50+ years later...still just as relevant.

The only decent way to use white privilege

[ID: A twitter thread from Tess Sharpe (@sharpegirl).

“A few months ago, I put myself between a man of color and two police officers who were harassing him. I was able to do this calmly and automatically because my mother trained me how to do it and I’ve spent years thinking about how to react if I had to use my whiteness this way.

The first thing I did: I pulled out my phone. I made sure the officers SAW me pull out my phone. I made sure they saw me turn on the voice recording.

The next thing: I calmly but firmly contradicted the officers. They insisted that they had gotten a call saying that this man was following people trying to get them to sign petitions. I told them I had been there for a half hour and he had not done anything of the sort.

The officers then tried to get me to be quiet. I said that I would be quiet, but that their reports were wrong, they were not listening to an eyewitness, and I was not moving from this spot until they left this man alone.

I then made a VERY BIG SHOW of taking down these officers names and badge numbers on my phone. I made sure the one next to me could see that I had texted this information to someone (my mom). I’m talking craning my neck to look at their badges, tilting my phone to show the screen

Then, I just fixed the one across with me with a stare. The bitchiest, don’t fuck with me, I’m a femme white lady stare I could summon. And I did not stop staring or move from that spot until they left. And they did leave.

And then I gave the guy my phone number just in case and I called activist friends up in the community and made sure people were in the parking lot in case the cops came back so he could continue his petition work in peace.

You’ve got to be prepared. Keep your phone charged and in easy access. Know where your recording apps are. Who will you text badge numbers to so there’s a record? Go through it in your head until it feels as natural as holding your keys between your fingers in a parking lot.

This is the work we must do. Those officers never would’ve touched me. I was never in danger for a moment. Use the enormous privilege you have for good if a time comes where you need to step up and be an actual shield.

And a final thing, remember: this is not about YOUR anger. Your anger has no place here. Your job is to be calm and never escalate a situation the officers are looking for a chance to escalate. Because you won’t be the one they will escalate on. The person of color will be.

Your job is to remind the officers that white ladies can be a damn nuisance. And a lot of paperwork. And what if this one is related to somebody important? What if this one writes letters to the editor? She’s texting someone my badge number, is this really worth it?”

/end]

Weaponize whiteness against cops not minorities. Real punks know how to rebel.

For all my beloved mutuals who might need it

This is helpful thank you. I do not like the cops here where I live, they abuse their power

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Something Good – Negro Kiss is a short film from 1898 of a couple kissing and holding hands. It is believed to depict the earliest on-screen kiss involving African Americans and is known for departing from the prevalent and purely stereotypical presentation of racist caricature in popular culture at the time it was made.

“There seemed to be something a lot more intimate and having more to do with self-presentation. And that’s unlike anything I had seen from that period when all moving picture images of African Americans were through a white lens and are distortions, misrepresentations, or pseudo anthropological. And this is none of that.”

I bet racists gonna hate this  

Superman is technically an undocumented immigrant.

Superman was literally created by a Jewish man to represent the plight of Jewish immigrants so yes he’s 100% an undocumented immigrant

you see why warner bros is putting the idea of another solo movie about him aside?

representation matters and fiction affects reality

Across The Spiderverse really just told us (young Black boys in particular) that they are loved and that they matter and that they BELONG despite a world that doesn't always care for them IN THEE FIRST OFFICIAL TRAILER!?!!?!! I mean came out swinging directly with the feels!!!!! 😭😭😭 I am over here emotional as hell rn

We are WINNING!!!!! ✊🏾

Big Warning

If you see a police car or a cop with a speaker looking thing on it, FUCKING RUN. It's known as an LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device), a device that, when activated, can permanently damage your hearing and cause serious harm. If you're too close, you'll be left in a lot of pain and squirming on the ground permanently deaf. Ear plugs do not work. Unless you have one of those shooting range headphones, you do not stand a chance against them. Again, if you see them pull up, RUN. This is what they look like.

Stay safe.

Guys do you remember the Colombian protests and the #soscolombia?

Well...it was worth it because today we did this:

Something Good – Negro Kiss is a short film from 1898 of a couple kissing and holding hands. It is believed to depict the earliest on-screen kiss involving African Americans and is known for departing from the prevalent and purely stereotypical presentation of racist caricature in popular culture at the time it was made.

“There seemed to be something a lot more intimate and having more to do with self-presentation. And that’s unlike anything I had seen from that period when all moving picture images of African Americans were through a white lens and are distortions, misrepresentations, or pseudo anthropological. And this is none of that.”

Take a moment to breathe, celebrate, reflect, rest, and decompress. Tomorrow, the work continues.

A comic panel was removed from several newspapers after readers called the cartoon “inappropriate and offensive.”

