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Police Prejudice is Real

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If this surprises you, it means you are a fan of Marjorie Taylor Greene or maybe TheDonald.

Of what am I talking?   A study completed by Drs. Nicholas Camp (Michigan),  Rob Voigt (Northwestern), with  Dan Jurafsky and Jennifer Eberhardt (both from Stanford), published as “The Thin Blue Waveform: Racial Disparities in Officer Prosody Undermine Institutional Trust in the Police”, in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Just not in BedSty

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It’s time to discuss institutional racism again. Yeah, I know many of you think it’s bullshit.   That doesn’t make your thinking right.  So, humor me- and read what I am going to discuss today with an open mind.  (Breathe in, breathe out… breathe in, breathe out.)

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Hatred of Others MUST Cease.

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So, today is “fake” Columbus Day.  Another example of our government manipulating events so we have 3 day weekends.  The real Columbus Day is Friday- right after the new moon of  (Mar) Cheshvan.  It has the moniker  ‘Mar’ (bitter) because it is the month of the flood- the one Hashem inflicted upon the world (or certainly the bulk of the Middle East)- way back when.

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Walks like a duck. Talks like a duck…

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NOTE:  I have had enough.  I must speak out.  NOW.

I have written before about my experiences as a  child and young adult.  (I also spoke about groups spewing hatred.  Also here.) Where, despite living in Metropolitan New York, my neighborhood was 99.9% Catholic, Irish and Italian.  And most of the kids went to Catholic school, where they were taught that the Jews killed Christ.  And,  my brother and I were explicitly taught that we were going to be the targets of their vengeance.

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