“We met on a dating site twelve years ago. I sent her a message saying: ‘I want to let you know up front that I’m in a wheelchair, because I can’t hide it.’ And she wrote back: ‘Why? Is it bright yellow?’”
can you guys please sign this petition, it only takes seconds.
shukri abdi, a black muslim 12 year old girl was pushed into a river by her racist white class bullies and drowned to death. she didn’t know how to swim. no one was charged for her death and she still hasn’t gotten justice despite there being a witness.
sign this petition as well: justice for shukri (make sure you sign BOTH petitions)
donate if u can: gofundme for shukri’s family
please continue spreading this and raise as much awareness as possible! shukri deserves justice. don’t let her go forgotten. do not rest until she gets justice.
You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.
I want to drill this into everybody’s head:
- The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world
- Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)
- Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.
- The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system
Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated
Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.
If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.
Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.
Statues also Die is a good film for those interested in art and museums. Commissioned and partially paid by Présence Africaine it was released in 1953. The film shows how the treatement of African art (called Art Nègre at the time and considered simpler) and Colonialism erased African cultures and denied African and Black people the dignity of their past. It was forbidden as in the ‘50 French still had colonies in Africa, it was allowed on 1963.
You can watch it here in (French with English subtitles) [many scenes of colonial France and an animals suffering dying]
Everyone talks about the school to prison pipeline but no one talks about the school to military pipeline and how it’s explicitly built into the school system, particularly the No Child Left Behind Act which requires that federally funded schools give the military the same access to students and student information as colleges and potential employers have.
If your school has ever had military presentations or tables or booths, or you’ve been outright stalked by military recruiters who got your information from your school, then you have NCLB to thank for that.
psyduck is probably like. the most achievable pokemon probably. like i don’t think i could teach a cabbage to grow legs and be a bulbasaur but there’s probably a certain threshold of mental torment i could subject a duck to that would make a psyduck
