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“If you are silent about your pain, they will kill you [blame everything on you] and say you enjoyed it.”
― Zora Neale Hurston
#GeorgeFloyd
#BlackLivesMatter
#AhmaudAubrey
― Zora Neale Hurston
#GeorgeFloyd
#BlackLivesMatter
#AhmaudAubrey
When they want the pathology (NATURE of the social disease) to be BLACK (unique to BLACK people) they are race conscious, collectivist. But, when evidence suggest
... but, when evidence suggest "the earliest most capital-intensive forms of Atlantic interaction.... The largest intercontinental migration in history before the mid-1800s" they are individualistic and color-blind"
They never take responsibility.
They never take responsibility.
BREAKING: Jury reaches verdict in trial of three men in killing of #AhmaudArbery.
Travis McMichael has been found GUILTY on all counts. #AhmaudArbery
I have spent the last week RTing rather than tweeting myself. Mostly because the last couple of weeks and months have been hard. COVID-19 and the current events in the US have been a lot and I needed time. But let me tell you I am tired, angry and fed up! #BlackLivesMatter (1/8)
I am tired, angry and fed up of watching another Black person lose their life to police violence. #GeorgeFloyd #BreonnaTaylor #AhmaudAubrey (2/8)
I am tired, angry and fed up of people pretending that this is an American issue. Let's not pretend that the UK is innocent. Structural racism is a global problem. I am already worried about my two nephews and they are both under 5. #BlackLivesMatter (3/8)
Muchos españoles piensan que esto solo ha ocurrido porque, una vez más, la policía de US ha asesinado a una persona negra, pero esto va mucho más allá #BlackLivesMatter
No es algo puntual ni nuevo y todo está mucho más relacionado de lo que se piensa.
Abro hilo con más info👇🏻
No es algo puntual ni nuevo y todo está mucho más relacionado de lo que se piensa.
Abro hilo con más info👇🏻
He escrito este hilo para dar visibilidad a cosas que no se ven desde España y de ahí que lo escriba también en español.
Me he basado en datos y solo quiero dar visibilidad al problema que es mundial y si, también afecta a España. Pero primero analicemos que pasa en US...
Me he basado en datos y solo quiero dar visibilidad al problema que es mundial y si, también afecta a España. Pero primero analicemos que pasa en US...
Hay 40 millones de personas desempleadas ahora mismo en US (casi el mismo número de habitantes en todo España), y aquí no hay “paro”, ERTEs o similares. Algunos tienen derecho a “benefits” que NO DAN PARA COMER en la mayoría de los casos
Racism is a public health crisis, a thread:
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(Focusing predominantly on black health inequities, for now.)
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Black life expectancy is 3.5 years less than white life expectancy in the U.S.
(Source: CDC, National Center for Health Statistics)
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(Source: CDC, National Center for Health Statistics)
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#BlackLivesMatter. #GeorgeFloyd's life mattered. #AhmaudAubrey's life mattered. #TamirRice's life mattered. #MichaelBrown's life mattered.
White people, we need to stop turning blind eyes to this, stop pretending that it's "bad apples" in the police.
White people, we need to stop turning blind eyes to this, stop pretending that it's "bad apples" in the police.
We need to stand with our black friends, neighbours, colleagues, coworkers, classmates, and yes, even strangers.
But we also need to make a conscious decision to not make this about us. It's not about us. This about the countless black lives that have been cut short.
But we also need to make a conscious decision to not make this about us. It's not about us. This about the countless black lives that have been cut short.
It's about acknowledging that we owe black people the dignity to control their movement. That we, as a privileged people, owe it to them to amplify their voices without distorting them. And that we show up for them, every time.
#CentralPark Cindy Confrontation Goes Viral, as White Woman Calls Cops on Black Man Over Dog Leash nbcnewyork.com/news/local/cen…
1. #AmyCooper since you are on #administrativeleave from your job #FranklinTempleton I have some fil.s that you might screen at home. 2 by @ava #The13th is on @YouTube for free. #WhenTheySeeUs is in @netflix pperhaps you have account with them.
