An Imperfect Christian

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Creative Writing Post

#Blacklivesstillmatter #PoliceBrutality #BlackRights #Urgency #TakeAction

Why? Example: #MichaelBrown #SayHisName #HandsupDontShoot

WE NEED #Justice because there’s too much #InjusticeinAmerica

#Wehavethepower Time to #Breakthechains Let’s write #OurOwnEmancipationProclamation

Don’t be fooled: #Whitesincontrol, there is #whiteprivalege, we live in the #Master’shouse and still have #enslavedminds

#Americaanditspeople are #casual and #apathetic

The #minorities shouldn’t have to lean #survivalskills because we are #notsafe

WE NEED #EqualRights #Equalopportunities

#TheTimeIsNow #Urgency Stop #Dismissingtheproblem

Lets end the #unfairtrials #racism and #oppresion

And look at the #biggerpicture

WE CAN #buildsomethingoutofnothing #Blackpride no more #RacialTension

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“I know the police love their ridiculous unnecessary military equipment, so heres another patronizing test…Let’s take it all away from them, and IF they can make it through a whole month without killing a single unarmed black man, then and only then they can get their fucking toys back.”

-Ferguson, Oliver

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i love how Oliver took a sensitive subject of police brutality and made it comical while also getting to the point. Honestly, if we were to ever take away the police’s guns and weapons, i feel like they would realize how much they have been overusing them against black people.

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Dear white people. You know what? Nevermind

Dear White People (via trevore206)

I like this because it brought the whole movie together. It was like saying that my work here is done. I have done my part to show you what the problem is, now it is time to fix it.

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Dear White People (the movie)

“Black people can’t be racist, prejudice yes, but not racist.” -quoted (Sam Whites character)

Dictionary.com Racist- A person who believes in racism, the doctrine that one’s own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to others.

Prejudice- unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding an ethnic, racial, social, or religious group.

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i agree with Sam in this post in that it is very hard for a marginalized group in society to racist towards a privileged group because they themselves are already marginalized so how can they do the same to another group?

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Low Standards for Whites. That's What's Killing Us

“when Dylan Roof killed 9 black people in their church and the police gave him a bulletproof vest and bought him lunch” -Mitchell

In contrast, unarmed black men are shot dead. This is exactly the type of behavior that sparks resentment and mistrust within the black community towards law enforcement. How is this possible?

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When i first saw this on the internet i was completely upset and disappointed in the way our government handled the situation and the way society backed this guy. it truly shows where we are in today’s society and how unified were aren’t.

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Before the mainstream media had caught up to what was happening, the mass of hashtagged tweets was a way of calling attention to an underreported incident of police brutality.

Bonilla and Rosa, “#Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States”

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Claudia Rankine: I think having a term for a condition that is prevalent is useful, because then people understand it as something not particular to them. It allows you not to ask the question, “What’s wrong with me?” and begin to ask the question, “What’s wrong with this place that I’m in?

Sharma, “Blackness as the Second Person“

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You think yourself a sushi chef, proud of how nice and fresh you sliced this flesh.

Franny Choi

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What's wrong? Is he afraid  letting the negroes gather in groups might start a little rebeillion on his plantation

Dear White People (2014)

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Selma

President: “This voting things is just gonna have to wait”

Mlk: “it can’t wait, Mr. President”.

President: “well why not?”

MLK: “Because there have been thousands of racially motivated murders in the South including those four girls.”

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The truth is that our country’s standards for white people are so low that most of our problems—including the unrelenting violence against people of color—can be traced to those low standards.

Koritha Mitchell, “Low Standards”

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We sweat for a nickel and a dime Turn it into an empire

Rihanna, “American Oxygen”

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Here's the thing the mayor doesn't understand: as a general rule no one should be able to say there has been no history of racial tension here, because that sentence has never been true anywhere on Earth

John Oliver

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Each moment is like this-before it can be known, categorized as similar to another thing and dismissed, it has to be experienced, it has to be seen.

Rankine, “Citizen”

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See, I only date hood. My last man? He never even met his father. Four women, six kids. Three of whom are named after luxury cars. Child support? Do you know anything about your people?

Ross Gay, “ Some Instructions on Black Masculinity Offered to my Black Friend by the White Woman He Briefly Dated, A Monologue”

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That major that she majored in don't make no money But she won't drop out, her parents will look at her funny Now, tell me that ain't insecurrre The concept of school seems so securrre Sophmore three yearrrs aint picked a careerrr She like fuck it, I'll just stay down herre and do hair

Kanye West, “All Falls Down”

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Our sense is that the criminal system cannot be relied upon to administer justice for Black folks, and was, in fact, historically designed to control Blacks within a racial caste system.

Richael Faithful, “#BlackLivesMatter Kitchen Talk”