Fuck the Olympics. Putting the nationalism of it aside for a second, the absolute nonsense happening this year with it is ridiculous. Disqualifying Sha’carri Richardson for smoking weed after she found out from a reporter that her mother died? Absolutely disgusting. Banning BLM apparel and afro swimming caps? Straight up racist. Deeming two cisgender Black women (Namibia's Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi) ineligible for female classification because their natural testosterone levels were considered too high? A direct consequence of transphobia that the queer community has been saying would happen, with some misogynoir as well!
Can you hear that? It’s the sound of EVERY race having dealt with this kind of treatment, not just black people, but don’t worry we pity you for your choices
THC DOES NOT MAKE YOU FASTER! (It does the exact opposite) LET SHA’CARRI RICHARDSON RUN!
Or
we will boycott and not watch and after @nbc OVERPAYING to broadcast the Olympics and as BAD as BASIC TV ratings are in the age of streaming (even during a global pandemic) you need EVERY EYEBALL you can get to make your money back!
i was having a pretty good day until derek chauvin's mother spoke.
with not one an ounce of sympathy, carolyn pawlenty proceeded to ignore all the pain, tears, and death that her son has caused the floyd family and countless others. instead of apologizing and acknowledging someone else's pain other than her own, she whined about how she believes that her son "has a good heart and he has always put others before own." she even went as far as to say that he was innocent and "a good man." pawlenty also mentioned how she won't get to see her son, or talks to him on the phone, or give him a "special hug." how dare she cry about not getting to see her son when gianna will never get to see, talk to, or hug her father again, because of her son.... when floyd's siblings will never get to see, talk to, or hug her father again, because of her son... when floyd's other family and friends will never get to see, talk to, or hug george floyd again because of her son...
not only did her words enforce the idea that his parents are a large part of the reason chauvin is the horrible person that he is, but they are a perfect example of white delusion and white disregard of the suffering that black and other racial minorities go through and have been going through for centuries.
no carolyn, your son is not a good man. he is not innocent. he is a murderer, and he deserves a lot more than 22.5 years in jail.
with all of that being said, here are a some important links: official gianna floyd fund (george floyd's child) - closed, george floyd memorial foundation, the official peace and healing for darnella fund
(feel free to reblog with other helpful links!)
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Self-defense continues to be a prime motive for gun ownership for many Black Americans, particularly in view of the rise in neighborhood shootings and the increase in officer-involved shootings and police brutality.
Hudson Valley Nubian Gun Club co-founder Damon Finch (l.) discusses firearms basics with a woman during a training session at Master Class Shooters Supply in Monroe, New York. (Hudson Valley Nubian Gun Club)
Alarmed and angered by attacks mounted by the KKK and other racist groups, Williams decided to exercise his Second Amendment rights by making a call for armed self-defense − and that act, in Monroe, N.C., drew the attention of the nation.
With this stand for freedom and democracy, Williams had a direct influence on the Black Panther Party, whose members often publicly displayed their arms. They certainly did so on May 2, 1967, when two dozen armed members entered California’s state Capitol.
Malcolm X was also an advocate of armed self-defense. During one of his most famous speeches, “The Ballot or the Bullet,” he said, “Article No. 2 of the constitutional amendments provides you and me the right to own a rifle or shotgun.”
Today, Black Americans have not lost their interest in owning firearms or joining gun clubs, according to the National African American Gun Association (NAAGA).
Self-defense continues to be a prime motive for gun ownership for many Black Americans, particularly in view of the rise in neighborhood shootings and the increase in officer-involved shootings and police brutality.
Philip Smith, founder of the NAAGA, said that more than 2,000 people joined the organization in just a few hours after the police-involved killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.
“That broke our records,” he said. “We’re getting a ton of folks from all over.”
And Smith’s account is supported by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade association that tracks gun sales and analyzes industry trends. According to Mark Oliva, the foundation’s director of public affairs, the rise in Black gun ownership is unprecedented.
“We’ve never seen a year-over-year increase that large in African-American gun buyers,” he said. His organization reports that it gained 15,000 new members in 2020.
So, what factors may have precipitated this dramatic increase? Are people fearful of the violence perpetrated by white police officers and racists, or by another Black person and the violence in their own neighborhoods?
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A number of retailers noted an increase in gun sales when the pandemic began, and during the tumult of November’s elections.
If these are reliable indicators, can we expect an uptick in firearm sales in the wake of the recent insurrection in the nation’s Capitol?
It’s not easy to determine what may be motivating factors for the increase in gun sales, but Maj Toure, founder of Black Guns Matter, says firearm owners need to know how to use them correctly.
He made a beeline to Minneapolis after Floyd was killed and set up an outdoor tutorial on self-defense not far from the scene of the tragedy.
