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Originally Posted by WhistlesAndStripes
It’s propaganda and he knows it ...
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Propaganda? That a group of people have been mistreated as second class citizens for 400 years?
It seems that white males have gotten more than their fair share of liberty and justice for "all" for quite a long time.
Time for that to change.
That is, time for that to peacefully change.
My great grandfather was discriminated against as a nineteenth century Irish immigrant. He and his descendants lost their accents and were then treated well because they didn't have to change the color of their skin to fit into this American melting pot. Black Americans didn't have this luxury, whether they were kidnapped and brought here as slaves, or are descendants of slaves, or immigrated here in more modern times. The deck has been stacked against them for a long time, it's improved over the years (Civil War, Civil Rights), but this country still has a long way to go. White privilege is a stubborn old coot and it's not easily going to go away.
Moderators can certainly delete this post (hopefully no other penalty), I didn't post it to start a political debate, it comes directly from my mind, my heart, my soul, and my want to make this great country even greater for everybody.
I want the violence to stop, but I want the message to continue to ring loud and clear.
This is what is inscribed on the Liberty Bell:
Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof (Leviticus 25:10).
And here's what Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963:
"Let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. And when this happens, when we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old negro spiritual, 'Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'"
Black lives have to matter as much as all lives matter.
No more. No less.
Right now black lives don't matter as much as white lives matter.
Education. Housing. Employment. Criminal justice. Health care. Wealth.