Month: December 2014

SERIOUSLY??????? Tamir Rice had a gun. A gun with the orange safety identifier removed. A real-looking gun he was aiming at people. They didn’t use his race as a danger indicator, THEY USED THE FACT THAT HE HAD A FUCKING GUN. Don’t take the fucking safety indicator off of a gun and then point it at people if you don’t want to get shot. Stop sticking up for these criminals. I hope you need the police sometime soon, maybe then you’ll realize how necessary they are.

odinsblog:

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First off, I’m Black and I love myself. So you won’t eeeever have to worry about mE calling the police for almost anything, because I know NO MATTER WHAT I CALLED FOR, there’s a high probability that I’d end up getting shot, shot at, falsely arrested, or accused of doing something I didn’t do…so someone would have to be in the act of chopping down the last oxygen creating tree on earth before I did something as crazy as calling the police

Secondly, THIS is the innocent, baby-faced 12yr old child you’re calling a criminal. His name was Tamir Rice and he did absolutely NOTHING wrong

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AND NEWSFLASH: Ohio is an Open Carry state. Tamir had a *toy* bb gun that was NOT pointed at the police when he was gunned down…but even if he did have a real gun, that’s supposedly legal in that state. Guess things like the Second Amendment and Open Carry laws only applies to white people..?

Even white mass murderers like T.J. Lane are arrested and taken into custody ALIVE. It totally blows my mind that in order for a suicidal white person like Lance Tamayo to experience “death by cop” they actually have to go out of their way and flagrantly point real guns at passers by and the police, and even then the cops don’t repeatedly shoot them

And before you try to assassinate the character on his parents, let’s recall the 9yr old white child who’s gunservative™ parents gave her a loaded Uzi machine gun (such fine parenting). And also, let’s not forget about the scores and scores of white people who walk around carrying loaded weapons in public to exercise their Second Amendment Rights, all without the police ever killing them —because (surprise) no racist ever dropped a dime to 911 to report them as looking “threatening” or “suspicious” and even if they did, the cops would TALK to them first, and not arrive on scene with guns blazing

Oh, and you can also skip the “black-on-black crime” derail too because I’ve already covered that thread bare racist trope too

Moving on…surveillance video shows that officer friendly-to-white-people wasn’t even there for two seconds before he literally (not figuratively) jumped out shooting. So in addition to his being close enough to be able to see that Tamir was an innocent child, officer Tim Loehmann is very obviously lying about having given two or three verbal warnings to drop the toy gun before summarily executing Tamir. And even worse, after Tamir was gunned down and lay on the cold ground bleeding out, where again, the police could clearly see that Tamir was a child, Loehmann did not even try to administer first aid. Tim Loehmann and his equally complicit accomplice Frank Gramback, are human scum 

It will never cease to amaze me how racists always engage in transference to somehow criminalize black people when we all know that the next school shooter or the next mass spree shooter is probably going to be another white male, just like the overwhelming majority of the last ones (see also: racial projection and white-male-entitlement-syndrome)

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(image via moderndaykathleencleaver)

So I’ll say it again: the police are not evaluating actual circumstances for danger —instead they are evaluating a person’s race as an indicator of danger and have assigned blackness with a value of “imminent threat” where deadly force is an acceptable encouraged first response to anything from jay walking, to being-12-while-black 

Chris Rock Talks White People, Racism, What “Racial Progress” Really Means, and Isolation

Chris Rock Talks White People, Racism, What “Racial Progress” Really Means, and Isolation

2damnfeisty:

thechanelmuse:

Frank Rich: What would you do in Ferguson that a standard reporter wouldn’t?

Chris Rock: I’d do a special on race, but I’d have no black people.

Frank Rich: Well, that would be much more revealing.

Chris Rock: Yes, that would be an event. Here’s the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it’s all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they’re not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before.

Frank Rich: Right. It’s ridiculous.

Chris Rock: So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years. If you saw Tina Turner and Ike having a lovely breakfast over there, would you say their relationship’s improved? Some people would. But a smart person would go, “Oh, he stopped punching her in the face.” It’s not up to her. Ike and Tina Turner’s relationship has nothing to do with Tina Turner. Nothing. It just doesn’t. The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people.

