How To Keep Black People Alive, a visual essay by Charlotte Gomez and Hannah Giorgis

so grateful the incredibly talented charlotte gomez turned my piece from a while back into this graphic essay <3

Heartbreaking.

Buy a gun, be ready to die or go to jail, and stop calling the fucking police for anything. Stop playing the game the media controls of how many black men got shot today or how many went to jail today or how many raped somebody today because the shit isn't represented realistically, you plastering the fucking internet with pictures of dead black kids does nothing to help mobilize peole to do the dirty work of getting off their ass and doing something besides blocking traffic and marching down the street, tactics that law enforcement and the system we are trying to change expect and so they know were not as serious as we make out. Don't worry about merely being alive or just fucking living, worry about living and dying to with purpose. And when were ready to do that then we'll be ready to implement tactics the law and the system isn't ready for like funding our own, building our own, protecting our own, teaching our own, cleaning our own, believing in our own and dying for our own. Some will say but it's not right that we have to do so much when we pay taxes for them to listen to us and do what we want. Those are the ones, white and black who are content to wait, to beg for acceptance and understanding and power. They are not real, they're fake but they are the first to call foul when shit goes down but nowhere to be found when heavy hitting and lifting is needed. They're not takers, they're people who can have their ass handed to them time and time again but each time they expect a different outcome. How to save a black life? Make sure there are consequences for the taking of that life, if warranted, because lets be honest there's some black people who deserve to die just like whites, and its got nothing do with their skin but rather the fucked up shit they do raping, molesting and killing, etc. And then make sure you're putting your money into your community to benefit not the guy or girl 2000 miles away across the sea and not some stupid shit like Snapchat porn.

A bestseller already, the new book from Random House and author Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me, looks to be the must read nonfiction title of the summer.

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Dominican Republic to be ‘Socially Cleaned’ of all Hatians/Dark Skinned Dominicans in two days

In two days about a quarter of a million people will be made stateless. They will have no homes, no passports, and no civil rights. There are several reasons for this, but the primary reason is racism.

 At issue is a ruling by the Constitutional Court in the Dominican Republic to strip away the citizenship of several generations of Dominicans:

Dominican Republic has always had a longstanding hatred towards Haiti for years but what they’re doing is literally taking anyone who’s family lineage cannot be traced back to 1929, and putting them on a one-way bus back to Haiti, whether they were born in the DR or not. They don’t care. 

The US State Department has denounced the Dominican government for this plan, and pointed out that it is a gross violation of human rights according to the U.N. charter.

Below are 5 things you need to know about what is happening in the Dominican Republic:

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What are you going to do about it?

Cops Strap African American Woman To Chair, Pepper Spray Her and Cut Off Her Hair

It’s the kind of story that you wouldn’t believe unless you saw it with your own eyes. Thankfully, this story was caught on surveillance video, so we can do just that.

Charda Gregory, a 22 year-old hairdresser, had allegedly trashed a hotel room. She was taken into custody by Michigan police, then pepper sprayed in jail, slammed against a wall and strapped down to a chair.

It was then that officer Bernadette Najor took out a pair of scissors and started hacking away at Gregory’s hair.

According to Charda’s lawyer, her hair hair was torn with such force that she suffered some permanent hair loss.

The officer tried to justify her actions in the police report, saying that the hair was a “suicide risk.” Thankfully, this resulted in charges against Gregory being dropped, and Najor being fired. But had this not been caught on video, who knows what would have happened.

Other officers involved are now under investigation.

Watch the video and SPREAD THE WORD! These sorts of abusive cops can only get away with as much as we allow them to.

The lynching of Jesse Washington. Washington was beaten with shovels and bricks,was castrated, and his ears were cut off. A tree supported the iron chain that lifted him above the fire. Jesse attempted to climb up the skillet hot chain. For this, the men cut off his fingers. Jesse was 15. 1916.

This is only one of the many images I see when I think of racism.

White followers and white people in general: Take a long hard look at this picture. Take a long hard look at the spectators to this abhorrent crime. The people who were behind the gruesome death of this 15 year old boy.

This is why Black people cannot just ‘get over it’.

This is why we are ‘whining’ and ‘complaining’ so much.

This is why you, white people, cannot say the word, nigger.