I'm a loyal member of the Democratic Party and I don't have a problem with Drones

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19. A little more background,

I am a black woman who grew up in Los Angeles during the time when Darryl Gates was the head of the L.A. police department and treated the police dept as the military who had declared war in the black community. I have grown up in a community whose civil rights were constantly under siege, and always knew that I didn't have the same constitutional rights that my fellow white Americans enjoyed. So you learn to live with it, if you want to stay alive. Because of my strong black parents, who had a strong work ethic, and who valued education, I was able to rise above and leave my birth surroundings and for the past 30+ years have lived amongst my fellow white Americans, and so I know that there are two worlds in these United States, even for those who have not declared war on America.

About 10 years ago, my sister had her door kicked in by a joint police drug operation. Her house had been selected because her husband was seen on surveillance as talking with a drug dealer who was under surveillance. The drug dealer lived near a park where my Brother in law would go running. BTW, B-I-L was a cop. While no one but my sister's young teen children were at home, there house was overrun by cops, the front door broken and the house ransacked. No drugs were found in their house. Had one of those kids made an inappropriate move they would have been killed. No one in the Police Dept was diciplined. My sister's family received no compensation for the destruction that was done. No apologies were offered. The moral of the story, "Don't talk to drug dealers who are under surveillence." My B-i-L was investigated on his job because of the incident, and the guy was someone he had known from his childhood who just happened to live near the area he ran in, and he had only seen him once outside before that day. This was not by any means a drug neighborhood. It just reinforced for me, that no matter how far removed from the hood you are, as a black person, you don't have the same presumption of innocence as your fellow white Americans.