This is actual murder. You cannot legally kill someone you believe is stealing and attempting to run away. However in capitalist society, security, police, DAs & courts exist primarily to defend private property. Resulting in the devaluing of human life and murders such as this.
On this day in 1924, Novelist, playwright, poet and social critic, the late James Baldwin was born.
“To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.” —James Baldwin
@colorfullstory They for sure do… Jane Elliot ask an auditorium full of non black ppl if they like to be treated like black ppl in this country to raise they hand. Not even a finger went up
I got shot this year. Somebody pretended to be a photographer & set me up to steal my jewelry. The nurse gone say “you must be in a gang” & the day after my stomach surgery she only gave me Tylenol cause she said “people like you get addicted to hard drugs” It was traumatizing
This video annoyed me because every single african leader who tried to set Africa free was killed: Marien Ngouabi, Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, Jonas Savimbi, Princeton Louis Rwagasore, Lari Ben Mhidi, Ruben Umnyobe, Felix Roland Moumié , Pierre Mulele, Maurice Mpolo
So… what we doing y’all???
Because pretty soon they goin be tryna put us back in the fields.
We’re actively losing all the rights our grandparents fought for.. every single one..
We can’t just keep complaining online, we need to organize, mobilize and make a plan.
“Soooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sunup to sundown as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners.
Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KKK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees... Fought in World Wars as soldiers to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood... and in spite of it all someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here and you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit? How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!
Give this to your young people who don’t know their history and want to get weak!
It is NOT in our DNA to quit!”