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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please stop describing your neighbors, your your fellow human beings, as “criminals.”

These are PEOPLE!

And no one wants to commit a so-called crime.  Rather, these people come from lesser-resourced communities where they never enjoyed the privilege you probably had from birth.

Locking them up for every little alleged crime is not the answer.[/quote]

Really?  I grew up in a lesser resourced community (I'm white btw) and certainly did not enjoy any privilege that you so allege others have enjoyed.  Unless you want to factor in the fact that I was one of few white families in that community and we were the benefactors of racism at every corner.  Regardless, I never once stole or violated someone else's personal space or property because I was raised not to do so and I knew my parents would swiftly punish me.  Violating other people and the product of their hard work is not a little alleged crime, those people worked hard for what they have and it is not an invitation for ill behaved people to come and take it.  Stop making excuses for these deliquents, you are the problem.[/quote]

Please.  You’re white and you fully benefit from white privilege every damn day in America.

And you don’t know what oppression feels like because you’ve never experienced it. Systemic white racism is the issue here, but you can’t even see it right in front of you.

And you’re part of it whether you acknowledge it or not.[/quote]

Charles, is that you?[/quote]

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