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That’s what I hope for from all the police on the front line
When protestors ask them to do something
That’s the thing to do, quit
When protestors ask them to do something
That’s the thing to do, quit
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You think those psychos are gonna quit? Theyve been waiting for something like this
John Wick
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aepps20
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last pic from 2010 but go off tho bro
#poc
EVERYBODY WANNA BE A ***** BUT NOBODY WANNA BE A *****
I have no problem with Mexican, Latino, Hispanic people any of that but I’m not goin. Get y’all folks and knock off that everybody should say it and ***** pass bull **** cuz we don’t play that over here.
BEAUTIFUL PICTURES.
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I will always be optimistic even in the worst of times. I like to have hope even if it seems like all is hopeless. Probably because my wife is the opposite of me and a huge pessimist.
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JPS
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Very underrated album from Comm
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Crazy that folks are even acknowledging him
Man I was typing shirt off mf had me messin my formatting up and everything
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Kinda like when girls call each other their *****. Yea. But soon as an unknown or man says it, it become a hostile/offensive.
Y’all love asking redundant questions with no critical thinking behind it
elpablo21
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The two cops fired out of the group of cops involved are black
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Atlanta 
They're charging six of the cops who tased and accosted the two college kids
They're charging six of the cops who tased and accosted the two college kids
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You quoted my statement. There's still people all over social and here that keep making it about the LOOTING. After yesterday, the looting should be an afterthought.
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It's not going to get any better cuomo wants to do it before trump does
Bill de Blasio screwed this all up
Makes him look like a so called leader before trump one ups him on bring in the National Guard
John Wick
formerly jayzonmytoes
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glad i saw this before i replied to that clown wont even waste my time
FAM!!!!
They REEEAAALLLY dont want to go there...
The first President of Mexico was a BLACK MAN who fought and helped win Mexico's independence from Spain...and they assassinated him!
But tell me more about how black people are taking from the Mexican culture....
VICENTE GUERRERO (1783-1831)
Vicente Guerrero was born in the small village of Tixla in the state of Guerrero. His parents were Pedro Guerrero, an African Mexican and Guadalupe Saldana, an Indian. Vicente was of humble origins. In his youth he worked as a mule driver on his father’s mule run. His travels took him to different parts of Mexico where he heard of the ideas of independence. Through one of these trips he met rebel General Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon. In November 1810, Guerrero decided to join Morelos. Upon the assassination of Morelos by the Spaniards, Guerrero became Commander in Chief. In that position he made a deal with Spanish General Agustin de Iturbide.
Iturbide joined the independence movement and agreed with Guerrero on a series of measures known as “El plan de Iguala.” This plan gave civil rights to Indians but not to African Mexicans. Guerrero refused to sign the plan unless equal rights were also given to African Mexicans and mulattos. Clause 12 was then incorporated into the plan. It read: “All inhabitants . . . without distinction of their European, African or Indian origins are citizens . . . with full freedom to pursue their livelihoods according to their merits and virtues.”
Subsequently, Guerrero served in a three person “Junta” that governed the then independent Mexico from 1823-24, until the election that brought into power the first president of Mexico Guadalupe Victoria. Guerrero, as head of the “People’s Party,” called for public schools, land title reforms, and other programs of a liberal nature. Guerrero was elected the second president of Mexico in 1829. As president, Guerrero went on to champion the cause not only of the racially oppressed but also of the economically oppressed.
Guerrero formally abolished slavery on September 16, 1829. Shortly thereafter, he was betrayed by a group of reactionaries who drove him out of his house, captured and ultimately executed him. Guerrero’s political discourse was one of civil rights for all, but especially for African Mexicans. Mexicans with hearts full of pride call him the “greatest man of color.”
Guerrero himself did not leave an abundant written record, but some of his speeches survive.
DEEP DIVE - for those with an interest:
Guerrero wanted his presidency to reflect the broad coalition built during the 1810 war. He allowed political centrists and conservatives to dominate his cabinet, and he accepted as Vice President Anastacio Bustamante who had spent most of the independence war in the uniform of Spain. Left-wing supporters of Guerrero criticized the president’s cabinet and other choices, and in the manner that Barak Obama has questioning friends who are more racially oriented than he, so too did Guerrero have his. One was Isidorio Montesdeoca, an Afro-Filipino campesino who became a general under Guerrero during the independence war. He called Guerrero’s references to racial equality achieved by asking everyone be judged by his or her “merits and virtues,” wishful thinking in a country where many powerful people didn’t believe blacks or Indios had merits and virtues. Moreover, argued Guerrero’s critics from the left, congress had made it near impossible to organize against racial injustice through their passage of Law No. 310 that, though ostensibly in the spirit of equality, prohibited mention of anyone’s race in any public document or in the records of the parish church. One consequence of this law has been that knowledge of the racial attitude of the elite toward Guerrero’s African roots are relegated to private letters and anonymous pamphlets against “the black,” and many a modern history identifies him merely as of “peasant”or “laboring-class” background.
