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Laundering Black Rage - From the Archives

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The Commodification of Black Rage

Roland Martin: I want to spend some time on that commodification of black rage, because it's one of the more important parts of this piece. One of the things that always comes to mind is when you see some cop shooting, cop kills a person, unarmed person and for example, we have that teenage Yahoo going and killing protesters with his AR-15. When they take an action, there is an immediate leap and the media plays along with it every time where you see, you know, this person was convicted of smoking marijuana two years ago,. This person had a domestic abuse felony three years ago. The people who you say this about have no power within the apparatus to push back

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