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Why Biden’s Black Agenda Was Probably a Sham

Thanks to white supremacy

Ezinne Ukoha
7 min readOct 13, 2021

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Officer Rusten Sheskey of Kenosha Police Department, the white cop who shot Jacob Blake, the Black man resisting arrest from arriving police officers, who were called to investigate an ongoing domestic dispute, back in August 2020 — will not face any charges related to the unfortunate incident.

Federal persecutors have cosigned the exact conclusion that state persecutors reached several months ago, as it pertains to the footage showing a Black man with an outstanding felony warrant, holding a knife to defend himself from arresting officers, who were adamant about not allowing an active threat enter a vehicle with his own kids in the backseat.

Jacob Blake’s violent encounter with Kenosha police officers happened about three months after the world was slapped with the devastating death video featuring an unarmed Black man being pinned to the concrete ground by a smiling white supremacist with a badge, who enjoyed every single second that was slipping away from George Floyd’s brutalized body.

Floyd’s systemic murder sparked a worldwide protest with fluidity of activism that extended to heartbreaking and heartwarming murals depicting the fragility of a Black life, through the lenses of the systemic violence that’s being sustained by the institutions that…

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