What Tim Scott is talking about is the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act’s provision that ties the money police get from the federal govt. In the Democrats plan, if local & state agencies didn’t ban chokeholds, no-knock warrants & report misconduct, they wouldn’t get $
Plus, they’d have to demilitarize, get training & stop shooting Black people in the face.
Do you know how many Black people cops shoot in the face???
Seriously, do you know? Because I don’t. Tim Scott doesn’t. No one does!
That’s because cops don’t have to report it.
Here’s the thing about what @DezBryant said. It’s not just that Des Bryant is wrong, it’s clear that he’s saying something that white people told him to say.
Even the term “bring awareness” proves Dez doesn’t know what he’s talking about
because the narrative surrounding Kaepernick has been so twisted by media outlets that MOST people truly believe Kaepernick wanted to bring social Justice & politics to the biggest platform in sports
That’s not actually what happened.
On August 14, 2016, Kaepernick didn’t stand for the national anthem. It was a personal choice. He didn’t issue a statement or talk about it, for a very good reason:
You can't really be angry about this picture without getting angry about the backstory.
The reason Haiti has refugees is because of the predicament it is in is BECAUSE of the U.S. policy of white supremacy.
A thread.
I have told the story of the Haitian revolution before, but all you need to know is that when enslaved people in Haiti became the first nation in the history of the world to take control of their country, white people were SHOOK.
We won’t start by talking about how the National Anthem was written by Francis Scott Key—a slave owner who started the American Colonization Society to get FREE black Americans achieve a goal white people often email me about -
Go back to Africa
We don’t even have to talk about the fact that the Star Spangled Banner is racist itself…
The first thing a lot of people think is that this surprise attack "shook the city" and the world.
Not really.
While it was a despicable act, for people in Birmingham, it wasn't that much of a surprise. White supremacist terrorists did this ALL the time in Birmingham.
There's even a part of the city called Dynamite Hill because, during the Civil Rights Era,* more than 50 homes in the city were bombed by white supremacists.
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church isn't in Dynamite Hill.