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I feel that as black African Americans we have the right to speak up people should not be treated any differently from how white peoples are treated and no offense to the ones that are standing with us but that’s not enough and if they don’t change with peace of course it’s going to get violent but police used violence first that’s why things got out of hand.

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I would tell them to not look at me as a threat and think before you do something you will regret because there’s no coming back from what you did. Just support everyone and don’t stop. I don’t know what to say because it’s like are you going to kill us all. (makeda)

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Jada Feverie

um as a african american society we should speak up and tell people how we feel about the stuff going on and how it’s not right . for example like the police brutality . police officers is supposed to protect people , not tear them down , or treat others differently because of their skin color .

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I will keep protesting because we have the right to speak our mind and let everyone know that we are getting tired of these cops killing black people. We will keep protesting every time this happen so we can let people know we are human being not animals as they betray us. Angelina

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When I saw  the police response to the protests it was disappointing because they were pushing and hitting black people. ( Zarryn )

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We should go in group and talk about how we can stop the police officers from killing and shooting black people for no reason ( Zarryn )

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I would keep protesting to show the police officers how annoyed use black people are and keep doing it to
show how we feel about our community. ( Zarryn )

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3. My thoughts on how the police are responding to the protest are that they're using force to keep us down even tho they brought this on to themselves.

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2. As a society we can unite and speak up for what we want.

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1. I would protest about police brutality so the world knows.

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I would protest because its time that we fight for our rights because we are human too.

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I feel like we should keep protesting because police is killing black people for no reason.

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I would protest because that is the best way to make change instead of just breaking other people stuff, when they didn't do anything to you.

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Personally I feel like the protest is a good way for people to hear our voice because when we try to be calm about it nobody listens but now with the rioting police are starting to hear our voice

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I feel like we should stop protesting because people are robbing store people getting killed back to back and a lot a bad stuff

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I think people should protest because we have been going through racism for many years now and we need our justice. Police have been watching our every move based on our color, if we want 2020 to be a good year we need to change. Many people have been peacefully protesting for black rights and we wont stop until we get it.

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My thoughts about police officers need to stop pointing guns at the people who have color. How they going to say all live matter when only the people with color is getting hit with bullets. How they going to say all life matter when only black kids are getting killed almost every day. How they going to say all life matter but when they see a black person with a black hoodie on they going to think that we is going outside to do something bad not all people with color is going to make bad decisions grow up. At this point only black lives should only matter.

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We can go in multiple groups in give some money out to the homeless for some food for at Less 2 days or more so they can have something to eat.

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I would like to help the community by helping the homeless people out in school that can’t really go no where that other school can go and raise money for hospital for the kids that have cancer to help them get better.

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I would protest because we are all black and we have always been subjugated as a race just just in different ways.

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I think people should still protest for Black Lives Matter so they can fight for justice. And people are so tired of police brutality on black people, and many more. People get judged based on their color and I think that's wrong! We have voices and hopefully the police can stop the racial brutalities on black, and other races. We have to fight for our justice.

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I think as a group we could meet up places and talk about what we can do to help the world be a better place.

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Answer 3
I feel for the black police that has to work with cops that are killing he’s/her kind I bet that it’s hard for them to watch that happen.The cops that is beating, killing, and pushing people that stands and support us needs to understand why we are doing this.We’re doing this because we feel like that we have to make a point to show people that the stuff that they are doing to us is wrong.

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Answer 1
I would like to protest and riot  at police station and wear all black to show them that’s are not going to stop until racist cops notice that black people is human to and that they need to treat us as equals and stop killing our kind.

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I would help them find an answer to their problem.

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We dont have these same problems in Yemen with the police, I wouldn’t know what to do.

