This Is White Privilege

[SlimTrae]

If you are not yet familiar with the term white privilege, here's your introduction to it On May 17, 2015 in Waco, Texas, 170 people were arrested after a shootout/brawl in which nine people died and 20 were seriously injured. The story took over the news and was covered in an endless loop for days.

Every single person who was arrested has been released.

Not one person has been charged with murder.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the epitome of white privilege.

Of the 135 people originally ordered to wear GPS ankle monitors, all but 22 have been allowed to remove them. Their lawyers have reached agreements with prosecutors to modify the conditions of their pre-trial release.

Let's now replace these men, who killed nine people just a few months ago, up against Kalief Browder, an African-American who was arrested for stealing a man's backpack.

Browder languished in Rikers Island Penitentiary for three years without ever being charged with a crime. Brutalized throughout his time there, he committed suicide in the months after his release.

Or let's consider Bobby Reed, who is serving a life sentence in prison for his first offense, a non-violent drug crime. Reed was featured in the Vice documentary on prison reform, and his story begins just about a minute into the documentary.

White privilege is killing nine people and all suspects being released without a charge, while Browder served three years after being accused of stealing a backpack and Reed is serving a life sentence for selling drugs.

Reminds me of when a Vietnamese in Wisconsin shot about 5 or six whites -claimed self defense, because they all had guns, were drunk & threatened him...Yet they were all buried like within a day to prevent autopsy showing if/ how much alcohol consumed. As testimony stated they weren't drunk & get this--claimed only 1 or 2 were armed. Really? How does a group of people go hunting -with only 2 guns between the 1/2 dozen or so?

As for my African-American brethren- far too many times we put ourselves out there by stealing shit to begin with. We got enough problems being black. But to steal or harm then cry because death by gun was the solution is contradictory at best. Let us cry for justice when a black man is shot without provocation or breaking any law.

The Kalief Browders of the world place themselves in life or death situations by the actions of theft. Petty as it, was the ni%$3uh fucked up. No a backpack isn't worth death, but stealing isn't our last resort. It is a choice that has dire consequences.

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If you are not yet familiar with the term white privilege, here's your introduction to it On May 17, 2015 in Waco, Texas, 170 people were arrested after a shootout/brawl in which nine people died and 20 were seriously injured. The story took over the news and was covered in an endless loop for days.

Every single person who was arrested has been released.

Not one person has been charged with murder.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the epitome of white privilege.

Of the 135 people originally ordered to wear GPS ankle monitors, all but 22 have been allowed to remove them. Their lawyers have reached agreements with prosecutors to modify the conditions of their pre-trial release.

Let's now replace these men, who killed nine people just a few months ago, up against Kalief Browder, an African-American who was arrested for stealing a man's backpack.

Browder languished in Rikers Island Penitentiary for three years without ever being charged with a crime. Brutalized throughout his time there, he committed suicide in the months after his release.

Or let's consider Bobby Reed, who is serving a life sentence in prison for his first offense, a non-violent drug crime. Reed was featured in the Vice documentary on prison reform, and his story begins just about a minute into the documentary.

White privilege is killing nine people and all suspects being released without a charge, while Browder served three years after being accused of stealing a backpack and Reed is serving a life sentence for selling drugs.

Reminds me of when a Vietnamese in Wisconsin shot about 5 or six whites -claimed self defense, because they all had guns, were drunk & threatened him...Yet they were all buried like within a day to prevent autopsy showing if/ how much alcohol consumed. As testimony stated they weren't drunk & get this--claimed only 1 or 2 were armed. Really? How does a group of people go hunting -with only 2 guns between the 1/2 dozen or so?

As for my African-American brethren- far too many times we put ourselves out there by stealing shit to begin with. We got enough problems being black. But to steal or harm then cry because death by gun was the solution is contradictory at best. Let us cry for justice when a black man is shot without provocation or breaking any law.

The Kalief Browders of the world place themselves in life or death situations by the actions of theft. Petty as it, was the ni%$3uh fucked up. No a backpack isn't worth death, but stealing isn't our last resort. It is a choice that has dire consequences.

I agree however I love this line from a good tune:

Bob Dylan: when you ain't got nothin you got nothin to lose