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Why Are Deadly Home Invasions Not Considered Domestic Terrorism?
While white media obsesses over the well-deserved downfall of the Republican Party, spending hours and hours of airtime debating the long-term effects of Trumpism, what can only be categorized as domestic terrorism continues to attack and kill Black citizens.
How else can you describe the deadliness of home invasions carried out by armed and dangerous police officers, who plan these violent attacks during ungodly hours of the night or in the boldness of sunny afternoon?
The infamous summer of hate, activated in 2018 by the breaking news of two Black men being harassed and subsequently arrested by arriving cops at a Starbucks in Philadelphia, who were summoned by the white manager, who felt threatened by the presence of non-threatening Blackness was a volatile season that demonstrated the full supremacy of white power.
Media outlets surpassed highest of expectations for clicks, traffic numbers and ratings, thanks to the profitability of Black pain and the degradation that permits white folks to illegally rebuke the audacity of Black folks to dare to civilly occupy free space.
From the utterly revolting racist who reduced a Black child to tears for ludicrous accusations of sexual assault to the shameless agitator, who had no issue calling 911 on a Black girl…
