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It has also been assumed that BLM supporters are anti-police . BLM supporters are anti-bad police . There is a big difference . It is our turn to fight for absolute equality in hopes this time the victory will achieve the goal of a true free society.
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In the interview Baldwin said, “On television, you always see Black hands reaching in, you know. And so the American public concludes that these savages are trying to steal everything from us. And no one has seriously tried to get where the trouble is. After all, you’re accusing a captive population, who has been robbed of everything, of looting. I think it’s obscene.” Where is the trouble? The trouble is in the cracked foundation of America because “we” the people didn’t include all people. That is the problem. For too long, “we” and “all” didn’t mean everyone. One hundred fifty-five years after General Granger penned the words “absolute equality” in General Order Number Three, people are still protesting and fighting to achieve that goal of absolute equality. Union soldiers won the fight in 1865 for freedom because they did not stop fighting. The Civil War was over, but the job was incomplete. It is our turn to fight for absolute equality in hopes this time the victory will achieve the goal of a true free society.
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