Thank you Steve. It's about time the injustice regarding black and brown
people has finally made it to the forefront of our awareness.
What may have happened in Mr. Floyd's past, doesn't matter. When a cop holds
a knee on his neck for eight minutes and forty-six seconds! Black Lives do
matter!
As far as this relating to MSB goes, I was against the Vietnam war also.
I think we tried to get some sort of a thing going in the student senate in
1971 but it didn't go anywhere.
Marcia
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Tony,
It doesn't matter what Mr. Floyd's previous conduct was; it was a minor
shoplifting incident over a frickin' $20 bill. Nobody can justify the kind of
treatment he endured.
And, there's a lot more of that. There is, in almost every city, people of
color are pulled over or arrested at much higher rates than white people. And,
most of it has nothing to do with whether they committed a crime.
I won't go on, but the type of conduct blacks have had to put up with in this
country is systemic, and it has gone on for years.
Steve
Class of '72
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I am sick of all this crap. Granite and injustice was done to one man, but I
guess Mr. Dixon has brought an article to our attention, that shows this
guy wasn’t as much of an angel as people have made him out to be. However, he
should’ve been dealt with in a court of law, not this way. It’s not just Black
Lives Matter, but all lives matter! And that includes even those of animals.
Take care and God bless all of us. Because violence in the streets is not the
way to solve these problems.
Tony 1978 and Linda
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On Jun 25, 2020, at 3:45 PM, Steve <pipeguy920@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:pipeguy920@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
Nicely said.
Steve
Wonder urges action to right racial injustices By Brian McCollum Detroit Free
Press
Quoting song lyrics and citing his past racial-justice efforts, Stevie Wonder
delivered an emphatic, at times impatient video message Tuesday urging on the
Black Lives Matter movement. Saying he has listened to "voices on the left,
voices on the right," Wonder added, "What I've not heard is a unanimous
commitment to atone for the sins of this country."
The Michigan-born Motown star also singled out President Donald Trump as
"noncommittal" and cited several previous remarks by the president, including a
2018 reference to "s---hole countries in Africa."
Wonder lamented that three states North Dakota, South Dakota and Hawaii have
failed to recognize Juneteenth as a holiday.
"I know that dance. I've heard those songs. It was an 18-year fight to (make)
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday," said Wonder, who
teamed with late U.S. Rep. John Conyers in that ultimately successful campaign.
"Yet it was a fight I was not willing to lose."
Alluding to the weeks of protests spurred by the killing of George Floyd by
police in Minneapolis, he encouraged more from those watching.
"Systemic racism can have an ending. Police brutality can have an ending.
Economic repression can have an ending," Wonder said. "A movement without
action is a movement standing still. To those who say they care: Move more than
your mouth."
The short video, titled "The Universe is Watching Us," was posted to Wonder's
social media channels Tuesday afternoon.
"Black lives do matter. And this is not another digital, viral trend, moment or
hashtag," he said, adding: "Yes, all lives do matter, but they only matter when
black lives matter too."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQGulht7PB8
