1. Police disproportionately kill more Black people. That's just a fact. Between 2013 and 2020, police shot and killed Black people at a rate of 6.6 per million. They killed white people at a rate of 2.5 per million.
Prove me wrong.
2. It has nothing to do with crime or violence
Most police killings occur during traffic stops, mental health wellness checks or a nonviolent offense. Plus the rate of police killings don't correlate to violent crime rates in 49 of 50 major cities.
Again, prove me wrong
3. It has nothing to do with danger.
The rate of cops being murdered during a traffic stop assaulted is 1 in 65 million. Statistically, a cop would have to pull over 10 ppl every day for 100 years to even be in danger of being assaulted
White people LOVE to cite Roland Fyer's paper that found no statistical bias in police shootings, which has been repeatedly laughed at by people who do math. But I won't get into the weeds except to say everyone but Roland Fryer thinks it is wrong
The research is out on whether police wake up in the morning with a gnawing need to kill a Black person. That's not how racism works. That's not even what Black people are alleging.
The issue is SYSTEMIC AND RACIST Let me show you:
First of all, white people use more drugs. That's a simple fact. And now that marijuana is being increasingly legalized, the disparities are growing.
86% of drug arrests are for possession, yet Black people are jailed at 3 times the rate of whites. What does this have to do with police shootings?
I'll show you in a sec! Are you on coke or something?
Now, the Stanford policing Project shows that Black people are pulled over 20 percent more often than whites, they are searched at twice the rate of whites but, white people are MORE LIKELY TO HAVE CONTRABAND IN THE CAR. openpolicing.stanford.edu/findings/
In fact, in one wide-ranging study of metadata, researchers found that that police are quicker to shoot Black targets, than white ones.
Targets!
That's why I shop at Walmart.
It has nothing to do with poverty. Black males who make less than $20,000 are the most-targeted group of people in America but guess who's next...the RICHEST Black men. In fact, the RICHEST, OLDEST Black men experience more force than POOREST white men.
And here is something crazy: The group who cops are more likely to curse at, THREATEN to shoot, or handcuff is THE RICHEST BLACK WOMEN!
I know it doesn't make any sense.
And most of these studies are ONLY for police shooting DEATHS. They don't count the people who survive
(Seriously, they don't count them). They also don't include beating and choking cases like Eric Garner or George Floyd.
But no one is saying cops are hunting Black people.
BUT COPS ARE HUNTING BLACK PEOPLE. Math is saying it. The research shows it. The science proves it.
There is literally no other explanation for it. Poplice shootings don't correlate to crime rates, income, drug use, violence, danger or any other factor. JUST RACE.
But, I'm willing to admit when I am wrong.
If ANY SINGLE HUMAN BEING ON THE PLANET can offer this much peer-reviewed scientific research that shows police shootings are NOT racially biased, I'll give you $5 and publicly admit I was wrong. (I would start a Gofundme but the money would just sit there)
So prove me wrong...
Please?
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First of all, when Trump said he had nothing to do with Project 2025, he wasn't lying.
Technically, it was written by 200+ pro-Trump policy "experts," many of whom served in the Trump administration. Trump's official plan is called "Agenda47."
Think of it this way:
Project 2025 is the MAGA employee manual for people who will work in the Trump Administration.
Agenda47 is a campaign document (Well, a series of videos). It's essentially a Cliff's Notes version of Project 2025 on YouTube for MAGAs who don't like all that reading BS.
Whenever there's a national tragedy, a natural disaster or something that affects a lot of white people, right-wing zealots always cite one particular bible
2 Chronicles 7:14
To them, it is a warning from God. But throughout history, it's become a weapon of hate.
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If you are an evangelical Christian, a Republican or attend a church where the drummer doesn't use a sweatrag, you've DEFINITELY heard this 2 Chronicles 7:14
They literally believe its a biblical directive for us to Make America Great Again
If you're wondering how the "race-baiters" are going to make the SCOTUS ruling about racism, well...
Here's what the Trump decision has to do with the history of white supremacy, racial terrorism and even the death of George Floyd.
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It began with the passage of the 13th Amendment. If you don't go to school in Fla, you probably know about the birth of the KKK, White Leagues & other domestic terror cells responsible for racial violence during Reconstruction.
Well, it kinda didn't really happen that way.
The Klan was not really that popular until YEARS later. In fact, MOST of the racial terrorism during Reconstruction was committed by two groups:
1. Regular-degular, unaffilliated white people 2. Police officers.
Most pre-civil war cities & towns didn't have police forces
Theyhe SC Dept. of Education canceled AP African American Studies, @thegrio spoke with teachers, school administrators & superintendents to find out why SC essentially canceled the ONLY accredited HS course in Black History.
THey all had the same answer.
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FIRST we must acknowledge that SC is central to ANY study of Black Americans.
Scholars estimate that 40% of America's race-based human trafficking cargo disembarked in the "slave capital of the new world."
SC's Negro Act of 1740 was the template for all state's slave codes, including literacy bans. And, because it was classified as PROPERTY LAW, the individual states would later decide that slave codes didn't violate constitutional rights.
Byron Donald’s statement isn’t that uncommon. Every Black person has heard a version of this, whether it is “integration was the worst thing that happened to us,” or what Donalds said.
Those people are dumb
First of all, I will always contend that “integration” never happened. To be fair, my opinion is based on a book many people may disagree with: