Important Updates on Ferguson
It feels like my body is entirely filled with fire. The anger I feel is sickening and it continues to grow as I read the tweets of what’s happening. I’m angry, hurting, and teary eyed but I’m going to try my best to channel all of that into something that makes sense. If you have any extra information please share it.
Within the last few hours a lot has happened. The residents of Ferguson began a peaceful protest that was quickly changed by the ulterior motives of the pigs. Ulterior motives being that they want to make us look as dangerous as possible. They have the guns yet they have the power to make us look like the bad ones. See how that works?
With the help of the media this has been made possible. Tell me why the news decided to focus on the fact that people were looting nearby stores instead of focusing on what type of environment the pigs created?
I don’t give a damn if people are looting stores.
I don’t give a damn about what’s on fire.
I care about what these cops are doing to this community and I care about how what they say infects the minds of viewers at home. It is TOO easy to steer a viewers line of vision from what’s important as opposed to what isn’t. You have the pigs breaking laws that are meant to be enforced and disrupting the peace and the news is going to focus on people looting stores? Fuck that.
The pigs started shooting rubber bullets and releasing tear gas into the crowd. They have also demanded that all reporters leave the area and threatened them with arrest if they didn’t comply with their orders. One of the cops also called referred to the crowd as animals.
Pigs out here breaking laws, taking lives, committing genocide and they have the audacity to call us animals.
Are we committing the mass murder of Black people and other people of color on a consistent basis?
Are we upholding the racist society we live in?
Take a good look at this.
Now the pigs aren’t letting anyone go home. They blocked the exit out of the god damn neighborhood.
Again, they demand that all reporters leave the area and threaten them with arrest. Why do they want the reporters to leave so badly? What don’t they want viewers at home to see?
They’re destroying our freedom of assembly that was being put into practice (important point made by @ShaunKing on twitter).
And to make things even worse, they maced a pregnant woman in her car, along with passengers, threw her to the ground, and held her at gun point (http://www.kmov.com/special-coverage-001/Pregnant-Protestor-Arrested-Claims-Police-Maced-and-Threw-Her-To-The-Ground-270840911.html) (http://vimeo.com/103109438)
You have frightened kids trying to find their way home because the fucking exit is blocked off. Luckily this woman, Patricia Bynes (@Patricialicious) is actually helping some of the kids get home.
Now, if you don’t see the antiblackness that lives, breathes, and plagues the lives of Black people in Amerikkka then I’m left to believe that you’re forcing yourself not to see it. It is ugly and it is blatantly in your face. This country doesn’t give a damn about us. Anyone has the capability to see that.
When I talk about this I place my own personal opinions in here because it’s my blog. I don’t expect everyone to agree with my opinions so here’s some more information that I have that will allow you to make your own judgement on the situation.
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/08/10/dnt-misouri-teen-shooting-protests.kmov.html
http://abcnews.go.com/US/dad-slain-unarmed-missouri-teen-michael-brown-justice/story?id=24929787
1) There isn’t too much media coverage
2) Even when there is you have to be able to see through the bullshit that they will try to throw at you. Please see through it. Pay attention to the headlines. Don’t just read. You need to comprehend what you’re reading. Ask questions.
Twitter is where you can find the most coverage because you have people who are actually there tweeting as everything unfolds. Here’s some of the people I follow/RT a lot of information from. I hope it helps.
@FeministaJones
@BrittanyNoble (DEFINITELY follow brittany_noble on instagram)
If you know of anyone one else please post their name. Any important information you have let it be known. Spread this information and any information you know yourself. Sharing what I know is the most I can do right now. If I’ve gotten any facts wrong let me know so I can correct them.
Whether it be through RTs or even writing up your opinion
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