#white anger

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Black Success in America Is Often Met With "Whitelash"

History shows many examples.

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No cheese 4 u

[asolitarylion]

‘Vice Principals’ Is Hilarious, Tragic, and Surprisingly Insightful

At first glance, Danny McBride and Jody Hill’s HBO series may look crude and elementary, but it lives up to it’s high school setting by…

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There’s Only One Possible Conclusion: White America Likes Its Killer Cops

There’s a straight line connecting white police officer Derek Chauvin to Amy Cooper—and that line is white support of police violence.

“A majority of them clearly want the cops to behave this way. They want the viciousness. They want the horror. Why? It’s not just that a majority of white America probably thinks Amy Cooper did the right thing in her specific situation; it’s that they think they will one day be in a situation where Amy’s actions are justified. One day they might be alone in a park around a strange black man, and what might happen then? Sure, Chris Cooper seems like a “nice” black person, but what if he weren’t? What if he were a “mean” or “aggressive” black person, and you were just alone in the park, illegally walking your dog? Best to keep brutal, dangerous, and racist cops around, because, hey, you never know.”

“White people are not ignorant and they’re not blind. They see the racial bias in policing, and they know that bias benefits them. They know they’re not going to catch a beatdown for not wearing a mask. They know they’re not going to be choked to death on the street in broad daylight. They know that having racist police officers around gives them incredible power, and power makes people feel good even if they never use it.“

“White people could put their police dogs on a leash. But they won’t. And more black and brown people will get mauled and killed until white people decide to do better. More black people will die like George Floyd, because most white people want to live like Amy Cooper.”

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"Cooper sneering 'I’m going to tell them there’s an African American man threatening my life' highlights this truth about race in America: White people are far more aware of the structure of the thing than they care to admit." [x]

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Black pastor called 911 after alleged attack. The cops arrested him.

Pastor Leon McCray said he "was handcuffed in front of my assaulters," and "they waved at me as I go down the road... . Do you know how disturbing that is?"

McCray described the events leading to his arrest in a sermon to parishioners at Lighthouse Church & Marketplace Ministries International.

He said he was visiting an apartment he owns in Edinburg on June 1 when he noticed a man and a woman dragging a refrigerator from another property into his dumpster, and they became irate when he asked them to leave.

McCray said they threatened him and returned with three more people, attacking him physically, saying “they don’t give a darn” about “my black life and the Black Lives Matter stuff,” and telling him they would “kill” him.

McCray said they backed up when he drew his legal concealed weapon to “save” his life, giving him enough time to call 911. Arriving deputies then took his gun while talking with the five, who continued threatening him and yelling racist epithets at him.

The deputies wouldn’t let him tell his side, he said; instead, he was “handcuffed in front of the mob,” for brandishing the handgun, and driven away while the group stood with other deputies, waving at him as he went down the road.

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Student tackled for stealing own car settles suit for $1.25M

Evanston, Illinois officials confirmed settlement was reached with Lawrence Crosby, who was an engineering doctoral student at Northwestern University in 2015 when the incident occurred.

“Lawrence Crosby was trying to repair loose molding on his car when a woman called police to report a black man trying to steal a car.

When he drove off, the woman followed Crosby in her car as he drove from his apartment to Northwestern's science building, giving police his location.

Crosby got out the car with his hands raised after being stopped by police but was tackled when he failed to immediately obey orders to get on the ground.

Police later determined the car belonged to Crosby but charged him anyhow with disobeying officers and resisting arrest.

At the time of Crosby's arrest, an Evanston Police Department spokesman said the use of force by police was justified as officers were responding to what they thought was an auto theft.”

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He stopped selling Nike products because of Colin Kaepernick. Now his store is closing.

Prime Time Sports in Colorado Springs has a shrine to the military and no Nike products, but it's going out of business.

Boo-hoo.