The Super Predator: 13
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By Michelle A. Reed
The objective reality is, virtually no one who is
white understands the challenge of being
black in America.”
Is this true? Some circles argue that
there is no such thing as white priv-
ilege. Especially on social media,
where they have the most bravado;
Blacks should just let go of slavery,
Black Lives Matter protests create
problems that don’t exist, or if black
people cared about their culture
there wouldn’t be so many in prison.
Tomi Lahren was given a platform at
The Blaze, where she proudly spoke
on her disdain towards current black
issues. Larhen has had nearly zero
evidence to support her theories and
accusations. While African American
leaders have confirmed historic is-
sues that match present systematic
and social injustices .
Jesse Williams’s speech at the 2016
BET awards poetically presented facts
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on how we are criminalized, cultural-
ly appropriated, and brutalized by po-
lice. He talked about how the land of
the free can be a cage for our people.
White America backlashed offended,
despite every single word being the
truth. Beyoncé’s video for “Forma-
tion” had a child dancing in front of
cops, and mothers that have lost chil-
dren to police brutality. She even per-
formed the song at the super bowl in
Black Panther attire. White America
took both, as her encouraging peo-
ple to attack police, stating the “black
panthers were a violent hate group.”
Although the Black Panther’s origin
was not one of violence, but for the
protection of black communities that
were being terrorized by white citi-
zens. So what evidence is there that
black activists are just being “radical?”
Why are the prison systems around
the United stated so heavily populat-
ed with African Americans?
A black leader in her own right, Ava
Duvernay amazingly presents evi-
dence on the imprisonment of the
black community in her documenta-
ry “13th.” It includes the loopholes of
the 13th Amendment that continues
allowing blacks to be systemically
hindered in a supremacist America
by placing us behind bars.
The 13th amendment to the U.S. Con-
stitution reads that “Neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude, except as a pun-
ishment for crime whereof the party
shall have been duly convicted, shall
exist within the United States, or any
place subject to their jurisdiction.”