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brush

(58,015 posts)
Wed Apr 14, 2021, 11:29 PM Apr 2021

Cornell West is on CNN/Don Lemon. He says it's apparent that...

policing has obviously failed Black people and we need to figure out ways to protect ourselves. He mentions Robert Hicks and the Deacons for Defense and Justice, an African-American self-defense group in the south in the '60s who helped protect MLK Jr. At the same time the Black Panther Party arose on the west coast.

Sooner or later such movements should be expected to arise in response to the continued killings and qualified immunity.

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Cornell West is on CNN/Don Lemon. He says it's apparent that... (Original Post) brush Apr 2021 OP
Occupiers Claire Oh Nette Apr 2021 #1
Love Don Lemon. sheshe2 Apr 2021 #2
Yeah, fuck black Susan Sarandon. Beakybird Apr 2021 #3
What is that suppose to mean? sheshe2 Apr 2021 #4
Cornel West attacked Obama and told people to vote for Jill Stein instead of Clinton. Beakybird Apr 2021 #5
Okay. sheshe2 Apr 2021 #6
I feel the same way about West but what he said here has nothing to do... brush Apr 2021 #7

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
1. Occupiers
Wed Apr 14, 2021, 11:46 PM
Apr 2021

Policing in the Black community looks an awful lot like an occupying army.

Police are militarized and trigger ready at every traffic stop, when exactly SIX cops were shot in 2019 in a traffic stop.

They police on myths and really don't solve al that many murders or robberies.

ReImagine Public Safety Services to improve policing is a better slogan than defund the police. But the military preparedness and Army to Police Force conduit needs to stop. MPs might be well trained for policing, but the average soldier is not.



sheshe2

(88,095 posts)
2. Love Don Lemon.
Wed Apr 14, 2021, 11:51 PM
Apr 2021

I have no interest in listening to Cornell. He hated Barack Obama. For one on Tavis Smiley's show he said he was not black enough. Called him Uncle Tom.


Beakybird

(3,396 posts)
5. Cornel West attacked Obama and told people to vote for Jill Stein instead of Clinton.
Thu Apr 15, 2021, 12:20 AM
Apr 2021

Just like Susan Sarandon. He helped Trump get into power.
This makes him a piece of shit in my book.

brush

(58,015 posts)
7. I feel the same way about West but what he said here has nothing to do...
Thu Apr 15, 2021, 01:06 AM
Apr 2021

if one likes what he's said/done in the past. He has a point about the past history he mentions as it's bound to repeat itself inevitably if things keep going how they are.

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