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TopicTerry Crews is trying to win a spot next to Candnece Owens.
Taharqa_
07/08/20 10:00:55 PM
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Sad_Face posted...
Dude, what do you expect? We live in areas with high crime rates. In fact, I am currently going through a personal dilemma where a couple neighborhood kids are asking me to buy them a bike pump and my parents are accusing them of being drug runners when I mentioned I'm looking for a bike pump for them.

This is my biggest problem with BLM and people calling out cops. There's always a consequence to an action. People think we can have the gangsta culture sitting high and mighty in black culture but feel it in no way influences how we're collectively perceived and how we treat ourselves. This simply isn't true. If we focus on uplifting our community and holding ourselves to a specific collective standard, so many other things will fall into place, including the problem of police brutality.

Bruh, police have been busting our heads since time immemorial. Respectability politics is not going to work, it never does. As long as the person behind the badge doesn't see your humanity it doesn't matter if you have a PhD or if you've been in and out of jail. We DO need to focus on uplifting our communities, but police brutality and misconduct is something that is not in our control at the moment. We can put a focus on it with organizations like BLM, but it's really up to politicians and law enforcement to see it and enact those changes.

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