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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: RetiredNow who wrote (1237510)6/8/2020 9:40:59 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 1573716
 
"Here's what Black Lives Matter wants from you. They don't want reconciliation and they don't want solidarity. They want you to kneel and submit yourself to ritual humiliation"

They can't always get what they want. However, I do take a knee at the Grange when they pledge allegiance to the universe, in memory of all the people who died by violence at the hands of the universe. That now includes covid victims.


"Their issue is not that white people are racist"
The entire system is still racist. Dylann Roof kills a bunch of black people, gets taken to McDonalds on the way to the police station. George Floyd maybe passes a fake $20, gets taken to the morgue on the way to the police station.

Here's drugs...

African Americans are arrested for violating marijuana possession laws at nearly four times the rates of whites, yet both ethnicities consume marijuana at roughly the same rates.
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Race and the Drug War | Drug Policy Alliance
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People of color experience discrimination at every stage of the criminal justice system.The drug war has produced profoundly unequal outcomes across racial ...
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