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deetsbrother t1_j6cy0a4 wrote

Everyone in the picture is white

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[deleted] t1_j6jbnr1 wrote

Protesting is a privilege for the well informed, those who have time, those who can transport themselves, and those who have the means to organize.

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[deleted] t1_j6kjl85 wrote

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[deleted] t1_j6kkv5r wrote

They are not white attributes. No human being is bestowed special powers because of their race. You don’t magically become a well informed being because your skin is a certain color.

There are however inequities perpetuated by our failing governments that happen to benefit white people disproportionally due to a history of slavery and religious justifications of that slavery which allowed our infrastructure to expel certain types of people from said benefits. After centuries of such practices it’s no question why there is a massive equity gap.

One disproportionate fact is the way black Americans are brutalized by the criminal legal system. That is what these protests are about. Not that we don’t respond to these problems (which credit to the US, with every decade it cares a bit more). It’s just that these such problems shouldn’t exist. At all.

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