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Why white people should protest racial injustice
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| December 12, 2014
| Zoe FitzGerald Carter
Posted on 12/14/2014 8:09:41 AM PST by artichokegrower
Im standing at the intersection of Dwight and Shattuck in Berkeley with my hands in the air, shouting, Hands up! Dont shoot! It is the third night of protests over the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and the grand juries decision against indicting the white policemen involved in each of these cases.
Surrounding me are students wearing Cal sweatshirts, young mothers with children, hippie types with gray ponytails, and a few middle-aged women like me. Although the crowd is sprinkled with brown and black faces, most of us are white.
The irony of being a white person mimicking a black person begging for mercy from a white police officer is not lost on me. But it doesnt feel absurd or self-righteous; it feels like a welcome outlet for my anger and frustration.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: racism
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Author Zoe FitzGerald Carter of Berkeley is writing a book on race
OMG what a narcissistic sanctimonious twit. Currently writing a book. Hey Zoe get back to us when you have actually done something with your life.
To: artichokegrower
But it doesnt feel absurd or self-righteous; it feels like a welcome outlet for my anger and frustration.
You may feel that way but you look like an idiot.
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posted on
12/14/2014 8:11:12 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: artichokegrower
“Im standing at the intersection of Dwight and Shattuck in Berkeley with my hands in the air, shouting, Hands up! Dont shoot!
Another liberal attention whore writing a “book”.
To: artichokegrower
OMG what a narcissistic sanctimonious twit. The very essence of California.
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posted on
12/14/2014 8:13:15 AM PST
by
madprof98
To: artichokegrower
Why are they shouting “Hands up, Don’t Shoot?”
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posted on
12/14/2014 8:13:28 AM PST
by
Cowboy Bob
(They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
To: artichokegrower
Zoe, you got it right. We should loudly protest:
Discrimination disguised as “affirmative action” and “diversity”
Quotas
Disproportionate black-on-everybody else crime
Underachievement in schools and higher education
Disproportionate taking of welfare, charity, et al
Destruction of neighborhoods, shopping areas, schools, central cities/downtowns, other areas built by our ancestors
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posted on
12/14/2014 8:14:47 AM PST
by
A_Former_Democrat
(Garner, Martin & Brown . . . all hoisted by their own petards)
To: artichokegrower
What a sick piece of garbage. Perfect example of an ars that will never understand who these animals really are. Item one: lazy. Item two: Didn't take advantage of what America offered.
To: cripplecreek
it feels like... Feelings Lie.
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posted on
12/14/2014 8:15:36 AM PST
by
ChicagahAl
(Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
To: artichokegrower
“White people should protest racial injustice”
YES!!
Racist blacks must stop beating unarmed whites to death with hammers just because they are white.
And racist blacks who engage in the “Knockout Game” must be prosecuted.
And Eric Holder must stop protecting blacks guilty of racial hate crimes and start prosecuting all criminals regardless of their skin color.
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posted on
12/14/2014 8:16:31 AM PST
by
Iron Munro
(D.H.S. has the same headcount as the US Marine Corps with twice the budget)
To: artichokegrower
What case are they protesting in which the “victim” begged for mercy with his hands up?
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posted on
12/14/2014 8:18:40 AM PST
by
oblomov
To: A_Former_Democrat
This reads like a liberals Winter Solstice gift list.
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posted on
12/14/2014 8:19:04 AM PST
by
CityCenter
(In remembrance of Buckley, my beloved beagle who passed on 11/3/2014.)
To: artichokegrower
The gentle giant was “begging for mercy” after the tried to disarm the cop and charged him like a raging bull for another try? San Francisco style Liberalism is destroying this country.
To: artichokegrower
The gentle giant was “begging for mercy” after the tried to disarm the cop and charged him like a raging bull for another try? San Francisco style Liberalism is destroying this country.
To: cripplecreek
This broad needs a man to take her to bed, rock her world and set her mind straight since is confused and thinks people care what she thinks and write about. A good stiffy for a half hour would wake her up!
To: Plumberman27
I doubt it. She looks like she’s in her late 30s to early 40s and is irreparably stupid.
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posted on
12/14/2014 8:22:20 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: artichokegrower
a black person begging for mercy from a white police officerDidn't happen. It was a fabrication.
Bezerkely.
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posted on
12/14/2014 8:22:35 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: artichokegrower
Maybe we should use the same terminology as blacks when describing black folks they disagree with.
As in, Zoe FitzGerald Carter is a race traitor.
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posted on
12/14/2014 8:23:26 AM PST
by
Tupelo
(I am feeling more like Phillip Nolan by the day.)
To: artichokegrower
I am convinced that living in an unjust, bigoted society takes a psychic toll on all of us. I don't need no steenkin white guilt
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posted on
12/14/2014 8:24:12 AM PST
by
mjp
((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
To: Plumberman27
This broad needs a man to take her to bed, rock her world and set her mind straight since is confused Just guessing, but this "woman" has never been with a man..
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posted on
12/14/2014 8:24:34 AM PST
by
PROCON
(Always give 100%...unless you're donating blood.)
To: Cowboy Bob
I see that
"Hands Up Don't Shoot" has been redefined as a metaphor protesting supposed police brutality against minorities now that the abject lie that Brown was peacefully surrendering when he was killed has been exposed. It's "a larger truth" to use the leftist's sinister twisting of the language.
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posted on
12/14/2014 8:24:44 AM PST
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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