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I feel that the police are using unnecessary force against peaceful protesters. As for the "kneeling in solidarity," I felt like most of it was really fake. I felt like they were just kneeling just to make the protesters feel comfortable, so it would be "easier" to make them disperse. I can't really put it into words. (Shayla)

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Individually, we can educate ourselves. As a group, we can protest. As a society, we can hopefully make or start a change. (Shayla)

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I would probably speak up about it. I think it impacts people more to do something when the youth is aware and educated about the situations, and they speak up about it. I don't know, probably like how people speak up about bullying. (Shayla)

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I feel like we should continue crowd protests because we should have to fight for justice, we shouldn’t have to be judged by our race color, we shouldn’t even have to be doing crowd protests but if this is the only way to make sure we are heard then we mind as we’ll continue.

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My thoughts is that they are viewing it in away that is of the law but black peoples or not apart of the law. If someone kills a dog they go to jail but a black person they ignore us we deserve justice. So my point is that American is mostly run on racism. We need to fight our fight and stick up for what we know we are.👍🏾

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I feel like we should try to stop the looting and rioting because what about the people who came up from nothing, including blacks, and looting there store but saying you support them, doesn’t really make sense to me.

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we can continue with the protests and follow in MLK’s steps

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i feel like the police are wrong and abuse their power and use  their weapons for unnecessary reasons still.

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i would like to participate in a protest

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I would like to give to the homeless give food and water to stay healthy and also volunteer for the pantry to give food out to the community!...

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Thank you for these thoughtful responses.  I'm proud of what you have thought of so far and I look forward to hearing you discuss these issues further. You, 8th graders, are our future and will continue this work. I'm encourages by all the empathy I see on this page. As always, you make me proud!

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One thing we could do is help homeless people get off The streets and not be in the this protest 

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One thing we could do is help homeless people get off The streets and not be in the this protest 

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As a group we can have a meeting somewhere and make a group that’s against the police and we can do activity like make sign and stuff and put it around the area so everyone and police can see

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Question 1 instead of protesting we can put signs up and spray paint the walls something simply like that

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Answer 3 I feel like the police that’s taking a knee needs to understand where we coming from in order for them to take a knee because taking a knee to us means that you see where we coming from and your apologies.! But the cops that’s pepper spraying people need to stop because this is why we are protesting because cops don’t understand where we coming from and they killing our people left and right.!

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Answer 3 I feel like the police that’s taking a knee needs to understand where we coming from in order for them to take a knee because taking a knee to us means that you see where we coming from and your apologies.! But the cops that’s pepper spraying people need to stop because this is why we are protesting because cops don’t understand where we coming from and they killing our people left and right.!

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One thing we could do individually is Educate people and support the a people that are in pain

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One thing we could do individually is Educate people and support the a people that are in pain

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One thing we could do individually, as a group, or as a society to show support for one another in the wake of theses events is help out with food give people money or food to the ones that need resources.

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I feel the police and protesters to be careful because  a girl died because a protester shot her.

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We could hold food drives as a group our we could give the homeless food as individuals.

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I feel like that we should keep protesting because if we stop we would never know weather we could have made a change or if we stop we would never get our rights and we need to protest for our rights because they way Colored people are treated isn’t fear they have no rights and they are looked at a way that they are an immediate threat. There is non colored people just killing us for fun and when we do it in return we are the ones punish. There is little kids who are scared because of their color and It shouldn’t  have to be like that, everyone should be equal. Non colored people takes it as an advantage, so will lie and make something seem more dramatic then the situation is just because they dont want to be order from a colored person. The racism doesn’t stop for example a women was walking her dog off leash and some colored man who was in charge told her to put the dog on leash but she decided to play the victim as if he was threatening her and the dog she called the cops and was deliberately being racist and said “ There is an African-American threatening  me And me dog.”

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I would like to raise money and help the homeless by holding a food drive to help the community.

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What would you like to do for our community or the world to address police brutality?

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What is one thing we could do individually, as a group, or as a society to show support for one another in the wake of these events?

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What thoughts and feelings do you have about the police response to the protests?