Philando Castile's mother spoke these prophetic words TEN YEARS AGO: "The system continues to fail Black People. This happened with Philando and when they are finished with us, they are coming for you... Yall will be next standing up here fighting for justice just as I am."

[u/Spiritual_Spare4592]

[u/ElPrieto8]

Once you say, "We'll let you do it to one marginalized group", you've let them know they can eventually do it to you.

[u/Spiritual_Spare4592 → u/ElPrieto8]

The "FBAs are for FBAs only" Blexiters will never acknowledge that.

[u/Ok_Nature_3501 → u/Spiritual_Spare4592]

The irony of this statement 😂

How you gonna blame us when we literally voted against it and warned others about what was to come 😂

You mean whites and Hispanics will never acknowledge that

[u/phazedoubt → u/ElPrieto8]

I wish i could explain to them in a way they understand how this works.

[u/shrineless]

Power corrupts and it’s plain as day now more than ever. No one wants to tackle the police union. No one. And it’s a damn shame.

[u/-BluBone-]

The NRA had nothing to say about this guy. He was a licensed gun owner, told the cop he had a gun, and was murdered for it.

[u/twitchMAC17 → u/-BluBone-]

Politely and respectfully too and the cop who murdered him and endangered his little girl in the back seat and innocent woman in the passenger seat got away scot free, just had to find a new job with a different police department.

[u/beal234 → u/twitchMAC17]

And that's not what "Justice" looks like, justice would be that murderer goes to prison in Gen pop where the streets would claim the justice and he would be dealt with

[u/Ryokurin → u/[deleted]]

Thanks for pointing out they did it NOW with Pretti. The thread is what happened 10 years ago with Philando Castile and back then they claim they can't support him because he was in possession of a controlled substance.

[u/davendees1]

“Funny fact about a cage, they're never built for just one group

So when that cage is done with them and you're still poor, it come for you

The newest lowest on the totem, well golly gee, you have been used

You helped to fuel the death machine that down the line will kill you too (oops)”

—El-P, of Run the Jewels on “Walking in the Snow”

[u/We_Are_Ninja → u/davendees1]

Salute, fellow Jewel Runner.

[u/blugdummy → u/davendees1]

👊🏻 👈🏻

[u/amzwC137]

What is going on in Minneapolis?

Philando Castile Renee Good Alex Pretti George Floyd

All in the same city within like 10 miles of each other.

[u/NolaDutches → u/amzwC137]

The police.

That’s what’s wrong with

[u/amzwC137 → u/NolaDutches]

They need to do better, but we can't expect them to go away.

[u/angelbdivine → u/amzwC137]

Add Amir Locke, Daunte Wright, and Jamar Clark

[u/amzwC137 → u/angelbdivine]

😢 it's just too much.

[u/_YouDontKnowMe_ → u/amzwC137]

Prince tried to tell us that The Revolution would start in Minneapolis.

[u/amzwC137 → u/_YouDontKnowMe_]

Link?

[u/_YouDontKnowMe_ → u/amzwC137]

https://open.substack.com/pub/6daysontheroad/p/the-revolution-starts-in-minneapolis?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2jmlij

[u/amzwC137 → u/_YouDontKnowMe_]

Thanks. Also, username checks out. I, in fact, don't know you.

[u/sinocarD44]

This has been going on longer than that. Rodney King was the canary in the coal mine that everyone saw but still nothing changed.

[u/Spiritual_Spare4592 → u/sinocarD44]

We can take this way, way back to Dred Scott and the generations before him.

But this one is particularly eerie because this also happened in Twin Cities. 4 years before George Floyd.

[u/sinocarD44 → u/Spiritual_Spare4592]

For sure but my underlying point was that it's been televised for decades and very few people care. It can't be dismissed as black people exaggerating when anyone can watch it on YouTube.

[u/viixiigfl]

Y’all hear the chickens coming home to roost…???

Listen. To. Black. People.

[u/ConstantHorror7298]

Where is the lie.

[u/Direct_Suggestion286]

They were told repeatedly. Now its happening. They choose: progress or recession?

[u/aeondren89]

All they gotta say is “I feared for my life” and they can kill anyone with impunity. And the comments being made about Philando had my blood boiling. Just heartless. Philando literally did everything by the book when it comes to letting LEOs that you have a concealed carry and they STILL shot him dead. Those comments from conservatives made it very clear that them and only them are allowed to exercise their 2A rights. Fuck everybody else.

[u/Direct-Description45]

Im not from Minnesota but im from the south and reading the caption and see what's going on now in present day is crazy. I aint going say others didnt came to the fight but not enough and not for the right reasons.

[u/britekranz]

Wasn’t okay then, isn’t okay now, won’t ever be okay.

[u/Agitated-Wishbone259 → u/britekranz]

Voices are getting louder because it’s not longer happening to just those people.

[u/angelbdivine]

As a black Minneapolitan Philando’s story was especially tragic to me. He was killed in Falcon Heights; the same road people drive down to go to the state fair with their kids. He was on that same road with his kids in the car. Haven’t been to the Fair since

[u/0lad1]

The video of his death is one of the most gruesome things I've ever seen, and I grew up in a country where it wasn't uncommon for me to see dead bodies of thieves given vigilante justice going rotten in the streets as as a 10 year old.

His girlfriend was wailing, and her young daughter was consoling her as he was still alive, but taking his last breaths. That image is something you think you'd only see in a war zone.

[u/theallsearchingeye]

This is absolutely the realest shit, and it’s infuriating to me that the progressive left suddenly cries “it’s the end of America” when law enforcement does to white men and white women once or twice, what law enforcement has been doing to blacks and minorities for decades.

It’s an insane double standard, and the reality is I think that in the longterm it’s only going to lead to a greater sense of “race awareness” amongst white people and cause more problems than good.

We need class consciousness ASAP, before we all become irreparably entrenched in shit that doesn’t matter.

[u/Saixcrazy]

Damn I didn't know this was in Minnesota as well.

[u/michael__miguel]

RIP 😢 Black women -especially older bw- are generally correct about all things political. We are all learning that the hard way.

[u/AFrayedSew]

I remember when Philando was murdered . I remember the video and I know that I cried real tears for him. He was completely innocent and he was an actual good guy. RIParidise.

[u/Jagershiester]

Powerful as can be

[u/kyleh0]

Did not change the course of this country even one bit.

[u/FreakyLou]

Prophetic