Joe Biden has called on Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, moments after shocking police video was released showing an Illinois officer fatally shooting Sonya Massey after she called police fearing a home intruder.

In his first public statement since dropping his bid for re-election, Biden said the shooting of Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman, by white Sangamon county sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson, in her home in Springfield, after a dispute over a pot of boiling water, “reminds us that all too often Black Americans face fears for their safety in ways many of the rest of us do not”.

Biden, who is recovering from Covid at his home in Delaware, said Massey, “a beloved mother, friend, daughter and young Black woman … should be alive today”.

  • @ImpressiveEssay
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    -102 months ago

    Like I said… As much as hair colour.

    We will get there some day

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      Not really as hair colour unless hair colour is connected to culture and heritage. Diversity isn’t something to be pursued just because of social justice but it is a genuinely good thing for society and exchange of ideas. Homogeneous societies are stale and uncreative. When many cultures work together they are stronger than all of them separately.

      • @ImpressiveEssay
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        -82 months ago

        Lol… of fucking course hair colour is connected to culture and heritage!? In the precise same ways that race is.

        Nobody here wants a homogenous society. Why you tryna strawman me?!

        I am the one arguing that race should matter as much as hair colour so nobody even notices when brunettes and gingers and blondes work together etc.

        It’s crazy that you made up another person just now… wtf

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          The original phrasing of your comment is bound to evoke such responses, it comes off as a bit culturally blue pilled so to say hence mixed reactions.

          If you were a political candidate it could cost you a lot for example but obviously this is just forum. You will just get some scolding and that’s it. Take it as free of charge friendly advice

          • @ImpressiveEssay
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            -52 months ago

            Slack is understandable…

            But people making shit up is not.