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The Missouri State Police has taken over and started de-escalating. The police captain met with and marched with the protesters.

talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/police-ca…
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Try this link.
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@1-2: That was great, thank you.
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Yeah, thanks ST. Much appreciated.
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@5 is not worth arguing with, but for those listening, "Oppressed People Suck" is a reasonable explanation for how demographics who are systematically oppressed correlate with displaying the characteristics that stigmatize them.

http://www.spectacle.org/0802/hogan.html
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@6 There is nothing reasonable about your link to the hipster rant for children "Oppressed people suck" it does not contain any fact or logic, it's just some trendy, edgy antifa type trying to sound intelligent, it's full of hipster irony and tinfoil hat conspiracy. This is fine for the irresponsible children demographic that the stranger caters to but when people start to grow up mentally they will want to read something that contains bit of common sense.
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I missed our North Korean racist.

Oh wait, no, I enjoyed him being gone.
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If black ppl are oppressed then why do we have a black president in the White House today? Does anyone here understand what real oppression is? You may say, oh it's still oppression because a lot of people don't like our president because he is black. Well your wrong, no matter who you are there is always a group of people who won't like you, that's just life, no one gets to be fully accepted in every facet of society. That's just how the world is get used to it it's not gonna change.
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@ 5, 7, 9, 10: you have a sad, constricted view of life. there is probably no way to convince you to open up your mind, but i suggest you begin volunteering with african american youth and expand your perspective on entrenched structural racism.

but not as an english teacher.
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Turns out the cop, Darren Wilson, is black.
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Oh wait, now we have photos of Brown committing armed robbery moments before the police encounter.
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@9 cool story bro. Isn't there a clan rally in Idaho you need to rush off to?
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@13

For 'armed robbery' substitute 'alleged shoplifting of a pack of cigars.' Not that either charge justifies killing an unarmed teenager, you ugly prick.
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Wow. I spent time with my church working with inner city kids in Houston in the early 1990's when crime was really high. I don't live in a fantasy. I've befriended 12 year olds who can handle a gun properly. Those kids are oppressed because their parents are oppressed. Oppression is a real set of interactions and enforcement of mindset; it's very concrete and endemic to social interactions in the US. I grew up in it and I can't totally free myself of it, but I do what I can daily.

They face very real concrete bigotry, long after 1865. They've internalized so much of it that they (often) hate themselves and each other; it poisons them. This country actively destroyed african culture and gave their descendants nothing to work with but terrorism.

I guess some people think MLK did nothing, or probably will say that because of MLK nothing more needs to be done.
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I think this says a lot: "No one cares about a black life". Our culture really doesn't care about black lives. That's what we're talking about, not the "until" bit. "until" just brings out the background rage and incomprehension.

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