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RandolphCarter15 t1_jbyrxud wrote

I wish people understood whare they were protesting. This was a proposal by a black city council woman to create a training center and improve the quality of Atlanta policing. Strange optics to have a bunch of white people from outside the community tell black people of Atlanta what they should be doing

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Godsblackarm t1_jbytpsw wrote

My brother in christ the 5 police officers who beat to death Tyre Nichols were black. The problem is the police regardless of who is in it.

More importantly from the article is the displacement of families already settled. Unsure where people are talking about "old growth forest" as there is literally none in the US.

> more importantly, Chambers said the 380-acre facility would dislocate members of the city’s Black and Hispanic communities.

The time and money would be better spent on affordable housing and community projects than a 100,000,000$+ larping grounds for police.

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RandolphCarter15 t1_jbyux0r wrote

Fair point. I just worry that the rhetoric around this doesn't fit the reality, and there is often a pattern of outside activists imposing their views on the local community. But framing it in terms of priorities is valid

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n0noTAGAinnxw4Yn3wp7 OP t1_jbzckz8 wrote

the actual proposal comes from the atlanta police foundation—the city government, including the mayor, are just necessary to give it legitimacy. (for example, by having people think it was the mayor's idea in the first place!)

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ResponsibleSwan6735 t1_jc5edga wrote

Who gives a rats ass if the mayor is black? PersonalIy, I don't see color.

If you think a person's skin color determines the legitimacy of their opinions, you're just as kooky as the radical liberals pushing "standpoint epistemology" and the "progressive stack." I suppose people like you were the target audience when they decided to call the place "The Atlanta Instutute for Social Justice"

If you want to know who supports this social justice institute, follow the money. The list of funders is easily accessible. Norfolk Southern has donated a lot more cash towards this project than your token negro politician.

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lemuric t1_jc67jmy wrote

ah yes the old tried n true 'outside agitators' lie lol
as old as the civil rights era with the freedom rides
nah.

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