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DemocracyMouse

(2,275 posts)
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 08:44 PM Oct 2019

When does it stop? When do white people actually join their suffering fellow citizens?

My heart is a mess of angst and frustration. My last post about police brutality got barely a nod from people in this forum. Is anyone listening? Can we rise to the occasion and SERIOUSLY start working hand-in-hand with the citizens whose ancestors PHYSICALLY BUILT this country — without compensation?

Their Siblings Were Killed By Police. Now They’re United In The Fight For Justice.

The families of Botham Jean and Atatiana Jefferson were drawn together by tragedies that have become all too familiar in the United States.

By Hayley Miller
10/29/2019

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5db855bae4b036b6a16755f0

NEW YORK ― On a mild fall evening, two strangers bound together by unimaginable tragedy at the hands of those sworn to protect and serve met for the first time in Manhattan.

Ashley Carr and Alissa Charles-Findley never wanted the spotlight. But their families were thrust into it when Texas police officers, in separate incidents roughly a year apart, opened fire on their siblings in their own homes.

In the days and weeks that followed, each woman, like so many other members of Black families who have been victimized by systemic police brutality, would join the frontlines of a national movement they had once supported from a distance.

Hours after their first meeting, Carr and Charles-Findley stood beside each other in Foley Square as keynote speakers at a National Day of Outrage protest against police violence, led by Until Freedom, a social justice organization. It was Carr’s first rally, but the words flowed easily.

“This is something that could happen to anybody,” she told the crowd. “When does this stop? When are we able to just live, to be productive citizens like we were told to be?”
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When does it stop? When do white people actually join their suffering fellow citizens? (Original Post) DemocracyMouse Oct 2019 OP
The article is about virgogal Oct 2019 #1
I'm concerned about White members of DU caring about the article DemocracyMouse Oct 2019 #2
Why do we have to prove to you that we care?!!!!!!!!!! wasupaloopa Oct 2019 #3
Isn't there proof enough that ALL white Americans have not done enough to control its police culture DemocracyMouse Oct 2019 #4
I can't post what I am thinking because I would get a hide. wasupaloopa Oct 2019 #6
Why social movements (and White participation) matter: DemocracyMouse Oct 2019 #7
There's a lot of smugness on the Left. But the cruelty towards Blacks keeps happening DemocracyMouse Oct 2019 #5
 

virgogal

(10,178 posts)
1. The article is about
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 08:51 PM
Oct 2019

police and has nothing to do with white people ....the header was misleading....at least it was to me.

 

wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
3. Why do we have to prove to you that we care?!!!!!!!!!!
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 10:17 PM
Oct 2019

If you don’t know that it is useless to talk about it. If possible read the threads posted when Ferguson was in the news.

I think there are threads started to give the OP author personal gratification.

DemocracyMouse

(2,275 posts)
5. There's a lot of smugness on the Left. But the cruelty towards Blacks keeps happening
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 10:47 PM
Oct 2019

I look at the faces of African Americans and I see such a deep, deep sadness.

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