Month: June 2020

Several influencers are sharing photos of themselves in blackface in a severely misguided attempt to show solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.

Source: Influencers wear BLACKFACE to ‘support’ Black Lives Matter | Daily Mail Online

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Denzel Washington Explains Systemic Racism: Washington a legendary actor, his views on American’s criminal justice systems and that black incarceration finds its roots in fatherless home. This is a really important message for liberals to take in. Remember, this is a man who portrayed Malcolm X on film. He’s very well aware of the institutional racism that existed from slavery through to the Jim Crow laws in America. That is no longer the reality in modern day America. Self accountability is so much more important than blaming a system that is not against you. Victim culture helps no one prosper. This is quite showing. Morgan Freeman, knows that race is irrelevant and should never be. In this interview with Mike Wallace, and Don Lemon Morgan Freeman is spot on. Racism ends when it isn’t seen as a relevant point anymore. This is how you end racism. Not through some affirmative action, no quotas, no special privileges for minorities. Especially not guilt tripping white people because they had it better in the past. Just treat everyone as an equal and you get equality. To contact us directly, visit our new sub-central! https://articlevii2018.wixsite.com/ne… ****WE REAL

This past year has seen an enormous amount of attention paid to the toxic divide between police departments and the poor, black communities they serve. One thing we’ve learned is that tribal loyalty often prevents police officers from criticizing each other or their departments publicly—and at least sometimes, they lie when one of their own faces charges of misconduct. That’s why the recent emergence of Michael Wood Jr., a retired Baltimore cop, as a critic of law enforcement culture landed with impact: His voice was the relatively rare one that spoke with the knowledge of an insider but the unforgiving skepticism of an outsider.

In this video, you’ll meet Wood while he drives the streets of the city where he served as a police officer for 11 years, and hear him lay out his conception of what’s going wrong in the world of policing and how it could be made right.

The Minnesota legislature has spent the last five years preparing for the kind of protests that have rocked the city over the past week in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd — by attempting to criminalize them.

From 2016 through 2019, state lawmakers introduced ten bills that either made obstructing traffic on highways a misdemeanor or increased penalties for protesting near oil and gas facilities. Most of these legislative proposals were introduced in response to ongoing protests against a controversial oil pipeline as well as those following the police killing of Philando Castile in a St. Paul suburb in 2016. The bills would have allowed protesters to be jailed for up to a year, fined offenders up to $3,000 each, and allowed cities to sue protesters for the cost of police response. Many of the bills were introduced in 2017 after racial justice activists in the state made headlines shutting down a major highway. A couple others were in response to protests in 2016 and 2019 against the energy company Enbridge’s planned replacement of a pipeline running from Alberta to Wisconsin.

Source: US states have spent the past 5 years trying to criminalize protest | Grist

GREAT FALLS, MONTANA – As protesters demand justice for George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, many Native Americans in Montana are showing solidarity for black Americans.

Floyd, 46, died after pleading for his life as a white police officer pressed his knee into his neck. The incident sparked outrage, and protesters flooded cities worldwide, including Great Falls, Helena, Bozeman, Missoula and Billings, calling for justice and an end to systemic racism.

Source: Native Americans Want to be Included in Race Talks | Voice of America – English

The remains of ninety-five Black people were recently found buried at a construction site in Sugar Land, Texas. The vast majority of reports about this discovery neglect to call these dead Black people what they really were: enslaved.

Source: 95 bodies—how sanitizing slavery keeps America’s hands clean – The Black Youth Project

In 2016, arguably the peak of activist apparel’s popularity, a number of businesses began to sell t-shirts, crewnecks, tote bags, buttons, pins and stickers with variations of the following: “I am not my ancestors; you can catch these hands”.

It is understandable why variations of this phrase caught on so quickly. The last five years have inspired a new generation of activists and organizers, a lot of us unfamiliar with the history of the movement for racial justice and with the philosophies of the Black nationalists who came before us.

Source: Saying “I am not my ancestors” blatantly disrespects how they lived and died for us – The Black Youth Project

Source: Five legendary African cities you didn’t know were destroyed by Europeans – Face2Face Africa