I had some people unfollow me because I RTed Kyrie Irving’s tweet.
In case any more want to:
It’s not a “political stance” to be against kids being killed.
argue with a wall, and the devil when you meet him.
A random woman told my colleague that he should be a father by now and he replied that his girlfriend had suffered a miscarriage. That’s why you people should all keep your fucking mouths shut about other people's lives
Two Klansmen drove around Mobile, Alabama looking for any Black person to kill. They found a 19-year-old walking to the store for cigarettes.
His mother spent the next six years dismantling the Ku Klux Klan in a courtroom. Michael Donald. March 1981.
They beat him, killed him, and hung his body from a tree on a residential street, across from a Klansman's house, so the city would see it in the morning.
Police initially suggested it was a drug deal.
It was not. It was a Klan retaliation for a jury's failure to convict a Black defendant in another case — a life taken at random to send a message.
Beulah Mae Donald refused every version of the story except the true one. She pushed until the FBI reopened it. One killer confessed. The other was executed in 1997 — the first white man executed in Alabama for killing a Black person since 1913.
Then she did the thing nobody expected. She sued the United Klans of America itself.
In 1987 an all-white Alabama jury awarded her seven million dollars. The Klan had no money — so it handed over its national headquarters building. The organization was finished.
A mother buried her son and bankrupted the Ku Klux Klan.
@SupremeDreams_1@ive_ben_jammin “i don’t know what the fuck i’m doing, like i don’t know what the fuck i’m doing. i was a grocery store worker yesterday.” 😭😭😭😭😭😭