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All that remains: here in my afterlife as a 'mainstream' blogger, with what little I know.
#985154 added June 7, 2020 at 2:23pm
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Defund? Sooo, how would that work? We don't know
Irony: the movement to support police, fire and military post-911, Today, the coronavirus scourge that had us honoring healthcare workers for their bravery is in the shadows of a defund police movement meant to rile rather than unify a nation on the ills of police brutality and the cries of racism. Whether it was the blue light illuminating a porch stoop or blue hearts displayed in our windows, what I feel growing out of this is an attempt to shame and fool people into believing humanity is not being served:

https://nypost.com/2020/06/06/the-movement-to-defund-police-is-based-on-nothing-...

Stop reading just the headlines and ask questions -- why we are inundated in an election year with so much stuff that you want to shrink from the very presence of triggering words? Answers aren't necessarily being offered. Plenty of accusations made. No true leader can rise above this to lead us to some promise land. America functions. It's not perfect. We have freedoms. We risk losing what we have if we cannot understand the need for proper civil discourse.

Read the provided article. Mind you, it comes with a bias, but some serious evidence that you are being put in a position to question something that actually serves us better than you've been lead to believe. Also, related to Minnesota:

https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/editorial-why-the-defundpolice-movement-does...

Stay informed, even if you feel you don't have a voice. Just, don't get led around by your nose. You have eyes and ears.

Extra reading, because I'm so tired of the ignorance right down to a 15-year-old proclaimed transgender I love who tried lecture me about all things on the spectrum but did not know difference between confederate flag and communist (both I condemn):

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lets-get-it-right-bigotry-is-not-racism_b_57eddcd...

I think if you feed anything called truth on a plate, people will partake and maybe rave about it. Ignorance is real. I have a right to be sick and done with it. And, if someone educated uses information to mislead, I have a little bit more contempt for you. I see you.

And what happened to George Floyd publicly is sad and perplexing. But, imagine living in a true, racist environment your whole life In a sundown town in Texas. As one man describes at a rally for Black Lives Matter honoring Floyd in a small Texas town, he ducked bottles and jumped away from cars rolling over curbs...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.texasmonthly.com/news/black-lives-matter-vidor/...

Racism does exist in much scarier places. It takes bravery ever day to be true to who you are, no matter where.


Final Thought:
Perhaps, the defund movement is sponsored by those who want to scrap the constitution. Careful, it could mean totalarianism and not your beloved socialism.

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