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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 7899065" data-attributes="member: 8835"><p>I thought about Quanell X. </p><p></p><p>When I came to Houston in the late 90's he was always in the news everytime the cops arrested a black person for doing a crime (that they did) and objecting to how violent the arrest was. He was the ambulance chaser of civil rights. Making a big stink out of something the suspect should have known better. Like that woman suing McDonalds because she spilled her coffee.</p><p></p><p>In reality, the coffee was 190F and the old woman was badly burned. The company ran a PR campaign to make it sound minor and that it was a frivolous lawsuit, a money-grab. They even got late-night talkshow hosts like Jay Leno making jokes about her.</p><p></p><p>What's that got to do with Quanell ? We all thought things were hunky dory with equality, but people of color continued to have a higher risk of injury compared to whites in any equivalent interaction. We were wrong. We were misinformed. Just like we were misinformed by how many people showed up to Louis Farakahn's Million Man March. if it wasn't a million, it was dang close. And again, propaganda forces lied to us to make jokes and diminish how many showed up.</p><p></p><p>Quanell X seemed to profit for himself on his cause, but the core of it was warning us all that things were not okay, and not fair. He was right. Dr. King was right. We got some work to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janx, post: 7899065, member: 8835"] I thought about Quanell X. When I came to Houston in the late 90's he was always in the news everytime the cops arrested a black person for doing a crime (that they did) and objecting to how violent the arrest was. He was the ambulance chaser of civil rights. Making a big stink out of something the suspect should have known better. Like that woman suing McDonalds because she spilled her coffee. In reality, the coffee was 190F and the old woman was badly burned. The company ran a PR campaign to make it sound minor and that it was a frivolous lawsuit, a money-grab. They even got late-night talkshow hosts like Jay Leno making jokes about her. What's that got to do with Quanell ? We all thought things were hunky dory with equality, but people of color continued to have a higher risk of injury compared to whites in any equivalent interaction. We were wrong. We were misinformed. Just like we were misinformed by how many people showed up to Louis Farakahn's Million Man March. if it wasn't a million, it was dang close. And again, propaganda forces lied to us to make jokes and diminish how many showed up. Quanell X seemed to profit for himself on his cause, but the core of it was warning us all that things were not okay, and not fair. He was right. Dr. King was right. We got some work to do. [/QUOTE]
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