A 18-year-old white man drove hours to Buffalo and shot and killed multiple people at a grocery store in a predominately Black community.
That is the definition of terrorism
Major NFL suspensions:
Ray Rice: beating fiancé; 2 games
Adrian Peterson: felony child abuse; 6 games
Greg Hardy: beating gf; 10 games reduced to 4
Ezekiel Elliot: hitting women; 6 games
Calvin Ridley: 17 games for using FanDuel
Josh Gordon: 6 seasons for smoking weed
In 1847, Missouri banned education for black people.
John Berry Meachum went ahead and equipped a steamboat with a library, desks, chairs and opened a 'Floating Freedom School'. #BlackHistoryMonth
A THREAD!
"When you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. When you have poor teachers, you get a poor education. When you get a poor education, you can only work in a poor-paying job." - Malcolm X
American medicine has been built upon the abuse of black people with no oversight.
I'll revisit a few cases of how Black people were abused in the field of medicine. #BlackHistoryMonth
A THREAD!
Can we talk about Ronald Greene? Police in Louisiana originally said he died in a car crash in 2019, but 2 years later, body cam footage showed troopers beating him and using stun guns while he was unarmed. It's now been almost 3 years without justice.
RIP Ronald Greene
the idea of having tattoos making it harder to get a job is so bizarre bc when i see someone with a lot of tattoos i don't think "degenerate", i think "nice, a guy who schedules lots of appointments and shows up to them on time"