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I've already posted three links that showed where Obama attempted to do exactly that.
There's no reason to keep harping on the same point -- many Americans already know this.
Just as with the expansion of health care to all American citizens, it's Republicans who repeatedly block and repeal said efforts.
Same goes for your comments on uprisings and social change: it was the riots after King was killed that led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, more than a century after slavery ended.
After which Republicans resorted to the "Southern Strategy", "Jim Crow Laws" and African-American voter suppression to win elections.
As they still do so today whenever possible as many Republicans believe said oppression is the key to winnning elections due to demographics.
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I just watched the video of George Floyd being murdered on youtube. Vile, disgusting, sickening, and deeply disturbing.
I'm equally appalled that a mayor could watch the footage, and not see that unecessary excessive force was being used. He should resign immediately from governance, absolutely disgusting, your country has serious problems.
You should do your own research and read up about the militarization of American police, numerous police killings through the past years, and the entire history of American racism to learn some possible answers. Explaining it all step by step to someone acting like they're trying to not understand would be, quite frankly, exhausting.
But there are too many possible answers for me to sit here and list when the best answer is, "Do something, ANYTHING, to make police stop killing people they're supposed to be protecting for no reason. Like prosecuting. Or suspending a cop with a track record of police brutality so he can't hang around enough to murder a man."
That's not a lot to ask. And if your vote hasn't put people in place to make sure this very simple request as a citizen isn't being honored... you can't be surprised if people riot.
Especially not if the riot is started by an undercover Minneapolis police officer as an excuse to disperse the peaceful protesters, as is being speculated online. So there's that, too.
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The Republican way is to oppose "the left" -- you have to give an answer so they can explain why it probably wouldn't work.
Actual research would prevent that option and leave them in the unfavorable and untenable position of being judgded on their own merits.
As we've seen under the leadership of both Trump and Bush Jr that doesn't tend to work in their favor so an alternate strategy is necessary.
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"If Obama wanted it, we Republicans had to be against it,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky."
https://www.politico.com/story/2010/...-pledge-044311
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Something along the lines of my thinking. All of those Minneapolis police stations are beneficiaries of racism, privilege and slavery. Burn them to the ground.
And, I’m sure that shooting these “thugs” is what Trump had in mind when he retweeted that Republicans weren’t hurting the right people.
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It probably happens in YOUR country, too. Don’t be like “omg America is soooo bad, good thing im in [INSERT COUNTRY THAT ALSO HAS VIOLENT POLICE BRUTALITY AGAINST BLACK PPL THAT OFTEN GETS IGNORED]” cause it isn’t an empathetic or sensitive take at all.
The same prosecutor that earlier said there was “other evidence that does not support a criminal charge"? If you are the mayor, then denounce the conviction that’s really just letting him off the hook.
And you don’t see how screwed up the system is that a police officer can get away with cold-blooded murder that’s literally being filmed, showing he not only wasn’t resisting but was actively pleading for his life saying he couldn’t breathe? I’m not talking about what most likely will win the case, I’m talking about what he DESERVES. Injustice being just let go like that is cause for direct action, hence, the uprisings.
Annnnnnnnd you think this is gonna go different than the thousands of other cases, why?
History also showed that things can easily be set back a couple generations overnight of the wrong pieces fall in place. It took 50 years for black Americans to claw back what they watched get taken away by Woodrow Wilson. I recently watched a YouTube channel where the host posits that Woodrow Wilson, and not anybody else, is the single worst American president. Others had bigger failures, but with Wilson the damage was done by his success, and it lasted decades, and in some cases over a century.
Dark does not mean deep.
Bush Jr's Great Recession was equally disastrous -- black people still haven't recovered.
Then Trump has the audacity to ask what black people have to lose by voting Republican.
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"The Recession's Racial Slant"
By 2031, the downturn will have decreased the wealth of the median black household by almost $100,000...
Median net worth among black as well as Hispanic households was close to zero over the whole time period, as were the ratios of median wealth between minority and white households. However, the Great Recession from 2007 to 2010 hit African-American households much harder than whites, and the ratio of mean wealth between the two groups plunged from 0.19 in 2007 to 0.14 in 2010.
Indeed, the mean wealth of black households suffered a 33% decline in real terms (see Figure 2). White wealth, in contrast, declined by 12%.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business...g-race/396725/
https://voxeu.org/article/decline-af...reat-recession
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/th...sis-2019-02-06
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What are you talking about?
Mayor Frey:
"I've wrestled with, more than anything else over the last 36 hours, one fundamental question: Why is the man who killed George Floyd not in jail," Frey said. "If you had done it, or I had done it, we would be behind bars right now."
Frey went on to say, "We cannot turn a blind eye, it is on us as leaders to see this for what it is and call it what it is. George Floyd deserves justice, his family deserves justice, the black community deserves justice and our city deserves justice."
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!