According to NBC News, a recent installment of long-running syndicated comic strip Six Chix tackled anti-mask rhetoric from a Black Lives Matter movement perspective.

History is literally repeating itself.

If you care about indigenous children, please watch this video and share it.

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FOR THOSE OF YOU PROTESTING

TAKE NOTES FROM HONG KONG AND USE THE BRICKS THAT THE POLICE ARE PLANTING TO INCITE VIOLENCE TO YOUR ADVANTAGE!!

We need to be smarter and stack them up, glue them to the ground, or place them in large patterns to block Police vans from causing more damage.

PLEASE SPREAD TO GET THIS IDEA ROLLING

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hey another thing is. make sure to stack them two heigh. police tires are very high quality. also the most rough looking brick should always go on top so you have a high chance of popping a pigs tire <3 -signed the daughter of a mechanic

What type of glue/adhesive would work best? Dry fast and solid, easy to acquire and carry, non-toxic if possible.

5 minute epoxy and rubber cement glue are the only two i can think of rn

That’s still 2 more than I started with.

Lucille Times (April 22, 1921 – August 16, 2021)

Lucille Times was born April 12, 1921, in Egypt (Hope Hull), Alabama. Her mother died when she was very young and she was raised by her father, William Sharp in a Christian home with six siblings. During her childhood years the family lived in Chicago, Detroit and Alabama. Mr. Sharp strongly imprinted two ideas on Lucille: The first: “You are no better than anyone else” and the second: “When you’re right don’t back down.”

Lucille married her husband, Charlie Times on February 3, 1939. She and Charlie joined the NAACP shortly after marriage, and in 1950, when the NAACP was banned the couple hosted meetings in their home, despite the danger. In 1950, both Lucille and her husband became registered voters. In 1952, they opened the Times Café (a.k.a. “Sugarhill”) on Holt Street, which operated continuously until 1986.

When Lucille lived in Detroit, she was part of a successful boycott of a butcher shop on 12th Street (later named Rosa Parks Blvd). The shop’s Polish proprietor sold some bad meat to a black man and refused to replace the meat or give him a refund. The neighborhood residents became indignant and refused to shop there and the shop went out of business in less than a month.

Montgomery bus boycott:

In a public conversation at the Rosa Parks Museum in 2017, Lucille recounted her story following her claim that she started the Montgomery bus boycott. On June 15, 1955, she drove her 1955 Buick LeSabre to the cleaners on the Mobile Highway. On the way, bus driver James Blake tried to force her car off of the road three times. After she pulled into the cleaners parking lot, Mr. Blake exited his bus and confronted her with, “you’re a black son of a bitch!” Lucille responded with “you’re a white son of a bitch!” and they immediately started physically fighting. Soon two motorcycle policemen arrived to break them up. At that time Lucille bit Mr. Blake’s left biceps.

After splitting them up one of the policemen talked to Mr. Blake separately and then approached Lucille angrily with “do you know that was a white man you called a ‘white son of a bitch’?” Lucille responded “do you know that I was a black woman that he called a 'black son of a bitch.’” The policeman became infuriated and shook his flashlight in Lucille’s face and said, “if you were a man I’d beat your head to jelly.”

That night E.D. Nixon came to the Times’ Holt Street house and Lucille told him the story. Mr. Nixon responded, “I cannot do anything about what happened off of the bus, something’s got to happen on the bus.” Lucille’s reply was, “I’m starting a boycott tomorrow!” Mr. Nixon said, “wait until after Thanksgiving when the sales come on and we’ll hit them in the pocket.” Lucille repeated emphatically, “I’m starting a boycott tomorrow!”

The next day Lucille began her boycott with her car. She drove people in her neighborhood to their destinations and would pick up people waiting at the bus stops. Her husband helped with his car and they had a “donations” jar at the café where people made contributions for gasoline. The café became a de facto transportation hub, and people would call the café when they needed rides.

Twice during this time, Mr. Nixon brought A. Philip Randolph to the Times’ Holt Street house and Lucille told him her story. During this time Charlie Times began meeting secretly with Mr. Nixon at the café and planning for a large organized boycott. Mr. Times even kept these meetings secret from Lucille until after the big boycott started in December.

At that time, Lucille continued driving people as she had been until the big boycott ended in December 1956.

Lucille Times died from COVID-19 in August 2021 at the age of 100

Happy birthday, Marsha! Early this morning, a group of friends and I put up this bust of Marsha P Johnson in Christopher Park. It’s the city’s first statue of a trans person and - shockingly - only the 8th statue of a historical woman out of 800 monuments in NYC parks! If you’re in town, you can put flowers in the crown openings, take pictures with her, and celebrate Marsha’s revolutionary activism. With Jessi’s amazing sculpting skills, I hope this bust can bring a smile to every passerby. Together, we can honor Marsha’s memory through celebration with style.