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Related: About this forumHow Racists Talk About Tamir Rice
A little time has passed since a grand jury in Cleveland refused to indict two white police officers responsible for the November 2014 death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was black.
One minute this child was playing in a city park with an air pellet gun. Seconds later, after a police squad car swooped up next to him, he was on the ground alone and mortally wounded.
After 13 months of waiting for any sign of justice, the reaction from too many white people to the grand jury decision has severed me from my will for diplomacy. I am a 58-year-old white woman, and I am sickened by how many people who look like me talk about race.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/how-racists-talk-about-tamir-rice/
One minute this child was playing in a city park with an air pellet gun. Seconds later, after a police squad car swooped up next to him, he was on the ground alone and mortally wounded.
After 13 months of waiting for any sign of justice, the reaction from too many white people to the grand jury decision has severed me from my will for diplomacy. I am a 58-year-old white woman, and I am sickened by how many people who look like me talk about race.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/how-racists-talk-about-tamir-rice/
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How Racists Talk About Tamir Rice (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Dec 2015
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enid602
(8,620 posts)1. schultz
Beautifully written
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)2. She is married to Sherrod Brown, my #2 choice for VP./nt
randys1
(16,286 posts)3. Thank GOD this isnt happening daily to white kids, this country would be burnt to the ground
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Number23
(24,544 posts)6. "He was a boy."
This is powerfully written. I'm almost crying over this child all over again.
Thanks for posting this.
mcar
(42,334 posts)7. A very good essay
Connie Schultz is great, as is her husband. I wish everyone would read her words.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)8. Racists talk this way about ALL black victims…
It's how we can tell that they're racists.