47 years ago today, Michael Jackson released Off the Wall, just four weeks after Chicago’s infamous “Disco Demolition Night”, where disco records were blown up in a staged anti-disco demonstration that became known as “the day disco died.” The backlash, steeped in racist & homophobic undertones against the Black, Queer & Latino roots of disco, was changing the face of radio.
And then came 20 year old Michael with Off the Wall, which drew heavily from the very sound being pushed aside and turned it into one of the defining albums of his career 🤎
Black kids deserve to grow up.
Tasia Fortune, Nolan Wells,Trayvon Martin, Emmett Till, Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley (the four girls killed in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing), Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Jordan Davis, Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Laquan McDonald, Antwon Rose Jr.
YOU ALL DESERVED BETTER!!!
Another young Black life has been targeted and stolen in Jackson, Mississippi. 15-year-old Khloe McDonel was discovered at Shepard Brothers Park with a fatal gunshot wound to the head on July 20th.
BEG YOU 😭💔
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A list of Black People recently found hanging from trees:
September 2024 – Dennoriss Richardson
May 2025 – Javion Magee
June 2025 – Earl Smith
October 2025 – Trey Reed
November 2025 – Tory Medley
February 2026 – Kyle Bassinga
May 2026 – Juliana Nzita
June 2026 – Tonea Miller
June 2026 – Jerard Jackson
June 2026 – Justice Kai James
August 2026 – Tasia Fortune
Most were declared self inflicted by authorities.
Black People Don't Hang Themselves From Trees.
A 29 year old black woman was lynched in my city named Tasia Fortune and we want answers! How does something like this continue to happen? this isn’t even 1 mile away from my neighborhood. Justice for Tasia Fortune she didn’t deserve this.
DO NOT FORGET HIS NAME, YUSEF HAWKINS. He was a 16-year-old Black teenager, from East New York who was shot and killed in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, by a mob of white youths.