Young people were dying in Nigeria and this is what Jackie Aina posted in support of the movement because “aesthetics must aesthetic”. She now wants to make money off that same movement??? Nope, not happening. How do we recall those candles, please? 😭
@JHallinPeel PSA - check with your local department of social services about cooling assistance. It will help you buy an AC or pay an electric bill. There may be a requirement for a "vulnerable person" (aged, disabled, or small child) and income limits. There's also heating in the winter!
Your childhood holds the secrets to your identity.
However often you can, try to
- Ask questions.
- Journal to understand who you are.
- Evaluate your childhood memories.
But the point isn't to get stuck here. It is about using it to understand and free yourself.
To be clear, we sourced The Star and their witness for both major facts in our initial story. Nonetheless, we stand by our position that the KCPD has a documented history of white supremacy and murder of unarmed Black people - and should have de-escalated Leonna’s situation.
12) And thus a central role of copaganda: distract from inequality. The goal is to extract wealth from working class, make them less safe, and then offer them only those “solutions” that increase the power and control over them by people who own things. https://t.co/mpTzNFnfVJ
11) So, what works? The evidence for real community safety is clear: invest in healthcare, housing, mental health, addiction treatment, teachers, art/music/theater/sports for kids, violence interruption, mutual aid, etc. Most of all, reduce inequality: https://t.co/bPwq597qPi
7) The evidence shows the opposite: the decades-long scientific consensus is that human caging does not reduce crime. This is the most recent meta-study of 116 studies on the question. Sending people to cages does not reduce crime, it increases it: https://t.co/vEJVW2uCUH
6) So what is the context? U.S. already cages people more than any society in modern history. Almost everyone caged in the U.S. is poor. U.S. cages Black people 6 times rate of South Africa at height of Apartheid. If human caging made us safe, we’d be safest country in the world.
5) Why do you think there is such a big gap between what cops tell us about what they do and what cops actually do? You have to learn the context behind all these calls to increase police and prison budgets: it’s a profitable bureaucratic business.
4) Police get $$$ to focus on some “crimes” and not others. They make billions of $ in overtime for low-level arrests. This is one reason cops have ignored 100,000s of untested rape kits while making record drug arrests for decades. https://t.co/ANPU1Efz6y
More white women have spoken out about being traumatized by Will Smith slapping someone than yesterday’s mass murder of innocent Black grocery shoppers.