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“Pardon him”

The same energy that allowed the confederates to return and expand their racist power that to this day harms indigenous & Black folk.

The call for pardons-coming from left and right.. white people and media rips off the facade of equal justice under the law.
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We really need to self-interrogate why the calls for justice are so strong for, say, Jussie Smollett or Will Smith but not for Donald Trump. Or killer Kyle Rittenhouse, Brock Turner, or .
11:58 AM - Jun 10, 2023
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Again, it’s really isn’t right or left, democrats or republican. It’s white Americans who find grace for white perpetrators of crime equal to the lack of grace afforded to Black, brown, indigenous folk.

This isn’t controversial or a surprise.

We all know it.
11:59 AM - Jun 10, 2023
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It’s not only regular folk of course. It’s new and old media, too.

All owned by wealthy white men who have other mostly white men and women on air and on the front page offering long takes on why trump should be pardoned.
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They breathlessly say that a pardon is “good for the nation” when they really mean a pardon is good for preserving the ultimate power of whiteness so that it always stands above .. everything.
12:00 PM - Jun 10, 2023
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Pardoning trump settles into the self importance and unassailable belief that the modern world and everything good about it is because whiteness made it so.

Therefore whiteness should always be allowed grace from accountability.

It’s insidious and powerful and it permeates all.
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The very length of the investigation highlights the grace given to whiteness because as millions have said-here and abroad- we absolutely know Obama would not have been given 1/10th the time or grace trump has and is still being given.
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Trump is the biggest traitor this country has ever seen. Why? Because he’s the first and only president who has given/sold nuclear secrets, US military vulnerabilities, and those two offenses could literally destroy the nation and kill hundreds of millions or billions of humans.
12:01 PM - Jun 10, 2023
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Despite that folk such as Rachel Maddow, Republican presidential candidates, republican senators and representatives, and old media are asking -begging- to pardon him.

It’s damning and it’s damn unforgivable.
12:02 PM - Jun 10, 2023
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You know who isn’t calling for trump to be pardoned? Black folk. Latino/Hispanic folk. Indigenous folk.

Those of us whose communities are overrun with violent cops, and “tough on crime” District Attorneys that white people vote into office..
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We want him locked up for good, and for him to be perp walked, adn forced to rot for the remainder of his racist miserable life.

Just like our ancestors wanted those racist confederates to.

Hopefully our white co-citizens on his eventual juries side with us and not US history. End
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That was such a huge mistake.
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That is what pundits and others are saying.

This thread is against pardoning him.
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