Race and racism are European/ white constructs created and manifested to excuse and perpetuate class, inequality, and stratification; for far too long have we been suffering both silently and publicly.
Can you imagine a world where a man is comfortable enough and confident enough in the institutionalized racism of his regime that he, casually, places both fists in his pockets while his knee is pressed against the neck of an unarmed black man while he's being filmed? I can. It happened within this past week. I couldn't get through watching the video. It was too damn sad.
As a matter of fact, it happened before. And if Ida B. Wells was alive and well today, how full would her book on the lynchings of African Americans would be! Do you guys remember Sean Bell? What about Emmett Till? And Sandra Bland, do you still think of her? What about Tamir Rice? How can we forget about Trayvon Martin?
They still exist. They're more than likely sitting on a celestial throne looking down on us with shame and disgust, but they still exist. They are sons and daughter, husbands and wives, cousins, siblings- their legacy still exists, as does the atrocities that took them from us. We fight, we cry, we protest and we riot, and our pain and hurt is being translated and radicalized as Anti- American.
All lives matter? How can you say that when you're ever the more reluctant to admit that Black lives matter, which would qualify the term, 'All Lives Matter'. No one is saying that all lives don't matter, ironically, you're the one saying it!
I don't know. I don't know how to feel. I've sat on my feelings for a week now and the anger, hurt, disappointment, disgust, betrayal have all left me and now, I feel numb.
Be careful. Riot if you want too, I couldn't give one fuck for Gucci or Target. Just, be careful.
1. Mary Turner, 21 and 8 months pregnant. Lynched in 1918 for speaking out against the lynching of her husband Hayes Turner.
2. Jesse Washington, 17, farmhand. Lynched after being accused of raping and murdering a white woman.
3. George Stinney Jr., 14. Convicted and executed for the rape and murder of two white children. Executed in 1944. Murderer confessed on deathbed, and Stinney's conviction was overruled 70 years after they muredered him. He was 90lbs, too fragile to have committed the crimes.
4. Emmett Till, 14. Killed for whistling at ugly ass Caroline Bryant. Her dusty ass admitted to lying on Emmett, effectively having him killed, but years before she died. Her husband and brother-in-law were found not guilty of the crimes, but did confess to killing him years later.
5. Sam Hose, 24. Shot white employer in self defense.
6. Henry Smith, 17. Coerced into confessing of kidnapping and rape of white girl. He was set on fire, and his remains were sold as souvenirs.
7. Elijah Lovejoy, 35. White abolitionist.
8. Epheriam Grizzard, age unknown. Accused of assaulting white woman. Lynched in mob square.
9. Baby Turner, newborn. Mary and Hayes Turner's baby. Mary's stomach was slit open and the child was pulled from her womb. A member of the lynch mob crushed that child's head in with their boot. They then proceeded to riddle Mary's burning body with bullets. As if burning her was not enough.
I think I should stop there.
