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“You raise your voice, I erase your voice.”

Okay, so Black folk know this messaging. Sandra Bland was killed by this. So many Black folk were lost, beaten, lynched, and disappeared because of this. Generation after generation.

But white people, y’all might not be familiar with police militarization.

See, power needs deference to function, and extreme power needs extreme deference. And if you do not defer to power, your life is forfeit. This is something I grew up knowing. I was like 7 when I learned a cop would just as soon beat me bloody or shoot me as have me speak to him without deference. 50 years ago, I knew that.

But y’all are just learning. Take this to heart: the fact that yelling at a cop can get you killed might come as a surprise to you. But that’s just Tuesday in the ghetto.

I know a lot of y’all spent the last decade or whatever believing that Walter Scott musta done something extremely bad to get shot in the back. But the reality is, it has always been, that all you gotta do is pop off at the mouth to get popped in your chest.

All those birds are comin home to roost, y’all. It ain’t right, but it damn sure ain’t a surprise.

Welcome to the terrordome.

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