#racial injustice

[alwaysbewoke]

#mlk #assassination #civil rights #social justice #historical event #racial equality #legacy #racism #martin luther king jr #civil rights movement #social unrest #protests #riots #james baldwin #grief #racial injustice #historical reflection

[politijohn]

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“[Mayor] Adams ordered the clearing of hundreds of homeless camps and sent an additional 1,000 police officers to patrol subways and remove homeless people from train cars and platforms. He also simultaneously cut $615M from the city’s Department of Homeless Services.”

#politics #us politics #black lives matter #racial injustice #racism #murder #government #the left #current events #news #activism #progressive #jordan Neely #New York

[ausetkmt]

Lynching This is a practice that DEA and FBI still do, in a way.

#Lynching #This is a practice that DEA and FBI still do #in a way. #lynching #white hate #white supremacy #racial injustice

[bfpnola]

I'm not done yet but I wanted to share some of the study guides I've been creating on our new Liberation Library platform!

Anarchism:

Abolition:

Racial Injustice:

Disability Justice:

Mad Studies:

If y'all know of any novels, articles, or preferably auditory material (films, YouTube videos, TED talks, podcasts, etc.) for any of the aforementioned topics or for the following that you feel are best for BEGINNERS, please comment them: Land Back, Free Palestine, antisemitism, migrant & refugee rights, islamophobia, climate change/intersectional environmentalism, gender equity/intersectional feminism/womanism, classism, children's rights, educational equity, anti-capitalism, or organizing

#reaux speaks #resources #anarchism #mad liberation #disability justice #racial injustice #bipoc #abolition #police abolition #prison abolition #study guide

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled Wednesday that a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the father of a man shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse during a protest in 2020 can proceed against Rittenhouse, police officers and others.

The father of Anthony Huber, one of two men shot and killed by Rittenhouse, filed the lawsuit in 2021, accusing officers of allowing for a dangerous situation that violated his son's constitutional rights and resulted in his death. Anthony Huber's father, John Huber, also alleged that Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time of the shootings, conspired with law enforcement to cause harm to protestors. John Huber is seeking unspecified damages from city officials, officers and Rittenhouse.

U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman on Wednesday dismissed motions filed by Rittenhouse and the government defendants seeking to dismiss the civil rights lawsuit.

In allowing the case against Rittenhouse and the others to proceed, the judge said that Anthony Huber's death "could plausibly be regarded as having been proximately caused by the actions of the governmental defendants."

Rittenhouse attorney Shane Martin said in a phone interview that it's important to note the ruling doesn't address the merits of the case, it only allows it to proceed to the next phase.

"While we respect the judge's decision, we do not believe there is any evidence of a conspiracy and we are confident, just as a Kenosha jury found, Kyle's actions that evening were not wrongful and were undertaken in self defense," Martin said.

Attorneys and private investigators for John Huber spent over 100 hours trying to locate Rittenhouse, tracking down addresses in seven states before they found the home of his mother and sister in Florida. The lawsuit was served on Rittenhouse's sister, who said that he wasn't home. Adelman said that was sufficient to qualify as being served.

Rittenhouse had argued that the case against him should be dismissed because he wasn't properly served with the lawsuit. Adelman dismissed that, saying that Rittenhouse "is almost certainly evading service."

"Rittenhouse has been deliberately cagey about his whereabouts," Adelman wrote. "Although he denies living in Florida, he does not identify the place that he deems to be his residence."

Attorneys for the law enforcement and government officials being sued did not immediately return emailed messages seeking comment.

The ruling puts Anthony Huber's family "one step closer to justice for their son's needless death," said Anand Swaminathan, one of the attorneys for parents John Huber and Karen Bloom.

"The Kenosha officials that created a powder keg situation by their actions tried to claim that they cannot be held accountable for their unconstitutional conduct; that argument was soundly rejected today," Swaminathan said in a statement.

Rittenhouse was charged with homicide, attempted homicide and reckless endangering for killing Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum and wounding a third person with an AR-style semi-automatic rifle in the summer of 2020 during a tumultuous night of protests over the shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by a white Kenosha police officer.

Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges in November 2021 after testifying he acted in self-defense. Rittenhouse's actions became a flashpoint in the debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice in the U.S.

