Fun fact. For the 1966 World Cup, England debated denying visas for North Korea. FIFA responded that if any players from any teams were denied visas,they would relocate the World Cup, even at the last minute.
Same state. Different justice.
2023: Alec Adamson (Prosper, TX) shoots & kills a Black student, leads police on car chase + foot pursuit.
Sentence: 4 years. Served: 2.
2025: Karmelo (Frisco, TX) gets jumped by white students, defends himself with a knife.
Sentence: 35 years.
Tell me this isn’t two-tiered justice.
I was standing next to a white woman and every time we made eye contact, I’d smile awkwardly and pull my bag a little closer.
After a while she asked, "Why do you keep doing that?" I said, "I don’t feel safe around you."
after a year of owning but not using a red light therapy mask that makes me look like jason from friday the 13th, I would like to report that I have been using it consistently for 6 weeks and I fear it is actually doing something.
turns out, reading voraciously, moving your body, loving people without keeping score, protecting your solitude, chasing nothing but your own growth, and occasionally staying out too late with people who make you laugh until it hurts is not a bad way to build a life.
Rich Chow was not guilty, but Karmelo Anthony was. If that doesn’t show you the state of the world and why we HAVE to start showing up to perform our civic duties, idk what else to say.
Early WRITTEN laws openly stated that Black ppl were forbidden to defend themselves from white attacks. This is still practiced in common law today. Black people are NEVER supposed to be justified in lethal self-defense against a white assailant.
The jury in the Karmelo case proved that white supremacist common law is still enforced
The justice system repeatedly bails out fuckin bullies and vigilantes. Black ppl are expected to accept bullying and violence without retaliating or defending ourselves. That’s a bunch of bullshit. I’m fuckin furious.
For all my Black in tech AI influencers, how does a “seat at the table” fix the permanent racial bias baked into LLMs and business models that drive these outcomes?