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NFL Players Protest Racism, But NOT Killing-Black-Babies

NFL Players Protest Racism, But NOT Killing-Black-Babies

September 29, 2017

Finally! NFL players across the country took a knee to protest the systemic racism and unjustified deaths that have plagued black communities for decades. Using their broadcast platform, socially-conscious athletes showed the world that they would not stand for the injustices done by those in power. Players, black and white, displayed solidarity against the killing of unarmed black lives through state-funded violence. They declared an end to Planned Parenthood.

 

Oh, wait. Nope. That wasn’t the story splashed on every #fakenews front page or the endless dialogue of sports commentators and liberal pundits. Planned Parenthood kills nearly 270 black lives every single day, but sure…let’s talk about the “systemic racism” of police (both black and white I might add) who kill more white people than black people every year.

 

In 2016, 963 lives were killed by police (whether justified or not). That’s 32 less deaths than in 2015. The Washington Post database provides the racial breakdown: 466 were white (or 48.3%), and 233 were black (24.2%). Of those killed 690 (or 71.7%) were armed with a deadly weapon. Only five percent, or 48 people, were determined to be ‘unarmed’.

 

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