April 2012
61 posts
I live in America
michellemignon:
where a chick that threw flour on Kim Kardashian was arrested on site. But the man who KILLED Trayvon Martin is still free
March 2012
77 posts
“[…] the shooting death of Trayvon Martin (black, male, seventeen, unarmed save...”
– Trayvon Martin and the Parameters of Hope (via pantslessprogressive)
Romney Louisiana Endorser: Undocumented Immigrants... →
racisminthegop:
I need to resubscribe to Mother Jones. They are doing excellent work.
Racism? in Louisiana? I know. It sounds farfetched. But read the article. Here’s a quote from this piece by Louisiana state rep. Tim Burns:
They’re frustrated by the inability to go to Walmart at night, they’re scared to go to Walmart at night…You weren’t sure you were in this country. Not trying to profile...
“Family planning initiatives in the Deep South in the 1950s encouraged women of...”
– Loretta Ross, White Supremacy and Reproductive Justice, in Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology
A lot of progressives like to go around talking about the radicalization of the right around abortion issues. While it’s true that anti-choice extremism has become more mainstreamed, the repeated...
The Joseph Kony propaganda video got shared on my...
claireabigail:
The Trayvon Martin story? Less than 5.
Kony has fled from Uganda in 2006, Trayvon was murdered on February 26, 2012 and George Zimmerman is still a free man right now. Oh, and Florida is MUCH closer to home than Uganda. People rather spread a scam directed by a psychotic man who ran around naked on the streets and vandalized cars, than help put the heartless murderer who shot an...
Obama: 'If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon →
gelopanda:
Obama explains his view and concerns about the Trayvone Martin v Zimmerman controversy
Beck's Website Calls Trayvon Martin "The... →
racisminthegop:
Mother Jones has an excellent piece dissecting Beck’s website’s analysis of the Trayvon Martin Killing. Excerpts:
One post attacking Al Sharpton for criticizing local police for not arresting Zimmerman posits that Martin was once suspended from school for being tardy. The post then speculates that Martin could really have been suspended for any number of reasons, and offers a...
Decadence of the Amazan: Treyvon Martin →
colormeinspirational:
Initially, this story made me upset and disappointed in our country’s government. However, after looking more deeply into the details, I am absolutely disgusted and appaled. I plan on doing a speech about this for class so I figured I would share some of my findings.
1. Treyvon was deemed…
White People, You Will Never Look Suspicious! →
imbodybeautiful:
I will never look suspicious to you. Even if I have a black hoodie, a pair of jeans and white sneakers on…in fact, that is what I wore yesterday…I still will never look suspicious. No matter how much the hoodie covers my face or how baggie my jeans are, I will never look out of place to you. I will never watch a taxi cab pass me by to pick someone else up. I will never witness...
“I’ve talked to his friends who are African American and they don’t think he’s...”
–
Zimmerman’s Attorney, Craig Sonner (Source)
You see the problem right? I know you do. White folks, stop doing this! Stop pointing to your token Black friend and saying “See, he doesn’t think it was racist!” So the fuck what?! First, you always truck out this phantom person that nobody ever...
“I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George...”
– Geraldo Rivera on Fox News. (via officialssay)
The Art Of A Revolution: Please Sign This!!! →
theartofarevolution:
“On February 26, 2012, a 17-year-old African-American named Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in Sanford, Florida. The shooter was George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old white man. Zimmerman admits killing Martin, but claims he was acting in self-defense. Three weeks after Martin’s death, no…
Occupy All Streets: Survey of... →
occupyallstreets:
A chart from the Society of Professional Journalists’ survey indicates the extremely high amount of journalists who say that agency officials monitor interviews with agency employees. In fact, only 9% of journalists say that this rarely or never happens.
Public Intelligence
The Society…
Yeah, That Needs To Go: Yes, you are *like that* →
madamethursday:
Dear Fellow White People,
I’ve noticed that when PoC (particularly the many wonderful WoC here on Tumblr) talk about their lived experiences and things happening to them and their communities, especially things inflicted by white people, white patriarchy, or general…
Watchangrywhitekid:
Free Oscar López Rivera - Support this Kickstarter campaign.
blacksocialjournal asked: Hello , My name is Brittany Isabella Symonette and I would like to know if you would like to organize in support of Trayvon Martin justice. If you have not heard of the story recently a 17 year old was gunned down by a Community Watch Leader and I think we should show support of his family - Because on a very real human level, He could have been any one of our family members - Our brother or...
“Every aware black person who has been the “only” in an all-white setting knows...”
– bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation, “Loving Blackness as Political Resistance”, pp. 16, 18-21 (via urshermaleek)
pruserong: Autobiography and Black Identity... →
pruserong796:
Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America Why has autobiography been central to African American political speech throughout the twentieth century? Kenneth Mostern illustrates the relationship between narrative and racial categories such as “colored”,…
“No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence...”
– bell hooks (via daughterofzami)
B3@ut!Ful Struggl3: A crime is a crime depending... →
iambesala:
In my Legal & Social Environment in Business class we talked about the differences in our law system when it comes to crimes. And who commits them. I contributed to the discussion but mainly sat back and listened. Because the way my fellow students were categorized these criminals (yes both are…
Watchracisminthegop:
2012 Fox’s Eric Bolling to Maxine Waters on the 2/16 edition of Fox and Friends, “Congresswoman, you saw what happened to Whitney Houston. Step away from the crack pipe, step away from the Xanax, step away from the Lorazepam because it’s going to get you in trouble.”
