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It's interesting phrasing, here - property doesn't really make a community, but people do.

Anti-police activists rightly recognize that property is typically insured and easily replaceable, whereas people's lives are not. There is a deluge of evidence to support the notion that random encounters with police can be fatal for black men with no provocation. There is also overwhelming evidence to support the assertion that a disproportionate percentage of cops have abusive and / or racist tendencies.

I'll leave with a poignant quote from the author Jermaine Lamarr Cole - "I came fast like 9-1-1 in White neighborhoods".



I think that quote went over your head a little bit.


I don't think it did. It's perfectly consistent.


Oh? Well, you’re welcome to provide your own literary analysis of rap lyrics. ‘Neighbors’ by the same author is another great work if you’d like some contextual material.




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