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It's not just a hook - black people are oftentimes the testing grounds for unjust programs that expand in scope to engulf other peoples (e.g. the prison industr
by faitswulff 6y ago
It's not just a hook - black people are oftentimes the testing grounds for unjust programs that expand in scope to engulf other peoples (e.g. the prison industrial complex). The full tag line should be "All lives will matter when Black Lives Matter" because they are at the intersections of so many institutional inequities.
- zrail 6y agoYes, that's a really good point. Thanks for expanding.
- StavrosK 6y agoJeez, that's terrible. Thanks for the context.
- pjc50 6y agoSomething I've said for a while is that many "conspiracy theories" are distorted, garbled versions of "what if the US did to white people things that it has done to black people". Unethical medical experiments? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment The ""FEMA camps"" meme? Hurricane Katrina response.