re: It's going down in Baltimore

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Now America gets to watch black men loot, rob, and burn a city down on live television. This is reinforcing stereotypes and setting back what little painfully earned progress we've made in race relations, urban renewal, and inner city investment.

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My greater source of personal concern, outrage and sympathy beyond this particular case is focused neither upon one night’s property damage nor upon the acts,” Angelos wrote, “but is focused rather upon the past four-decade period during which an American political elite have shipped middle class and working class jobs away from Baltimore and cities and towns around the U.S. to third-world dictatorships like China and others, plunged tens of millions of good, hard-working Americans into economic devastation, and then followed that action around the nation by diminishing every American’s civil rights protections in order to control an unfairly impoverished population living under an ever-declining standard of living and suffering at the butt end of an ever-more militarized and aggressive surveillance state.”

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pics? link? video?

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StrongSafety

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