Yeah, that would have been my guess.
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I just had a student tell me he plans to go play for a team in Maltaā¦ I should have warned him about the racismā¦
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Why Malta of all places?
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I think thatās where he was able to get on a team to play? Heās hoping to move up the ranks and make a name for himself in soccer in Europeā¦
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Thread about being young and black and having to live with police in school harassing you personally. Thereās a cost and he paid it.
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Holy fuck this is horrific.
Itās one thing to wind up in the school to prison pipeline because your school doesnāt have the resources to deal with you and wants you to be someone elseās problem. Itās another thing entirely when they do have the resources and use them against you to their fullest extent because theyāve decided you donāt belong there.
This is a real problem, and itās 110% intentional from the people who have the power. It is horrifying, but this is happening everywhere.
But try explaining this to the average white suburbanite without sounding paranoid.
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Yep. I notice this too when having conversations about police. The underlying assumptions are completely different. We start from entirely different places.
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Itās a matter of education and the ability to recognize that it exists, itās a terrible problem, and the people affected are really people, not just vague, other people who donāt count. Certainly reading stuff on-line that I wasnāt exposed to before has opened my eyes in the last decade, especially on this BBS and that of TOS.
Of course, trumpkins has brought a lot more of it out into the open. The trouble there is that too many assholes are going āYup, thatās great!ā
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Plus too many assholes who just want it all shoved under the carpet again.
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Way to go, Republican assholes.
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Taking another crack at killing us.
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this whole thread is proof that the US doesnāt have a ājusticeā system at all.
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Sure it does ā if you include the irony quotes.
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I just saw this as a mention, but apparently, following the election of a black reform-minded St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney, staff prosecutors elected to join the police union.
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This is the person mentioned above in the story about staff prosecutors joining the police union.
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The indigenous agency Funai handles demarcation of indigenous lands; as part of the executive order, Funai is being moved from the justice ministry to a new ministry for women, family, and human rights, led by an ultraconservative evangelical pastor. In a tweet on Wednesday, Bolsonaro defended himself by saying āmore than 15 percent of national territory is demarcated as indigenous land and quilombos . Less than a million people live in these places, isolated from true Brazil, exploited and manipulated by NGOs. Together, we will integrate these citizens.ā Quilombos are settlements in rural areas for descendants of former slaves.
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