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George Floyd's police-murder is the core engine of America: a capitalist planetary slave plantation with a white cop kneeling on a black neck, whipped to pick cotton, make hand sanitizer for $1.33 / hr (ideally $0), on the stolen lands of murdered indigenous people.
I grew up a POC in an American ghetto, and worked as a teacher & social worker for these many homeless and hungry kids. This is in fact the soul of my game Neofeud.
I saw America take millions of poor, non-white, and immigrant kids from parents, put'em w/ people who don't care, pump them full of psychotropic drugs for big pharma profit, *intentionally* fail to educate them then dump them in prisons to make Whole Foods products at 74 cents/hr
US withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council, the 2.5 million for-profit prison-slaves replacing strikers at $1.33 /hr, the child concentration camps, this IS America.
We can turn away from the reality, from the ugly truth that many of these kids have parent(s) in prison or OD'ed on drugs, have no education but gangsta rap, Grand Theft Auto, & Pornhub, see their only future as becoming the next Kanye or Kardashian, running drugs & stealing cars
We can turn away, and let neutrality help the oppressor. I refuse. because those kids ARE me.
I signed up to try to educate these kids, to try to tell them why scoring bling, and winning rap battles is not a career path - by outrapping them about civil rights.
I listened to their stories of rape in homeless shelters, of never seeing a parent working 3 jobs, of being beaten in the street for sleeping in front of fancy hotels.
I went into their collapsing hot-water-free flats, got them out of their 10-kids-to-a-room cages on a bus to robotics competitions and programming classes.
It was MY fucking job to get kids to discard Bloods and Crips bandannas for microscopes & Javascript. I was paid starvation wages, was homeless for months, living in a relatives closet or in a Mazda Tribute with my wife & two kids, eating spoons of Skippy Peanut Butter for dinner
struggling to feed my family, working on Scratch and Lego curriculum while Administrators were taking home 7 figures dropping in to do photo ops with poor black/brown kids doing science. THIS IS FUCKING AMERICA
