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thenewgreen · 3406 days ago · link · · parent · post: #IfIDieInPoliceCustody tell them I was a lion.
These things aren't about our values, they're about what's being fed to us via the media. If a baby falls down a well, people will forget about this lion. If then, an athlete deflates a football we will forget about the kid in the well, if then a cop shoots an unarmed black kid we will forget about the football and if then a woman cuts off her husbands penis and throws it in a field of grass we will forget about the black kid. Average American has no attention span. Media feeds us these things. I refuse to be fed. Wish more people did. Edit: actually these things are definitely about our values. "We" value entertainment more than information. Individual safety more than collective justice. We are often not our brothers keeper.