"Don't waste any time tying to be like anybody but yourself because the things that make you strange are the things that make you powerful" - Ben Platt
that running bit in Suite Life of Zach and Cody where Maddy is like “people tell me I look like Sharpay from High School Musical :)” and everyone is like “I don’t see it” is funnier than 90% of Netflix comedy specials
1000 white kids destroy a street in Columbus, flip 7 cars - cops refuse to show up saying “They’ll come down when it's safe for them”. These the same cops using tear gas & force against BLM protesters? Hmm.
I’m really upset that the media is already laying the groundwork for dismissing Ma’khia’s death. If police can arrest mass shooters with assault rifles, they can arrest a 16 year old girl with a knife.
After hearing the verdict for the murder of George Floyd, I went to Injustice Square to reflect on Breonna Taylor and my community that still grieves. I came home to learn that a 15 year old child was just shot and killed by the police she called to help her.
My God.
Today, a jury in Minnesota found former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd.
The verdict is a step forward.
And while nothing can ever bring George Floyd back, this can be a giant step forward on the march towards justice in America.
Daunte Wright’s killing was not a random, disconnected “accident” - it was the repeated outcome of an indefensible system that grants impunity for state violence, rewards it w/ endlessly growing budgets at the cost of community investment, & targets those who question that order.
When countless citizens lost voting rights to criminal offenses over marijuana possession, a White man trespasses onto the lawmaking chambers of the supposed free nation and lights a joint to parade his privilege. Read that as many times as you need to.