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      5 months ago

      They don’t even try to hide it. It’s pretty common knowledge.

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      The war on drugs was admittedly motivated to try and make it illegal to be Black in America, by disrupting their communities with false accusations of drug use.

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      US Senate: specifically designed to give slave states more power. Still not proportional today, still disempowers Black voters who live in more populous states

      Electoral college: specifically designed to give slave states more power. Still in place today, still disenpowers Black voters in more populated areas

      Washington DC: no senators, no congress representatives, tons of Black citizens

      Qualified Immunity: free pass for police to kill Black people

      Felon voting exclusions: more Black people are imprisoned than white people and are barred from voting at all.

      That’s just from memory. There are so many more, but I’m a white guy so I’m ignorant of most of them.

      There is a documented institutional conspiracy against Black people and it’s right out there in the open.