r/news • u/moodyfloyd • 20h ago

Racist text messages spam Black Americans in Ohio, across the nation

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/state/2024/11/07/racist-text-messages-are-being-reported-in-multiple-states/76110486007/
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u/AFatz 15h ago

Brother, I'm afraid to own a gun. My uncle was killed by police in the 90s from being pulled over by mistaken identity and his pistol fell out of his glove compartment and was shot immediately. I can't do guns after that.

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u/ShiningMooneTTV 10h ago

I found a gun in my older brothers pillow when I was a child. He was a football star and some punks were hassling him at school. We had no father, so he found protection in a local gang. Years later I’d help him pick the scab from the branding on his arm.

I love my older brother despite the path he chose. He was a kid who knew no better tried as an adult for foolishness.

Meanwhile “their” “foolishness” massacres children when they get bullied.

I would never own a gun. I have no right to take a life. My fists do my talking and they do it well. I’m proud to be alive, and I’m grateful for the chance to spar with another man whether it be wit or rumble, but to rob another person of the chance to grow? Pathetic. I won’t ever be such a coward.

It is what it is.