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kpete

(71,994 posts)
Tue Oct 21, 2014, 10:58 AM Oct 2014

I don't even know what the chant "I am Darren Wilson" means besides "I'm excited about being racist"

I don't even know what the chant, "I am Darren Wilson" means besides "I'm excited about being racist."





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I don't even know what the chant "I am Darren Wilson" means besides "I'm excited about being racist" (Original Post) kpete Oct 2014 OP
"I am Darren Wilson" means I want to be part of a legal lynch mob. gordianot Oct 2014 #1
Seems like ZombieHorde Oct 2014 #2
Unimaginative mockery zipplewrath Oct 2014 #3

gordianot

(15,238 posts)
1. "I am Darren Wilson" means I want to be part of a legal lynch mob.
Tue Oct 21, 2014, 11:15 AM
Oct 2014

The sheet and hood has been replaced by a uniform. After bashing you with a car door he exchanged blood and in close to two minutes a cop sprayed the neighbohood with bullets intended for a kid who was surrendering and knew he would die. I am Darren Wilson means capital punishment on the spot for nothing less than a dirty look. No arguments about lethal injection allowed.

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
3. Unimaginative mockery
Tue Oct 21, 2014, 12:39 PM
Oct 2014

It's just a bit of turn on the "I am Michael Brown" chants heard before. Of course here it makes no sense because those chanting it aren't cops shooting anyone, where as the African American males chanting it are making a point.

Really, it's along the line of "get a brain Morans" and the like that we see written all the time.

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