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COLORS OF THE FLAG
represent
RED: Valor — WHITE: Purity
BLUE: Justice
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1814: the Star Spangled Banner,
our national anthem author, Frances Scott Key owned slaves, in “the land of the free.” Africans in America, Key said, were “a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community."
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Stats & Facts
2006—FBI discover the term ghost skin, links to white supremacy in police departments
2015—unarmed black men were killed by police at 5X the rate of white men & boys of the same age.
2017 thus far, unarmed black men are 3X more likely to be killed by police than their white counterparts
"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." — Heather Heyer