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Letter: Anger at police is misguided

By Greg Beck, Vancouver
Published: August 21, 2020, 6:00am

Misdirection is the action of directing someone to the wrong place or in the wrong direction. It is intuitive that crime and criminals occur at a much higher rate among impoverished populations. There is no question that minority populations in this country have a much greater density of poverty populations. Maintaining minorities in impoverished conditions is the prison created by racism. Higher crime rates mean more arrests and more imprisonment.

Focusing the anger of minority groups at the police is a massively unjust misdirection. The new generations of robber barons and the super wealthy are brilliantly manipulating this strategy of misdirection. The total hypocrisy of wealthy celebrities and super wealthy corporate heads saying “we support BLM,” is one of the strings manipulating the puppets.

By focusing all our anger at police who are doing their job, we don’t even come close to the real target. Real supporters of BLM should be focused on bringing down the robber barons and super wealthy of our country and the world. Don’t be a misdirected puppet of the real wardens of the racial poverty prison.

Embrace the police, don’t persecute them for trying to keep you safe. They are the scapegoats of the wardens.

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