Wow.
Still probably the most powerful piece I have ever seen.
Took me a while to get it but wow
racism
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StandardBy Lisa Wade, PhD
All attributed motivations are approximate. All races are unconfirmed. All crimes are alleged. All oppression is interconnected.
White American male with a weapon who believes in his own superiority kills in order to feel powerful. He kills nine black parishioners because black people are all the same to him and he needs to do what he needs to do to remind the world that he is dominant.
White American male with a weapon who believes in his own superiority tries to kill in order to feel powerful. He crashes in the midst of trying to run someone over with his car because “go back to the country you came from” and don’t tell him not to use the business’ phone because he is dominant.
White American male with a weapon who believes in his own superiority stabs in order to feel powerful. He stabs three musicians because ew gay and “skinny jeans” and he will show them what happens to fags because he is dominant.
White American male with a weapon who believes in his own superiority kills in order to feel powerful. He shoots a Muslim man in the head at a four-way stop because “go back to Islam” – or maybe a traffic dispute – because it was his turn to go, damn it, because he is dominant.
White American male with a weapon who believes in his own superiority kills in order to feel powerful. He kills a lion because it’s one of the most majestic creatures he can think of and being able to kill it affirms that he is its dominant.
White American male with a weapon who believes in his own superiority threatens murder in order to feel powerful. He retaliates against a black woman because she refuses to perform subservience and “I will light you up” if that’s what it takes to show you people that I am dominant.
White American male with a weapon who believes in his own superiority kills in order to feel powerful. He opens fire on two Native American men he believes are homeless because he’s “tired of watching them” and it is not acceptable that he is uncomfortable or inconvenienced because he is dominant.
White American male with a weapon who believes in his own superiority attempts murder in order to feel powerful. He shoots a person in the face because he believes he is an undocumented immigrant – “a fucking Mexican” – because this is his country and, therefore, he is dominant.
White American male with a weapon who believes in his own superiority kills serially in order to feel powerful. He pulls a gun and strangles a woman with the intent to torture because he assumes she is nothing to anybody and murdering prostitutes makes him feel dominant.
White American male with a weapon who believes in his own superiority kills in order to feel powerful. He, a police officer, shoots a man in the face because he might be getting away; black lives don’t matter because he is dominant.
White American male with a weapon who believes in his own superiority kills in order to feel powerful. He kills women because they insist on doing and saying things that he does not approve of and he doesn’t have to take it anymore because he is dominant.
Summer 2015, so far.
Behold the sad scramble to avoid voicing even the most token support for blackness
#BlackLivesMatter (7/28/15): Officer Ray Tensing has been charged with first degree murder in the death of Samuel Dubose. Prosecutor Joe Deter has never charged an officer in his 20+ year career, but has been fervent in his denouncement of Tensing’s action. He will be pursuing life in prison for killer cop Ray Tensing, and admits that the officer lied about the circumstances of the traffic stop but without the video, probably would not have had the capacity to charge Tensing. #staywoke #farfromover
By your own admission you admit you don’t know exactly what happened when you said “this needs to be investigated to explore all options, whether suicide, murder or manslaughter.” Again you admit there needs to be an investigation when you said “There were many policy and procedure violations, as well as inconsistencies in the police departments stories and errors in reports.” After the video we don’t know what happened but you “blame the police and white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.” Huh?
StandardYes, The angry Black woman narrative, rationalizes abuse & violence against Black women.
It is a mechanism of white supremacist patriarchy that strips Black Women of their humanity.
Sandra was labeled as “combative”. The angry Black woman trope is dangerous. White supremacist patriarchy is a threat to Black bodies.
So yes, I blame white supremacy capitalist patriarchy and the State that perpetuates, reinforces and performs anti-Blackness and anti-Black misogyny for the arrest of Sandra Bland that lead to her death in the cell.
If she wasn’t arrested, she would have never died in the cell.
Period.
zellie
95% OF PROSECUTORS ARE WHITE MEN!! You wonder why jails are filled with black and Latino men?
Exactly
Kodak’s film was so bad at capturing the different hues and saturations of black skin that when director Jean Luc Godard was sent on an assignment to Mozambique in 1977, he flat-out refused to use Kodak on the grounds that its stock was “racist.” Only when the candy and furniture industries began complaining that they couldn’t accurately shoot dark chocolate and brown wood furniture did Kodak start to improve its technology.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
Only MLK quote I’m entertaining for the day. If you can’t get down with this MLK, the forgotten, less cheery-hand-holding MLK, then don’t come at me about what my relationship to his legacy should be and why I should be a pacifist.
(via evolutia)
The Angry Black Woman stereotype can mean getting mocked and overlooked like Nicki Minaj or beaten and killed like Sandra Bland.
People think these stereotypes are innocuous when the former happens without realizing that the same stereotypes are the underlying justifications for bigger issues like state violence.