if u wanna know how societies let genocides happen, the united states has lost an easy 600k people to a preventable disease over the past year and nobody really seems to care or talk about it much
People forget that Abdiweli Abdulkadir was 16 yrs old when he was extradited to the US and sentenced to serve until he’s almost 50 yrs old.
Films like Black Hawk Down and Captain Phillips are ex of cultural violence that add to direct & structural/state violence against Somalis.
It’s cool that a software developer who entered the philanthropy world in the late 90s to save his reputation while the federal government was probing Microsoft for violating antitrust law has basically accumulated veto power in international public health affairs.
I just want to reiterate that if they convict Derek Chauvin, it's not a sign that the system has changed, but a sign that they know when they have to sacrifice one of their own.
Mourning DMX should mean acknowledging the ways we as a society have criminalized addiction. It means acknowledging how our language perpetuates stigmas towards people with substance use disorder. It means moving towards a more supportive world for people with addictions.