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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.....

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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: blacks; lawenforcement; racism; thugculture; whites
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Noooobody knows da trouble ah seen....


21 posted on 06/25/2017 12:33:34 AM PDT by FrdmLvr ("A is A. A thing is what it is." Ayn Rand)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

It’s true. You can ask my niece about that. Not nice at all.


22 posted on 06/25/2017 12:34:13 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: windsorknot
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.....

If I thought $6 in Burger King would help me get a confession, I would pull out my wallet right away.

23 posted on 06/25/2017 12:51:11 AM PDT by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Written by one that has a doctorate from the race of professional victims.


24 posted on 06/25/2017 12:51:44 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am George Zimmerman- Gasping for breath as I’m being strangled and fighting to remain conscious as a black THUG beats my head against the concert sidewalk as he’s trying to MURDER me

I am the white police officer who is facing down a black THUG who tried to steal my weapon and murder me with it while I was trapped inside my police car- I decide to let the black THUG go, but he turns around aggressively and begins charging my car once again- I order him to stop- He does NOT- and I fear for my life as i can’t know for sure whether he has his own damn gun with which to murder me with!

I am...


25 posted on 06/25/2017 12:54:28 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434
I am the 60,000 union soldiers who died in a civil war that set you free to become resentful beligerant and cultivate a culture of crime

I am an angry old white man who worked a lifetime to pay your damn entitlements

26 posted on 06/25/2017 1:03:18 AM PDT by KTM rider
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To: wastoute
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.

Bingo.

27 posted on 06/25/2017 1:06:47 AM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Online there is a book called, “ The Color of Crime. “ It’s literally only allowed in the forbidden reading section of the internet. It contains crime and race data from the Department of Justice, back when they kept such statistics. It is an eye-opener filled with the real invconvenient truths that have nothing to do with the weather. Truth is truth, whether it is ugly or pretty. You should never be afraid or ashamed of truth.


28 posted on 06/25/2017 1:10:58 AM PDT by brucedickinson
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Live like a thug. Die like a thug.”

There are always going to be accidents, and bad cops, and they are horrible and should be punished accordingly.

But I have no sympathy for willingly uneducated hoodrats acting like wild animals getting popped on a regular basis.

That includes the sanctified Trayvon, Brown, and a dozen other !@#$ for brains thugs that have become worm food in the last few years.


29 posted on 06/25/2017 1:14:32 AM PDT by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This poor aggrieved man and "his people" deserve their own country. Wait … that' s right. They already have it. It's called Liberia. Even better than Nagin's Chocolate City, you might want to call it Chocolate Country.

So gather "your people" and head off to that land of dreams. Soon. See ya later, bub.

30 posted on 06/25/2017 1:15:37 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Meanwhile how many blacks have murdered other blacks this weekend alone?


31 posted on 06/25/2017 1:30:35 AM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
A subculture of serious Crybabies sojourns among us.

Victim hood is their mantra and a free ride is their objective. Well, that seems so among the loudest.

Breaks my heart to see a minority of a minority being given the lions share of media attention and the Pimps and Whores who thrive on the predicament which permeates that other level get wealthy.

A world where potentially successful people who strive against peer pressure and a callous absolute BS system of lying government workers determined to perpetuate the circumstance are disdained. A culture where Slime are regularly capitalizing on urban blight and much more.

I could write a book about adversity. I grew up in a so called mixed neighborhood where Whites were outnumbered 9 or 10 to 1 yet still blamed for everyone’s travails.

I long ago got sick of it.

They, on the whole, decline to grow up culturally.

32 posted on 06/25/2017 1:48:08 AM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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To: EliRoom8

They are green with envy. Deep down they really hate themselves.


33 posted on 06/25/2017 1:48:34 AM PDT by FES0844 (G)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I am Trayvon Martin wondering why this strange man is following me.

So I knocked him to the ground and started smashing his head on the concrete cuz axing him politely "whuz up" was beneef me.

34 posted on 06/25/2017 1:51:19 AM PDT by TigersEye (Investigate the Awan brothers and Wasserman Schultz)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The person who wrote this is a Ph.D.? This is terrible writing, like something a high school student wrote.


35 posted on 06/25/2017 1:57:46 AM PDT by rake ("more rubble, less trouble" VD Hanson)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
... the rates of black men beating and shooting each other is exponentially higher than cops shooting them.

I feel obliged to mention that this is a vulgar ( ahem ) abuse of the term, "exponential". Of course, the term properly applies to a rate of growth proportionial to the quantity, so the mere syntax of this sentence disqualifies the concept.

OTOH, I recognize that this abuse of the term has linguistic currency, but it is still an abuse.

36 posted on 06/25/2017 2:05:38 AM PDT by dr_lew (I)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Her PhD is from Nova Southeastern University.

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

#214 in U.S. News and World Report college rankings. Nothing great, but not horrible.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/nova-1509

If you look at her publications at the first link, she is part of the academic racial grievance industry. I am reminded of the famous Booker T. Washington quote: “There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”

That was written in 1910, and I am certain he would be horrified at the instutionalization of that class as on display here.


37 posted on 06/25/2017 2:12:05 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Imami has a lot of impressive and useless degrees from places I’ve never heard of.


38 posted on 06/25/2017 3:31:18 AM PDT by boycott
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Why are the police in your neighborhoods to begin with? Because there are high rates of crime, Homicide, victimhood.


39 posted on 06/25/2017 3:39:21 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: KTM rider

60,000 or 600,000?


40 posted on 06/25/2017 3:39:58 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Fascism and socialism are cousins. They both disarm their citizens.)
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