Rittenhouse went to Kenosha from his home in nearby Antioch, Illinois, after businesses were ransacked and burned in the nights that followed Blake's shooting. He joined other armed civilians on the streets, carrying a weapon authorities said was illegally purchased for him because he was underage.

Rittenhouse first killed Rosenbaum, 36, in the parking lot of an auto dealership and as Rittenhouse ran from the scene he stumbled and fell. Anthony Huber, 26, struck Rittenhouse with his skateboard and tried to disarm him. Rittenhouse fell to the ground and shot Anthony Huber to death and wounded demonstrator Gaige Grosskreutz, 27.

This case is one of several ongoing civil lawsuits filed in the wake of the shootings. Grosskreutz last year filed a similar lawsuit against Rittenhouse.

Rittenhouse has maintained a high public profile, particularly on social media, where he is an outspoken advocate for gun rights. He has nearly 1 million followers on Twitter and has spoken at conservative gatherings.

#us politics #news #abc news #abc 7 Chicago #ap news #2023 #kyle rittenhouse #kenosha #kenosha protests #gun violence #gun rights #vigilantism #racial injustice #2020 protests #Wisconsin #Anthony Huber #Anand Swaminathan #John Huber #Shane Martin #Judge Lynn Adelman #wrongful death lawsuit

[headinthecloudssss]

— Harper Lee, from To kill a mockingbird

#to kill a mockingbird #harper lee #book recommendation #bildungsroman #coming of age #childhood #innocence #courage #social issues #racial injustice #internalized prejudice #classic literature #favorite quotes #book quotes #inspiration #american literature #scout finch #jem finch #atticus finch

[profeminist]

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"To say 'I don’t see race' in a country where race was the metric for humanity is to functionally state 'I choose not to see injustice.'"

tori williams douglass

#race #race relations #racial injustice #racial oppression #racial inequality #racism #racist

[afriblaq]

#amerikkka #roe v wade #roe versus wade #systematic injustice #systematic failure #systematic oppression #black lives matter #blacklivesmatter #racial injustice #women's rights #women of color #abortion rights #white fragility #white fear #replacement theory #racism

[helloparkerrose]

#catholicism #roman catholic #catholic #catholic church #female catholic saint #female saint #saint katharine drexel #racial injustice #heiress #feast day #march 3rd

[randomberlinchick]

Judge sentences Black child, 10, to three months of probation for peeing in public | Mississippi | The Guardian

“Sentencing anyone, let alone a young child, to probation under these facts is sure to add to the trauma and denigration this child has suffered since their arrest,” Ndiaye said. “This is all the more proof that we need to severely limit police interactions with civilians, from petty retail theft to traffic stops and even so-called ‘quality of life’ offenses. For Black people in America, it is a matter of life and death.”

There is something seriously wrong in the US. I left a while ago, so all I know is what friends and relatives tell me and what I read in the news . . . oh and here of course. Trump is not the problem, he's just a symptom of a very serious disease in that country, which shows no sign of being properly diagnosed let alone cured.

So yeah Ms. Simone. . .

#mississipi #racial injustice #black children #nina simone #Youtube

[lavendernhoney]

While I do think 19 seasons is to long for a show to run I’m glad Grey’s Anatomy is still going because they’re really capturing the horror that is being a healthcare provider in the US right now.

Covid and its fall out, the fight for women’s healthcare and right to abortions, mass shootings, and the race inequity in healthcare that underlines the other problems. And they don’t make these like issues tackled in an episode and then move on. The show is now inseparable from these issues just as real healthcare is inseparable from these issues. They’re showing how hard black people, especially black women, have to advocate for their health, how their pain is dismissed. How the ban on abortion is killing women and making it unsafe for doctors to provide care. How the mass death of healthcare providers during Covid is still putting a strain on the whole system and making burnout even worse. How much people just don’t get life saving healthcare because they can’t afford it. How healthcare itself has become politicized.

#greys anatomy #healthcare #women’s health #abortion rights #racial issues #racial injustice #like they tell it all on their overdramatized way #where someone is always either dying or having sex in a closet #it is a medical DRAMA #but I think they’re doing pretty good #they’ve also always been relatively queer and trans friendly #mark Sloan was providing gender affirming care like over 10 years ago #far from perfect but I really appreciate what they’ve done

[alwaysbewoke]

#african diaspora #rewriting history #accomplishments #systemic oppression #historical revisionism #cultural heritage #racial superiority #discrimination #historical erasure #colonialism #cultural suppression #racial injustice

[dragonlover158429]

Guess who just came back drained of all energy because she spent the day contradicting stupid b*tards. And then they ask me: "why do you look so tired all the time?". Well what can I say? "I'm sorry, putting up with humanity's hate and evil is really taking a lot out of me." I mean, I know it would be much less emotionally draining to just ignore them and not lead an argument but I had to say SOMETHING!

