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Reading Comprehension or Race-Baiting?

By Anonymous on Sun, 05/03/2015 - 12:45pm

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bostonherald:

Hundreds of protesters marched from Mattapan Square to Dudley Station yesterday, chanting slogans in a peaceful show of solidarity with activists in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray.

AmericanPatriot @BaracObamaLies:

"In Boston, blacks gather in ghetto to whine for more handouts" -@BarackObamaLies #FreddieGray #BostonRiots #BlackTwitter #MApoli


bostonherald:

Protesters take to Boston streets to call for societal change: We Are The Ones rally went down Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan to Dudley Square in Roxbury

Hundreds of protesters marched from Mattapan Square to Dudley Station yesterday, chanting slogans in a peaceful show of solidarity with activists in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray.

Organized by a group called We Are The Ones, the marchers were escorted by police as they passed a bullhorn among themselves and to people lining the sidewalk, giving them a chance to share their thoughts on the Baltimore protests.

Khury Petersen, 32, said it was the protests over the death of Gray, who was injured while in police custody, and the charges announced Friday against six cops, that brought so many to Mattapan yesterday.

“I’m not ashamed of the rebellion of Baltimore. I want to say I’m proud of the rebellion in Baltimore,” he said. “Look at the fact that the news this week was dominated by the fact that a CVS was burned. They are more concerned with a CVS than lives.”

Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby on Friday charged the six police officers with a slew of felonies, going from assault up to second-degree “depraved heart” murder, in the death of Gray, who died from spinal injuries a week after his April 12 arrest. It provoked riots on the streets of West Baltimore and quickly became a rallying cry against police brutality and social inequality in the city. Yesterday’s march in Boston was the second here in less than a week.

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By Nancy L on Sun, 05/03/2015 - 2:48pm.

As much as I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt, I don't think the disparity between the Boston Herald article @BarackObamaLies cites and the alternative narrative he provides can be accounted for by a failure of reading comprehension.

@BarackObamaLies, whose twitter account identifies as from St Louis, creates a completely different narrative than the one presented by the Boston Herald. @BarackObamaLies says protestors are blacks protesting for handouts. The protestors were are black, white and brown and their protest is about law enforcement and criminal justice.

@BarackObamaLies narrative rises above race-baiting to racism and it's purpose is to discredit the protest for a better justice system by substituting a tired and false narrative (Reagan's welfare queen) that only black people benefit and support having an adequate social safety net in America. The fact is, more white Americans than Black Americans are on food assistance.

Beyond that, I think a majority of Americans support food and housing assistance for families working for poverty wages in fast food and Walmart, which are increasingly our job growth industries since US corporations started shipping manufacturing oversees to exploit cheap labor. Our official policy of globalization, as much as anything, is why the good manufacturing jobs that used to be in Baltimore and other industrialized cities are now gone now becuase of policy but I digress. By the way, it wasn't the middle class and poor who wanted globalization/free trade, it was the economic elites, and they're doing quite well, they get 95% of all new income in the USA while the bottom 80% haven't seen wage growth since the late 70s.

People like @BarackObamaLies prefers to blame black people for social unrest about criminal justice and other inequities. This is what post-racial America looks like.

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