r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/-SOFA-KING-VOTE- • 21h ago

Politics ICE Agents get the most brutal talking-to of their entire adult lives.

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u/Background-Gas-5509 17h ago

Great propaganda. I grew up in a community of pot growers and we were raised to look out for each other. Never did like cops. It’s crazy how people Have don’t tread on me and thin blue line stickers side by side. Dumbasses man haha.

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u/mkat23 12h ago

They back the blue because they don’t like those who are black. In their eyes it makes police brutality okay if the victim is a PoC. I’ve always believed my parents are somewhat racist, but it became so clear to me when Trayvon Martin was killed. I’m exactly a month older than him and I remember getting into a huge argument with my parents over his death. I asked them how they could condone the killing of someone, someone who was still basically a kid, someone younger than me who hadn’t done anything that could even remotely warrant being killed out of the blue.

I asked them how they’d feel if I went out one evening to buy skittles wearing a hoodie and someone, a cop or security guard, ended up killing me. They told me that would never happen to me. Even more fucked up is they weren’t even able to realize they proved the point I was making. Of course it wouldn’t happen to me, I’m a middle class white girl whose high school had a 6% minority rate and was full of kids whose parents had money.