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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo I guess under Trump we can expect the tragedy of black police shootings to only get much worse...
With open racists and white supremacists in power I fear it's going to seem like "open season" on minorties, even more so than now.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)CincyDem
(6,363 posts)...I believe the operative phrase here is "Driving while black".
what a world we're headed to.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)always has been. Open Season. And you are right. Instead of laying in the streets for hours like Michael Brown to make an example of what happens if a black man questions the authority of a racist pig-cop. I won't be surprised if the unarmed victims of white victimizers aren't hung from lamp poles and stay there for days as an example of the newly revived white power movement of the trumpfuhrer, his police and brownshirts. Horrible, horrible times are coming for the AA and 'resisters' to the white power movement geling in our society under the aegis of their trumpfuhrer.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)Dan
(3,570 posts)A two way street.
There is a real perception that police or authorities have declared open season on minorities - then the question becomes - Should I give up and die, or fight back and be killed? The results are the same in this zero sum game.
What would you do?
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Because when one innocent person black person fights back against deadly oppression, or is simply gunned down by cops, we argue back and forth about whether said killing was self defence or a murder. But I guarantee you if people rose up en mass against said police actions we likely would have something of a civil war on our hands. At least in today's political climate. The only question is, is it time, and would the cost be worth it?