As a white woman in the south I see racism at an alarming and saddening rate. If you don’t see issues with the treatment of people of color you’re willfully ignorant. It ends here. I am white but I fully support #BlackLivesMatter. I stand with you.
“well if we start removing politicians accused of sexual assault, we’d have to remove most of them...”
YES. THAT’S HOW ACCOUNTABILITY WORKS.
NOT HAVING RAPISTS IN OUR GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE THE BARE. F*CKING. MINIMUM. 🤡
🧊killed another person a few days ago here in Houston, TX. His name was Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He was a father, a son, a husband, and he did not deserve to d!e.
We can’t have nice things because the white folks in this country are too racist to share with people who don’t look like them. They would rather burn it ALL DOWN than share! Reagan created the “welfare queen” myth to use racism to dismantle the social safety net for everyone
The amount of people in here blaming the Black parents for letting their son socialize w/ white kids
instead of going after white parents for failing to teach their kids not to kill or abandon their Black ‘friend’ is weird & internalized racism
If 3 Black people took a White man on a boat expedition and didn’t return with him the president would be making a speech right now.
Rest in power Nolan Wells
She was 26 years old. An investigative journalist reporting on Colombia's armed conflict - the stories nobody else would touch. Paramilitaries intercepted her at the prison gate. What followed lasted hours. When it was over they left her on a road outside Bogotá.
She reported it. The case was stalled for over a decade. She kept reporting. Was kidnapped again in 2003. Held for five days. Released. Kept reporting. In 2011 she took Colombia to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. On October 18 2021 the court ruled. The Colombian state was responsible. The first time in history a government had been found responsible for using violence to silence a woman journalist.
She launched #NoEsHoraDeCallar - It's Not Time to Stay Silent. Hundreds of thousands of women across Latin America told their stories because she told hers first. The ruling became a legal weapon for women journalists across the continent. The UN named her global ambassador against s3xual violence in conflict. Her name is Jineth Bedoya Lima.
The word "slavery" is too small for what happened.
People were hunted, chained, branded, raped, tortured, sold, and worked to death. Families disappeared. Languages, names, and traditions were stripped away.
It was one of history's greatest crimes against humanity.
I would say happy birthday, America, but unfortunately I love abortions and immigrants and public education and universal healthcare and Black people and the environment and not bombing children with my tax dollars.