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Archae (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 07:19 PM Original message |
"Don't Snitch" |
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live love laugh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 07:21 PM Response to Original message |
1. That makes no sense whatsoever, I don't believe it. n/t |
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Archae (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 07:24 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. You can see it and read it here: |
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BleedingHeartPatriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 07:30 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. The link to a story about those who live in low income neighborhoods feeling the brunt of a |
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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:52 PM Response to Reply #2 |
67. and here |
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 07:34 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Oh, it is true, all right. Been going on for a while. nt |
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BleedingHeartPatriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 07:24 PM Response to Original message |
3. LOL. |
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givemebackmycountry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
4. Oh, It's true alright and worse than you think... |
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AliceBlitzstein (39 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-23-07 03:03 PM Response to Reply #4 |
81. this started in Baltimore, Maryland |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
5. Laws and law enforcement are hardly black and white. |
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cwydro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
7. this has been in the news for some time. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 07:36 PM Response to Original message |
9. The result of the combative stance that virtually every police dept. in the country takes. |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 07:39 PM Response to Original message |
10. If a serial killer starts killing rappers I bet they'd change their tune. |
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Archae (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 07:44 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Rappers HAVE been killed. |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 08:18 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. I know about Tupac Shakur - I said "serial killer" because you mentioned it in the OP. |
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Double T (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 07:48 PM Response to Original message |
12. 'No Snitchin'' provides street credibility aka street cred for MANY........ |
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panader0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 07:51 PM Response to Original message |
13. I don't think that the police are too popular in the ghetto. |
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Threedifferentones (820 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
14. Stupidity? |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:57 PM Response to Reply #14 |
70. SSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHH! The cops are perfect and racism is dead! |
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riverdeep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 08:07 PM Response to Original message |
15. Saw this piece |
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BleedingHeartPatriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 09:10 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. You've listed the ingredients of institutional racism. |
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riverdeep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 09:24 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. What I'm saying is I can understand how the practice |
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Djinn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 08:29 PM Response to Original message |
17. I'm a middle class white girl |
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Raskolnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 09:22 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. I sincerely hope I'm never proven right about this... |
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Djinn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 10:41 PM Response to Reply #19 |
40. good example |
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Raskolnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 10:47 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. Sure you wouldn't |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 10:51 PM Response to Reply #42 |
44. Deleted message |
Raskolnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 10:57 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. I'm not interested in your personal life |
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Djinn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:01 PM Response to Reply #46 |
48. The blanket condemnation |
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Raskolnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:07 PM Response to Reply #48 |
49. Well, I didn't agree with you until I saw the ALL CAPS. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:11 PM Response to Reply #49 |
52. Deleted message |
Raskolnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:20 PM Response to Reply #52 |
55. That's the spirit! |
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Bronyraurus (871 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:40 PM Response to Reply #48 |
65. This is |
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Raskolnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:00 PM Response to Reply #44 |
47. Its generally poor form to edit a post *after* someone has responded. n/t |
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Djinn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:09 PM Response to Reply #47 |
51. So I decided |
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mrcheerful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:55 PM Response to Reply #19 |
68. When I was 19 The car I was driving blew a drive shaft and I had to leave it parked where it stopped |
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Truthiness Inspector (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 09:26 PM Response to Reply #17 |
24. Prejudice is ugly |
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Djinn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 10:46 PM Response to Reply #24 |
41. Only ignorance shown here is YOURS |
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Truthiness Inspector (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:36 PM Response to Reply #41 |
63. Wrong-o |
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11 Bravo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-23-07 09:18 AM Response to Reply #17 |
77. Are you sure that brush you wield so carelessly is broad enough? |
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RedCappedBandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 09:22 PM Response to Original message |
20. First of all |
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Raskolnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 09:38 PM Response to Reply #20 |
27. Why "fuck the police"? |
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RedCappedBandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 09:42 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. No. |
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Raskolnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 09:59 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. So if you were in a situation in which you were in danger |
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RedCappedBandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 10:11 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. I am in agreement with you |
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Raskolnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 10:18 PM Response to Reply #33 |
37. Even if they are nothing special as human beings |
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RedCappedBandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:30 PM Response to Reply #37 |
60. True, and yet |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:59 PM Response to Reply #37 |
71. I know this is hard to believe, but we actually were a society before the police. |
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Raskolnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-23-07 08:28 AM Response to Reply #71 |
73. What industrial society has every functioned w/out a police force of some kind? |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-23-07 08:58 AM Response to Reply #73 |
74. The fact that the ruling class has always employed thugs to enforce it's |
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Raskolnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-23-07 09:11 AM Response to Reply #74 |
75. A hypothetical to test your rugged individualism. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-23-07 12:05 PM Response to Reply #75 |
78. Of course, but that doesn't have anything to do with the topic, or the question you asked. |
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TygrBright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
22. Another casualty of the "war on drugs" AKA, the war on poor people. |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-23-07 03:25 PM Response to Reply #22 |
82. I'd like to nominate your post for the home page, alas, I can't. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
23. "Charlie doesn't like a snitch." ~~~Susan Denise Atkins, 1969. |
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riverdeep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 09:36 PM Response to Original message |
25. I'm seeing a lot of over the top hostility toward the cops |
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RedCappedBandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 10:13 PM Response to Reply #25 |
34. They choose to enforce laws. |
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riverdeep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:31 PM Response to Reply #34 |
61. As a clarification |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
26. The rules that apply in grade school and prison shouldn't apply in society at large. |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 09:42 PM Response to Original message |
29. "Don't snitch" merchandise has been around for awhile here and it's nothing new. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 09:43 PM Response to Original message |
30. Yah - boy are black folks stupid, huh? |
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Raskolnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 10:05 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. I don't think you have to maintain that black folks are stupid to believe |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 10:14 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. "Is part of "hip-hop" culture self-destructive stupidity?" |
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Raskolnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 10:23 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. No, I meant to direct it to you. |
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Djinn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 10:48 PM Response to Reply #38 |
43. You think working class communities |
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Raskolnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 10:54 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. Who do you think benefits when murders, rapes, and robberies are not prosecuted? |
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Djinn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:07 PM Response to Reply #45 |
50. Oh man you're making me laugh |
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Raskolnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:17 PM Response to Reply #50 |
53. Two questions. |
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riverdeep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:19 PM Response to Reply #50 |
54. Wouldn't cops qualify as working class? |
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Madspirit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:29 PM Response to Reply #54 |
58. Traditionally that's just a fact |
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Raskolnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:34 PM Response to Reply #58 |
62. I would rephrase slightly. |
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Madspirit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:30 PM Response to Reply #50 |
59. Thank-you |
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RedCappedBandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 10:15 PM Response to Reply #32 |
36. Stop Snitching |
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Raskolnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 10:28 PM Response to Reply #36 |
39. With all due respect, I'm not sure you understand what we're talking about |
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-..__... (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:22 PM Response to Reply #39 |
56. Yep. |
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RedCappedBandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:28 PM Response to Reply #39 |
57. I guess,, |
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HML (12 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:38 PM Response to Original message |
64. Hip-Hop Culture? |
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Bronyraurus (871 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:42 PM Response to Original message |
66. I don't think that |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-23-07 12:03 AM Response to Reply #66 |
72. You've obviously never heard of alternative hip hop. |
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Starbucks Anarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-23-07 09:17 AM Response to Reply #66 |
76. Then you haven't listened enough. |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-22-07 11:56 PM Response to Original message |
69. Uh, if I were black in this country I'd think twice about calling the cops, too. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-23-07 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
79. Oh, heavens to Betsy! |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-23-07 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
80. they have been around for awhile |
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