mekka okereke :verified:
Some of my friends that are convicted felons are 100% innocent of what they were accused and convicted of. Some of my friends that are convicted felons absolutely did what they were accused of. I don't make fun of people for being convicted felons, and I don't ostracize convicted felons. Instead, I don't let bad people around me. My definition of bad focuses on the choices that a person made in the past, and the choices that they make now. Some of the worst people, will never be felons.
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mekka okereke :verified:
Way back when I went to idyllic Pomona College, people couldn't understand why I refused to rock with so many of the Porsche driving frat boys, but happily spent time off campus in Pomona, Long Beach, Riverside, Compton, etc.
Why I had very little patience for rich kids playing college drug dealer, but went out of my way to help older students who had gang indictments, knife wounds, and violent felonies on their record, trying to reset their lives and get a liberal arts degree at 34.
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mekka okereke :verified:
A good rule of thumb to make, is to assume that pretty much every Black person that you know in the United States, knows at least one person that was unfairly convicted of a felony. And every Black man that you know, has had an incident where they were unfairly detained by police, and possibly arrested, and charged.
No, this doesn't make Black people relate to Trump. That's one of the most ignorant things that I hear people say.
But how you talk about felons? Black people hear that.
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JustAFrog
@mekkaokereke When a random unknown black guy becomes a felon, lots of people are sure he must be an awful person.
When a certain specific awful person gets a 34-count conviction, he gets more money thrown at him.
It's hard to believe this game is fair, when they make it so obvious.
Paul Cantrell
@justafrog @mekkaokereke
Strong agree. This has been a lot of the appeal of Trump to his supporters: the way he does hideous and incompetent things with no apparent consequences is not a bug but a •feature•. He embodies the promise that even the worst white male can walk through this world with total impunity.
His supporters feel like his impunity is something they can share in. For the system to revoke that impunity is thus not merely some political team rivalry, but a direct personal threat.
Paul Cantrell
@davidhmccoy @justafrog @mekkaokereke
Yeah, it’s an obvervation that hit like a thunderbolt for me. I wish I could remember where I first heard it: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112536486898491024
David H. McCoy
@inthehands @justafrog @mekkaokereke
You nailed it.
“He is me.”
jonathanpeterson
@inthehands @justafrog @mekkaokereke The power of government exists to protect people like me from "others". Donald Trump is "like me", hence government (especially when embodied by DAs, prosecutors and jury members who are "others") is out of control and to be resisted.
It's a remarkable realization.
Aurochs
@mekkaokereke I guess the fact that Trump has been convicted of a miriad of charges and he is still free should make black people NOT relate to him like at all.
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