2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Right-wing media and the origins of the Bernie "doesn't care about minorities" meme. [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)and I'd like to know what bullet exemption I might have, I've had the pistol pointed at my head at point blank range when a sneeze could end it all.
I might be on the fairer side but ain't been missed my DWB and WWB quotas, every time an opportunity for something to go way wrong real quick or find my way in the maw of the system with no lifeline out but my life still matters after the pig holsters his pistol too.
Money? Money is power, the entire society is structured around it. Shit, you better have some to at least try to buy you some justice and some nice conservative threads when you have to appear if they try to suck you in. You better be able to get out and into that suit rather than be brought in chained in orange bare minimum or the odds will definitely not be in your favor but you better have a residence, some kind of decent job, and a respectable mouthpiece or you are probably fucked especially as a black man.
Who are all of these powerful and influential destitute people living long reasonably happy lives able to give the children better?
Look at the influence on and outright capture of government which filters down to the schools, healthcare, private prisons, resource allocation. How many suffer and die here and around the world as a result?
Yeah, money matters. It isn't always the only factor and no doubt the black of the skin will be seen before the green in the wallet but it always improves the odds including limiting encounters and coming out of them free and whole when you have them.
That said, the matter is critical and when the establishment is thrown really into the fire then I'll be inclined to believe it is being taken seriously.