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Living While Black: My personal struggle with the unending terrorism of police violence in America
The Huffington Post ^ | June 24, 2017 | Imani Michelle Scott, Ph.D.

Posted on 06/24/2017 11:08:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

We share a strength of mind and spirit that defies centuries of efforts to break us.

So, I know: We are resilient.

But today, I am angry and troubled and, I am wanting to lash out.

• I am angry at a government that allows my people to be hunted and killed by rabid police officers.
• I am troubled by the structure that allows two white men who killed prison guards to live, but deems it justifiable to kill a black child playing with a toy gun.
• I lash out at a system that thinks it’s okay to let guilty officers go free because they speak the five magic, get out of jail free words: “I feared for my life.”

I am Trayvon Martin wondering why this strange man is following me.

I am Eric Garner gasping for air.

I am Sandra Bland proclaiming my rights.

I am Philando Castile sitting in the car with my 4 year-old daughter.

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We are the descendants of those who endured the middle passage, despite being caged like animals and treated in the most inhumane of ways by the most evil of people.

So, I know: We are survivors.

But today, I am incensed and agitated and, I am yearning to fight.

• I am incensed by the sadistic notion that our brown skin makes us less deserving and less vital, and less human even, than one with white skin.
• I am agitated by the pattern of contradictions in denying responsibility for killing, but subsequently offering monetary settlements to the families of those killed.
• I fight against a justice system which deems it acceptable to bring Burger King to a white man after he has killed nine black people in a church.....

(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: blacks; lawenforcement; racism; thugculture; whites
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1 posted on 06/24/2017 11:08:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A far cry from that great Booker T Washington/sharecropper generation which rose from dirt poor to greatness.

Now just whiners.


2 posted on 06/24/2017 11:18:16 PM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Statically speaking.

The most dangerous place for a black child is in her mother’s womb. In some states the odds are 50-50 it will be killed in an abortion.

Next, black on black crime, statically speaking, is nearly 100% of all crime committed against blacks to include murder.


3 posted on 06/24/2017 11:18:17 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When you accept clearly false premises as fundamental truths upon which to base an entire philosophy you can imagine your way into almost any contortion of reality.


4 posted on 06/24/2017 11:19:35 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Give em all $100,000 and a ticket to their Homeland.


5 posted on 06/24/2017 11:39:22 PM PDT by heights
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://www.scad.edu/academics/faculty/imani-michelle-scott

Member of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network
On the Advisory Board for the Truth Telling Project

“A Truth Initiative for Ferguson and Beyond” their logo is “hands up”
http://thetruthtellingproject.org/#who-we-are

Truth Telling Project commie black power salute
https://www.facebook.com/thetruthtellingproject/photos/pb.1514848112126284.-2207520000.1498371855./1947463532198071/?type=3


6 posted on 06/24/2017 11:40:33 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No need to read - PhD = Police Hating Dindunuffin


7 posted on 06/24/2017 11:45:43 PM PDT by jobim
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To: EliRoom8
Up From Slavery is a true American classic.
8 posted on 06/24/2017 11:48:54 PM PDT by jobim
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To: heights

Toss them into lifetime exile. Ingrates.


9 posted on 06/24/2017 11:49:21 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

meh

SJW who takes people’s money to be a “professor”


10 posted on 06/24/2017 11:58:35 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A generation of liars, whiners and entitled morons incapable of taking care of themselves.


11 posted on 06/25/2017 12:14:20 AM PDT by exnavy (long live the .45 colt, the original handgun cartridge.)
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I’m angry that people can’t comprehend basic instructions during a traffic stop.....


12 posted on 06/25/2017 12:14:21 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m sure that many coutries in Africa would welcome them with open arms. These people would make a tremendous contribution to African society.


13 posted on 06/25/2017 12:22:43 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This author is a complete idiot and I’m curious as to what diploma-mill gave this idiot an Ph.D. First off, he’s completely unaware that the rates of black men beating and shooting each other is exponentially higher than cops shooting them.


14 posted on 06/25/2017 12:25:14 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: 2banana

“....The most dangerous place for a black child is in her mother’s womb....”
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And the 2nd most dangerous place for that black child is in that mother’s custody if a father is absent.


15 posted on 06/25/2017 12:26:05 AM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lol


16 posted on 06/25/2017 12:26:35 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Squantos

It goes for car accidents, too. A large segment of the population just doesn’t know how to act, period. When a guy built like an NFL footballer comes out of his car running straight at you and throwing punches, apparently you’re supposed to just stand there and have your face pounded into the pavement.


17 posted on 06/25/2017 12:29:38 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Anecdotally speaking, even African nations don’t want low class African Americans. And the high class ones would never want to leave the USA. Never.


18 posted on 06/25/2017 12:30:38 AM PDT by Concentrate (ex-texan was right. And Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election. ( Pizzagate, Podt)
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To: House Atreides

Being left with a live-in boyfriend while mom works or goes grocery shopping isn’t inherently safe, either.


19 posted on 06/25/2017 12:31:52 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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unending terrorism of police violence in America

I won't subject myself to reading anymore from this jackass.

20 posted on 06/25/2017 12:32:55 AM PDT by windsorknot
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