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We need to start by getting Hollywood to stop portraying Black men as thugs and criminals all the time, and go after people who use those kinds of images in their politics.
Hear, hear!
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This needs to be a grassroots movement, supplied by each of us as individuals to stop discriminatory practices where we see them.
Along the lines of if you see something, say something, we should also take Jon Stewart’s if you smell something, say something.
The only way is to stop these things one at a time and call out the perpetrators, even if they are those in power like the police or legislators that would change a voting district to minimize the impact of voter participation.
We have the power to stop this. We need to take it and make sure that power realizes that black lives matter and we won’t stand by for extermination or hindrance.
This is something I wondered (and worried) about even as the confederate flag controversy was playing out: i.e., that the flag flap, although not unimportant, was being permitted to overtake and supplant discussion other issues that were likely far more significant with respect to the shootings in Charleston.