Please talk to some Black people before dismissing the psychological impact of having Feds running around the neighborhood hemming people up en masse.
Please talk to some Black people before dismissing the psychological impact of having Feds running around the neighborhood hemming people up en masse.
Shhhh. Let them lie to themselves and cling to their guns. It's going to be like watching microwave popcorn when they start going off.
I'd rather ignore anyone that does and talk to Black people about something else 😔😔😔
I am grateful to the fiction I read in grade school that informed me.
Everyone should be able to protect themselves from bears, bullies, Nazis, and ICE Get bear spray at Costco in Oregon or online. Gift them to your neighbors and family
As if things weren’t bad enough, now my neighbors have to contend with masked and armed soldiers. 😡🤬
Quit beating the Hornet's Nest with a baseball bat GOP. You will get fatally stung. The black inner city youth where I live shoot up everything for fun. No fear. Anyone can be a target because their fate is the same.
Opp senses tingling again
please talk to Black people before dismissing any of the terrors happening for real cause ya'll been getting terrorized by this shithole ass country since the beginning
They will terrorize all minorities.
Or don't talk. Just listen.
I studied aspects of the civil rights movement at school. Do you need another one?
Fuck, talk to some Feds if you don’t know any Black people. They know exactly what they’re doing.
Of course if you have a cordial relationship with feds that might explain not knowing many Black people.
Could talk to some brown people too
Sincerely cannot imagine how scary it is being a black parent right now sending your kids anywhere in DC.
you mean real people, or people the commentators imagine, who agree with them
Sad truth.. they do not care😔
Yep. As one study eg found… “most Black respondents lived in fear of the police killing them and hurting their family members. Approximately half of Black respondents preferred to be robbed or burglarized than to have unprovoked contact with officers.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
In the neighborhood I used to live in, I wouldn't ever call the police.
Literally exactly what I think about when I hear that the "crime rate" is dropping in all major cities. Yeah, turns out there's gonna be a drop in folks willing to call when Officer Friendly turns out to be a Nazi Storm Trooper that shoots your dog and arrests anybody within eyesight.
Exactly. It’s not a distraction. It is a continuation of the racist harassment of POC, with Black people as the model. It is a feature, not a bug.
I mean... I agree that people need to ask the people who's ass is on the line. But, and I'm saying this as a very white guy, if you can't undestand what that means just instinctively; how fucking horrifying that shit is especially given history, then there is something wrong with your heart.
I lived in Minneapolis during the response to George Floyd’s murder. When the 3rd precinct burned and there was constant occupation of the mostly white neighborhood south of it, there was noticeable white terror and flight
“They’re used to it” is a wild answer to be honest.
who the fuuuuck I mean I know but also
I know how it affected blacks voting in the 2000 presidential election in FL. Police cars were parked at predominantly black polling places. No sirens, but lights flashing, so many stayed away. I personally knew 3 people whose pages were missing, so they couldn’t vote.
I was in Georgia and saw two disabled elderly black men told to "come back" in a few hours when someone could help them vote. They pointed to the cop cars parked across the street from the polling place to make their point.
It's occupation.
I feel like the people who actually like having feds and military running around their city rounding people up are people who intentionally avoid ever talking to black people.
As. They. Should.