KC Activists Share EMBITTERED Screed After Losing Jail Tax Public Safety Vote

 

This scathing polemic PROBABLY indicates that these local scribes take cowtown politics just a bit too seriously. 

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What's more interesting is that Kansas City "mainstream media" outlets continue to to collaborate with these activists despite these kinds of screeds where they're calling police murderers and liars.

Check-it . . . 

"And in that desperation, people reach for anything that resembles safety — even if it means turning to their captors. Even as the Kansas City Police Department went under federal investigation. Even after they killed Donnie Sanders, Ryan Stokes, Cameron Lamb, and Malcolm Johnson. Even as they freed Eric DeValkenaere. Even as Blayne Newton, a serial killer in a badge, remains on the KCPD after three deaths. Even with the blood still fresh.

"Despite all this — the murders, the lies, the cover-ups — we are told these men “protect and serve.” We are taught to depend on them. To fear each other. To welcome their surveillance. And so we believe, against our own interest, that white men with guns are necessary for peace in Black communities, and that mass human caging facilities to lock up Black youth are the only way to keep our neighborhoods safe.

"And not just white men. Any cop . . ."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

We Lost the Vote. But We Will Win the World.

The jail is a parasite. It feeds on Black life, devours our futures, and calls it justice. And still, we imagine. We remember. We build. We rise.