... restaurants, stores, games and everyday life. We know it hurts and we sympathize with the injustice of it all.

I think "sympathize"...if I remember right, is a Greek ? word meaning "also suffer"

Correct me if I'm wrong.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

~Malcolm X

Thanks, freshwest.

lone wolf. The 'group' is never tarnished.

https://www.facebook.com/TheMarmelPage/photos/a.217259448301136.70251.216484961711918/977444638949276/




September 7, 2014
by Stephen D Foster Jr

So what does it take to not be shot, beaten, or tased by police in America? It’s simple. Be a white teen driving a BMW. The police will pamper you like you didn’t do anything wrong, even if you actually nearly killed other people and assaulted one of their own.

When Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed a black teenager named Michael Brown, he did so even though Brown had done nothing wrong and wasn’t a suspect in any crime. Furthermore, he had his hands up. But Wilson killed him anyway.

On Thursday in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, a white teen named Sarah Culhane plowed her BMW into three cars in three separate incidents and injured a woman in the process. However, police treated her far differently than they would have treated a person of color in similar circumstances. They didn’t tase her despite the fact that she put up a fight. They didn’t beat her. And they didn’t shoot her even though she kicked an officer in the head. She actively resisted arrest and committed several crimes. But all police did is wrestle her to the ground, arrest her, and haul her to jail.

read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/09/07/police-dont-shoot-bmw-driving-white-teen-who-committed-three-hit-and-runs-and-assaulted-officer-video/

Thanks for the article, once again proof positive that racism exists as well as white privilege.

in my head right now that I want to say about the NY Times (and this country in general), but might get me banned.

There are days I think my heads going to explode.

Total bullshit that justice is blind.