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Hard at work in the lab. Read Monica C. Bell’s Yale Law essay on Police Reform and the Dismantling of Legal Estrangement. If I can do it, so can you. This is how we educate ourselves and make real change happen https://www.instagram.com/p/CBQ66ndAp9z/?igshid=1m5cmdjtrybp1

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. . . MLK’s daughter has spoken! *Drops🎤*

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“somebody died but stop breaking stuff” is the weirdest shit yall ever been on. i be truly wishing i could spit on some of yall

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An Open Letter To The Person Sitting In Your Car Watching Us March

Hello. You may have seen me standing in front of your Honda Civic as you blared your horn. I stood in front of your car and didn’t move. I’d like to take a minute, well maybe a few minutes, and let you know why.

I marched yesterday. At first I gathered with a large group at Bushnell park to chant and to pray, but I knew in my heart that that wasn’t it. Then we marched on the first building, and the second, and still I knew I hadn’t found it, I had not found what I had come to this place seeking. Then a man spoke up. I had drawn myself to the front of the crowd so I was close enough to hear him when he said, quietly at first, and then into the megaphone, that we had the numbers. We had the people we needed to march down Main Street and bring the city to a halt. And that was it, that was what I’d needed. I needed to be disruptive.

I found my way to the head of the crowd for this one. I wanted to be there first, on the frontline, watching as people sat in their cars, frozen at green lights, annoyed. Annoyed for the first ten minutes because we wouldn’t move, because you had places to be, you needed to get to work or to the grocery store. Angry after twenty minutes because now you might even be late to work, now your plans are being ruined. I wanted to see you furious after thirty minutes, because now this is ridiculous, it’s gone too far. Now you are late to work, now you’re being punished for this, it’s not like you hurt anybody, you didn’t kill anyone, why can’t you just be on your way? Now you’re laying on your horn because why won’t we just MOVE already.

I needed that. I needed you to feel after thirty minutes what we felt watching another unarmed black man get killed by police. Year after year, time after time, watching Eric Garner, watching Walter Scott, watching Freddie Gray, watching Sandra Bland, watching Breonna Taylor, watching Goerge Floyd. I needed you to feel outraged, to feel disrupted because you can’t just go to work, can’t head home, can’t go on with your life without this rearing up and stopping you dead in their tracks. I needed you to get it, even if it was just for half an hour. To understand that to be black in America today is to be frozen at a green light, knowing there’s no legitimate reason you shouldn’t be able to move forward but here you are, stuck, screaming at the barriers in your path to just MOVE already.

I get it. I’m stuck too, just like you are. But I think I have a plan to get us unstuck. Talk has already begun about what comes next, the steps we have to take. Steps like putting an end to sovereign immunity, creating citizen panels to police the police, voting. The powers that be aren’t ready to hear those steps, not yet, but soon they will be. For now, the disruptions have to continue. Not just at Main Street in Hartford on a Saturday afternoon, but at the precinct. At city halls and town halls across the nation. If you’re gonna be in your car, find a row of cars and park somewhere. Block traffic. Stop people from going to work. Interrupt people’s lives and routines, make them sit there and bear witness the same way you had to, the same way I have to. There will be marches and protests and voices that will demand to be heard, and at times these will turn violent, I know. Sometimes I want to be violent too. But if you don’t want us to burn everything down then join in and help us shut everything down.  Help us make them MOVE. You’ll have your chance the next time you see me. I’ll be the one standing in traffic.

Sincerely,

A Young Man Who’s Had Enough and Needs Your Help

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God. Damn

white person: *eats chicken tikka masala once* i just…. i feel so connected… to indian culture …. I’m learning to speak islam…. check out my third eye….. chakra

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it’s 2018! not only did I reach a follower milestone in the last days of 2017,  2017 wasn’t a good year for a lot of us and I want 2018 to be a good year. So I thought I could start the new year with some presents for you. you can win one of the following prizes:

1. Garrus & Shepard mug (by the amazing @wei723 ) 2. Jaal funko pop 3. Grunt plushie 4. Dorian plushie 5. DA2 crew mug (by the amazing @lyndraws)

5 presents in total, for 5 different winners!

~important~

you don’t need to follow me, I just want to make some of you happy (but you’d make me happy if you decide to follow me)

shipping is worldwide

you need to reblog this post to enter the giveaway. likes don’t count

reblog as much as you want

please write in the tags which prize you want to have the most

I need your address if you win

the giveaway ends January 29th, 2018 January 22nd, 2018

I will message the winners on tumblr. If you don’t response within 48h I’ll have to pick a different winner

good luck!!

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when black people make black people jokes

when white people make black people jokes

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Goofy is the only classic Disney character who has had sex.

Mickey has nephews, Donald has nephews, Goofy has a son.

And he wasn’t adopted, he looks just like him.

