I hear this at least once a day, every day.
(Source: blacksocialjournal)
Lake Horse
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Illegal being turned into a noun is by far the most ruthlessly effective way to dehumanize and demonize an entire group of people, which is why it is propagated by mass media and politicians to vilify these people as outsiders and aggressors of the state to justify the systematic abuse and exploitation these people are faced with on a daily basis.
Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus — and at the very same time — that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.
…perhaps you should also recognize that we are long past the point of talking about intent when we talk about racism. We should be talking about impact. […] Intent is about individual relationships and hurt feelings; impact is about systems of power and their impact on material realities.
Posted on a friend’s FB status. :(
Disparity in the justice system is an important issue that will continue to be ignored by most.
“he needed the money to stay at the detox center and had no other place to stay and was hungry”
compare that with someone who steals $3 billion out of sheer greed
Racial discrimination remains a dominant feature of criminal justice in the United States and Alabama. More than half of the over 3300 people on death row nationwide are people of color; nearly 42% are African American. Prominent researchers have demonstrated that a defendant is more likely to get the death penalty if the victim is white than if the victim is black. The key decision makers in death penalty cases across the country are almost exclusively white. Despite decades of evidence showing that the administration of the death penalty is permeated with racial bias, courts and legislatures’ refusal to address race in any comprehensive way reveals a fundamental flaw in America’s justice system.
Each year in Alabama, nearly 65% of all murders involve black victims, yet 80% of the people currently awaiting execution in Alabama were convicted of crimes in which the victims were white. Only 6% of all murders in Alabama involve black defendants and white victims, but over 60% of black death row prisoners have been sentenced for killing someone white.
(Source: se-smith)
In Albany, Georgia, a small deep-South town where the atmosphere of slavery still lingered, mass demonstrations took place in the winter of 1961 and again in 1962. Of 22,000 black people in Albany, over a thousand went to jail for marching, assembling, to protest segregation and discrimination. Here, as in all the demonstrations that would sweep over the South, little black children participated—a new generation was learning to act. The Albany police chief, after one of the mass arrests, was taking the names of prisoners lined up before his desk. He looked up and saw a Negro boy about nine years old. “What’s your name?” The boy looked straight at him and said, “Freedom, Freedom.
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Imperialism, VI Lenin (M, 20s, navy polo, bright blue windbreaker, said to his friend, “It’s really dense”, L train) http://bit.ly/JtI7ne
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