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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From an article in Teen Vogue...

[i]Unless you happen to be a black person in America, this is not happening to you. But it is happening to people like me, to black men just trying to make a living, to black women who just want to be magic, to boys and girls who aren’t even old enough to understand the generations of hatred and injustice that have claimed their lives. And I live in a constant, nagging fear that my name will be next, that nothing but my skin color and its history in America will cost me my life.

After I am killed, I will then be crucified on TV screens and laptops and iPhones all over the world. People on Facebook will presume I must have done something to antagonize the officer, because surely the video that shows me being defenselessly gunned down "isn't the whole story." I will be rendered unable to defend myself as the media will evade the hundreds of Instagram photos and Facebook pictures where I am smiling or happy and find the one where I happen to be grimacing, or look "scary." They will use that photo for wordless proof as to why I should be dead, because this is what people who deserve to die look like.

What you should know is that there are black teenagers growing into black adults all over the country who are seeing themselves slaughtered on live television. They are your friends, your classmates, and your coworkers. They are black boys and black girls who just want to be considered equal, who want to live with the same opportunities and hope for the future that you do. And unless you are black yourself, there is no proper way for you to understand what it is like to see yourself murdered over and over again — at the supermarket, at the park, on your way to see a loved one. And each death delivers a message, an exploding truth: this is how America sees you.[/i]
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Touching yes but it is part of the media propaganda machine tugging on heart strings to manipulate.

Native Americans are killed at a higher rate than any other racial/ethnic group.
[url]https://mic.com/articles/109894/the-police-are-killing-one-group-at-a-staggering-rate-and-nobody-is-talking-about-it#.d89yKIo96[/url]

Where are their riots? Where is the hand wringing for them? Where is the article in teen vogue? The non stop news reports? The forums filled with debate?

Oh thats right, no one needs their vote.

Don't you realize that after this election cycle everybody will just move on to whatever next big "thing" the media machine wants to spoon feed them?[/quote]

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