The political coalition Guerrero built fractured six months into his office, not from abandonment by the left, but by the right. His abolition of slavery, his promotion of a wider suffrage and his imposition of a stiff progressive tax code cost him most of his few upper-class supporters—including two cabinet members. In 1830 the conservatives rebelled, and led by Vice President Bustamante, they drove Guerrero from the capital. Most of the president’s progressive legislation was rescinded, but not the abolition of slavery, which had wide public support.
In a subsequent civil war Guerrero was captured and assassinated by Bustamante hirelings, who included an Italian sea captain who kidnapped the president in Acapulco harbor and delivered him to a Cuban mercenary in Huatulco, who passed him to the son of a Spaniard who had been a general for Spain in the independence war. At a mock trial in Oaxaca the first judge resigned during the opening day, claiming illness. Bustamante ordered execution but feared an uprising if it happened in the city of Oaxaca. Guerrero was taken to a small town, where the mayor had fled and the priest who was scheduled to conduct the last rights was also missing. In last words to the firing squad, Guerrero said that whatever he had done, it was in the interest of Mexico.
The execution infuriated many, including moderates, and Bustamante had to make peace with Guerrero’s lieutenants, who controlled the Pacific region from Puerto Vallarta down past Acapulco to the black town of Cuijinicuilapa. An unusual political accord granted the Guerreroistas autonomy on condition they never attack the capital. Over the years the close aide of Guerrero, the Afro-Acapulcan Juan Alvarez wrote and spread many diatribes against the elite, some of which are still in print today. In 1855 Alvarez broke the peace pact, marched on Mexico City, overthrew dictator Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and became Mexico’s second black president. He included in his cabinet Benito Juarez, the pure-Zapotecan lawyer, who in his youth had campaigned for the election of Guerrero, and who later served twelve years as president and champion of liberal causes.
Guerrero’s one offspring, Dolores, trained her children in the politics of her father, with whom she had been close. Her sons, Vicente and Carlos, became state governors under Juarez, son Jose a general and daughter Javiera, though prohibited from holding office, was significant enough behind the scenes to warrant a large statue. Generations of politicians and intellectuals poured from the family, including today’s prominent journalist Raymundo Riva Palacio. His writings include a 1987 anthology of his articles condemning the U.S. funding of the Contras against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua.
Today, the National Museum of History in Chapultepec Park honors only one family with its genealogical tree depicted on a wall, the family begun by Vicente Guerrero and his wife Guadalupe Hernandez.
Two other presidents of Mexico had known African heritage: Juan Almonte fought in the independence war and at the Alamo on the Mexican side. He turned conservative and his brief term as president is considered a bad one for the nation. Lazaro Cardenas was a key figure in the 1910 revolution. As president nationalized oil and issued sweeping land reform. A popular biography notes in the opening paragraph that his grandfather was “a mulato.”
The original of Guerrero’s address to congress reads, “If we succeed in protecting the rights of the individual, if equality under the law destroys the forces of power and money, if the primary title we use amongst ourselves is that of ‘citizen,’ if rewards are given exclusively for talent and virtue, then we have a republic, and it will be preserved through the universal suffrage of a solidly free and content people.”
Now back to our regularly scheduled program....
you always PRESENT at the right time
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Leaves me speechless.
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Sean worthlessspoon a goofy and his shoes were always ugly af
And his beard trash too, man looks like a homeless cat
And his beard trash too, man looks like a homeless cat
aepps20
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Crazy that folks are even acknowledging him
I am acknowledging him because he seems to have his head on shoulders. He is bringing a new perspective to this thread that deserves our respect and admiration. As one of my friends on NT you know that the use of slurs like SWM and Karen are the REAL problem. You can only not use the N word enough times before you can't help but become a racist.
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Dude will be called out if I see him at Rose Bowl again
never stepping foot in any of his stores again
John Wick
formerly jayzonmytoes
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That’s all they asking for????
NAACP been trash for a min
hate to agree with this but you right what have they done do they even have an influence on congress and laws?
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U don’t wanna link with any nters
In support of the peaceful protests
