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Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com |
Most *white* Americans. There is no country on earth that imprisons more of its population than the US. Prisoners disproportionately Black. The US leads the world in child executions. Not a typo. Disproportionately Black. Life expectancy for US Black folk lower than for Uighur Chinese. Not a typo
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Nathaniel Downes
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Uyghur life expectancy is higher than most US demographic groups, with only white women and Asians of both genders being higher. Probably not a good example to use.
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Kevin S
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Part of it is in the indoctrination in our media. Media tends to depict blacks disproportionately in criminal behavior. Additionally, it trends towards making Cops, and others in authority to generally be idealized paragons. Or at least mavericks.
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Faine Greenwood
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Yes, absolutely applicable to the white US majority, not to the very large number of other Americans who absolutely recently have experienced authoritarian governments.
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Blerdy & Bratty (in West Coast red)
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Blk ppl in this country live in a system that dehumanizes, demonizes, and destroys us.
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Tycho Softworks
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To get a real sense of what America is, yes, there is this. And the rez, too. At Pine Ridge, for example, adult male life expectancy has been down to 47 years, yes, lower than Haiti. Violence and dispossession is still far too often what it means to be a person of color in this thing called America
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Big Fat Bartolo's Colon
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experiencing all the worrying about "will this be the last election I'm allowed to vote in? Will the new admin recognize my rights?" for the first time, and I must say- I don't care for it. and we've been making certain groups of people feel this way all the time for hundreds of years? seems bad.
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Mekka Okereke
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There's no country on earth with a bigger differential in voting access by race. The most impacted group is Black voters. Etc For Black folk, the US has always been authoritarian by any reasonable definition. Even now, more US folk are mad about me spitting these facts, than the facts themselves.
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@shwin.bsky.social
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Would be better if you said Uyghurs in China than Uyghur Chinese
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The Creatively Maladjusted
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That was my immediate thought as well.
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thejuliakitchen
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40 states still allow child marriage. More and more states are repealing child labor laws.
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