The Ida B. Wells statue in Memphis being unveiled days before we found out Nolan Wells is her descendant feels like an ancestral chess move. Ancestors need energy to act, and that statue going up felt like a supercharged veneration for her to surface the truth and get the justice she so elegantly mastered in her lived life.
At the family barbecue my cousin’s husband kept joking that “period mood swings are just an excuse to be a bitch.” His 13-year-old daughter finally said, “Dad, when you have a kidney stone you cry and everyone brings you ice packs. When Mom has endometriosis she still packs your lunch. Sit down.” The table went quiet so fast you could hear the burgers sizzle.
The Flint water crisis settlement is finally paying out the first set of minors (age 12-17 years old during the crisis) and the lowest payment for the age group is $400 (with an unknown second amount later).
$400.
The lawyers made millions up front. It’s been years.
The law should be: If the doctor is recommending it, it should be ILLEGAL for the insurance companies to deny it without appealing to a board of physicians. NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND
Activist Erin Brockovich who won
PG&E case and won $333 million as settlement for the poisoned families, is now coming after big Al data centres for damaging nature.
Staci Turner, the Chief Medical Examiner in Mississippi, needs to be thoroughly investigated. Every case she’s ruled as accidental, undetermined, or suicide involving Black people should be reexamined immediately.
Take Trey Reed; found hanging on the Delta State University campus. She ruled it a suicide. But an independent investigation later determined it was a homicide after discovering blunt force trauma and bruising all over his body.
Nolan Wells was ruled a drowning almost immediately after his body arrived. His family has now demanded an independent investigation.
Damion Cameron’s death was ruled undetermined after a deadly confrontation with law enforcement left him with internal neck bleeding.
And Shannon Wilson was embalmed without his family’s permission; destroying critical evidence that could have shown he was murdered.
This is exactly what institutional racism looks like. When I post about it, this is the kind of thing I’m talking about.
They call us racist for exposing their racism!
Apparently it’s going to traumatise a 9 year old to learnt about periods.
As though bleeding from your vulva when you have no idea what’s going on isn’t going to traumatise a 9 year old more ...
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