For people who think that the HP / Word Use Discussion (I refuse to call it a wank) is minor and people should be discussing real racism, I'd like to point your attention to the
Jena 6.
There were nooses on a tree in a schoolyard. Nooses. A black kid sat down under the tree at lunchtime, a place where white students usually sat and the next day
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Here in West Memphis, the class of 2012 has lost a student.
DeAunta Farrow was out after 10 PM with his 14 year old cousin. They had just left the Stop & Go after getting chips and pop. When the cops checked on him, he brandished a realistic looking toy gun.
The cop, fearing for his own life, shot him.
He was 12.
He went to kindergarten with my oldest son.
The brutal irony is he wanted to grow up and be a police officer himself.
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Our next-door neighbors lost their 16 year-old granddaughter when a speeding police car, not running lights or sirens, broadsided her at the corner of our street and the main artery. Her little sister survived the accident with multiple injuries. (My younger son is sweet on her)
As usual, the cops covered their asses here too: "Oh but he was running lights and sirens." Every eyewitness says differently.
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*hugs you*
If there were more sunshine here, I think that I'd go tan as an act of sheer defiance. XD Dark skin scares you? THIS IS HOW DARK I CAN GET!
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