Two weeks ago I posted I was sexually assaulted by Alice/ Lice, babyextract / Alliciann
Since then, 3 others have reached out saying Alice pushed their boundaries, all from other black & brown people
Please repost this to let people know what they look like +
She walked into a store with two dollars in her hand for a bottle of orange juice that cost $1.79.
The owner accused her of stealing it, grabbed her by the sweater, and — as the girl turned to leave — shot her in the back of the head.
Latasha Harlins was 15. Los Angeles, March 1991.
The security camera recorded all of it. The money was still in her hand when she fell.
The owner was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. The maximum was sixteen years.
The judge gave her probation, four hundred hours of community service, and a five-hundred-dollar fine. No prison. Not one day.
Latasha Harlins was thirteen days past the Rodney King video. Los Angeles held both of those facts at once for a year, and when the King verdicts came in, the city exploded — and a great many people in it were thinking about a girl and a bottle of juice.
Her family says she wanted to be a lawyer.
Fifteen years old. A dollar seventy-nine. Five hundred dollars.
Compare those last two numbers for a moment. That is the whole post.
Latasha Harlins was 15. Her life was worth more than $500.
And hers is not the only story where the value placed on a Black life was painfully different from the consequences that followed.
We documented up to 150 of those stories in 150 Crimes Against Black America They Never Answered For.
The names, the cases, the unanswered questions—they’re all there. Get yours https://t.co/V6OJtayKnF