Raw Root

Silence Is No Longer An Option. It Is A Luxury I Can Not Afford.

[inyansight-blog]

Mariam 

MCR

[chancecalloway]

Victims of police brutality… Art by Ashley A. Woods.

This is my submission for the APB - Artists Against Police Brutality book - with John Jennings and Bill Campbell. Please take the time to read about the victims in the subsequent posts.

[baawri]

[revolutionarykoolaid]

Please don’t forget about our sisters lost in this struggle. A week before Tamir Rice was killed, a woman by the name of Tanesha Anderson had her head slammed into the ground and was killed by Cleveland police. We fight in their name. #staywoke #farfromover

[destinydiamante-deactivated2022]

[isseymiyucky-deactivated2021070]

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I SAID. EXACTLY. HE IS A TERRORIST.

[gochellzgo-deactivated20170221]

I was thinking the same thing

[bando--grand-scamyon]

WAIT, THAT’S WHAT HAPPENED????

[ethuil]

I’ll tell you, though, as someone who lives in Barcelona, that the media is trying to sell that story but no one is buying. Word in the streets is that he was a terrorist. Word in the street is families distressed about their children/cousins/siblings/parents dying because some asshole decided to crash the fucking plane.

On Wednesday, I sat down waiting for one of the girls I tutor to get off her music lesson (I go to pick her up sometimes) and heard 3 very distressed mothers talking about this: one had lost a childhood friend in that accident, one was telling how in that plane there was an entire family whose kids went to school with hers, the other telling how her pregnant friend’s boyfriend was in there too. They were hurting, they were angry.

My own parents are enraged that this could happen. You go to the supermarket and everyone is talking about how we can not trust the media and how that was plain terrorism. The bus is filled with people talking to each other wondering why, why would someone want to hurt so many innocent people. Why would the media want us to feel sympathetic? We’re not. We’re angry. We want the truth, and that starts by accepting this was an act of terrorism.

[bando--grand-scamyon]

That’s what I thought. ^

[oogilyboogilyboo-deactivated201]

We need a #Blackout year. Because every 28 hours is unacceptable.

What disgusts me the most is that there are republicans are online trying JUSTIFY the University of Oklahoma SAE’s words.   (via braidsnglassesblog)

[godsonjunioresquire-deactivated]

[profeminist]

Women of Color Working in STEM Fields Are Frequently Mistaken for Janitors 

Almost half of Black and Latina women working as scientists have been mistaken for a janitor or administrator their offices, reveals a new report on the experiences of women of color working in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.

"As one Latina statistician told researchers, “I always amuse my friends with my janitor stories, but it has happened not only at weird hours.” She calmly informed someone that she had the key to the office, not the janitor’s closet.

That detail is part of “Double Jeopardy: Gender Bias Against Women of Color in Science,” the new report by the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California that surveyed 500 female scientists and conducted in-depth interviews with 60 more. It provides a damning look at how gender and racial bias impacts women’s mental health and careers.

The conventional wisdom is that women don’t work in the sciences at the same rate as men because of a lack of early encouragement for girls to pursue STEM careers and because they’re more likely to leave careers to have kids. But the interviews show that those explanations leave out the hostile and discouraging environment that many women face in male-dominated classrooms, offices, and labs. Of the 60 scientists interviewed in the report, 100 percent reported that they had experienced gender discrimination during their careers. More than 75 percent of the African-American women scientists surveyed reported having to prove their intelligence over and over again. They feel they can’t afford to make a single mistake.”

Read the full piece here

Photo caption: Teenage scientist Alexa Dantzler works in a chemisty lab at Emory University. Photo by Isabelle Saldana.

[vvicio-deactivated20180523]

My moms a Nurse and she told me that one time she was walking by the cafeteria and this white lady asks her if she wass the cleaning lady and if she could pick up her trash. My mom just laughed and said “soy enfermera pendeja” and walked away as the lady just stood there staring. People are fucking dumb as hell. 

[ninacosmica]

My mom is a nurse too and had someone try that with her and she was wearing her badge too saying she was an RN.

[peopleofthesouth]

Some Children are More Equal than Others 

Two decades after Apartheid was abolished, Some Children are More Equal than Others focuses on how the educational system in South Africa relates to the flagrant inequalities in the country and its still growing wealth-gap. In a nutshell, education in SA operates as a “Tale of two Systems.” On the one hand there are 20 % of privileged people who send their children to a functioning schooling system. On the other hand, education is drastically failing 80 % of the children in South Africa. This self-perpetuating circle results in over 50 % youth-unemployment. The serious challenge of fixing the educational system is over-due and it is up to everyone to stand up for their right for basic education, a right enshrined in the constitution of South Africa. Some Children are More Equal than Others is an independently produced one-man-film-project and was realized as a non-commercial documentary film. The human rights law firm “Legal Resources Centre” generously supported the filmmaker in order to raise awarness of the challenges faced in making South Africa a better place. For more information: http://www.lrc.org.za/

[emaaanc-deactivated20161207]

When she is told Her skin is too dark; I do not hesitate to offer, That the sun loved her so much It kissed her more Than the rest of us.

[luvyourmane]

by @theijeoma

[justice4mikebrown]

February 9

Twitter user and live streamer, MissJupiter1957, was pulled from her wheelchair and assaulted by police, arrested and charged with “failure to obey police orders and 3rd degree assault” on a police officer. Her wheelchair was also confiscated by police. 

She was released a few hours later.

[plantfunerals]

how could you possibly be this cowardly

[asafo2020-deactivated20171024]

[frankenfemme-deactivated2015050]

But anyway I love being brown skin and warm looking.

[lemonaades]

#DontShoot. #BlackLivesMatter.

[be-blackstar]

This line was the best part. 

[cultureunseen]

Salute to the indomitable spirit and formidable grit within the grip of the original woman. All praises due to the Black woman!

[seeselfblack]

NEVER Forget what they did…

[knowledgeequalsblackpower]

People will be outraged about this photo.. and this is not even close to the atrocities committed against Black women. 

Black woman with White man on her back… the truth about American history.

[lennybaby2]

Ugh.

[nudiemuse]

Modern America

[gold-kushkloudz]

I had to post this!!! Ppl so disgusting

[feministwomenofcolor]

LOL white men like to act tough as shit until they realize that for the first time in their life there might actually be consequences for their actions