Hi this isn’t trendy anymore to talk about but Black Lives STILL matter and also police violence and brutality is STILL AN ISSUE!!! https://twitter.com/mrolmos/status/1296367220868567042">https://twitter.com/mrolmos/s...

The protests still have not stopped and the politicians--the ones who work for US--have decided to largely ignore it, or placate us with meaningless gestures

Today I learned what Bidoof’s Law is and it’s forever changed the way I see people with shit opinions online https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Lachend auf dem Boden rollen" aria-label="Emoji: Lachend auf dem Boden rollen"> Black Lives Matter y’all

Honestly, a lot of people in this thread could benefit from research, so lemme provide some of my fav links:

History of US police force: https://time.com/4779112/police-history-origins/

Definition">https://time.com/4779112/p... of institutional racism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism

What">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inst... is redlining? https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america">https://www.npr.org/2017/05/0...

War on Drugs: https://www.history.com/topics/crime/the-war-on-drugs#:~:text=The%20War%20on%20Drugs%20is,and%20is%20still%20evolving%20today.

Though">https://www.history.com/topics/cr... more white people are killed by police, statistically, it disproportionately affects our Black neighbors: https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ 

Mass">https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/">... incarceration stats: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html">https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/p...

From prisonpolicy& #39;s website: "At least 1 in 4 people who go to jail will be arrested again within the same year — often those dealing with poverty, mental illness, and substance use disorders, whose problems only worsen with incarceration."