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[useless-mike]

Matt Davies, Darran Smith and Kris Coombs from Funeral For A Friend.

Taken by Joanna Lubiatowska on 2008.

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[maybemerry]

When protests and riots broke out against oppressive regimes in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Yemen as part of the Arab Spring, Americans cheered.

When protests and riots broke out against the restrictive policies of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee in Hong Kong, Americans cheered.

When protests and riots broke out against a corrupt government in Ukraine, Americans cheered.

When citizens of District 11 rioted, when the citizens of District 5 destroyed public property (a dam), and when Katniss Everdeen led a full-scale revolution against the violent Capital, Americans cheered.

But when disenfranchised, poor, starved, and brutalized communities of Color who have been systemically deprived of education, economic investment, and employment opportunities protest, riot, and revolt against the oppressive, restrictive, corrupt, and violent policies and entities “governing” them, Americans don’t cheer–they condemn.

If you don’t think that ‪#‎BlackLivesMatter‬ more than property, you are part of the problem.

If you don’t think property, homes, and lives were being looted and destroyed before the riots, you are part of the problem.

If you don’t think people called, cried, begged, pleaded, petitioned, lobbied, organized, and voted for help and change before the riots, you are part of the problem.

If you didn’t know there are severe racial and socioeconomic disparities before the riots, you are part of the problem.

If you knew (or thought you knew) and didn’t do or say anything, you are part of the problem.

If you are silent in the face of injustice, you have no business scorning those who fight against it.

‪#‎BaltimoreUprising‬

[pupfresh]

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[mytemporarysanity]

I’ve tried to write something meaningful but i feel i’ve lost my stride. Can’t think of anything witty or flattering tonight. You lie to me and i’m getting bored of this stupid conversation.

- Funeral for a Friend