Nearly two weeks without power is not simply an inconvenience. It means spoiled food, disrupted businesses, lost communication, unbearable heat, and families wondering when help will finally come.
What is happening in Gary, Indiana, raises a deeper question about whose communities are treated with urgency. Black communities have too often been expected to endure neglect, absorb the consequences, and keep surviving.
No community should have to prove that its families are worthy of immediate care.
Our communities deserve more than survival. Black communities deserve to be valued.
#GaryIndiana #HumanDignity #EnvironmentalJustice
“Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character.
Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.”
— Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “There’s an intellectual scientific vacuum that is descending upon the US and that has consequences. If you’re okay with the US losing its scientific leadership, you will get the country you voted for. That country is one where we will no longer innovate. We will be less secure, less healthy, and less wealthy because some community of people who influence what this country is do not see the value of science”
There’s a pretty extensive history of our government purposely flooding the streets with drugs for inexcusable reasons — to quell rioting and Black liberation, to fund illegal wars, etc. This is just the latest verse in the same song.
We have to remember there was written laws (The Virginia Slave Code of 1680, South Carolina Negro Act of 1740, Massachusetts Law of 1708, Louisiana Territorial Code Noir of 1806, etc) that explicitly stated that BLACK PEOPLE could not defend themselves against white aggressors under any circumstance. The spirit of those laws exist today, this is the REAL reason today's white supremacists are saying self defense laws don't apply to Karmelo Anthony