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Originally Posted by White Out 403
The word racism doesn't mean anything to you, does it? It's just a weapon to wield at people who don't agree with your hore#### narrative.
Do yourself a favour and listen to the daily September 9th and 10th. I know, I know, the New York Times is an extreme right wing outfit, but have an open mind. The police had valid reasons to be there. She called the dude in jail and referred to her home as the trap house. Known associates of the ex who were drug dealers were seen coming and going to her home with packages. They were looking for drug money with probable cause. They were fired on. They returned fire. It's hardly racism, and hardly a cold blooded murder.
I'm all for ending the war on drugs so people don't die over stashing drug dealers money. Too many people are in jail for low level offences, and that falls disproportionately on the black community. But there's absolutely zero evidence to suggest this was in any way racially motivated. People want to assign blame to some one but its impossible here. Too many bad decisions from people going back to Reagan and Bush's war on drugs, up to Breonna allowing her loser ex to rope into his drug activity. Obviously she didn't deserve to die. Obviously. It's also not her fault. But you can't just say this is racially motivated murder. It's a tragedy. Tragedies don't always have single causes and can be complicated.
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The whole point of the term 'systemic' is to describe a system that produces racist results regardless of the actions of individuals within it, US drug laws are and always have been systemically racist, they were first created a century ago to stop black people using drugs, marijuana being seen as a 'black drug', their enforcement has always been racially biased towards the policing and arrest of more black and brown Americans than white even though there has never been any evidence of any difference in drug use by whites.
As such all of this means the very fact the Police were attempting to use a no knock warrant on dubious grounds to persue a minor drug dealer in a poor black neighborhood, a set of circumstances that is all but unknown in a white middle class community, makes her death an outcome of systemic racism, and it would if every cop was black as the only reason they were there and caused her death was due to the racist policing of drugs in the US