will because I’m pretty anxious about getting the virus or bringing it home. My wife and I have kicked in money to various BLM causes and have called and written several public officials. Even then, we’re still considering SLC’s protest next Wednesday (I’m still very anxious about the virus). However, if it weren’t for the virus I’d easily be at these protests, without having any second thoughts.
 
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Red said:
Saturday, June 6, 2020. America. The world.









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London, Ontario:

https://mobile.twitter.com/permacultureppl/status/1269399246152830981?

London, England:

https://mobile.twitter.com/quicktake/status/1269249485881958400?ref_url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/images-show-massive-floyd-protests-saturday.html

Paris:

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wow. It’s really interesting to see how Floyd’s death has triggered these protests around the world. It’ll be more interesting to me at least, how democracies around the world which are far more responsive to their people, act. You know democracies like New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and Germany will respond. What types of reforms will they enact? And will the United States follow? Or will we continue to slide into oligarchy with a minority political party ignoring the demands of the majority of the people? I mean, we’ve seen how New Zealand and Canada have reacted to gun violence and how republicans have prevented us from doing the same. Will republicans continue to do with with necessary reforms that would reverse current racial inequities?
 
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Great Britain, United States, Australia. Given how far we have fallen, under Trump, in the eyes of the world, I feel a certain pride in knowing the whole world is watching us yet, and that the movement for social justice and police reform in this nation is influencing similar protests and movements across the globe. I know all of this was triggered by a singular tragedy here, but what is being born the world over is a good thing....

 
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