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brettdale

(12,384 posts)
Thu May 28, 2020, 06:40 PM May 2020

I will be honest I use to roll my eyes at the phrase White privilege (George Floyd Protest)

With the footage ive seen in the past few weeks, how can anyone not believe it exists.

Im talking about the protests of the white dudes storming the state capitol with bazookas, screaming
in the police faces and the police just stood there.

And the protest I have just seen on twitter now from Union square in New York, where a Black man was
(get ready for this....) Holding a sign, he of course got shoved to the ground.

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I will be honest I use to roll my eyes at the phrase White privilege (George Floyd Protest) (Original Post) brettdale May 2020 OP
Yep. I've been educated in white privileged as well. It's real MaryMagdaline May 2020 #1
Santos Rodriguez BigMin28 May 2020 #2
"how can anyone not believe it exists." The same way you were rolling your eyes until just the last LizBeth May 2020 #3
Yup ibegurpard May 2020 #4

BigMin28

(1,180 posts)
2. Santos Rodriguez
Thu May 28, 2020, 06:53 PM
May 2020

If you don't believe in white privilege or police privilege, just look up this case. An innocent 12 year old, handcuffed in the back of a Dallas police car with his brother, was shot in the head. They were dragged from their bed. Sure, the officer was tried, and found guilty of negligent homicide. But he only served 2 and a half years for shooting a child point blank in the head. What was the crime? Someone broke into a vending and stole some change. The two kids were innocent.

LizBeth

(9,952 posts)
3. "how can anyone not believe it exists." The same way you were rolling your eyes until just the last
Thu May 28, 2020, 07:24 PM
May 2020

few weeks.

ibegurpard

(16,685 posts)
4. Yup
Thu May 28, 2020, 07:31 PM
May 2020

It's a thing. And just mentioning the idea of it will cause the average white person to lose their fucking mind.

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