Like I'm French and I have to hear all day other students laughing RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME at how disgusting and arrogant french people are. And when I confront them it's "oh come onnnnn... It's true and you know it. You should be glad we accept YOU, because you're not like them, you're nice" EXCUSE ME?! I should be feeling grateful that you "FORGIVE" me for being french?! You're knowledge of french people goes down to having travelled to Paris for holidays 3 weeks in your life, but you let that define a whole nation?! And no one supports me. I am the only french native in the international high school so I have no support. They think it's normal. Worse they think it's JUSTIFIED.

And then during English lesson we were talking about prejudices and the danger of a single story. We were debating in groups and I thought (oh how naively) it would be a good idea to lead the debate towards furries because of the unjustified hate and prejudices they receive at the moment... Welp...

So a guy started saying furries are mentally unstable (which is a prejudice and not true in any way, not that I have anything against people struggling with mental issues ofc), and they think they're animals (techniqually that's therians than furries, but therians know they are humans though, they just don't completely feel human), and then he said we (who the heck is "we", I certainly do not relate to you in any way) should hunt them down like animals, since they identify as such. (WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT THE F*CK)

And then before I could say anything the teacher asked our group: "so what did you learn about the danger of a single story (name). And the guy turns around. And says to the whole class, looking the teacher in the eyes: "Well sir, I believe the most important thing is to not dehumanise people because of our personal bias. As it is unfair and will inevitably lead to hate and violence." (he didn't say it that well as that dumbass has no vocabulary whatsoever, I wrote it in a way you can understand better).

......

see what I mean?

So of course I had to say something. And I don't regret anything. The good thing with being neurodivergent is that in moment like these my immense sense of justice makes up for my social awkwardness and I don't stutter or can't make eye contact anymore. I wish I could talk more about the heated debate that followed, but writing this has definetly drained me of whatever energy I had left and I can't go on.

I know I'm ranting and venting and I'm sorry, but honestly..... humanity sometimes....

#rant post #vent post #angry #i dont know #this is my second post on tumblr Idk what to write for tags #french #stop prejudice #stop haters #therian #nonhuman #otherkin community #therian community #cryptidcore #Idk why I put cryptidcore except it's my new obsessive interest #racial injustice

[stylechronicles]

A Tale of Resistance: Malcolm X and the Wounded Knee Massacre

Introduction:

In the annals of American history, two significant events stand as symbols of resistance and the struggle for justice: the activism of Malcolm X and the Wounded Knee Massacre. Though seemingly unrelated, these events are intertwined through the shared themes of indigenous rights, racial injustice, and the fight against systemic oppression. In this blog post, we delve into the relationship between Malcolm X and the Wounded Knee Massacre, exploring how their stories intersect and shed light on the ongoing struggle for equality and liberation.

Malcolm X: Championing Civil Rights and Empowerment:

Malcolm X, an influential civil rights leader, advocated for the rights and empowerment of African Americans in the United States. He staunchly opposed racial segregation, challenged white supremacy, and called for black liberation. His powerful speeches and unwavering commitment to social justice inspired a generation to resist oppression and fight for their rights.

Indigenous Rights and the Plight of Native Americans:

Parallel to the civil rights movement, Native Americans were also engaged in their own struggle for justice and self-determination. Native American communities faced centuries of displacement, forced assimilation, and broken treaties. The Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 stands as a tragic symbol of the violence and oppression inflicted upon Native Americans by the U.S. government.

Common Ground: The Fight Against Systemic Oppression:

Despite their different backgrounds, Malcolm X and Native American activists shared a common understanding of systemic oppression and the need for collective resistance. Both movements sought to challenge oppressive systems and secure justice for their respective communities. Malcolm X's teachings on self-determination and the fight against institutionalized racism resonated with Native American activists who sought to reclaim their cultural identity and sovereignty.