2. Dear #AmyCooper,
hello it's me again. Ever hear of #PhilandoCastile? There's a shirt film on him. His fiancee made it. It's free too, since you're recently/currently unemployed.
hello it's me again. Ever hear of #PhilandoCastile? There's a shirt film on him. His fiancee made it. It's free too, since you're recently/currently unemployed.
1) In GEORGIA v. TRAVIS MCMICHAEL & GREGORY MCMICHAEL, defendants are charged with murder & assault of #AhmaudArbery committed on February 23, 2020.
With the help of the Glynn County DA's office & white-owned media outlets, defendants have already aserted self-defense claims.
With the help of the Glynn County DA's office & white-owned media outlets, defendants have already aserted self-defense claims.
2) To claim self-defense for murdering #AhmaudArbery the McMichaels assert the right to affect a citizen's arrest upon two facts:
- An alleged burglary of a gun from a truck owned by one of the defendants
- One defendant claims he saw the victim at a house under construction
- An alleged burglary of a gun from a truck owned by one of the defendants
- One defendant claims he saw the victim at a house under construction
3A.)
Georgia Code of Criminal Procedure 17-4-60. Grounds for arrest (Citizen's arrest):
A private person may arrest an offender if the offense is committed IN HIS PRESENCE or WITHIN HIS IMMEDIATE KNOWLEDGE.
Georgia Code of Criminal Procedure 17-4-60. Grounds for arrest (Citizen's arrest):
A private person may arrest an offender if the offense is committed IN HIS PRESENCE or WITHIN HIS IMMEDIATE KNOWLEDGE.
The death of #AhmaudAubrey meets the @NAACP definition of a #lynching. This is confirmed from the DA letter here. All four criteria are met.
(1) Someone was killed. (2) The killing was illegal (not a state execution after conviction of a crime) (3) Three or more people involved and (4) Assailants claimed to be upholding justice and/or tradition. This letter confirms all those facts.
What makes this even more heinous is that like most lynchings, law enforcement sees no problem with it. Black Lynching has always had police support. No surprise that it’s 2020 and we are still lynching black men in broad daylight without fear of arrest after doing so.
This is wild. We’ve been kicked off FB Live 3x. We’re still recording and will haVe the video up ASAP.
Now on ZOOM live.
HAPPENING NOW 📲
"We believe that Black voters must have every option available to them to vote...they need to be able to vote safely..." -@Sifill_LDF
"African Americans are infected & dying at a disproportionate rate. We are literally taking our lives into our hand, in some jurisdictions, if we are compelled to in-person vote without the proper protection.
This year voting is a matter of life & death for us."🚨
-@Sifill_LDF
This year voting is a matter of life & death for us."🚨
-@Sifill_LDF
A small bit of good news. But let's not forget how that whole grand jury thing went in the Michael Brown case or with Tamir Rice. A prosecutor leads the grand jury to where they want them to go, so the prosecutor has to want to prosecute for it to generally happen.
More on the "unusual" grand jury result in Ferguson: fivethirtyeight.com/features/fergu…
In the Brown and Rice cases we were dealing with police officers of course, but as with Trayvon, in Georgia these are white (vs white Hispanic) men with proximity to police who shot a black man in a guns-galore state. That doesn't make me hopeful, frankly. 11alive.com/article/news/c…
Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, was gunned down in Feb. by white men in GA, after neighbors said they thought he was a burglar. His family says he was jogging. Now, there's video of what the men claimed was a "citizen's arrest" that some say looks like murder.
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/g…
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/g…
#AhmaudArbery
From Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose essay from ‘The 1619 Project’ won #Pulitzer this week:
From Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose essay from ‘The 1619 Project’ won #Pulitzer this week:
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