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1/? EMPATHY:
Being able to ask yourself the following questions, and get an honest answer: How would you feel/what would happen if:
1. A black cop had his knee on an unarmed white man's neck for almost 7 minutes while that poor man was dying and folks were begging him to get up?
Being able to ask yourself the following questions, and get an honest answer: How would you feel/what would happen if:
1. A black cop had his knee on an unarmed white man's neck for almost 7 minutes while that poor man was dying and folks were begging him to get up?
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2. The liberal-leaning Secretary of State and local voting boards closed polling stations in "conservative" counties?
3. A team of Hispanic cops executed a "no knock" warrant for a long-ago ex-boyfriend of your daughter and shot her to death in the process?
2. The liberal-leaning Secretary of State and local voting boards closed polling stations in "conservative" counties?
3. A team of Hispanic cops executed a "no knock" warrant for a long-ago ex-boyfriend of your daughter and shot her to death in the process?
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4. A fully-armed black militia "peacefully" paraded through your town yelling "Whites Won't Replace Us?"
5. Your son tried to break up a fight, gave up and went back to his car (where your grandkids were) and a black cop shot him seven times in the back - at point blank range
4. A fully-armed black militia "peacefully" paraded through your town yelling "Whites Won't Replace Us?"
5. Your son tried to break up a fight, gave up and went back to his car (where your grandkids were) and a black cop shot him seven times in the back - at point blank range
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6. Your brother was shot by an Hispanic "citizen's watch" freak because he was walking in the wrong neighborhood?
7. A self-appointed Native-American militia started patrolling the streets and were so threatening against your chosen candidate you felt compelled to move?
6. Your brother was shot by an Hispanic "citizen's watch" freak because he was walking in the wrong neighborhood?
7. A self-appointed Native-American militia started patrolling the streets and were so threatening against your chosen candidate you felt compelled to move?
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The honest answer? You'd be out of my mind with grief, rage and frustration.
Which is how I felt, after 9/11, when my children (who have an Arabic last name) were being called "sand n*****" and "rag head" and "camel jockey" by their classmates - with NO DAMNED CONSEQUENCES
The honest answer? You'd be out of my mind with grief, rage and frustration.
Which is how I felt, after 9/11, when my children (who have an Arabic last name) were being called "sand n*****" and "rag head" and "camel jockey" by their classmates - with NO DAMNED CONSEQUENCES
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Yet this has and is being done around this country - in reverse. It's not fake news.
If you're being honest here, and look at the history of our country - lynchings, forced service in the Civil War, separate schools, counters, water fountains (and yes, that was even for
Yet this has and is being done around this country - in reverse. It's not fake news.
If you're being honest here, and look at the history of our country - lynchings, forced service in the Civil War, separate schools, counters, water fountains (and yes, that was even for
7/? war veterans -HEROES- returning home to 1945 America, I don't see how you can't understand, empathize or comprehend the rage, frustration and anger the black community feels when yet another of their fathers, brothers, sons, daughters, aunts, mothers are shot down by police
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The police - the very damned same people whose salaries are paid for by taxes assessed against the families of the same folks being slaughtered.
If you can't wrap your mind around the validity of that rage and frustration and anger, there is truly no hope for you.
The police - the very damned same people whose salaries are paid for by taxes assessed against the families of the same folks being slaughtered.
If you can't wrap your mind around the validity of that rage and frustration and anger, there is truly no hope for you.
