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[myjetpack]

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[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

[mulberryash-deactivated20210723]

[doberbutts]

Got pulled over because he "saw someone flash their lights at me" and it made him "think something was going on". After he ran my paperwork and did multiple full walk-arounds of my car, he decided everything was in order and I was free to go. I just wanted to get home from work.

Living in MD got pulled over when I pulled into my landlady's [100%, rich, suburban] community and questioned what my purpose was there. "I live here" was not an acceptable answer and I ended up needing to call my landlady to talk to the officer and convince them that I really did live there, in her basement inlaw apartment, courtesy of her granddaughter. When he finally let me go he told me he "actually" pulled me over because he "thought [my] headlights were out" but on "second glance" they were just fine. Dunno how you can mistake headlights being on or off.

And I know I've told the story of when one of my elderly white neighbors called the police on me for training my dog in a public use field and how even the cop that showed up thought the call was stupid and racist.

My dad got pulled over when I was still in a carseat because they thought it was "suspicious" that a grown man would have such a young child with him on a school day. He was driving me back to school from a doctor's appointment. They made him get our of the car, lean against it, and searched both him and the car because they "smelled something" while he did his best to keep me calm and tell me that it was going to be okay. I was too young to understand what happened at the time. I just remember he was furious the entire ride back to school, and he was still mad when I got off the bus that afternoon.

It really is just Like This, being black in this country.

[deadryn]

Once got pulled over while biking on the sidewalk for not having my lights on. Despite that not being illegal. Turned out the dude just wanted to demonstrate to the little fuck he was training how to stop someone on a bike and write a ticket for them. I was let go afterwards. I also once got the cops called on me while waiting outside my house for the pizza I ordered. Cops told me someone reported "a suspicious individual lurking in the front yard of the property". This neighborhood was extremely white.

Or the time a group of six or seven cop cars followed me (like literally did a u-turn to pursue me) at night with their lights off while I was biking home. One of them slammed on the breaks in front of the sidewalk path I was crossing the street to get to and I had to go offroad on a walkpath closed for construction to avoid him.

To cops, black people are animals to be trained, toyed with, tortured, and hunted. If you are doing nothing wrong, they'll make up things to have a reason to fuck with you. If you for whatever reason look suspicious (not hard to do), they will take the worst case interpretation for your actions and find an excuse to take you in. And if you're actually doing something illegal, no matter how minor, you're open season.

[chase-solidago]

I'll be at Birds, Bikes, and Beats at Big Marsh Park in Chicago on Saturday with tons of these free zines about lawn alternatives

[floralfemmes]

white ppl have no concept of the pain of finding a community that you belong to and then discovering the deeply entrenched racism in said community

[floralfemmes]

coming out as an nb dyke was freeing don't get me wrong but discovering how racist white wlw can be takes away some of the joy of that experience. we're fetishized or shunned or demonized or mocked or all of the above. then I see and hear white wlw saying shit about how welcoming wlw are like they haven't been pushing us out all this time

I'm not saying this is a problem exclusive to wlw by the way, this happens in literally every community that has white people in it. I've dealt with racism from white people as a member of the disabled community, from white women in feminist spaces, in activist groups I worked with, etc.

white people need to take a good long look at racism in their communities before they start proclaiming them to be welcoming spaces. because I can guarantee that if your community has white people, your community has racism

[floralfemmes]

several jewish people have mentioned in the tags that antisemitism functions in a similar way and has similar impacts, so I think it's worth adding that jewish people are racialized and ostracized in essentially the same way

everything that I described above is an experience that people of colour share with jewish people

solidarity between racialized peoples ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

[floralfemmes]

white people keep reblogging this and adding tags that distance themselves from culpability for this, saying shit about how it's "especially cis white people" or "especially abled white people" etc.

and I just. way to miss the point. every white person is capable of this and benefits from this. you can be gay, trans, disabled, broke and neurodivergent all at once and still be racist and/or antisemitic

if you're white and you're gonna reblog this post or comment on it only to make it seem like your specific identity makes you less racist or less likely to profit from white supremacy, just don't interact with this post. because you're clearly not listening to what I'm saying here

every single white person benefits from white supremacy and is responsible for combating racism in their communities. trying to distance yourself from that only proves that you're not willing to do the work that is needed to support people of colour

[junflower123]

[fvlter]

I was gunna put this in the tags but it’s a lot. When i first started going through the process of getting a diagnosis, i was labelled with ODD. I immediately took issue with this, it seemed like an unfair diagnosis based entirely on the session the psychiatrist had with my parents (which mostly consisted of “my child is being really difficult on purpose”), and Hoo Boy when i tell you ODD immediately strips you of your ability to call out anyone on anything, that would be an understatement. I couldn’t even disagree or bring up my concerns about the validity of MY OWN DIAGNOSIS without it being labelled as oppositional defiance. Whenever i displayed any negative emotion the “treatments” did so much more harm than good. When you label someone as ‘defiant’ (ugh), when that word is put on their medical record, that person is never allowed to complain about anything again. Knowing that POC are disproportionately affected with this diagnosis makes me feel sick, i can only imagine what’s being swept under the rug as someone just being “defiant to authority”, not even just in the medical field but as justification for police brutality and mass incarceration. When i say medical racism kills people, this is what i mean.

