Anti Vaxxers finding out that in a protest situation the police only have one setting. Even if you’re a good old white boy supporter of our boys in blue.
Unfortunately they’ve already chosen a side and it’s the side of capital.
https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1310806057308971009?s=20
The protest sign: Register To Vote
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This is a poem written by In-Q. He’s known for spoken word, song writing, and poetry. I transcribed it from a book of his, and plan on sharing it with friends and family. It’s powerful–not gonna lie, I needed a tissue. It’s a 3 minute read.
Summary
Dear White Americans
Imagine if the roles were reversed
And white people were enslaved by black people first
And for almost 300 years they forced us to work
And they beat us, raped us, and tortured us
And then they went to church
And they treated us like dirt
And they chained us, and they whipped us
And they told us we were cursed
And they sold us on the auction blocks like that was what we’re worth
And they outlawed us to read, or write, or vote
But what was worse
They would hang us by our necks
So that witnesses could look
And see our bodies slowly swaying from a tree like a fruit
Imagine what that took
If generations passed before the melting pot could cook
And our nation had to go to war before we closed the book
But freedom wasn’t peaceful
It was as brutal as it looked
Segregation isolated us
Because of how we looked
And neighborhoods were separate
We educated separate
We congregated, dated, mated, ate, and drank separate
They made us travel separate
They made our toilets separate
The hospitals were separate
The telephones were separate
They made our pools separate
They made our parks separate
And when it wasn’t separate they would split us into sections
So that they would get the best seats
While we would get the worst
I want you to imagine if the history reversed
That we were the ones terrorized by the Ku Klux Klan
And a pointy white hood hunted down the white man
And police would beat us daily without any repercussions
See, the justice system’s blind, but only to its own corruption
So people started demonstrating, marching, and protesting
We couldn’t take it any longer
We had had enough
And when enough people have enough
The people have the power
So a coalition joined the fight, but civil rights was ours
And the boycotts were ours
And the sit-ins were ours
And the riots were ours
And the leaders were ours
And when our leaders lost their lives, the grief was also ours
So we raised our fists in coscious militance to be empowered
And America was moving at a million miles an hour
But we’d taken strides politically, to even out the power
Now educated whites could become
Lawyers or professors
Doctors or directors
Bankers or investors
But mostly our jobs were still industrial in nature
So when they closed the factories, they didn’t need our labor
And this affected more than just the money in our wallets
Because areas that once were working class became impoverished
Imagine how that felt
To be unable to provide
To look your children in the eyes without a 9 to 5
So families were broken
And neighborhoods were broken
And liquor stores were opened
And gun stores were opened
And drugs were on the rise, but the reasons were unspoken
And gangs were on the rise, but the reasons were unspoken
And while pop culture painted us as being dumb or dangerous
We struggled to survive inside a system that was blaming us
And still somehow we thrived out of all of that upheaval
To amplify the unheard voices of our people
But imagine all the unheard voices of our people
Imagine, if you didn’t have to imagine, that you weren’t treated equal
Imagine the resentment you might have against the system
If white males were disproportionately cycled into prisons
Imagine your aggression
If people were afraid of you because of your complexion
If strangers crossed the street when you were walking their direction
Just because of the suspicion
Imagine your suspicion
If when you talked about it, other races wouldn’t listen
In fact they made you wrong for even bringing up oppression
Their perception was for you to stop acting like a victim
Imagine the disconnection
Then finally a white person wins the presidential election
And half the country celebrates this symbol of progression
But the other half is moving in the opposite direction
So the next president we elect is a blatant racist
We still have unacknowledged privilege
Still voting rights restrictions
Still biased cops on traffic stops, and widespread division
From those poverty stricken, to those making decisions
Still uneven nutrition
Underfunded education
Still job discrimination
Still home discrimination
Still loan discrimination
Still pay discrimination
Still dealing with that normal everyday discrimination
And Michael Brown was white
And Trayvon Martin was white
And Freddie Gray was white
And Eric Garner was white
And Oscar Grant was white
And Sandra Bland was white
And Stephon Clark was white
And so were countless others
Yet our country wants us to believe that racism is over
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People on Twitter claim that he was defending a woman he didn’t know from domestic violence and he was shot with his hands up. Wolfe City is in NE Texas.
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GymBros on Facebook
Fitness centre operator PureGym has apologised “unreservedly” for an “unacceptable” Facebook post from one of its gyms about slavery.
The Luton and Dunstable gym said “slavery was hard and so is this” regarding a workout designed to “celebrate black history month”.
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The workout, entitled “12 Years of Slave” after the famed movie with a similar title, included 12 different moves including burpees, push ups and box jumps.
Someone thought that was a good idea.
Lololol crossfit idiots
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So this asshole is video taped killing a man and is free until March? Nice country we got here.
Denver shooting. Guy slapped and maced an apparent security guard at a pro-Trump (?) rally. Got shot. Died.
https://twitter.com/soderstrom/status/1315156382694469632
This video, which is tough to watch at the end, shows what was happening before. Dead guy seen in the altercation before going over to the right. This doesn’t show what was happening before this video to cause the guy in the Black Guns Matter shirt to be yelling like that.
https://twitter.com/mwiiiinga/status/1315138122779373568
One guy yelling like crazy, swearing, etc. … maybe with good cause, w/e. 1st amendment, hurray! Big guy then decides to get into it with someone on the side. Meets a stand your ground, right to defend yourself, and 2nd amendment (hurray!) death.
Maybe what I see is the wrong take, that’s fine, w/e. I don’t live in the US (but have relatives there) and to those there I’m sorry if it seems judgemental but all of this seems like a complete societal failure at every level. Bro, I want nothing to do with any of that shit. Dude might have been the biggest asshole at the rally, should never have attacked and maced the security guy, should never have been brandishing around the mace or even HAD the goddamn thing, maybe was causing shit before, maybe he’s some kind of ultra-racist… but there is no way someone should have ended up being carried away dead.
Where I’m from mace and tasers are illegal let alone guns. It’s just depressing and I feel bad for the Americans on this forum for how unsafe they must be used to feeling and how much extra attention is required/socialised into them when in public places vs other developed countries.
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The Denver shooter is a Pinkerton who was hired by a local TV station to provide security for its news crew covering the protests.
“Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson” BBC2 @2100 11/10/2020 1st episode of 4
Should be on I player for our RestoftheWorld friends
8pm for top gear then SLJ @ 9pm