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From: "Sean Gallagher" <sean-AT-dendro.com>
Subject: Cincinatti riots
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 21:28:49 -0400


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A black kid with 14 warrants related to misdemeanors (apparently stemming mostly from failing to show up for traffic court) got shot in the back by a white cop who claimed self-defense when he tried to evade arrest. The whole thing stems from the (true) perception that there is no justice for blacks in America--racial profiling, the Florida vote fiasco, and the disproporionate jailing of black men (43% had been incarcerated in a study a few years ago).

As the Clash sang:
"You have the right/not to be killed/ Murder is a crime/ unless it's committed/by a policeman/or an aristocrat/know your rights...."

Until the fundamental economic and political disenfranchisement of blacks in the US ends, this is just going to keep on happening. 

What do my fellow Amerikans on the list think about slavery reparations?

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A black kid with 14 warrants related to misdemeanors (apparently stemming mostly from failing to show up for traffic court) got shot in the back by a white cop who claimed self-defense when he tried to evade arrest. The whole thing stems from the (true) perception that there is no justice for blacks in America--racial profiling, the Florida vote fiasco, and the disproporionate jailing of black men (43% had been incarcerated in a study a few years ago).
 
As the Clash sang:
"You have the right/not to be killed/ Murder is a crime/ unless it's committed/by a policeman/or an aristocrat/know your rights...."
 
Until the fundamental economic and political disenfranchisement of blacks in the US ends, this is just going to keep on happening. 
 
What do my fellow Amerikans on the list think about slavery reparations?

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