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You know you're a monster when...

6/9/2015

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...you hear a 14 year old girl screaming "Call my mama!" and "You're hurting me!" and you twist your knee even harder into her back.
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You know you're a monster when you are an adult woman tormenting kids with racist, classist slurs, and then physical violence. As a side-note, the woman who apparently started this whole thing by telling black kids to go back to their "section 8" housing is allegedly a home loan officer at a local Bank of America branch. I wonder how many unbiased loans have been granted to black people under her tenure...

You know you're a monster when you're a grown man, standing by, watching, refusing to interfere, as another grown man beats the shit out of a little girl, whose only "crime" was being a little sassy.

You know you're a monster when you try and justify an armed policeman pulling his gun on two unarmed teenagers trying to help their friend.

You know you're a monster when you see patterns of state-sanctioned violence aimed at black men, women, children and even babies, and you not only accept it, but you deny that it's a systemic problem that you can help fix.
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