If you are still claiming police needed to kill a child I don't have anything to say to you. Because you're clearly okay with the state murdering kids & that's so far down the road to hell there's no turning back. We can't agree to disagree, we can't discuss it. You have to go.
We’ve literally seen cops apprehend, ARMED white teens, MOMENTS after the teens/young adults murdered people. Let’s not play this game. Short, short memories. Some even get taken to Burger King. Humanity is something not afforded to Black youth. Even when calling 4 help.
Even as we’ve battled the pandemic, we’ve continued to neglect the longer-lasting epidemic of gun violence in America. Although the shooter’s motive is not yet clear, the identity of the victims underscores an alarming rise in anti-Asian violence that must end.
Yesterday's shootings are another tragic reminder that we have far more work to do to put in place commonsense gun safety laws and root out the pervasive patterns of hatred and violence in our society.
Michelle and I pray for the victims, their families, everyone grieving these needless and devastating killings—and we urge meaningful action that will save lives.
When men frame a murderer's actions in terms of him "having a bad day" I can't help but hear them telling the world that they themselves are one bad day away from murdering women, & demanding empathy & recognition for that fact.
That's a word. But it's part of the narrative that poor Southerners are to blame for everything so we can pretend that's the only place racists live and not really evaluate the larger national problem.
When Black and PoC told White folx to talk to their racist relatives during the holidays past four years, they were all like "we don't wanna ruin the mood" over their dry ass unseasoned turkey. And now it's all "let's reach out to them in love." Bye.
...I don't care how progressive you are as a White adult, or that you voted for Obama twice - if you stayed silent around friends and family racist rantings and beliefs YOU ARE COMPLICIT. PERIOD.
With so much going on, Dr. King’s leadership is as steadying a force as it’s ever been. I’ve been reflecting a lot on his example, and how it might help us move forward after these last four years. #MLKDaypic.twitter.com/oGCF2wbT18
In the last 3 weeks, millions of members (a 4,665% increase vs. 3 wks prior) have sought out 13TH, Ava DuVernay’s essential doc about the intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the US.
Ok I am nonbinary. But socially I am read as a woman. A white woman. And from that standpoint I wanna address white women/people socially read as white women because this is important:
we are weapons of white supremacy; in fact, we are THE weapon of white supremacy
— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020
Our supposed "purity" is the justification behind acts of racial violence and murder. Lynchings were so often committed because a black man was accused of assaulting/touching/looking at! a white woman. The specter of black men coming after white women was major racist propaganda
— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020
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And we were not innocent in this of course. This is pretty basic history. Think of "To Kill A Mockingbird," an entire book based on a white woman using the fear of black men's desire to hide her own shame and her father's guilt.
That isn't made up. That happened.
— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020
Emmett Till was murdered because of a white woman who lied. A white woman who has lived her life free from the consequences of her actions, a white woman who caused a child's violent lynching and got away with it.
White women we know of what we are capable
— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020
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And white women, when we call the police on a black person we are knowingly committing a modern-day lynching.#amycooper could very have killed that man, just as Carolyn Bryant Donham killed Emmett Till
— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020
This is a difficult truth to face, I know. White women, sometimes we (and those of us socially read as women) feel like we aren't as bad as white men because we're, you know, women.
But when it comes to racism in general and anti-blackness in particular, the dynamic shifts
— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020
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and white women we have social power--enough social power to get people killed.
So we cannot be passive here. We cannot assume we are doing enough. We have to be very clear that we will not tolerate racism done in our name
— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020
The Obama Diary 