in Citizen, Claudia Rankine removes the body of a lynched black person to afford them dignity in death. in the absence of the black body, what you're confronted w/ is the unbearable whiteness of the scene/violation. the lynch mob is now the subject of scrutiny, not the deceased.
Nathan Cofnas, who launched the witch-hunt against Professor Jason Arday, wrote a blog post arguing that in meritocracy, Black people would largely be absent from prominent positions outside of sports and entertainment.
He claimed that, under such a system, Black people would “disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment.”
Every woman who carries water for the patriarchy does so thinking the sacrifice of other women ensures she will not sink along with them.
And every woman who carries water for the patriarchy ends up with a broken back, tossed into the water without a second glance by the same oppressors she hoped would protect her from that fate and bestow rewards upon her for betraying all other women.
Off-duty Chicago cop punches teenage girl for video recording.
The girl who was punched is 13 years old.
The piece of shit cop needs to go to jail for assaulting a minor.
This photo captures a mass grave from 1965–66 Indonesia, where up to one million suspected communists and their supporters were killed in less than a year.
The U.S. supported the Suharto regime carrying out the massacres.
And that is why, to this day, the Indonesian genocide receives little recognition and virtually zero mainstream media attention.
You REDUCE crime by eliminating POVERTY. The reason so called nice neighborhoods have lower crime rates is because people’s basic needs are being met. It is not because of police, alarm systems, or neighborhood associations. Poverty creates crime.
Um…. Why aren’t We SCREAMING about this?
US Military accidentally killed everybody on a civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico while testing GPS jamming device.
https://t.co/B7mv7SEpCy
UPDATE—Women who leaked video of abuses in ICE detention were immediately locked in solitary confinement as retaliation.
"They're threatening us... They're hitting us," women said.
"We fear for her safety... They're killing us, but we have our voice."
"Please help us!"
The United States has had more than one hundred and fifty years to label the Ku Klux Klan a terrorist organization and has never done so. The fact that the Black Panther Party was dismantled by the US government but the Klan still exists tells you a lot about this country.
🦔Turn your sound on for this one. This is what it sounds like to live next to an AI data center, 24 hours a day. In Dowagiac, Michigan, residents sued after a facility run by Hyperscale Data ran around the clock at 78 decibels outside their homes. The company offered to buy their houses rather than fix the noise. One family has lived on that street for nearly a century.
My Take
This isn't one town with one bad facility. Microsoft faces a class-action in Wisconsin over data center noise residents can hear a mile and a half from the property line. In Virginia, one-third of data centers sit within 200 feet of homes. Noise from thousands of servers can hit 96 decibels, and diesel backup generators reach 105, which is a jet overhead. Residents report headaches, nausea, and sleep problems. Property values near this kind of infrastructure drop up to 20%. The company response in Michigan was to offer to buy the homes rather than quiet the facility, homes that families spent decades in, priced against a corporate buyout.
Water in Oregon, wells in Georgia, ratepayer costs in Louisiana, river water in California, and now noise in Michigan and Wisconsin. None of this was in the brochure when these projects got approved. Closed-loop cooling and proper sound barriers exist and would solve most of this, but they cost more, so the companies skip them and the neighbors lose sleep and equity instead.
Hedgie🤗
🚨 This is pure evil…
Houston restaurant owner Matthew Mitchell shot and killed his wife and two young children (ages 8 and 4) before killing himself.
His wife’s parents say he planned it for days. Ring cameras caught him saying “I gotta kill everybody” while drowning in money problems and alleged fraud. They also claim he hid $1.4 million with his mother’s help before the murders.
An entire family wiped out so he wouldn’t have to face the consequences.
How many more of these “successful” men destroy everyone around them when the money runs out?
They say books won’t change the world. Tell that to every colonizer who burned them. To every enslaved person who was punished for reading. Literacy is resistance. Literacy is liberation. The library is a battlefield.