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25 Apr

A high-school classmate recently posted a pic of his old basketball team. I only recognized 3 folks but was totally confused because there was a Black player. My town had no Black people. It had to be college. And it was; it's a college basketball team with only one Black player.

The diversity in my town was all down to our teachers who were not Norwegian or Swedish but were instead French, Spanish, German, or Greek. And of course, a few folks who were Ojibwe.

I like to think that even if I stayed I would have been anti-racist. My Mom and Dad were, but you know, they talked about recalling my dad when he refused to authorize "calling up the militia" during a tense time when this guy stole from his grandparents & lied and blamed Ojibwe

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22 Apr

So it took me a while but I found the video that convinced Libertarian Conor Friedersdorf whose obsession is liberals caring too much about racism to recognize police impunity is bad. Of course, the man killed is white. Still, this is undeniably except

the jury acquitted the officer. Basically he toyed with Shaver and then shot him when Shaver tried to pull up his pants. He knew he was unarmed.
theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Interestingly, the Shaver shooting led into this killing that is in some ways similar to George Floyd and Elijah McClain's deaths. Again, no consequences for the officers and the judge threw out the civil suit citing qualified immunity.

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22 Apr

One of the always frustrating things is the way white mass murderers can be arrested safely while Black people who encounter police are in mortal peril no matter the circumstance.

Then the media kicks in...

And we get the church-goer, Boy Scout routine for the white man who killed 10 people and the "he's no angel" for the Black youth who jaywalked.

And it just occurred to me that this is about how racialized our concepts of violence are.

The crimes of white people are ascribed to circumstance and judged in the context of their emotional, economic, and other problems.

The crimes of Black people are ascribed to character and judged in the context of stereotypes of Black cultural, parental, and moral deficits.

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21 Apr

Here's what I think of the body cam footage. The essential fact is she should still be alive. It complicates the issue only because most white Americans will use the knife to avoid thinking about whether or not a cop would have shot a white girl with a knife in the same situation

Consider another person with a knife. Older, bigger, and someone who had just killed 2 people and critically injured another: Jeremy Christian.

Police had endless patience with Jeremy Christian, talking him down until he surrendered.

I

I don't want the police to be shooting down Christian, Rittenhouse, Roof, and the many other white murderers who are allowed to surrender despite carrying weapons.

I just want the Makiah's and Elijah's and George's to have the same chance to defend themselves in court.

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20 Apr

When the NRA and ammosexuals perorate on how the 2nd Amendment is all about protecting us from government tyranny, they are not telling the truth. The 2nd Amendment was included for defense against Native Americans and to prevent any uprising by the people they had enslaved.

Patrick Henry, who famously said "Give me liberty or give me death," was a slave-owner. As governor of VA, he signed a bill bydrafte Jefferson creating a militia that every free man in VA was expected to join.

"Jefferson stipulated that “the free mulattoes in the said companies or battalions shall be employed as drummers, fifers, or pioneers,” which meant that men of color were to be required to participate in combat, but were not to have guns." (American Slave Coast)

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19 Apr

I think presumption of innocence is something widely understood. It is a requirement of the jurors. I am not a juror. I am not required to presume Chauvin's innocence. The media use alleged even if we can all see the video, but that's to avoid libel suits.

So OpEds can say Derek Chauvin is a racist murderous thug - if it's clearly an op-ed. I can say Chauvin is a racist murderous thug.

And if there is justice, after the verdict everyone can say Derek Chauvin is a racist murderous thug.

Jeez, misunderstood. Widely misunderstood.

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