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Founder @TheNorthStar & @RealJusticePAC & @FlipTheSenate & @TheActionPAC. Host of @TheBreakdown Podcast. Voice of Social Justice @TJMShow. Husband. Father of 5.

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    1. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 21 Apr 2018
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      2. This year is on pace to be the deadliest year for police brutality EVER measured. We’re not imagining this crisis. It’s being lived out by families all over the country. SOURCE: https://injusticetoday.com/data-shows-police-brutality-in-america-is-getting-worse-2018-could-be-the-most-deadly-in-years-90c9fa503580 … #WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter

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    2. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 21 Apr 2018
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      3. 104 fully unarmed African Americans were killed by police in 2015. That’s more than any single year of lynching in America in over 100 years. The average per year in Jim Crow was 38. SOURCE: https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/unarmed/  SOURCE: https://qz.com/726245/more-black-people-were-killed-by-us-police-in-2015-than-were-lynched-in-the-worst-year-of-jim-crow/ … #WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter

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    3. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 21 Apr 2018
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      4. Unarmed African Americans are at least twice as likely to be shot & killed by police as unarmed white Americans. This isn't whining - this is a factual racial disparity. SOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/01/black-americans-killed-by-police-analysis … #WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter

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    4. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 21 Apr 2018
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      5. The deadliest hate crime against African Americans did not take place in the 1940s or 50s or 60s, but happened in 2015, on our watch, when Dylann Roof walked into a Charleston church and slaughtered 9 innocent people. SOURCE: https://www.postandcourier.com/archives/hate-crime-may-be-s-c-s-deadliest/article_e497a73e-e6f3-5d08-a432-2f52664572df.html … #WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter

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    5. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 21 Apr 2018
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      6. Hate crimes are drastically increasing in the United States – with the majority of violent attacks still against African Americans. SOURCE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hate-in-america-is-on-the-rise/2017/11/25/33808364-c94d-11e7-8321-481fd63f174d_story.html … #WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter

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    6. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 21 Apr 2018
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      7. In 1960 fewer than 200,000 people were incarcerated in all of the United States. Today, several states have more than that. Our nation has more people and higher rates of incarceration than any nation in the world. SOURCE: http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All … #WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatterpic.twitter.com/3CvUUa5mrk

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    7. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 21 Apr 2018
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      8. African Americans are exponentially more likely to be wrongly convicted (and executed) for crimes they never committed. SOURCE: https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/07/politics/blacks-wrongful-convictions-study/index.html … SOURCE: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/us/wrongful-convictions-race-exoneration.html … SOURCE: https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/Race-and-Wrongful-Convictions.aspx … #WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter

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    8. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 21 Apr 2018
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      9. The disparity in mortality rates between black & white women giving birth are wider now than they were at the end of slavery. SOURCE: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/magazine/black-mothers-babies-death-maternal-mortality.html … #WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter

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    9. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 21 Apr 2018
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      10. Home & Mortgage lenders have now paid hundreds of millions of dollars in fees to African Americans with the exact same credit scores & incomes that they gave higher interest rates to than whites. SOURCE: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-toyota-caught-racist-interest-rate-practices-article-1.2520118 … #WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter

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    10. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 21 Apr 2018
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      11. Black children 4x as likely to suspended from school than whites for the exact same mistakes & misbehaviors. SOURCE: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/06/07/black-students-nearly-4x-likely-suspended/85526458/ … #WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter

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      Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 21 Apr 2018
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      12. Black girls 2x as likely to be suspended from school than whites for the exact same mistakes & misbehaviors… in every single state. SOURCE: https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2017-05-09/black-girls-are-twice-as-likely-to-be-suspended-in-every-state … #WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter

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        1. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 21 Apr 2018
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          13. Whites use drugs at the same rate as Blacks and actually sell drugs at a higher rate. African Americans are just exponentially more likely to be held criminally responsible for this. SOURCE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/30/white-people-are-more-likely-to-deal-drugs-but-black-people-are-more-likely-to-get-arrested-for-it/?utm_term=.d20b65827f3e … #WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter

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        2. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 21 Apr 2018
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          14. Police pull Black drivers over more. Search them more and STILL find less illegal contraband, including drugs and guns, than they do on white drivers. Black drivers still arrested more anyway. SOURCE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/27/police-are-searching-black-drivers-more-often-but-finding-more-illegal-stuff-with-white-drivers-2/ … #WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter

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        3. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 21 Apr 2018
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          15. African Americans WITH college degrees twice as likely to be unemployed as all other college graduates. SOURCE: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/african-americans-with-college-degrees-are-twice-as-likely-to-be-unemployed-as-other-graduates/430971/ … #WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter

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        4. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 21 Apr 2018
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          16. White high school drop outs get same rate of job offers as black college students. SOURCE: https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/06/27/white-high-school-drop-outs-are-as-likely-to-land-jobs-as-black-college-students/ … #WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter

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        5. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 21 Apr 2018
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          17. Black Harvard grads get the same rate of job callbacks as white state college graduates. SOURCE: https://qz.com/357445/black-harvard-graduates-have-the-same-shot-at-a-job-call-back-as-white-state-college-grads/ … #WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter

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        6. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 21 Apr 2018
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          18. Anti-Black hiring discrimination of equally qualified candidates is the same today as it was in 1989. It has not improved even 1% in 20 years. SOURCE: https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/9/18/16307782/study-racism-jobs … #WhyWeSayBlackLivesMatter

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        1. Gisela Adisa‏ @imGisela 19 Oct 2018
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          Welcome to growing up in micro-aggressively racist northeastern America, in every private Catholic school I attended. And I was “one of the good ones.”

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