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nishiki & kiryu in yakuza 0

↳ “Without you, I’ll always be nothing. Can’t make it as a yakuza… no. I wouldn’t even be alive now if I didn’t have you beside me! I’m just… if you’re not with me, I’m useless! Nothing means anything!”

le-dreadmau5

Ok so Dallas, Texas now has a Trans Pride Mural dedicated to Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera and I’m living for it

violet-dumpstersupreme

Has anyone done this yet

pupburglar

working in retail be like

mimiiq

Story time: I work at a fast food restaurant that also sells beer. We have a display where you can choose which beer you want and we will get it for you. So a customer asked for a large soda and I was like “sure thing!” As my back was turned, they grabbed one of the beers from our display and threw it into the kitchen for no reason. Obviously I was confused but I just handed her her soda and went to help the next customer. The next customer was confused and shocked and all I said was “Don’t worry about it sir, this isn’t the first time something like this has happened.”

Also another time around Christmas, a girl passed out and knocked her head on the floor in front our fast food neighbors. While the ambulance was taking her away, our neighbors continued to take peoples orders despite the girls family crying behind them.

liquidfem

boostergold78

I didn’t know Mr. T pityed fool’s that weren’t woke, but that’s awesome. #respect

lordxeras

“I think about my father being called ‘boy’, my uncle being called ‘boy’, my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called ‘boy’. So I questioned myself: “What does a black man have to do before he’s given the respect as a man?” So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I self-ordained myself Mr. T so the first word out of everybody’s mouth is “Mr.” That’s a sign of respect that my father didn’t get, that my brother didn’t get, that my mother didn’t get.“

-Mr. T on the subject of his name

beyoncus

Shrek 2 (2004) dir. Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon.

micdotcom

Kamilah Brock spent 8 days in a NY mental health facility because she owned a BMW

Kamilah Brock, a former New York banker, has filled a suit against the city after she was detained for eight days in a mental health facility against her will. Brock says she was committed after trying to pick up her BMW, which skeptical police did not believe she owned. To add insult to injury, Brock was then charged a hefty sum by the hospital.

dariadorms

WHAT THE FUCK

kittiesatemypronouns

WTF!!!!!!

aleshakills

While this is a slightly older case (September 2015, the court ruled in her favor) I do want to use this as a chance to say something. And while this may be incredibly obvious to some, it may not be to everyone.

The odds are exceedingly slim that the officer in question genuinely believed that she was mentally ill. And even if she had, claiming to have a nicer car or better job than she really did would not make her a danger to herself. Nothing Brock said would justify having a person detained for even 72 hours, let alone 8 days.

These were eight days when she was forcefully medicated, held against her will, and likely denied any contact with the outside world. Aside from the unfair medical bills, that 8 days could have cost her her job, her car, relationships, and led to a lifetime of trauma.

This was a deliberate effort to destroy a black woman’s life. Because she looked too happy, too carefree and too successful, a group of police officers made the decision to ruin her in any way they could. And this is common.

Even setting aside their racist and misogynistic biases, police who arrest and harass black people over frivolous infractions are not doing so in good faith. By which I mean, it is not a case of their bias misinforming their decisions (such as when someone “fits the description” of being black). It is not a case of upholding the letter of the law more strictly with regards to black people (such as arrests for weed possession). While those are both serious issues in their own right, that’s not what’s happening in cases like these.

This is a case where the police made a conscious decision to do harm first and came up with the justification after the fact. And all too often, it works. As tragic as this story is, Brock is one of the lucky ones.

nkjemisin

I heard about this case when it happened, and yeah – there’s just. so much. misogynoir here. And for context, they also claimed she was delusional because she said Obama followed her on Twitter. He did.

This was about putting her in her place, and about a bunch of racists taking out their frustration re a black president on a random black citizen who was just living her best life.

allcops

Crime: driving a BMW while black.

africant

Sheesh, what a chatterbox. Can’t he see that I’m busy?

ruinedchildhood

Zoom (1999-2006)

pi-la

evilrashida

IT’S WHAT SHE DESERVES!!!!

kindheartedtruth

We are not thriving. True, our people live, but our culture is dying. We are like a stone the ocean beats against. With each passing year a little more of us is worn away.