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George Floyd& #39;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& #39;em w/ people who don& #39;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& #39;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
