callsmemolls:
“Nearly three weeks after an unarmed teenager was killed in a small city north of Orlando, stirring an outcry, a few indisputable facts remain: the teenager, who was black, was carrying nothing but a bag of Skittles, some money and a can of iced tea when he was shot. The neighborhood crime watch volunteer who got out of his car and shot him is white and Hispanic. He has not been arrested and is claiming self-defense.
The police in of Sanford, where the shooting took place, are not revealing details of the investigation. Late Friday night, after weeks of pressure, the police played the 911 calls in the case for the family and gave copies to the news media. On the recordings, one shot, an apparent warning or miss, is heard, followed by a voice begging or pleading, and a cry. A second shot is then heard, and the pleading stops.
‘It is so clear that this was a 17-year-old boy pleading for his life, and someone shot him in cold blood,’ said Natalie Jackson, one of the Martin family lawyers.”
The tapes are horrifying. Why isn’t anything being done about this?
tsotchke:
of-praxis:
TW: Domestic violence, suicide
Erica Delgado was from the state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico. Chihuahua shares its border with Texas and New Mexico. Ciudad Juarez is its largest city. Juarez shares a bridge over the Rio Grande River with El Paso, Texas.
Juarez is the murder capital of North America. Chihuahuais infested with drug cartels and is one of the most violent areas in North America.
Erica Delgado was married in Chihuahua when she was not quite twenty. Her husband beat her repeatedly and she quickly learned to fear him.
They moved to Cheyenne twelve years ago. They came here illegally. They came for the same reasons almost everyone has come to this countryfrom Mexico: they wanted out of the desperate poverty that ruled their lives.
That is exactly why my ancestors came to this country from the British Isles,with no papers and with no government’s permission.
In Cheyenne the beatings continued. Erica Delgado persevered. She reported two incidents to Cheyenne police. She gave birth to her daughter, Miriam Ortiz, in Cheyenne.
So Miriam Ortiz was a U.S. citizen. She attended Cheyenne schools and was well liked. Children, even those exposed to family violence, have a special beauty and innocence. You see that in Miriam’s photographs.
The beatings continued until Ms. Delgado’s husband went back to Mexico, leaving his small family here with, at last, some respite from the violence. It is unclear whether he left on his own or was deported.
On January 24of this year agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), accompanied by deputies from the Laramie County Sheriff’s Department, raided several homes in Cheyenne. They were after twelve people with Hispanic names working at Little America and suspected of being in the country illegally.
Erica Delgado was one of those. She was not arrested because there was no one to keep her daughter.
She told her friend that she was terrified of two things: having her daughter taken from her and having to go back to Chihuahua where her husband could find her.
If this is not a sign that we urgently need massive reforms on immigration and complete overhauls in the way the US treats undocumented immigrants, I really don’t know what is.
The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.
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Morpheus, The Matrix
Look. This is the most applicable-to-life quote I have ever seen. So many of us are deemed radicals for refusing to accept how things currently are and for daring to speak out against the flaws in the system, and the backlash we get is exactly what is described in this quote.
Wake the fuck up, people.
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OMG this is perfect.
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black-culture:
- Blacks-in-Science-Ancient-and-Modern
- Golden-Age-of-The-Moor
- They Came Before Columbus
- Early America Revisited
- Black-Women-in-Antiquity
- African Prescence in Early Europe
- African Prescence in Early Asia
- Eygpt Revisited
- Great-Black-Leaders-Ancient-and Modern
- Great…
For it is not the anger of Black women which is dripping down over this globe like a diseased liquid. It is not my anger that launches rockets, spends over sixty thousand dollars a second on missiles and other agents of war and death, pushes opera singers off rooftops, slaughters children in cities, stockpiles nerve gas and chemical bombs, sodomizes our daughters and our earth. It is not the anger of Black women which corrodes into blind, dehumanizing power, bent upon the annihilation of us all unless we meet it with what we have, our power to examine and to redefine the terms upon which we will live and work; our power to envision and to reconstruct, anger by painful anger, stone upon heavy stone, a future of pollinating difference and the earth to support our choices.
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Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger” (via so-treu)
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I believe that when we contemplate a grammar of suffering through the machinations of libidinal economy… we find that the imaginative labor of White radicalism… is animated by the same ensemble of questions and the same structure of feeling that animates White supremacy. Which is to say that while the men and women in blue, with guns and jailers’ keys, appear to be White supremacy’s front line of violence against Blacks, they are merely its reserves, called on only when needed to augment White radicalism’s always already ongoing patrol of a zone more sacred than the streets: the zone of White ethical dilemmas, of civil society at every scale, from the White body, to the White household, through the public sphere on up to the nation. Anti-Blackness, then, as opposed to White apathy, is necessary to White political radicalism… because it sutures affective, emotional, and even ethical solidarity between the ideological polar extremes of Whiteness. This necessary anti-Blackness erects a structural prohibition that one sees in White political discourse…. It prevents Whites from being authorized by the ethical demands of the Slave.
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Frank B. Wilderson, III. 2010. Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms. Duke: p. 131. (via james-bliss)
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In 1967, Israel expanded and annexed East Jerusalem and its 69,000 Palestinian residents. Israel didn’t make these Palestinians Israeli citizens, but instead labeled them “permanent residents.” As such, they may vote in municipal, but not national, elections. They can’t run for mayor. They can’t be appointed as judges. They don’t have Israeli passports. Their status as residents of the city is governed by the laws of entry to Israel, as though they were foreign supplicants who are in Jerusalem by the good graces of Israel, rather than a native born society with inalienable rights. Consequently, their “right” to live in Jerusalem often hangs by a thread and under numerous circumstances — protracted studies abroad, receiving a work permit in an EU country, or moving down the road to Bethlehem — the residency rights of a Palestinian whose family has resided in Jerusalem for centuries can be revoked by a routine, bureaucratic stroke of the pen.
In 1967, Israeli didn’t ask the Palestinian population what they wanted, and this approach persists through the present day. Jerusalem has never had Palestinian mid-level or senior public civil servants. Zoning and construction decisions that affect Palestinians are determined by boards on which no Palestinian has ever served.
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Virtually all Palestinian political activity is forbidden in Jerusalem, customarily shut down by order of the Police Commissioner. Orient House, historically the political seat of East Jerusalem Palestinians, was shut down by Israel in 2001, along with the East Jerusalem Chamber of Commerce; contrary to Israel’s 2003 Roadmap commitments, neither has been re-opened.
Over the past year, Israel has launched a campaign against Palestinian grassroots leaders who organize non-violent protests against Israeli policies, like settlement efforts in Silwan/City of David, where hundreds of children have been arrested. And in recent months, when a public meeting was called at an East Jerusalem hotel to discuss censorship of Palestinian textbooks by Israeli authorities, the owner of the hotel was warned that he would be arrested if the meeting took place.
Palestinians of East Jerusalem are for all intents and purposes a society of the doubly-disenfranchised.
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mohandasgandhi:
The Pacific nation of Kiribati is negotiating to buy land in Fiji so it can move islanders under threat from rising sea levels, in what could be the first climate-induced relocation of a country.
Anote Tong, the Kiribati President, said he was in talks with Fiji’s military government to buy up to 2000 hectares of freehold land on which his 113,000 countrymen could resettle.
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”This is the last resort, there’s no way out of this one,” Mr Tong said. ”Our people will have to move as the tides have reached our homes and villages.”
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It’s time to start seriously talking about climate change. It should have never gotten to this point.
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