List of places where it is unsafe to be a person of color.
Home? nope
Church? nope
Hospital? nope
School? nope
Walking home? nope
Playing? nope
Pool Party? nope
Driving? nope
Holding a gun in an open carry state? nope
Standing? nope
Working? nope
Join the #LoveArmy: Fight Different https://t.co/jYj3YGk53K pic.twitter.com/O7ZzuICfB8
— glenn robinson (@getgln) December 9, 2016
When the U.S. border patrol actually kills Mexican migrants, Trump flips the script by using the words “killing us” as in Mexicans are killing us. I know he means it as a figure of speech, but the word play he uses is a constant manipulation of sentiment put into the public at large.
I love the Mexican people, but Mexico is not our friend. They’re killing us at the border and they’re killing us on jobs and trade. FIGHT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 30, 2015
So Ralph Lauren, the serial cultural appropriator of all things Native American, is in trouble once again. Lauren has given offense to Native Americans before with his inappropriate uses of war bonnets and eagle feathers. There was also that time he appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show, showing off his absurdly fetishized and culturally mangled collection of “Navajo stuff” in the five “hand painted” teepees he maintains as extravagantly outfitted guest quarters on his Colorado ranch.
Now, Lauren has found a new way to appropriate Native culture, while inflicting real psychic harm on Native people at the same time; reinscribe the historical trauma of a 19th century-originated genocidal policy of forced cultural assimilation and massive dispossession of tribal lands upon them by using the frozen images of their dead relatives in faux-assimilationist pose.
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Source: billmoyers.com
Nemequene Tundama of the Mexica Movement London Chapter speaking at Uhuru’s protest outside the US embassy in London in support of the people of Ferguson and Mike Brown.
– From ‘MEXICA MOVEMENT LONDON – 2014 IN PICTURES‘ –
Source: www.youtube.com
Protesters from the East to West coasts of the US ushered in the New Year with ‘Black Lives Matter’ marches against police brutality. In St Louis demonstrators tried to take over a police station, demanding that the “occupiers” be “removed from power.”
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Source: thefreethoughtproject.com
#BLACKLIVESMATTER
#NoJusticeNoPeace
YOU MUST WATCH!!! THIS IS THE MOST EMPOWERING HISTORY LESSON ABOUT THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA EVERY GIVEN.
Someone sent me this lecture given by Dr. Joy DeGruy that will educate and give you real knowledge that white America doesn’t want you to know. She explains the horrible history and pain inflected upon people of African descent in America. She thoroughly explains the justify the use of mechanisms used to keep this cultural group deprived and in slavery.
IF YOU DO NOTHING ELSE YOU MUST TAKE THE HOURS OR SO TO BE EMPOWERED AS TO WHY PEOPLE OF COLOR CONTINUE TO SUFFER AT THE HANDS OF WHITE AMERICA. YOU WILL UNDERSTAND!!!
“Sorry for the inconvenience we are trying to change the world” #BlackLivesMatter #ICantBreathe #nyc #Seattle pic.twitter.com/eUGsqNJ4VM
Source: twitter.com
In a bold move, heavyweight actor Samuel L. Jackson has issued a call to action, similar to that of the ice bucket challenge, but for police.
Saturday, on his facebook page, Jackson offers to “all [the] celebrities that poured ice water on [their] head, a chance to do something else.”
Jackson challenges celebrities to sing the “We ain’t gonna stop, till people are free” song.
The song starts off with a reference to Eric Garner’s last words.
I can hear my neighbor cryin’ ‘I can’t breathe’
Now I’m in the struggle and I can’t leave.
Callin’ out the violence of the racist police.
We ain’t gonna stop, till people are free.
We ain’t gonna stop, till people are free.
Jackson then ends the 47 second challenge asking celebrities to “come on, sing it out.”
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Source: thefreethoughtproject.com