“If you would like a free basic firearm safety class, you can get it right here,” he announced to passers-by as he set up a table with replica handguns. “The police, as we see, will leave. They will not come to save you. They will not save our businesses. So, if you want that, I’ll do that here. Anyone can come. It is completely free.”
Damon Finch, co-founder of the two-year-old Hudson Valley Nubian Gun Club — an affiliate of the NAAGA — conducts training sessions and offers courses on firearms safety and other topics for its members, whose range from age 13 to senior citizens.
“Even though the conversation is geared to the African-American community, we don’t exclude any group of people,” he said of the Newburgh, N.Y.- headquartered club. Members come from northern Albany and Rensselaer counties, and Rockland and Westchester counties further south in New York.
“There were a couple of defining moments that made a difference for the growth of our club,” said Finch. He cited the uncertainty about Gov. Cuomo’s March 2020 statewide COVID shutdown and the highly publicized death of George in police custody as two events that brought new members to the gun club.
“I received some phone calls — as an instructor and as a trainer — from people who owned firearms who may not have had proper training, and being that there’s a certain amount of uncertainty, they started to reach out and say, ‘I have this tool; can you at least educate me on how to use it properly?’”
Finch — who said he did not recall seeing “individuals who looked like me” while getting his certified firearms training — said breaking down these and other boundaries for Black Americans, and fighting stereotypes about gun ownership were major factors in his decision to co-found the Nubian Gun Club.
“Many shooting ranges are a very intimidating environment because of the stereotypes that are out there in national media — that the only people with firearms are either cops or thugs,” said Finch. “Our job is to break those stereotypes.”
The dramatic rise in the number of African-American gun owners doesn’t mean it’s a universal trend. In fact, a sizable percentage of African-Americans are either opposed to having a gun in the house or are undecided, expressing doubts that weapons are the answer to systemic racism.
To own or not to own a gun has been a longstanding debate between Viviana Johnson Russell and her husband.
Russell, a councilwoman in North Hempstead, L.I., said her father was a hunter who taught her and her sister how to shoot guns.
“Even so,” she said, “I have some apprehensions about having a gun in my own home. But over the last few years, my husband has expressed his desire to have a firearm for home protection.”
With the recent turmoil and the current climate of civil unrest, her husband’s desire to own a gun has taken on a new urgency.
“I understand his point of view,” Russell said. “However, I am not mentally prepared for the responsibility of having a firearm in our home.”
Some of her reservation stems from the fact that there are children in the home, and also the possibility of a gun accident.
“Having a firearm alone does not make you safe or protect you, so I am still on the fence,” Russell added.
Amber Goodwin, founder and executive director of the Community Justice Action Fund gun violence prevention organization, says the issue is much larger than just arming Black people. “They are still shot and killed by police or by other bystanders,” she said.
Meanwhile, Blacks continue to buy guns in record numbers, choosing not to sit on the fence or be without a firearm no matter who bursts into their home. It would seem these gun owners would prefer to be the ones to shoot first and ask questions later.
We are NOT your trend. Your timeline may be back to "normal", but remember that black lives still matter. My people and what we go through and have gone through are NOT your trend.
bill cosby’s conviction being overturned is not the result of a court deciding he wasn’t guilty after all, and, seeing as he is a serial sex offender and extremely wealthy, it’s not really a victory against unjust mass incarceration or the prison pipeline targeting black men either. it is, specifically, the result of the pa supreme court finding a prior deal with a prosecutor from before he faced assault charges which protected him from criminal conviction. this also means that it’s not an example of the justice system failing women or failing to penalize sexual assault charges. instead, it’s an example of the very strict laws designed so that people cannot be manipulated, lied to, or exploited by the legal system at work, and it just happens, by chance, to be an extremely, extremely unfortunate one, and the result of a deal that probably shouldn’t have been made in the first place by a prosecutor that deserves to get a hell of a lot of shit for it.
hahaha maybe one of the reasons white people are so afraid of blacks is because they subconsciously know that they have been oppressing the black community for so long—and that all injustice will lead to revenge ultimately— and so these white peeps are just so scared that the blacks have realized their worth and will fight back the whites with the same cruelty that was initially shown by the whites to them but now it’s reversed✨
*sigh* For one, do you need to read up on your history about how black people have been oppressed and treated less than human for, hm, lets see, centuries.
Also, dont get started on the aLl lIvEs mAtTeR tOo. Yes all lives matter, but, say in this case someones house is on fire and yours is not, are you going to bitch at the firemen to put water on your house that is not burning? No you wouldnt. So why are you bitching about fixing a problem white people never fucking had in the first place.
Honestly id like to see your links, logic, and stupidity behind why your ALM opinion makes any fucking sense at all. Then again knowing you anons you wont even reply to this.
As a white person I know damn well this isnt my place to speak but currently im sick of you fucking ALM racist bitches who cant be bothered to think about anything other than the stake up your asses.
