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All people in all places please read this all the time until it is not just understood - but known. There's a difference.

To All People's Shame, we continue to walk in place and are somehow still surprised to find ourselves arriving nowhere.

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Locomotion is movement, movement, is not necessarily progress. If I continually walk in a circle l am moving...but I am not going anywhere; there is locomotion sans progress.

Thank you for always providing lucid and thought-provoking input, Sir Jon.

To All Peoples Shame

Lights Out.

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Sometimes I click the like tab against better judgement. The article,as always, is written well so I like it. And as always you bring to the surface powerful feelings.

Often I find myself depressed, and such is the case here. While I certainly don''t like the killing of airman Fortson, licking the like button makes me feel I am liking the killing and I wish there were ways to express gratitude for articles like this besides clicking like.

I defy anyone who can read this article without feeling the airman resembles them. It is not about physical resemblance that we MUST identify with this killing. It is as you say the environment of terror that persists in America society.

I become hopeless and, therefore depressed and angry, though, because everyone doesn't identify with the young airman.

I become angry because those that terrorize others don't understand that they have entered into devil's slavery that destroys them when they let themselves not feel the terror they are imposing in the name of the string puller's who are using them as puppets and destroying themselves just as much as they continue others.

How in the name of God ( a phrase I don't commonly use) do we cut the strings that lead people to not identify with Airman Fortson? How do we make people understand that when they become terrorists against black Americans, or anyone, they have become terrorized beyond their own identities---how do they understand they ARE airman Fortson, not some white bloke against some black bloke, but underneath they are the SAME bloke ensnared by the same chains,.

I continually feel defeated...why cannot white people ever understand how they are destroying themselves while strengthening the very ones they think they are being victorious over? Why don't they understand how they are being used to oppress themselves, that before they can hate another they have already come to hate themselves?

Shut up, Ken Taylor, you are a fool to believe there might be a slimmer of hope..

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Indeed, Ken Taylor (The TUO, or OUT spelled backwards), you are a fool. The United States is not only full of them, but also led by them.

Given this stark reality, the "hope" would be that there were more of your type of fool than those that prevail.

See what I did, there?

To The UnUtopian Optimist (TUO), I'm OUT...

Just like the lights at T.A.P.S.

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that we are led by "them"-led by puppet masters who pull the strings of the white minds and make them--us-white minds--into putty.

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