I've seen all my life, people who look like me get brutalized by the police when we peacefully protest. I myself am a victim of police violence. The police don't keep us safe. Clearly we've seen today that the police don't keep democracy safe either.
I think a big problem with kids' allegories for racism is it's like "the green people and the purple people hated each other just for being the other color, isn't that silly?" and not "the purple people kidnapped the green people and treated them like livestock for 100s of years"
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I love plants y’all but like what is the end goal??? You buy plant, plant get bigger, you repot plant in bigger pot...plant get bigger, repot,,,biGGER, REPOT???? WHEN IS IT ENOUGH
Y’all are doing everything EXCEPT getting the cops to stop killing bLACK people. I love murals, voice actors, and capital letters as much as anyone else, but I can’t enjoy it if cops are still killing bLACK people. A nice dinner in a burning house is not a meal I want to eat.
Discussing and protesting racism isn't divisive.
You know what's divisive, dehumanizing and deadly?
Racism.
And racism isn’t “I dislike you.”
It’s “I’m going to assert power to facilitate circumstances to your detriment because I believe I’m superior and deserving of power.”
“Girl friendships never last” that’s because we call each other out on our bs and if we’ve to burn bridges then so be it. A lot of you man don’t g check your boys and it shows.
regular reminder that the idea of “black on black crime” as a unique form of violence is an attempt to pathologize the general fact that violent crime happens between people in close proximity to each other, which in a segregated society means most violent crime is intra-racial.
Things you can say to someone who isn't maintaining the recommended 6 ft. of social distance:
- Away, you rogue!
- Leave me with haste.
- Pray you, stand further from me.
- [Drawing his sword.]