People Shot and Killed while holding TOY gun

People shot and killed while holding TOY gun

#TamirRice age 12, Black
#AndyLopez age 13, Latino
#JohnCrawford age 22, Black

People not shot while holding REAL gun

#BryanWolfinger age 25, White

#AbuseOfPower #PoliceBrutality Tweets 7.3

#AbuseOfPower #PoliceBrutality Tweets 7.3

‘A Conversation With White People on Race’ [VIDEO]

By BLAIR FOSTER and MICHÈLE STEPHENSON

Why do so many white people find it extremely uncomfortable to talk about race? Setting out to make the next installment of our Op-Doc video series about race in America, we hoped to address that question. Because we live in New York, where there is no shortage of opinions, we didn’t think it would be too hard to find white people willing to speak publicly on this topic. We were wrong.

when we dug a bit deeper, the discussion gets tense, and visibly uncomfortable.

With this Op-Doc video, we’ve attempted to lean into that discomfort and prompt some self-reflection. We are all part of this system, and therefore we all have a responsibility to work toward dismantling it. If we’re going to have an honest conversation about race in America, that includes thinking — and talking — about what it means to be white in America. It might be uncomfortable, but it’s a conversation that must involve all of us.

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By Glenn Robinson

The system the authors are referring to is probably the system of disenfranchisement and oppression held up by what Dr. Martin Luther King called the Doctrine of White Supremacy.

Anyone can believe in the Doctrine of White Supremacy; a doctrine that believes that White is right and worthy and that people of color are undeserving of equal opportunities and equal humane treatment.

We see inequality play out in the way immigration laws are written to favor the highly educated, while (im)migrants in labor and agriculture are demonized.

We also see that the U.S. will not offer universal single payer health care – as if all humans do not deserve equal treatment by the health care industry.

And we see the prison industrial complex incarcerate disproportionately high numbers of Black and Latino people; and the military industrial complex recruit disproportionately high numbers of Black and Latino people.

And we see disproportionately high numbers of killings of unarmed Black and Latino people by the police.

#JusticeforJoseVelasco Tweets 7.2

#JusticeforJoseVelasco Tweets 7.2

Family Suing After NYPD Asked Bodybuilder to Help Break Down a Door and then Killed Him

The family of body builder, Rafael Laureano has filed a $25m lawsuit against the NYPD for shooting their father in the back of the neck as he helped them during a raid.

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WATCH: NYPD Cop Picks a Fight with a Man on the Street. It was Almost Eric Garner All Over Again

In an eerily similar scene to the Eric Garner video, a plainclothes NYPD cop attacked a man on a New York sidewalk.

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Baltimore Plans To Equip Police Vans With Video Cameras After Freddie Gray’s Death

After a vociferous public outcry over the death of Freddie Gray, who suffered a fatal spinal cord injury in police custody this spring, Baltimore officials announced plans Wednesday to equip transport vans with video recording cameras, according to Reuters.

 

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#DonaldTrump #Immigration Tweets 7.2

#DonaldTrump #Immigration Tweets 7.2

Since the Charlestown Massacre, a Black Church has been Burned Every Two Days in the Old Confederacy

Josh Sager – July 2015
In the two weeks since the Charleston Church Massacre, 7 predominantly black churches—all located in the south—have been set on fire. This averages one serious fire every two days and, while I can’t find any statistical data on baseline church-fire rates, this cluster of fire certainly seems suspicious.

 

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#WhoIsBurningBlackChurches