Black Lives Matter. Still

[Wanderfound]

SOLAECLIPSE®️ (DrinkSolaPop)

“Tensions rose”.

1978. These teenagers are still around; they’re in their 50’s now.

[anon67050589]

I know a Queens real estate developer back then who worked very hard to keep situations like this from happening (by keeping African-Americans out of his buildings entirely).

It’s a good reminder that racial prejudice is not just a “Southern thing”. Nope, it permeates the entire country.

[anon67050589]

Gazebo where Ohio officer killed Tamir Rice moves to Chicago's South Side

[Wanderfound]

Every damned day.

NBCWashington (nbcwashington)

[Wanderfound]

Thread.

Laurie Bertram Roberts✊🏽🏳️‍🌈♿️😎 (smartstatistic)

[Wanderfound]

Laurie Bertram Roberts✊🏽🏳️‍🌈♿️😎 (smartstatistic)

[Wanderfound]

Octavia Butler knew... (N_I_K_Y_A_T_U)

[Wanderfound]

Almost half of her life.

Mari Copeny (LittleMissFlint)

[Wanderfound]

Extremely worthwhile listening:

Intercepted Podcast: Whitewashing History — America’s Racist Legacy From...

Chenjerai Kumanyika: Absolutely, the fact that so many people have no understanding why the South seceded, no understanding of why the Civil War was fought, is in a way of victory of the Confederacy, that they were able to rewrite history over a period of 100 years or so. And their version of history has become in a way the dominant one that people know where, you know, they don’t think it had to do with slavery. And it really works well in a time when you have politicians who sort of want to maintain a certain kind of colorblindness as the dominant way to deal with race in America.

I mean, because I think that, you know, one of the things I think that we have to wrestle with, Jeremy — and this is, you know, I think for people who listen to The Intercept, this is like a basic point — but is race really just this sort of issue about personal attitudes, right, and people’s individual biases and bigotry, a kind of psychological mode of thinking about the problem of racism, or is it something that was deeply baked into the structures and economic systems of this country? You know, not even just the culture, but the economic systems like this country has had to have racism because racism essentially, or white domination, was built into the economic modes of slavery, right and the economic modes that currently drive the society, right?

When you look at the Civil War, when you look at the documents of secession, and you see the things that they said about slavery. When you go back to some of the founding documents of the country, right, the Three-Fifths Compromise and other things. If you read my friend Erica Dunbar’s wonderful book on Ona Judge and George Washington. You know, at one point, George Washington was rotating his slaves from Philadelphia, to another state just so that he could avoid them becoming free after their six month residency in Philadelphia. I mean, this is the president, this is the first President of the United States who’s actually hacking the law in a way to preserve slavery, right.

So, there’s a way that racism is structurally baked in. And I think that certainly conservatives are invested in a psychological individualistic mode that doesn’t require us to transform structures, right, that doesn’t require us to challenge capitalism. And, you know, sadly, there’s also quite a few Democrats who are signed on to that. In fact, we just saw Joe Biden, waxing nostalgic about how, you know, he had his civility with racist segregationist senators. You know, he goes through this whole thing where he’s like, well, you can say whatever you want, but in the end of the day, you just beat the system. And then he emphasizes —

Joe Biden: You don’t have to like the people in terms of their views but you just simply make the case and you beat them. You beat them without changing the system.

[anon29537550]

Black patient hooked to IV arrested after going on walk outside hospital

Just, no. Nope. No.

[anon67050589]

A bit of American history I’ll bet they don’t teach in school, especially in Texas:

How Texas Prevented Black Women From Voting Decades After The 19th Amendment

[DonatellaNobody]

@Wanderfound

You beat them without changing the system

That’s the problem

[anon29537550]

And “essentially nothing will change.” He would be better than Trump, but that is about all I can give him at this point.

[Wanderfound]

@anon29537550

He would be better than Trump, but that is about all I can give him at this point.

Even that is arguable.

At least Trump provokes some opposition. Elect Biden, and all of the white liberals go back to sleep again.

Trump is the symptom, not the disease.

[MalevolentPixy]

Alternatively, Trump is an acute expression of a disease with varying levels of symptoms. Trump is when you drag yourself into the hospital, but you can’t get any better if you quit taking the antibiotics too early.

[KathyPartdeux]

Fuck this. With a wood rasp dipped in iodine.

Black patient hooked to IV arrested after going on walk outside hospital

[anon61221983]

Man Faces Assault Charges for Using Excessive Force on 13-Year-Old After...

[TornPaperNapkin]

Wow. I can see the perverse enjoyment in his face while he’s straddling that kid.That is just fucking disgusting.

[anon61221983]

Yep. And the cops wouldn’t arrest him at first. The 13 year old’s parents had to take him to the emergency room and get them to help get the police to arrest him.

[IronEdithKidd]

This asshole is really pressing his luck. Next news story could easily be “man who abused random kids at local playground found dead” or “man who has a history of abusing random kids at local park accused of murdering 10 year old.”