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Hillary 1996: The Super-predators must be brought to heel (Original Post) Cheese Sandwich Feb 2016 OP
Takes one to know one. nt valerief Feb 2016 #1
+infinity! peacebird Feb 2016 #2
For sure. These kinds of racial scare tactics helped build the mass incarceration state Cheese Sandwich Feb 2016 #6
So sweet, kind, and understanding. SamKnause Feb 2016 #3
From Super-Predators to the 'Knockout Game': Looking into a trend that isn't Cheese Sandwich Feb 2016 #4
A term that just chills me when hear it... Cheese Sandwich Feb 2016 #5
 

Cheese Sandwich

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6. For sure. These kinds of racial scare tactics helped build the mass incarceration state
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 02:34 PM
Feb 2016

2 million people in prison.

 

Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)
4. From Super-Predators to the 'Knockout Game': Looking into a trend that isn't
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 02:23 PM
Feb 2016
"Since the days of slavery, into the days of super-predators, and now the time of the Knockout Game, there has always been a strong need to believe that hordes of young black men will overrun the country in a fit of raping and pillaging. It's how we justify ourselves. Information can't compete with national myth."
-Coates
 

Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)
5. A term that just chills me when hear it...
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 02:29 PM
Feb 2016
She uses a term that — it just chills me when I hear it — and that is super predator. I am of that generation of super predators. That’s where I come from and our current policy today has been an absolute, absolute disaster.”
-Coates
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