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Shaun King - Explanation of Milwaukee Riots
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-milwaukee-riots-stem-years-injustice-article-1.2751918MLK: A riot is the language of the unheard
In December of 2014, Milwaukee was called the worst city in the nation for African-Americans. That designation wasn't based on opinion, but a deep analysis of “household income, the percentage of people without health insurance, educational attainment, homeownership, unemployment, incarceration rates, and mortality among infants as well as other age groups.”
In March of 2015, Kenya Downs, who grew up in the city, wrote a powerful piece for NPR asking the question, “Why is Milwaukee so bad for black people?” There she shows how virtually metric imaginable — from education, to economics, to incarceration, to home ownership, and everything in between make Milwaukee a place of deep pain and misery for so many African-Americans.
In the October of 2015, NBA player John Henson, who had just signed a $44 million contract extension with the Milwaukee Bucks, went to a local store there to buy his first Rolex watch. Upon seeing him, store employees got so deathly afraid of him that they locked the doors, pretended like the store was closed, and called the police on him.
Just this past January Milwaukee was called “the most segregated city in America” and one man said he felt like living there was “going back in time 60 years.”
In March of 2015, Kenya Downs, who grew up in the city, wrote a powerful piece for NPR asking the question, “Why is Milwaukee so bad for black people?” There she shows how virtually metric imaginable — from education, to economics, to incarceration, to home ownership, and everything in between make Milwaukee a place of deep pain and misery for so many African-Americans.
In the October of 2015, NBA player John Henson, who had just signed a $44 million contract extension with the Milwaukee Bucks, went to a local store there to buy his first Rolex watch. Upon seeing him, store employees got so deathly afraid of him that they locked the doors, pretended like the store was closed, and called the police on him.
Just this past January Milwaukee was called “the most segregated city in America” and one man said he felt like living there was “going back in time 60 years.”
Let that sink in -
The absolute worst city in America for blacks - from income to health insurance to education. And blaming it on Obama is bullshit- that's a bigots way to take aim at a black man when for years white folks in this city/state have been deliberately inflicting pain and taken sadistic pleasure in doing so - on black people.
Next - the Most Segregated City in America
Folks - that's not America - that a South Africa apartheid system. I don't give a shit if the man who was killed had a gun or not. If the PTB in Wisconsin did their fucking jobs and adhered to the promises in our constitution for ALL Americans this wouldn't be happening.
Can't wait for name removed to show up - it's always some poor scrub in his basement who could never be me or have my life.
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Sometimes I read at DU and just say - What the fuck eveeeeeeeeer.
Sometimes I read at DU and just say - What the fuck eveeeeeeeeer.
it would be a good practice to just trash any GD thread that mentions race.
I was going through the OP about the Helen DeGeneres Bolt tweet this morning when I realized I was in the middle of a lecture on the subject of "Buh, buh, buh . . . the Irish were slaves too" 
More than posting. 
A fucking disgrace! 