Why does America have an appetite for the death of black men?

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I think people make a mistake by including Mike Brown in the conversation when the topic of police brutality and police execution of citizens comes up. DOJ report under Obama and Eric Holder(AG) confirms the details of the alteraction that lead to Brown's death. I think Brown was the wrong figure to rally around.
Perhaps. We’ll never know what really went on there but I do think that it touched on issues of racial profiling and the ‘threat’ that Black Boys pose to your Beat cop on the street.

Whether Mike did right or wrong, he shouldn’t have been profiled and ultimately should be alive today but isn’t. It stands to reason that had he been white, he would not have been profiled, the cop wouldn’t have regarded him the same way and he wouldn’t have been killled. I think that’s really what made the Mike Brown stick. It did for me atleast
 

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Perhaps. We’ll never know what really went on there but I do think that it touched on issues of racial profiling and the ‘threat’ that Black Boys pose to your Beat cop on the street.

Whether Mike did right or wrong, he shouldn’t have been profiled and ultimately should be alive today but isn’t. I think that’s really what made the Mike Brown stick. It did for me atleast
This is the issue. Are those who are armed and kill subdued by police without fatality?
 

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You ever seen a lynch picnic post card?

My dad showed me a couple when I was younger.

I was like 8 or 9 when he did. I remember looking away, it was really hard to look at.

Years later, I saw the picture again, but this time I noticed the smiling white kids in the foreground.

These people are still alive, showing their grand kids chopped off toes.
 

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My dad showed me a couple when I was younger.

I was like 8 or 9 when he did. I remember looking away, it was really hard to look at.

Years later, I saw the picture again, but this time I noticed the smiling white kids in the foreground.

These people are still alive, showing their grand kids chopped off toes.
I’ve seen so many of them I kinda grew desensitized. Black folks had to run and get their dead relatives cause when they was done lynching they wanted to drag their body around town. Black people could barely bury they dead. It’s why Homegoings are so important in the community.
 
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Because we've successfully resisted their attempts subsume us within their society and effectively wipe out our identity. No other race in America is as independent in its thinking as we are, no other race as original and creative in what it contributes to the cultural fabric of a nation that was founded by and for white people.
 

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Jealousy and fear would only make you hate someone so much that you implement laws/rules to the point where only a select few can thrive amongst a landslide of wealth. For if we got a chance to get ahead we'd shut shyt down.
 

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I can post the link to the pdf of the report.....again.....Barack Obama was the POTUS.....Eric Holder was the Attorney General.

https://www.justice.gov/sites/defau...doj_report_on_shooting_of_michael_brown_1.pdf

Michael Brown's friend lied...

He never said don't shoot and all that...that was a fiction...

What really happened was that he was stopped for "Jaywalking...(which was bullshyt)..." after he stole that shyt out the store or according to some...made a drug deal..., Michael Brown said some shyt to the cop, they got into a fight and dude shot him...

So that's really what happened...

Of course nobody cares what really happened....

The DOJ reports support Darren's story yet condemns Ferguson as an apartheid state that targets Black people...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...ting-of-michael-brown/?utm_term=.a408cd1eb1f8

Michael Brown was a young Black boy doing some shady shyt and was profiled by the police and got into an altercation and got killed...

Even if he did start the altercation, you have ARMED white males shooting up churches and synagogues and was apprehendated peacefully, cops showed great restraint when dealing with armed suspects. And why did the cop lied about being beatened in the face while it shows no marks on him?
 

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I’ve seen so many of them I kinda grew desensitized. Black folks had to run and get their dead relatives cause when they was done lynching they wanted to drag their body around town. Black people could barely bury they dead. It’s why Homegoings are so important in the community.

I know I'm not, it's not like I get extremely emotional, but I definitely feel a bit of seething anger when I see them.

Usually because then I remember when white folks would ask dumb questions like "why are you still mad?"

My old hometown had one of the last recorded lynchings in Pennsylvania before it was against the law.

The forgotten lynching of Zachariah Walker was one of our most shameful — and it was in the North

http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-3DB

Grass still doesn't grow there.

EDIT: Nvm they only thought about removing the city from the map.
 
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Even if he did start the altercation, you have ARMED white males shooting up churches and synagogues and was apprehendated peacefully, cops showed great restraint when dealing with armed suspects. And why did the cop lied about being beatened in the face while it shows no marks on him?

Darren Wilson did have marks on face...Michael Brown went for Wilson's gun...

What Officer Wilson Says Led to Brown Shooting

And White boys that do mass shootings give themselves up or kill themselves...

Mass shooters don't try to escape or fight back, it's different type of crime.

Plus mass shooters tend to be White...they USA is racist...
 
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