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Will you condemn the kidnapping and torturing of that mentally disabled white kid?

I’m halfway suspecting that you are a troll (forgive me if I am wrong), but you’ve given me an opportunity to comment both on this case and more generally on cases in which white people are the victim and black people/other POC are the aggressor. 

What those people did to that man was wrong on a plethora of levels. It was cruel, it was terrible, it was awful, they deserve to be prosecuted for it, and that man deserves the ability, space, and time to recover to the best of his ability. I have no qualms about saying that this situation is sad, that that man is a victim, and that those responsible deserve punishment.

That being said, at this point in time and from my understanding, the perpetrators have been arrested and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I would even go so far as to say that they will be convicted to the fullest extent of the law, both because there is obvious video evidence (though I know that even that isn’t always enough) and because black people are the most criminalized racial group in the US. This isn’t to say that these specific black people should get off scot-free, it’s just to comment on how they are likely to be treated given societal treatment of black people. 

But, at the end of the day, it appears that the victim is going to get justice. I can grieve for him, I can empathize with him, but this is not an America in which black people can commit a heinous crime against a white person, and do so with video evidence, and get away with it. I don’t need to concern myself with that aspect of this situation.

In a more general sense, white individuals can be victimized by people of color. But when that happens, I am highly confident that those responsible will be held accountable and the victim will have justice. So beyond outrage at another person’s victimization, there’s nothing really to comment on. The fact that I do not have that same confidence when the roles are reversed is an indictment on the state of the American Criminal Justice System today.

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sketches of tonight

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can 2017 be the year of hearies being Good Allies to d/Deaf people?

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My girlhood was Microscopic: a locked window overlooking the Sea. An atlas of disaster: an un-lit hall…

Cynthia Cruz, from “January,” Ruin (via lifeinpoetry)

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More than once I was saved by ruin,

Joseph Fasano, from “Heraclitean,” in Columbia Journal (via a-pair-of-ragged-claws)

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Not everybody in jail is a murderer or a child molester or rapist. People forget that and use that irrationality to demonize and dehumanize people in jail. This helps them not feel sympathy for anything that may happen to prisoners and this helps deny them basic human rights (medical attention, safety, clean food and water). People matter, even the ones in prison. - Ty

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There are wild flowers in my desert which take up to twenty years to bloom. The seeds sleep like geodes beneath hot feldspar sand until a flash flood bolts the arroyo, lifting them in its copper current, opens them with memory— they remember what their god whispered into their ribs: Wake up and ache for your life.

Natalie Diaz, from “Post-Colonial Love Poem“ (via hiddenshores)

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Summer hours

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Roy Lichtenstein

Moonscape, 1965

Screenprint on blue Rowlux

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I am drowning in this past.

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Tsoku Maela hopes that, by showing these photos, he can help address the stigma attached to mental illness within black communities.

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if karl marx was real he could beat you up, effortlessly. karl marx could rip your little twig body asunder

i have like half a foot on him and know all of his weaknesses

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[CN: abuse, police violence] Today, when I saw this video which has gone viral these past few days as a “feel-good” cop story, I finally made the connection. The video is of a black woman being pulled over by police. There is terror on her face as the officer walks up to her car. His gun is at her eye level. But the officer doesn’t reach for the gun—instead, he reaches for two ice cream cones to hand over to her and her passenger. Her terror gives way to the almost tearful relief that she is not going to come to harm at the hands of these officers. At least not today. This fear is what they want. Watching this video, I was suddenly 19 again, trying not to cry while my boyfriend toyed with a sword and told me that I was lucky he’d never hurt me. And I was also the scared mother I was a few months ago, flooded with relief that the cop who followed my baby and I had let us get to the store alive. Watching this video I understood what these “feel-good” video and picture campaigns put on by police departments really are—abuse. They are designed to remind us that they are in charge, and that they are capable of taking our lives in an instant—but if we are good and they are feeling benevolent, they won’t. These videos, combined with the countless videos of black men and women and children shot dead by cops, serve to remind us that we should both fear and love them if we want to survive. And if we don’t survive, we have nobody to blame but ourselves—see how capable of not killing us they can be?

The Abuse Of ‘Feel-Good’ Cop Videos - The Establishment (via thomasalexandermarshall)

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had the thought “kids used to brag about never breaking a bone and now they brag about never cracking the screen of their phone” but then my anti-banksy collar shocked me and now I’m in the hospital