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>No, not all cops are bad >people but we are really >speaking of them in the >context of their jobs and >in that capacity, they are >agents of repression. We >used to call them rollers >back in the 80's in >LA, funny we used to >call them the pattyrollers during >slavery. I guess the more >things change the more they >stay the same...
with this -- they are frequently agents of repression/suppression, and the roller/pattyroller description is often fitting.
The >real question in my mind >is, why the double standard? >Why are our lives so >less valuable and why does >everyone accept that? Really, >Nat Turner knew that the >slave master was a human >being, with a family and >all that but when someone's >existence is predicated on your >(mine and our) oppression, a >choice must be made! If >we want Black and Latino >lives valued, we the ones >gotta value em'.
with this also -- i don't buy into the propaganda that their lives are more valuable than any and everyone else's. as a matter of fact, when it happens to be an individual among them who is actively about repression/suppression, then i think its fair to value that life *less* than that of others. i damn sure won't shed no tears for dead klan, and if someone has on a 'blue' robe, the principle holds. like i said, i think dude misinterpereted my previous post.
>To paraphrase June Jordan, "What chu >think, if everytime they take >one of us out, we >take one of them out, >how many of us would >keep being killed?..."
whole 'nother issue, which i don't have time to deal w/ right now, but i'll get back...
peace & blessings,
x.
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========================================= I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and not having much to show for it. (c) mad
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