Ms Shirley was an amazing and profound community advocate, what she did for the West Coast will never be forgotten. Her passing is really a profound loss for mutual aid. May she rest in power for real. 💐
Nine years ago this week there in Minnesota, locals loudly balked at a proposal that protesters who were arrested at protests should pay for the police that arrested them.
This man yelled that the blood of recent murder victim Philando Castile (who was shot and killed by officer Jeronimo Yanez at a traffic stop after Castile calmly informed the officer that he was legally carrying a firearm) was on the hands of the politicians passing the bill.
Prophetically he yelled, “wait until your grandson gets murdered by the police!”
Nine years later, indeed, young white Minnesotans are being gunned down by masked men with Police written on their jackets.
The city of St Anthony paid the family of Castile $3 million. And it paid Yanez $135k to resign from the police dept.
Ngl one of the downsides of being an emotionally intelligent person is that you'll be able and willing to see and understand things from everyone else's POV... but people are rarely capable or willing to give that same grace of understanding towards you.
An eternal frustration.
@wxrldmel A lot of women mistake giving for bonding.
A lot of men mistake receiving for love.
Put those two together and you get a relationship where one person keeps pouring and the other gets used to the taste.
It’s not goodness being punished it’s imbalance being exploited.