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Related: About this forumJon Stewart Gets Serious On Depressing Eric Garner Case. We're Not Living In A Post Racial Society
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chervilant
(8,267 posts)n/t
daleanime
(17,796 posts)Have to wonder....
chervilant
(8,267 posts)Yesterday, I got an email from an artist I've just recently met. It shows a group of protesters after the Ferguson fiasco. One sign had been photoshopped to read "No Mother should have to fear for her son's life every time he robs a store."
The person who forwarded this scabrous bit of racism wrote:
Good Grief!!! Well maybe every mother should at least entertain the possibility it could happen ESPECIALLY if her son resists arrests or tries to get the arresting officer's weapon! And maybe just maybe she should tell her son that a strong arm theft might not end well for the perpetrator!I don't know whether to laugh or cry! I did notice that everything on the sign is spelled correctly...That is something.
I sent the Snopes disclaimer: http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/fergusonsign.asp
and told her
"I cannot understand racism, and I never will."
Oh, and I also sent the Horsey editorial cartoon that n2doc posted in today's toons.
I cannot understand racism, and I never will.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)that goes wrong in it.
That makes it not worth while for any of us. Yeah for the 1% and the white cops!
alfredo
(60,075 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)blue neen
(12,327 posts)Jon was very upset.
Kali
(55,019 posts)damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)Tough to think of something to say anymore. It's so crazy and sad at the same time.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts)Jon Stewart carries on the protest, right along with the 5 St Louis Rams with their hands up as they entered the stadium last weekend. This protest needs to permeate every square inch of this country for as long as it takes to wring the neck of racism.
americannightmare
(322 posts)that police brutality and militarization have increased along with obscene wealth disparity. And the most vulnerable in society pay the heaviest price.