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Capitalism & Racism

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The Violence Is Before the Cops

I hate the way that it's called violence because the looting and pillaging is not, they're not hurting anybody. Like none of that is actually directed at people, right? It's like vandalism or something, but that's not violent. And I just think that needs to be said, but here's the thing I want to ask you. Do you think that people would be as receptive to Black Lives Matter if it didn't have this looting, pillaging, violent, not violent, vandalism dimension to it? You know, do you think that that's like making people pay attention?

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