Re:Mental Wealth
by pjc50 on Friday June 05, 2020 @09:25AM
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"Why was this large open pool of gasoline not on fire last week? All that happened was someone lit a cigarette"
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Re:Mental Wealth
by austincheney on Friday June 05, 2020 @12:07PM
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People have lit many cigarettes for quite a while but nobody seemed to care until a certain one.
The final spark was one that has no excuse and was essentially a public lynching in broad daylight while onlookers openly recorded and pleaded for it to stop.
There are few things more loaded with terrible, horrifying historical imagery in America than a white police officer lynching a black man.
And I promise you, the significance of this horrific imagery was not lost on a single black American.
Re:Mental Wealth
by themacguffinman on Friday June 05, 2020 @07:04PM
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Really? People didn't care when Eric Garner was murdered? When Michael Brown was murdered? There were riots then too.