race and crime in the united states
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Why the Virginia Cop Who Pepper-Sprayed the Black Lieutenant Is Just Now Losing His Job
White America is exhausting. Their racism is maddening. Their reasonings, their faux outrage, their hatred for Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling, their complacency for Derek Chauvin’s knee to the neck of a Black man. And I keep getting caught up in it. We all do. Before we didn’t have proof. Technology hadn’t caught up with white America’s…
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Private Facebook Group for Cops Reveals Hateful and Racist Messages. Quick, Everyone! Act Surprised!
Considering how police officers have shown they have no problem being blatantly racist in public Facebook posts, it should come as no surprise that a private Facebook group for Pennsylvania cops was found to be filled with racist, transphobic, and just straight up hateful posts. According to the Associated Press, a Facebook group called the…
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No More 'Performative Gestures': BLM Sacramento Purchases Land to Build Community and Resource Center for Black People
The Black Lives Matter movement can’t only be about protests. Anti-racism demonstrations that have erupted across the nation have done a fine job of raising awareness about systemic racism in America and have sent a clear message that there will be no peace without justice, but building a community that supports the betterment of Black…
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Blue Lives Only Matter When They Are Killing Black People
The headline for this story is really the gotdamn point. Always. Every time a Black person has been killed extrajudicially by a police officer, the Blue Lives Matter crew comes out in full force to defend policing, which in and of itself is a power structure built and steeped in racism and white supremacy. You…
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BLM Responds to Demand From Mike Brown Sr. and Ferguson Organizer for $20 Million to the Site of 2014 Uprisings
The management and distribution of funds held by the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, the umbrella organization driving a mission first introduced to the world in a viral hashtag, continues to be a topic of discussion. On the heels of BLMGNF’s recent revelation that it raised over $90 million last year, activists in Ferguson,…