Frank Rich: It’s about white people adjusting to a new reality?

Chris Rock:Owning their actions. Not even their actions. The actions of your dad. Yeah, it’s unfair that you can get judged by something you didn’t do, but it’s also unfair that you can inherit money that you didn’t work for.

Frank Rich: Would you seek out someone to interview who might not normally be sought out?

Chris Rock: I would get you to interview somebody, and I would put something in your ear, and I’d ask the questions through you.

Frank Rich: You’d have a white guy.

Chris Rock: And I would ask them questions that you would never come up with, and we’d have the most amazing interviews ever.

Frank Rich: And we’d be asking white people and black people?

Chris Rock: Just white people. We know how black people feel about Ferguson — outraged, upset, cheated by the system, all these things.

Frank Rich: So you think people can be lulled into saying the outrageous shit they really feel?

Chris Rock: Michael Moore has no problem getting it. Because he looks like them. But the problem is the press accepts racism. It has never dug into it.

Frank Rich: When Obama was running for president, a certain kind of white person would routinely tell reporters, “He’s just not one of us.” Few reporters want to push that person to the wall and say, “What do you mean he’s not like you, unless you’re talking about the fact that he’s African-American?” Where else besides Ferguson would you hypothetically want to interview white people?

Chris Rock: I’d love to do some liberal places, because you can be in the most liberal places and there’s no black people.

Frank Rich: I assume one such place is Hollywood.

Chris Rock: I don’t think I’ve had any meetings with black film execs. Maybe one. It is what it is. As I told Bill Murray, Lost in Translation is a black movie: That’s what it feels like to be black and rich. Not in the sense that people are being mean to you. Bill Murray’s in Tokyo, and it’s just weird. He seems kind of isolated. He’s always around Japanese people. Look at me right now.

Frank Rich: We’re sitting on the 35th floor of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel overlooking Central Park.

Chris Rock: And there’s only really one black person here who’s not working. Bill Murray in Lost in Translation is what Bryant Gumbel experiences every day. Or Al Roker. Rich black guys. It’s a little off.

But the thing is, we treat racism in this country like it’s a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that crazy thing we did. We were hanging black people. We treat it like a fad instead of a disease that eradicates millions of people. You’ve got to get it at a lab, and study it, and see its origins, and see what it’s immune to and what breaks it down.

Reasons why I will always love Chris Rock.

cactus-punk:

snopes has a few articles on ferguson that i just wanted to collect for everybody:

japhers:

things I think about at night

  • incubi who are all about the sex part but get really embarrassed when talking about cuddling and cute things
  • ace people chilling with lust demons because they’re immune
  • WHY WOULD YOU TRY SUMMONING A DEMON FOR FUN THO NEVER DO THAT AGAIN

drst:

socialjusticekoolaid:

ICYMI in Ferguson (12/1/14): Several St Louis Rams players showed their solidarity with Ferguson protesters as they took the field, displaying the now iconic “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” gesture. The head of the St Louis Police Association, cop killer apologist/defender Jeff Roorda (really, there aren’t enough unpleasant things to say about him), was outraged by the salute, and is calling for the players to be disciplined. The Rams won themselves some new fans today, Roorda be damned! #staywoke #farfromover

The NFL has said it will not take action. (For once doing the right thing.)

Also if you didn’t know, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the Olympic medalists who gave the black power salute in 1968, were booed off the field, thrown off the team and received death threats for years afterward. There are several books and a documentary film about them worth looking up.

killbenedictcumberbatch:

Omfg…………………. Annie literally got leaked ….. like someone hacked Sony and hacked a bunch of their movies…..

PLEASE DONT DOWNLOAD IT OK

PLEASE JUST GO TO THE MOVIES AND SEE IT. like please pay the 11 dollars to see this movie rather than pirate it, if you can spare it. like give this movie money. give a movie with two black leads money, makes sure it does well and then ppl will see that wow, we want to watch movies with black main characters!!!! wow