[noodle-the-queen]

this is so fucking important. reblog.

[apollos-olives]

tourists get to enter palestine, lounge on our beaches, live on our land, eat our food, and explore our (stolen) art, style, and culture. but refugee palestinians who were kicked out of their homes, palestinians who left because they didn’t want their kids to live under apartheid, palestinians whose only options were to flee or get massacred- they barely ever get to enter their homeland again. most are never allowed to even go back.

how is that fair? that other people get to enter OUR country, live on OUR land, share OUR culture, but WE were never given the chance to? how can you just sit by and watch this happen without feeling disgust and pain in your heart for not even speaking up about it? the least anyone could do is just speak up. just say something. please.

[mud1888]

[hindahoney]

Because I'm only seeing other Jews posting about this, non-Jews I need you to be aware that for the past month or two there has been a wave of bomb threats and swattings at synagogues all across the US. They usually do it when services are being livestreamed. I haven't seen a single non-Jew talking about this. High holidays are coming up in a few weeks, which is when most attacks happen against our communities. We're worried, and we need people to know what's happening to us.

[cythraul]

Synagogues in 12 States Targeted in Hoax Calls to Police (New York Times)

ADL Statement on Series of Antisemitic Swatting Incidents Targeting Synagogues (Anti-Defamation League)

Anti-Defamation League condemns recent fake threats made to synagogues across US (ABC7)

‘Online trolls’ target 26 synagogues in series of antisemitic swat calls and bomb threats: ADL (New York Post)

Fake bomb threat forces Fullerton synagogue to evacuate during Sabbath service (CBS Los Angeles)

Fullerton synagogue evacuated during Sabbath service due to bomb threat (NBC Los Angeles)

[unavernales]

uh so i never do this but maui is quite literally on fire and there isn't nearly enough care or consideration for. you know. Native Hawaiians who live here being displaced and the land (and cultural relevance) that's being eaten up by the fire. so if ya'll wanna help, here's some links:

maui food bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

maui humane society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

center for native hawaiian advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

hawai'i red cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

please reblog and spread the word if you can't donate.

[thatdiva]

[elinordash]

BONUS:

GOOD OMENS | 2.02 THE CLUE

If you’re going to invoke fiction, you might as well do it properly.

[ineffectualdemon]

Disability Pride month let's not forget about the people in our community with intellectual disabilities!

I just found out about the Stay Up Late campaign to advocate for people with intellectual disabilities to have the right to go out in the evening and not have to be in bed by 8pm

I learned about it from this video:

And I found the website for the campaign which is here:

Home - Stay Up Late

Charity that enables adults with learning disabilities to lead active social lives. We're also the home of the Gig Buddies project.

Let's support all members of our community

[nabulsi]

i don't know how to properly verbalise this but. i hate the global cultural monopoly the usa has. i hate that when topics go viral in the United States they go viral everywhere else too. because that means when gay and trans rights are under threat in the usa, in my country, where gay and trans rights were never even on the table, our government doubles down on hating gay people. they double down on culturally boycotting anything queer. anything that would make queer people living here feel like normal people. bigots double down on their bigotry. they feel the need to bring it up at every social gathering. just when we let our guards down and feel normal for 5 seconds, we're not allowed, we're reminded that we're not normal and we'll never be considered normal. and honestly, i feel like im in a tar pit sinking deeper until i disappear. and if the usa's culture and society weren't so loud, at least people here would forget gay and trans people exist and we wouldn't be accepted but at least we wouldn't be under fire in a place where we have a lot less protections.

[gaylienz]

happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.

[gaylienz]

Non-Natives reblogging this are great and wonderful

[lierdumoa]

Please remember that "land back" does not mean "indigenous people are mystical elves with innate epigenetic wisdom of land stewardship and they don't belong in big cities," nor does it mean "non-indigenous people can't be farmers." What it DOES mean is that "non-indigenous farmers should be paying the equivalent of property taxes to the native governments their land was stolen from." It means, "there's a great deal of indigenous scholarship on sustainable agricultural practices that farmers should be taking into account, because indigenous agriculture was more advanced than European agriculture at the time Europe invaded the Americas and western agriculture *still* hasn't caught up in terms of figuring out how to produce equivalently high crop yields without compromising the ecosystem." It means, "non-indigenous farmers should be in an intellectual discourse with indigenous agricultural scientists and indigenous peoples that still do traditional farming, figuring how to repair the damage western farming practices have done to the ecosystem."

[red-dead-revival]

It also means that indigenous peoples should regain the right to sustain themselves on the land according to the practices they want, and they should have free reign to perform their cultural practices and protect their holy sites, as opposed to the current model where if they try to honor their dead on public lands they get violently removed.

[chicagomuslima]

[chicagomuslima]

Winter – ICNA Relief USA

https://icnarelief.org/winter/

[chicagomuslima]