Police claim “unlawful assembly” after killing 20 year old young black man, with his mom on the phone and his girlfriend beside him as they drove to visit his older brother and see his new home. Here is the PDF from the @aclu_mn re: protests. #BlackLivesMatter
Minneapolis police knew, or should have known, the killing of a young black man stopped in his vehicle, will result in protests. The police should have been prepared for protests and de-escalated it. Journalists have been reporting that police officers are quitting the “force”
because of fear of danger after the George Floyd trial outcome. Therefore, they knew of the repercussions of killing, wrongfully, a young black man. #EnoughIsEnough #StopSystemicRacism
Notice—words matter. The police “force” (which seems to have come to mean there to kill black men?) instead of “peace officers” (there to help all people, especially the those impacted by #SystemicSocioEconomicInequality ). Why systemic?
Because we allow current police and highway patrol to be mandated to make traffic stops to increase revenue. Guess what? That means the cost of governance is placed upon those who are socio-economically impacted the most... they pay a larger percentage of income for services
Which is known as a #RegressiveTax ... And guess who is profiled more and pulled over more? A person of color. Or a less nice car (unless an unexpected person of color is driving it). And guess what? They can be put in jail for failing to pay fines, by being held in contempt
of court. Debtors prison. If you have no or limited means, and the ability to work is taken away by imprisonment, it creates a cycle. It is #SystemicSocioEconomicInequality
And if the inequality affects one person , it affects all of us. None of us is free. We see evidence all around us....#GenX look at what the widening #IncomeInequality and #WealthInequality has done during your work years from 1979 to today.
#GenX went to college as the most educated generation and entered the work force beginning in the 1980’s and witnessed the first #economicrecession with the #SavingAndLoanCrisis and #BankDeRegulation and the highest #unemployment of over 10% and
inflation. #GenX entered a workforce no longer protect by unions...#Reagan started by busting the air traffic controllers union who was asking for safer conditions to keep them and the flying public safe. Instead, he hired all young inexperienced controllers and kept outdated
equipment. #GenX had a few years only of employment benefits, including pensions and health and disability and life insurance. But, their parents lost homes and businesses in the 1980s financial crisis, and this the ability to help even the privileged #GenX in college...
Assuming they were not one of the many homes economically impacted by the high divorce rate with mostly fathers failing to provide for their children from their first family. #GenX
#Boomers and the #SilentGen built their wealth by owning their homes. They had a security blanket of retirement funds and social security and health insurance and Medicare. #GenX listened and went to college for higher wages and better paying jobs.
#TwoWorkingHH became the norm, in order to make ends meet. (This is for the privileged class—all those who could work in the socio-economically deprived households always had to work to make ends meet #SystemicRacism #SystemicSocioEconomicInequality). Little did #GenX know,
#GenX was on the road to #SystemicSocioEconomicInequality (remember if it exisits, it eventually gets everyone). How?
Equally educated and experienced white women earned less than 79% of what their white male peers earned. #SystemicRacism meant women of color were earning even less than 60%. Moreover, women still contributed the #UnpaidLabor of caring for the home, health, children, schools,
...earning the bacon and frying it up in a pan.
But, then we saw so called “trickle down economics” so that the wealthy retained more and more money and were given, by buying politicians and votes, deregulation to amass more advantages, money, and power at the expense of the common good. Have you ever played #Monopoly ?
Pension plans became inadequate #401k and by the later 1990s, individuals were denied private health insurance because strep throat. Healthcare costs and premiums skyrocketed.
#WagesNeverIncreased so to make ends meet (#GenX parents were already both working and now paying for childcare) the degregulated financial system increasingly squeezed more money out of them by financing w/ credit cards, over 20% interest rates, credit scores, and then the 2000s
with bank added more usury interest by charging default fees of $30 on a $2 overdraft...Then the #GreatCrisis of 2008 where #GenX in particular lost all their wealth, their homes. (Remember indiv. Health insurance cost more than a mortgage too. Adj. rates climbed to unplayable
foreseeable by the fin. Industry, and #GenX lost homes and wealth and jobs and have not recovered. #GenX had no stability in jobs because the economy changed...and people have become ever more #Commodities without benefits or security. Now
#COVID19Pandemic has again impacted them... during their prime higher earning years when they are supposed to be able to accumulate wealth for retirement...when their kids are working. #SandwichGeneration
#Boomers take the senior better paying jobs and hire less experienced #Millennials for those jobs when they leave. #GenX is stuck and ignored in the middle again with ignorant, especially older #Boomers, attacking them and #Millennials
“A staggering $50 trillion. That is how much the upward redistribution of income has cost American workers over the past several decades.”
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