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    1 year ago

    In the people’s republic of Northern Illinois the penalty for attempting to feed school kids a free breakfast is state sanctioned murder

    Everything about the story reminds me of how the original version of the little mermaid takes pains to specify every step Ariel takes on land to her feels like she is walking on broken glass.

    But one of the pieces of glass that sticks in my metaphorical foot is the middle class kid, O’Neal, I originally assumed must have been an undercover police officer that sold Huey down the river and drugged him. Every few years I’ll pull up some Malcolm speeches or even King and I cannot imagine living around any of that and having none of it soak in on some level. It is easy to hate him for the unspeakable crime he committed, sure. And I would find it impossible to not do so.

    You just read the interview with him and it’s so sad how much he must have suffered before he eventually killed himself, slowly understanding just how bad the result of just doing what the FBI told him to do to avoid getting charged with whatever dumb petty crime they swept him up in was.

    Shakespeare ain’t got shit on the tragedy of modernity