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Originally Posted by Malice_Mizer
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If your take-away from what happened in Sanford is, "Another black kid dead," then you haven't been listening at all apparently.
It's about what people find inherently suspicious in America, what they deem a threat to themselves, and how black people interact with the communities they're a part of.
That's all Obama was talking about. Being followed in a department store because somebody thinks you're going to steal something. A woman clutching her purse when you enter an elevator. Things that this president has PERSONALLY experienced as a black man in America.
What is so difficult to understand here?
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The city of Detroit illustrates this perfectly. The automotive industry was in the heart of the city, then when the heart of the city began to turn brown the jobs moved to the suburbs instead of letting the minority community benefit from those jobs. It is a fact that if you are not White you are not looked at as an equal with the majority white population.
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