This made me love Bill Clinton a little more. 19 years ago he said: White America must understand and acknowledge the roots of black pain. It began with unequal treatment, first in law and later in fact. African-Americans indeed have lived too long with a justice system that in too many cases has been and continues to be less than just. The record of abuses extends from lynchings and trumped up charges to false arrests and police brutality. The tragedies of Emmett Till and Rodney King are bloody markers on the very same road. Still today, too many of our police officers play by the rules of the bad old days. It is beyond wrong when law-abiding black parents have to tell their law-abiding children to fear the police whose salaries are paid by their own taxes. Listen to this speech. Still relevant and necessary today. #nojusticenopeace #stoppolicebrutality
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 00:47:46 +0000
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