Former #49ers All-Pro DE Aldon Smith spent part of the final day of his life delivering pizzas to a local homeless charity (pictured below).
Hours later, he was found unresponsive in a vehicle and was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Smith was 36 years old. His cause of death is pending.
Story via @sfchronicle: https://t.co/J2B6JBu7eO
You can’t say that this is about Black boys’ behaviors or what Black parents should do differently when white boys continually commit mass murders here without ever being pathologized in this way
This is about a legal system whose primary function is to enforce racial inequality
Karmelo Anthony would be treated totally different by the legal system were he a white boy killing a Black boy. That’s the whole point. That’s what matters. Stop pretending there’s anything Black people can do in our behavior to prevent racism. Racism defines the entire system.
Haiti is one of the only countries frequently subjected to having to re-do jersey’s bc Haiti’s decolonization + independence is deemed “too political” by FIFA. A nationalist tournament where Haiti can’t show pride in successfully winning its independence:
https://t.co/u19m2U67I1
Slavery was so long ago and we’re supposed to be over it until you want to have an image of the resistance of enslaved people, then it’s too political. They will never forgive Haiti for winning their freedom. They made Haiti pay France reparations for 150 years and still salty.
This is so far from accurate, and so harmful. No one is asking for symbolic crumbs. We want our physical homes back, our land back, our trees back. Anyone claiming to be an ally while actively working to misrepresent the most basic, material Palestinian demands is not an ally.
As disastrous a ruling as there has ever been in modern sports. The pathway is now clear: gamble as much as you like, including on your own team and hope you are--or get--good enough that you can lawyer up down the line. A much bigger disaster than anything with NIL or portal.
Stacey King was one of the few that tried his best to keep the Bulls brand up as embarrassing as it got. For him to not see this new era unfolded is tragic