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qwlauren35

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1. No, really!
Sun Aug 23, 2020, 09:03 PM
Aug 2020

That was a WHITE woman?

How dare she.

Let me step back. We are in a new time. White people want to be our allies. But she was white-splaining. We are not a monolith, the #BlackLivesMatter movement is not a monolith. If she was talking about the #DefundthePolice movement, then I could see it. But I do not believe that all of the people in the movement, not even all of the leaders in the movement, are disappointed in Biden.

As Andrew Yang said, when Biden goes out on a limb, it becomes the new normal. Biden has not supported defunding, but he is definitely eager to root out bad cops. If we can convince him to deal with the justice system and the prison industrial complex, we will have made progress. (The fact that Trump appointed so many conservative judges is not lost on me.)

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