Goofy… has had sex. Goofy… has known a woman biblically.

Imagine what it must’ve looked like. Imagine what it sounded like.

These are the things I think about when I wake up in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat.

GA-HYUK.

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GOD DAMNNNNNNNNN

Here’s the full video 😊😊🔥🔥🔥

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Access to white Americans... I feel like this is flawed

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Uniform Crime Reporting Petition

Some of you have seen this and some of you haven’t. I need all of you to sign it. Please reblog this, pass people the link, do whatever you can to boost the signal on this one. It’s a small step to take, it’s an easy step, and it will have a real impact on the way our police force interacts with us. Please help me on this one.

https://www.change.org/p/u-s-house-of-representatives-barack-obama-u-s-senate-force-every-precinct-to-report-officer-caused-deaths-share-those-reports-with-the-public?just_created=true

https://www.facebook.com/MakeUCRMandatory

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Petitioning the Justice System. A Step We Can Take

Would you sign this petition?

Eric Garner died after being choked to death by an officer of the NYPD, specifically Daniel Pantaleo. You know this. I know this. The Federal Bureau of Investigation does not know this. Why? Because the precinct Officer Pantaleo belongs to is in New York, and New York is just one of many states that doesn’t bother to report the lives taken by officers in its employ.

There are other states of course. Florida doesn’t bother to file reports, Illinois doesn’t bother to file reports, even Washington D.C., which isn’t a state but is in fact the capital of this nation, doesn’t bother reporting the lives taken by officers in its precincts. This deliberate miscarriage of justice cannot continue.

Uniform Crime Reporting, better known as UCR, began in 1929. It ought to be a compendium of police reports, a resource citizens can use to better understand the people tasked with protecting them. Instead it is a farce, a farce that presents facts as if it has facts when in actuality it has guesses and half-truths at best. A recent report stated that 233 African-Americans were killed by police in 2014. The same report stated that 414 Whites were killed by police. These numbers are a joke and the trust our nation places in the people who provide us with these figures are the butt of this joke. These numbers are a joke because the majority of the 18,000 law enforcement agencies in this nation don’t bother reporting officer-involved deaths at all. How can any report claim to know the amount of lives taken by police officers when most precincts don’t provide reports, even to the FBI? How can we live in a nation where officers are in the news every other week for killing someone and yet we the people don’t know how many other people have been slain by the police? How is it possible that technology has brought us to the point where 230,000 people around the world can sign a virtual petition calling for police to wear body cameras yet 18,000 law enforcement agencies don’t have anyone who can email police reports to the FBI?

At this point we need more than Uniform Crime Reporting. We need more than an assurance that departments are working on it, or thinking it over, or possibly going to get to it someday. We need those reports. We, the people, need regular access to police reports that document the deaths of our loved ones at the hands of the people we trust to protect us. We need a website where these reports are catalogued by state, city and precinct, so anyone with an interest can read the official police report summarizing the deaths of people we care about. Eric Garner was killed on video camera, I’ve seen it, there’s a good chance you’ve seen it, and yet no one in that precinct forwarded that report to the FBI? When I see the amount of people killed by police in the line of duty I know at least one name that the police didn’t bother to report? We shouldn’t live in a world where this is true. We shouldn’t live in a world where we don’t have the facts we need to support our cries of police accountability, we don’t even know how many people we ought to hold them accountable for.

I need your support here. I need people like you, the person reading this, to support this petition because I’m tired of riots. I’m tired of turning on the news and seeing faces like Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Freddie Gray. I’m tired of seeing a police officer and worrying if I’m next. I know this petition won’t put an end to systemic injustice, but it can be a step towards ending it. If we can get every law enforcement agency in the nation to report every loss of life incident that involves a police officer we can start to get a fuller picture of what’s happening in our nation, on our streets, in front of our homes. If we can get those files declassified and shared with the public then we as a people can start holding officers accountable for the lives they take. I don’t want to watch cities burn, I don’t want to watch people suffer, and I’m tired of not having the facts I need when conversations spring up that require facts before they can affect real change. Don’t let another man die in vain, don’t let another city burn before we act. Let’s start taking some steps, let’s start putting some pressure on legislation, let’s make the police tell us who they kill next time, and why. In short, let’s get this petition signed.

Would you sign this? I don’t know how many shots I’m going to get at getting this done so I want to know first, before I post it on a website or send it to a congressman only to find out the language was wrong and I need to start again. I need to know before we waste more time and more people are lost to us forever, would you sign this? Would your parents sign it, your friends, your coworkers, your whoever? If they would I need to know now so I can get this ball rolling. Please, we need your help. Can’t do this alone.

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That was in the 1960s. We are now in the 2010s, and times have changed. Newspapers have been replaced by the media and strengthened by the ignorance on display in Facebook.