You know what people don’t talk about enough for my tastes? How those of us who are mentally ill and Black work so fucking hard to make our crises small and silent and invisible so that our loved ones or strangers do not call the police for “help” and get us killed. The ableism police departments are known for toward every person experiencing a mental crisis or break is goddamn awful already but being Black on top of it? Fuck.

Back to this post because my heart is in pieces

Jordan Neely should still be here.

Anti-Blackness, ableism, classism, and the Cop Mayor of New York/NYPD failed him. The people in that train car failed him.

He was hungry, and he was tired, and he dared to say that aloud and dared to not fit in with ableist and classist expectations of proper decorum and etiquette. We have become so desensitized to the humanity of the houseless, mentally ill, and systemically disenfranchised people around us that the very CULTURE of my city has become one where an entire train car of people stand by while a YOUNG, VIBRANT, and wonderful HUMAN BEING dies in the arms of a vigilante loser with a goddamn hipster mustache who gets let go by police.

European White people are funny because they try oh so hard to seperate themselves from their US counterparts. But time and time again they say shit like this, and not realize this is word for word what White Americans also say in response to the murders of Black people

Also anyone who thinks about it for more than a min, would tell you that a "trained killer" is not the best person to bring out in these scenarios as they will always esculate a situation, but we gotta remember that this brand of cracker is quick to violence

They won't even stop to think about how someone who is trained in combat should know that having someone in a chokehold kills them slowly and painfully. So that marine knew what he was doing. He just wanted to kill this person, because again gestures to this particular brand