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Priorities.

From DL Hughley: Another unarmed black man gunned down by police on video, but Zika is an Epidemic? I’ll worry about a mosquito when it can carry a badge!

All I can say to that is word. A word that needs to spread and spread and spread, until we are all screaming for accountability. The murders must stop.

I saw this in Mr. Hughley’s twitter stream, and laughed:

Donald Trump: Why isn’t President Obama working instead of campaigning for Hillary Clinton?

George Takei: As Commander-in-Chief, he is sworn to protect us from threats both foreign and domestic. You, sir, are the latter.

Via https://twitter.com/RealDLHughley

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Comments

  1. says

    Another unarmed black man gunned down by police on video, but Zika is an Epidemic? I’ll worry about a mosquito when it can carry a badge!

    I can’t agree here and think that’s a false dichotomy. Zika causes demonstrable harm and especially in the South of the USA pregnant people could very soon find themselves with a doomed pregnancy and no abortion access, especially women of colour.
    Caring about one doesn’t mean not caring about the other. I can understand that for him as a black man police shootings are a bigger issue than infections that mostly affect pregnant women, but that doesn’t mean that those things are not important.
    We must stop fighting for the crumbs and demand that police brutality and Zika are both tackled.

  2. says

    Giliell:

    We must stop fighting for the crumbs and demand that police brutality and Zika are both tackled.

    I agree with you, but I also understand where D.L. is coming from, especially in light of the fact that Zika would not be a threat here in the States if congress hadn’t decided to childishly go on vacation in order to avoid funding, just so they could spite the President.

    The ongoing murders of people of colour is an epidemic, and no one is so much as paying attention, let alone demanding funding and sweeping reforms. More Indians are shot and killed by cops than any other peoples in the States, but no one gives a shit about that. BLM had to happen before anyone deigned to notice. After Indians, Black people, then Hispanic people. Epidemic isn’t even the word.

    I do agree that one can care about both, but that care has to be there in the first place, and most people here simply don’t care about people of colour being gunned down. It’s unbelievably frustrating, because while congress can manage to get their pettiness under control, and fund Zika prevention and research, the same can’t be said for gun control or cop control.

  3. says

    Caine
    Totally! But I still find that tweet incredibly dismissive, as if Zika were “zero bad”, nothing to worry about.
    The fight for the lives of black people, especially black men, can’t be won by kicking women, especially poor women and women of colour in the crotch.

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