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Racism: The 1960's Civil Rights Movement

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But strip away the hashtag in front of your movement all of a sudden it begins to look more and more like the situation the 1960’s civil rights movement was fighting to get away from.
Black Lives Matter jump to the call of racism whenever facts are presented, and by their definition of racism, only whites can be racist because blacks and minorities can’t be.
But they keep pushing the narrative of that black people are killed by cops. For being black. Especially unarmed and sweet innocent men. Those racist cops can’t seem to get enough of those innocent, unarmed black men. Right? This is malarkey.
When they put this idea out there that cops are killing black people because of skin color, it suddenly makes it okay to vilify cops, it makes it

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