Omg!!!
I'm currently listening to a podcast about the Tulsa Race Massacre and it's talking about their first Christmas as they rebuild. And the scene they're playing out to help you relate to the situation is about a marriage talking about not being able to give their kids presents that year because they'd lost it all during the riots and then a Red Cross nurse gives them some clothes and fruit for the kids, and they're so happy and overwhelmed and now I'm crying!!!!!!
considering it's black history month, UNFRIENDLY reminder that police brutality and racism aren't magically gone just because joe biden's the president now. keep the energy you did for george floyd, breonna taylor, sandra bland, ahmaud arbery, atatiana jefferson, and many many more these next four years. there's still so much work that needs to be done. we CANNOT give up.
does anyone else get chills from this legend of korra scene that perfectly mirrors the response to the BLM protests
Guilherme, 15 yo, kidnapped by policemen on Sunday under the excuse of being mistaken by a thief, was founded dead today (15.06). A shot in the head, one shot on each of his hands. A police tag was founded next to his body.
Many neighborhoods on São Paulo woke up on protests. People demand to know now:
Snoop Dogg over here spittin facts
but liberals and snowflakes are the problem right?
Dont let movement burn out! Keep protesting, keep fighting! Be angry! The only way to bring change is to keep pushing!
Hey white people, we gotta talk about something. About opinions. I know society makes you think your opinions are always valuable and that people always want to hear them, but that’s not true. Especially when it comes to topics of race.
When you see a post made by a poc talking about racism or a specific issue that poc face, like police brutality, and you get the idea in your head that you should share your opinion, don’t listen to it. That’s the devil talking. There’s two reasons why that’s a bad idea.
Number one is that because of the society we live in, you are inherently racist. This idea is literally one of the first things you learn when you begin the process of becoming an ally so if it’s new or shocking to you, you’re not an ally yet and you’ve got some research to do. But anyways, that means your opinions will be tainted by racism. It sucks, but by virtue of being born into a white supremacist society, you have racist ideas that get pounded into your head the minute you are born that make you racist, both on a conscious and subconscious level.
The second reason is that your opinion isn’t going to be helpful at all. Why won’t it be helpful? Because you’re white and therefore don’t know what it’s like to live life as a poc. You are not able to understand racism to the same level we are because you will never experience racism. Your opinion is going to be based on the privileged reality you live in and that makes it meaningless to us because we don’t share that reality with you and likely never will. We can’t do anything with your opinion when it has no basis in the reality that we, and all the generations of poc that came before us, live in. Your opinion is literally clouded by your white privilege.
So yeah, please learn that unless we specifically ask for your opinion, don’t give it. We don’t wanna hear it. What you have to say will be nothing new to us because being a poc in a western society means hearing the same boring and ignorant opinions that white people say to us over and over again when we never asked to hear them because they care about speaking more than listening. You’re not being helpful, you’re not being an ally, you’re just risking talking over us.
Poc are already experts on racism due to it affecting every aspect of our lives and due to the fact that many of us intergenerational trauma from what our ancestors faced while being forced to endure atrocities caused by racism so there’s literally nothing new or unheard of or revolutionary you have to offer us. Just like you know your laymen’s opinion on outer space is useless to an astronaut, someone who’s actually been to outer space and is an expert on it, your laymen’s opinion on race is useless to us.
If this is a hard pill to swallow for you, I suggest looking into what unconscious bias is so you can maybe understand why you still feel the need to give us your ignorant opinions when we are experts on racism already.
Ever since the USA riots started, alongside the stronger resurface of the need to remind people that Black Lives Matter, I've been thinking a lot and doing a lot of introspection as a white girl, trying to better myself, because I'm sure there are many things I must improve.
But what I want to discuss now is that it's come to my attention that the expression "better safe than sorry" has many different meanings depending who you ask.
A white cis-hetero man's "better safe than sorry" means they keep a gun in their house in case there's a burglary.
A woman's "better safe than sorry" are dozens of tricks, strict rules, and learned behaviours that are supposed to protect her from being assaulted or raped.
A POC's "better safe than sorry" means advice and talks on how to keep a low profile and stay out of trouble with the police. Which, unfortunately, isn't enough to prevent such events from happening.
A LGBT+ individual's "better safe than sorry" is hiding their true selves from the world for as long as they consider necessary in order to avoid humiliation, hate, rejection, and harassment. Even death.
See? They're all very different meanings. But they have one thing in common: more often than not, they do more harm than good.
While I understand it's practically impossible to change some people's minds regarding the use of guns in the USA, an ideology I simply cannot share due to my own culture and upbringing, I would like to point out what you're missing, the main reason I made the post, in fact.
Black Lives Matter.
In other words, maybe the use of guns will be seen as self-defence if the woman, man, or LGBT+ individual (my apologies if this looks excluding, I just want to convey the difference better) is white.
But if they're Black, Asian, Latinx, etc.? Then the victim becomes the criminal.
If a black man kills a white dude because he was a pedophile targeting his kids? He's a murderer. If it were the other way around, that is to say, if the father were white? He'd be a hero. And I'm using this particular example because it. Has. Happened.
If a POC woman kills her rapist, especially if he's white? She's a murderer whose sentence will be a far worse punishment than her rapist's would've ever been.
If a POC member of the LGBT+ community used a gun in self-defence? Again, you'd see it as murder, not self-defence.
And don't get me started on how people would react if they ever saw a Muslim with a weapon. Because we all know what most people and, especially, the Police's first thoughts would be in that case.
