Tag: racism

congenitaldisease:

A man has died during the Ferguson riots just yards from where Michael Brown was shot dead. 

Residents on Canfield Drive said that DeAndre Joshua, 20, was shot whilst in his car though police at the scene refused to confirm any details. DeAndre’s grandmother Renita Towns said that ‘somebody killed him’ during the carnage. 

DeAndre Joshua graduated from high school and worked at Walmart, he said. As police towed Joshua’s car, his grandmother Renita Towns said she had little hope that police would investigate and learn the cause of her grandson’s death. She said he wasn’t into drugs, she said. “Police don’t care — he’s black,” Towns said.

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stardust-rain:

stardust-rain:

i keep seeing white people on my dash pulling this shit, so let’s just get this in the open: 

  • stop making this about the hunger games
  • stop making this about v for vendetta
  • stop making this about les mis
  • stop making this about any other fictional allegorical oppression story

stop making this about white narratives focused on white people made by white people when this is about the dehumanisation of black lives happening in real life. 

in addition to this: 

  • stop reblogging to kill a mockingbird quotes
  • stop making this about Steve Rogers oh my fucking god
  • this is about THINGS THAT ARE ACTUALLY HAPPENING, this is not about what kind of fictional utopian America that you think he should represent.
  • Stop using white narratives for black struggles; those stories are not made by black people, they are not about black people and putting them front and centre in a conversation about anti-black racism is gross as all hell, whether you’re white or non-black POC. 
  • use quotes by ACTUAL BLACK PEOPLE INSTEAD. 
  • this goes to white people and as well as fellow non-black POC. 
  • do i really have to fucking say this.