Michael Brown should still be alive today.
His murder sparked 400+ days of rebellion and ignited a movement that shook the country.
Ferguson showed the world that history is made by the people taking the streets and forcing the demands. Now it’s up to us to keep writing it.
Conservatives co-opted a term referencing Black consciousness and used it to denigrate pro-Black and progressive politics and liberals followed suit by referring to a decade of pro-Black and progressive politics as “woke(derogatory)” to bond with confederates. Where’s the humor?
Using flock cameras to watch a man drive from Wisconsin to a Michigan dispensary only to pull him over for possession when he got back home is so interesting to me when an estimated 460,000-600,000 children go missing in the US every year.
Black People don’t know that there’s a online network of accelerationist neo-nazi groups that are behind most modern mass shootings. The most recent example domestically is the Mosque attack in San Diego earlier this year. The same network instigated the Buffalo shooting in 2022
"We" no bro it was black people that fought n died in the streets for the right to be seen as equal, it was no cracker liberal
And the liberalism of that movement is highly overstated, when in fact the average black person during that time was a more of a militant dem soc
any political movement that serves to protect the American project necessarily must run cover for and naturalize state violence against Black people. this was always the natural endpoint.
deandre joshua
- body was found dead with a gunshot to his head and car was torched hours after the grand jury announced that they wouldn’t press charged against the pigs who murdered michael brown
- 60 bullet casings were found nearby
darren seals
- activist leader
- FBI had him under surveillance b4 his murder and referred to him as a « revolutionary who had militant rhetoric and had access to weapons »
- found shot and killed in a burning car, murder never solved