This is Tasia Fortune, a beautiful young Black woman who was found in Jackson, MS hanging in a tree, so high up, the fire department had to use their aerial ladder to retrieve her. We need a full, transparent, independent investigation. Justice isn't political, its a human right.
Texas passing a law to throw people in jail for ONE GRAM of weed is so ass backwards when what we need to be doing is freeing everyone imprisoned for nonviolent drug charges
On February 12, 1946, Isaac Woodard Jr. was traveling home after serving in the United States Army during World War II when an encounter with police changed his life forever. Woodard, a decorated Black veteran who had been honorably discharged only hours earlier, was still wearing his uniform when he was removed from a bus in Batesburg, South Carolina, arrested and brutally beaten by local police. The attack was so severe that Woodard permanently lost his sight. He was 26 years old.
Woodard had served his country in the Pacific, earning a battle star and rising to the rank of sergeant, yet returning home offered no protection from the racial violence Black Americans continued to face. The incident reportedly began after Woodard asked the bus driver if he could use a restroom during the journey. Although the disagreement initially appeared to be resolved, the driver later contacted police. Batesburg police chief Lynwood Shull arrested Woodard and struck him repeatedly with a blackjack. By the following morning, Woodard could not see. Doctors later determined that the damage was permanent.
The case became national news after the NAACP took up Woodard's cause, and figures including Orson Welles publicly drew attention to what had happened. President Harry Truman was reportedly deeply disturbed by the case. After meeting with NAACP leaders in September 1946, Truman established the President's Committee on Civil Rights later that year. In 1948, he issued Executive Order 9981, directing equality of treatment and opportunity in the United States armed forces and accelerating the process of military desegregation.
There was still the question of justice for Woodard himself. Because South Carolina authorities did not prosecute Shull, the federal government brought a civil rights case against him. An all-white jury acquitted the police chief in November 1946. The acquittal demonstrated just how difficult it was for Black Americans to obtain justice through the courts when racial violence was committed by white officials.
Yet the case had another consequence. Federal judge J. Waties Waring, who presided over Shull's trial, was disturbed by what he witnessed and increasingly challenged segregation in subsequent years. Waring later issued important civil rights rulings and, in Briggs v. Elliott, argued that segregated public schools were inherently unequal. That case became one of the cases incorporated into the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
Isaac Woodard lived for decades after the attack, carrying injuries inflicted on him shortly after he returned from defending a country that still denied millions of Black citizens equal protection under its laws. His story is an important reminder that the struggle for civil rights was shaped not only by the famous marches and speeches of the 1950s and 1960s, but also by individual cases of injustice that forced Americans to confront the contradiction between the nation's democratic ideals and the reality experienced by Black people.
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I wonder how many people who have sympathy for John Davidson and his Tourette’s outburst also had sympathy for Jordan Neely and his mental illness. 🫤
#BlackHistoryMonth
Mientras Satán (EEUU) bombardea Venezuela, el hijo de Satán ("Israel") celebra el año nuevo disparando compulsivamente contra las casas de las familias palestinas en Gaza, en pleno "cese al fuego".
Estos son los genocidas que rigen el mundo y que llaman terroristas a los demás.
This is the city of #Nanjing, China, today:
Air defense sirens on, the entire city stopped for a minute, mourning the deceased.
Because 88 years ago, on December 13, 1937, the #Japanese fascist forces massacred 300,000 people in this city within 6 weeks.
#NanjingMassacre
When did it become "anti-Japanese" to expose the atrocities committed by Japanese Nazis during the WWII and to tell the truth?
Mind you, the truth of their crimes is even worse than the game shows, as evidenced by the testimonials of victims of the Nanjing Massacre, who describe the Japanese Nazis raping, killing, torturing, and brutalizing Chinese citizens.
https://t.co/PBDrNsIGwp
The Japanese government has long distorted history in an effort to erase the darkest and deadliest chapter in human history, while the rest of the world has ignored the reality of China's suffering and contribution throughout WWII.
Consider this: who is being brainwashed when you barely learn anything about one of the worst tragedies in human history in your textbooks, and how can you claim to support "equality and justice" when the plight of the Chinese people is deliberately concealed and ignored, as if their lives were insignificant?
Ask yourself whether it is humane to glorify war crimes, trampling on the dignity of 35 million perished souls, worshiping war criminals in shrines, and leading the rest of the world to forget what justice and truth are.