He had it coming. He was a black male in broad daylight. Broad. Daylight. What did he think was going to happen? Should have known better.

All of the /s, if it isn't obvious.

I just want to know why it's so radical for us to expect people not to be flat-out murdered by police because of their skin color? You aren't "radicalized". You are in opposition to the true radicalization that has become accepted as the norm in the US.

The way so many BLM leaders were disappeared and still never heard from again creeps me out.

I don't think any of us should. Just because a lot of awful shit is happening, we can't let it just wash over us or stop paying attention to the individual people getting murdered.

Tamir Rice was a child and for his murder to be seen as anything else is deeply unsettling. People are still willing to debate that. It hurts to think about it, but we can't forget that the institutions that killed Tamir Rice are still an active threat.

The same institutions that safely apprehends armed white supremacists all the time. In a country like that, how can we get over the murder of an unarmed twelve year old?

I feel the same way about Sandy Hook. Just absolutely fucking gut wrenching.

There are so many senseless horrors. The best liberals can do is appeals to morality. Kwame Ture’s words ring eternally true, that only works if your opposition has morals.

I goofed around with airsoft pistols in the park when I was teenager. I've had the cops jump the curb in their squad car and roll up on a group of me and my friends while we were just hanging out. I was scared of cops before then, but post-Tamir I started to understand that they were roving death squads vibrating with fear and violent urges, only just barely contained from unleashing genocidal mass violence by social norms. In their deepest desires, cops want to do straight-up ethnic cleansing.

That's how I feel about Elijah McClain. Kid would play his violin at animal shelters. My son would play his violin for our timid bassett.

Libs I know called BLM a victory because some local police areas instituted "reforms"

they believe that is victory

Liberals are hopeless

BLM was co-opted from a radical movement into a shadow version of itself. I had so much hope for it.

lmao I misread this as tamarind rice and got excited that I was gonna get to talk about one of my all time favorite dishes from childhood. I was instantly disappointed after clicking on the thread.