#ijessewilliams

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"An eye for an eye and the world goes blind.."

I finally finished my portrait of Markus!!! Jesse played him so well and I couldn't have asked for anything better from him. He's such an amazing actor and a wonderful person overall so I wanted to show my appreciation and love for him! :) 💙💚

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FZWE80UKrA)

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This award is not for me, This is for the real organizers all over the country, the activist, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling parents, the families, the teachers, the students that are realizing that a system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us cannot stand if we do. It’s kinda basic mathematics: the more we learn about who we are and how we got here the more we will mobilize. “This award is also for the black women in particular who have spent their lives nurturing everyone before themselves – we can and will do better for you. “Now, what we’ve been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people every day. So what’s going to happen is we’re going to have equal rights and justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and ours. “I got more, y’all. Yesterday would have been young Tamir Rice’s 14th birthday so I don’t want to hear any more about how far we’ve come when paid public servants can pull a drive-by on a 12-year-old playing alone in a park in broad daylight, killing him on television, and then going home to make a sandwich. “Tell Rekia Boyd how it’s so much better to live in 2012 than 1612 or 1712. Tell that to Eric Garner, Sandra Bland. “The thing is though, all of us here are getting money, that alone isn’t going to stop this. Dedicating our lives to getting money just to give it right back to put someone’s brand on our body – when we spent centuries praying with brands on our bodies, and now we pray to get paid for brands on our bodies? “There has been no war that we have not fought and died on the front lines of. There is no job we haven’t done, there is no tax they haven’t levied against us, and we have paid all of them. “But freedom is always conditional here. ‘You’re free!’ they keeping telling us. ‘But she would be alive if she hadn’t acted so… free.’ Now, freedom is always coming in the hereafter, but the hereafter is a hustle: We want it now. “Let’s get a couple of things straight. The burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander – that’s not our job so let’s stop with all that. If you have a critique for our resistance then you’d better have an established record, a critique of our oppression. “If you have no interest in equal rights for black people then do not make suggestions to those who do: sit down. “We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil – black gold! – ghettoizing and demeaning our creations and stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit. “Just because we’re magic doesn’t mean we’re not real. Thank you.”

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What are the critical elements that constitute a "riot" and when do riots offend you? If we view rioting as a mass temper tantrum expressed through violence and property damage, then white sports fans do that almost yearly. A group can burn and loot when a team scores less points than another, but when paid public servants kill citizens, they have to be perfection? Historically, riots have been tools for intimidation. destroying populations, taking land and valuables. White people rioted through the early 1900s in America, slaughtering burning and looting entire black townships, just because they were black. Police and policies have been rioting on black bodies, destroying people and property every single day of your life, but here you come now, when the beaten, marinated in centuries of trauma pain and distress, start mustering a response. Here you come now, pointing fingers. You seem to really hate when people do "things that aren't helping". Martin Luther King, while saying he doesn't support riots, also said that he understands why they are happening, and that they will continue to happen until the people in power, the majority white people, start making actual positive change in the way their black brothers are treated. Things that "aren't helping" happen every day though, which means you've had a million opportunities to research and contribute to their causes. But you'll sit here and point fingers and call them savages and animals, but you've never gone to help, you've never been out there in a peaceful demonstration? So what kind of violence is it that you disapprove of? Only the black kind? The reaction to oppression has always been spun and marketed as validation for the status quo. And then when they rebel against it, you get to sit back and say "well they'll never get rights that way". You want to condemn black people being violent against PROPERTY, but you're not condemning the police killing actual PEOPLE without just cause? When ever I see someone saying "but what about the rioters", it reads to me as justification of mistreatment of an entire group of people. No one bothers to mention all the protesters and the victims' families trying to step in, the fact that rival gangs that came together to protect places, and the next day, to clean up. Just "omg what animals you'll never be given rights now". It's just all more of the same bullshit that led to these protests in the first place.

Thank you jesseWilliams for the bulk of this, and MLK for bits.

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My blog is my happy place so I don't normally post about things that upset me or remind me of terrible things going on in the world. But I really just need to say how fucking much Iove jessehimself. It's rare to see a celebrity so vocal and passionate and intelligent about something so poignant and socially relevant and important even when receiving vicious backlash. The world needs more Jesse Williams'. Follow him on Tumblr: jessehimself Twitter: @iJesseWilliams

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