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Clergy had the most incredible response to police using Black mugshots for target practice
In December, while visiting a shooting range in Medley, Florida, National Guard Sgt. Valerie Deant came to a horrifying realization: Members of the North Miami Beach police force, who had just left the facility, had been using mugshots of young black men for target practice.
In response, these clergy members created #usemeinstead
“What if my son had panicked under the stress, having never had a gun pointed at him before, and made what the officer considered a ‘suspicious’ movement? Had I come close to losing him? Triggers cannot be unpulled. Bullets cannot be called back.”
Charles Blow expresses his completely understandable outrage.
for real. reading the history of the laws (the many laws) written to keep blacks away from anything empowering is quite dizzying and housing discrimination was a big one. laws keeping and taking land from blacks go way back (for example) and as society progressed, it morphed to fit the times. nowadays it’s housing discrimination and it’s rampant.
Shonda Rhimes needs to make a show for Black kids and let him star.
How ironic. I was just talking about this.
This shit is serious. Gentrification is an issue. Housing discrimination is real.
True stories: -A Black family moving into a suburban neighborhood actually would lower the prices of homes. Because all the White people would try to move out as soon as possible. -If the new suburb was next to a non-White neighborhood, a fence could be put up “for safety” to instantly raise property values. -Have you heard the term redline/-ing? It refers to the practice of corporations color coding a region and not investing in or refusing service to those from certain (red) areas. These were usually poor Black neighborhoods. This included refusing those in redlined areas access to jobs, loans, medical care, etc. -Many older developments that were predominately home to poor PoC were destroyed with the promise of a new development or a suburb. This almost never happened and left the country with a shortage of affordable housing that still exists today. -“Between 1934 and 1962, the federal government backed $120 billion of home loans. More than 98% went to whites. Of the 350,000 new homes built with federal support in northern California between 1946 and 1960, fewer than 100 went to African Americans.” http://newsreel.org/guides/race/whiteadv.htm
White people whose family has owned homes since the mid 20th century: The financial success and safety of our families and ourselves is completely based on racism. Never forget that.
Read more: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_discrimination_in_the_United_States_housing_market http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Housing_Administration http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_v._Kramer http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Housing_Act
This needs more notes. People need to know just how this society made it a point at every turn to hold (and still hold today) Black people down for the benefit of whites.
A huge part of white wealth was created through real estate. A sector that Black people were systematically kept out of. A sector now where Black people are still preyed upon.
White real estate agents also took advantage of racist white homeowners with a practice called blockbusting, where they would encourage them to sell their homes at a loss with just the hint or promise that a black (or sometimes Jewish or nonblack PoC, depending on the region) was going to move in.
There were also footnotes on the actual deeds for many houses in white neighborhoods, stipulating that the house was never allowed to be sold or rented to a nonwhite occupant (Jewish people were nearly always considered nonwhite for these purposes). Called restrictive covenants, these were demanded and upheld by white homeowners associations, often with the real threat of violence.
Racist housing discrimination is as American as apple pie at a baseball game.
(via Happy Jar - Three Hours)
This just happened, bruh!
My lil brother: I don’t like hair on my balls and I shave my booty hole too.
Me *eating dinner*: Bruh! What the fuck? Ain’t nobody tryna hear that shit! You don’t see me eating!?
My mama: *to my lil brother” Oh, you like getting your booty ate?
Me: lmfaoooooooooo. He might. It’s trendy now. He don’t get tired, ma.
My mama: The shit do feel good though.
My lil brother:
Me:
Lmao
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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that ending…tear jerker
"angels, loving them, and the irreparable soul"
“Angels, loving them, and the irreparable soul”
She’s an angel with invisible wings. I am ready and wanting to be her everything, but I would settle for being something.
The beauty in her eyes only eclipsed by the energy of her soul. I try to forget her, even if it is just for a few hours at a time.
How do you forget something so beautiful that it saved your life just by its presence. That is a lie,…
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Me.. :/
so basically, femburton inspired this. Black Harley Quinn
2014 is trash except for this post
Would black Harley Quinn really put up with the Joker’s shit?
If the only difference to her character is that she’s black? Uh. Yes.
True enough.
I just have this weird fantasy of Harley telling Joker to fuck off and shooting him in the face. This version looks badass enough to do that. It might just be the lack of clown make up though that makes me think that.
#WAKETFUP
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/17/us/oklahoma-police-chief/
Where’s all those cops that were screaming how they’re lives matter? Where’s the fund for this mans family? Wheres all those white people who were yelling cops lives matter?
Feeding your family with money you earn is clearly a Democratic value.
Republicans would rather you be underpaid and dependent on the government.
That is the real Republican agenda.
Video - Source: Siz iOS app
This is real
so basically, femburton inspired this. Black Harley Quinn
2014 is trash except for this post
Would black Harley Quinn really put up with the Joker's shit?
what bothers me about the way we talk about slavery is that we are constantly pointing out the ways that slavery has changed black people and our culture today, but we don’t talk about what owning and torturing and raping and killing millions of people has done to white people, and the white psyche
J Hall Comics really delivered with this one (via Imgur)
Is it all just talk? Unlike many other speeches, ideas pushed in the #SOTU often become reality. About 43 percent of legislation pushed in #SOTU proposals are ultimately enacted by Congress, according to a 2006 study.