Intersectionality and Solidarity:

The relationship between Malcolm X and the Wounded Knee Massacre extends beyond shared struggles; it highlights the importance of intersectionality and solidarity in the fight against oppression. By recognizing the interconnectedness of various struggles, activists can forge alliances, build bridges, and amplify their collective voices. Malcolm X's emphasis on unity and the power of alliances resonated with Native American activists, leading to a convergence of their efforts during the civil rights era.

Legacy and Lessons Learned:

Both Malcolm X and the Wounded Knee Massacre left a lasting impact on the fight for justice and equality. Malcolm X's legacy continues to inspire activists around the world, reminding them to challenge systems of oppression and demand liberation. The Wounded Knee Massacre serves as a stark reminder of the ongoing struggle for indigenous rights and the need to address historical injustices.

Conclusion:

The relationship between Malcolm X and the Wounded Knee Massacre unveils the interconnectedness of struggles for justice and the need for solidarity among marginalized communities. These historical events remind us that the fight against systemic oppression transcends boundaries and demands collective action. By exploring the shared themes of indigenous rights, racial justice, and resistance, we honor the legacies of both Malcolm X and the Wounded Knee Massacre. As we strive for a more just and equitable society, let us draw strength from these stories of resilience and continue the work of dismantling oppressive systems that affect us all.

#Malcolm X #Wounded Knee Massacre #Resistance #Activism #Civil Rights #Indigenous Rights #Racial Injustice #systemic oppression #Equality #Liberation #Empowerment #Self-determination #intersectionality #solidarity #Historical Injustices #Marginalized Communities #cultural identity #sovereignty #collective action #legacy #Social Justice #hip hop #black culture #hiphop fashion #hip hop style #streetwear #hip hop fashion #social issues #discrimination #human rights

[iamthefruitlord]

guys this is so important

#racisim #racial injustice #please watch this #Youtube

[shamandrummer]

Words Are Monuments

A national reckoning with American history and racial injustice has been playing out on the terrain of monuments, museums, school curricula, and increasingly -- maps. While the Department of the Interior plans to rename 660 place-names with the derogatory term "sq**w," a new study published in the journal People and Nature shows that misogynist and racist slurs are the tip of the iceberg. Violence in place-names can take many forms, including the erasure of Indigenous knowledge and languages.

Titled "Words Are Monuments," the study reveals a system-scale pattern of place-names that perpetuate settler colonial mythologies, including white supremacy. Through a quantitative analysis of 2,200 place-names in 16 National Parks, researchers identified:

• 10 racial slurs

• 52 places named for settlers who committed acts of violence against Indigenous peoples. For example, Mt. Doane, in Yellowstone, and Harney River, in the Everglades, commemorate individuals who led massacres of Indigenous peoples, including women and children.

• 107 natural features that retained traditional Indigenous names, compared with 205 names given by settlers that replaced traditional names found on record.

While the Department of the Interior has established a task force to address derogatory place-names, the agency has faced some criticism for what Washington State officials and area tribes are calling a rushed process, with proposed replacement names that are largely colonial.

Calls to re-Indigenize place-names in national parks and monuments have been gathering steam, from the Blackfeet Nation's recent petition to return traditional names to mountains in Glacier National Park, to the Puyallup Tribe's campaign to rename Mount Rainier to Təqʷuʔməʔ, or Mount Tahoma.

A new website and national campaign inspired by these efforts and the place-names study launches today at WordsAreMonuments.org. Created by the pop-up social justice museum The Natural History Museum, the site features an interactive map with stories from problematic place-names cited in the study; a step-by-step guide from the National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers on how to officially change place-names; video interviews with cultural geographers and Tribal leaders; and ways to take action to support renaming campaigns.

The Natural History Museum will also host a free series of online events featuring Indigenous leaders, artists, activists and scholars that explores:

• Why place names matter and how the movement to 'undo the colonial map' relates to other movements that reckon with American history -- to topple Confederate and colonial monuments, decolonize museums, and overhaul school curricula;

• The relationship between language and ideology, and the power of place names in encoding a way of seeing, understanding, and relating to the land;

• How campaigns to re-Indigenize place names on federal lands are not just about making public lands more inclusive, but are stepping stones on the path to Indigenous co-governance and land rematriation;

• The global reckoning with colonial and imperialist history, including successful and ongoing efforts to replace colonial place-names in New Zealand, India, Palestine, South Africa, and beyond.

#national monuments #racial injustice #re-indigenize #misogyny #racism #indigenous rights #decolonization