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Originally Posted by escorpio
Nine songs about selling drugs and shooting people and one song about black people being unfairly targeted by police. A classic!
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what I love about the video (and lyrics) for
Close Your Eyes and Count to Fuck is how well it illustrates that the
system is the problem
sure there are bad cops, but there are also decent ones. but both are trained within the same system that instills attitudes about racialized bodies, creates (or reinforces) biases, and sadly how often to escalate rather than diffuse interactions with Black, Brown and Native people
look at the cop towards the end of the track, sitting on the stairs looking so despondent, like why am I even doing this? cuz that's how they're trained. it's so fucked up. and he knows it
same with the court systems in NA; severity of penalty (or even conviction) often really depends on how one looks and ignores the differences in backgrounds between the racialized poor and white middle class peeps
also gov policies. think of the impact on generational wealth when
returning Black WW2 soldiers were denied low to no interest housing loans given to white soldiers and their fams
think of Native kids torn from their homes, communities and cultures to be starved, beaten, sexually abused and killed in residential 'schools'. think about the psychological and economic impact on those who survived
this shit isn't ancient history, it's a partial explanation for the issues racialized communities face to this day
governance, policing, prison and court systems need to be burned the fuck down or fundamentally restructured, and constructive alternatives to prison for non-violent crimes created
in sum: it's not about victimhood, it's about recent history, and a set of sick systems that ultimately harm us all
hope you get what I mean, even if you don't agree
sure OHL would have a field day with this but sure he's here in spirit
