This is so fucked up and it’s exactly why we keep talking about racial disparities in the justice system. Black people especially Black boys and men, are too often treated like they’re guilty first and expected to prove their innocence later, while white defendants are more often afforded the benefit of the doubt.
This young man spent SEVEN MONTHS on an ankle monitor for a carjacking he says he couldn’t have committed because he was at school. Now you’ll clear his record but ONLY if he gives up his right to sue? So he has to choose between having his name cleared and holding the system accountable for what it put him through? That’s not justice. You can’t keep telling Black people the system treats everyone equally when cases like this keep happening.
The fact that the head of the Ku Klux Klan can casually do an interview without being arraigned by the FBI for Hate Crimes and Domestic Terrorism is truly a slap in the face to all people of color in America
Never forget what white folks did to his body. He was beheaded, dissected, and skinned. They cut off body parts to keep and made a purse of his skin. His skull was passed down thru generations for 180yrs before it was returned to his descendants.
Never let them call us animals.
I am not seeing this case receive anywhere near the same media coverage as the Cornell 7 despite the situations being extremely similar. This is why I have said we cannot pick and choose what cases make us outraged. All victims deserve justice and deserves the same amount of support.
The thing is, I don’t care.
I don’t care that a single mom bought her kid a cookie, I don’t care that a person working 40 hours a week bought a Sprite with SNAP, I don’t care that a person less fortunate than me was able to buy beef instead of chicken.
I DO care, that we are supplementing trillion dollar corporations. Why are we funding private businesses? Why can’t they use their own money?
The sheriff jabbed her in the neck with his club while she queued to register to vote.
She was fifty-four years old. She turned round and punched him so hard he went down.
Three deputies put her on the ground. Annie Lee Cooper.
She had tried to register before. She had already been sacked from her job at a nursing home for trying.
On that morning in January 1965 about a hundred and fifty people were queuing outside the Dallas County courthouse in Selma.
Sheriff Jim Clark was working the line as he always did, moving people on.
He pushed her. She told him he should not have done that. He jabbed her with the billy club. And she hit him. Properly. He went to the pavement.
The photograph of her being held down by three men while Clark stood over her with his club raised ran nationally and is one of the images that moved Selma onto the front pages in the weeks before the bridge.
She was jailed for eleven hours.
She lived in Selma for another fifty years, voted in every election she could, and in 2008 stood in line again, at ninety-six, to vote for a Black president.
She said she would have waited all day. She died in 2010 at ninety-nine.
Fifty-four years old, in a queue, with a club in her neck. And she swung.
We need to also please be very loud and supportive for Kendall who was violently raped by an LSU football player and bravely told her story to the world