“In today’s unanimous decision, the Tennessee Supreme Court explained that, under state law, a life sentence is a determinate sentence of 60 years,” the court wrote. “However, the sixty-year sentence can be reduced by up to 15 percent, or 9 years, by earning various sentence credits (good behavior. & getting involved in prison based education programs while incarcerated) Therefore, the Supreme Court concluded that a defendant serving a life sentence for a first-degree murder committed on or after July 1, 1995, may be eligible for release after serving at least 51 years of the sentence.“
For those of you who haven’t yet caught up to this story:
Cyntoia Brown was a 16 yr old girl, who at the time of the incident was living in a room at a Nashville InTown Suites with Allen (the man who propositioned her for sex) because her pimp and boyfriend Garion McGlothen, nick-named “Kut Throat,” insisted that she needed to earn money.
After Allen took her to his house, he showed Cyntoia multiple guns, including shotguns and rifles. Later in bed, as she described in court, he grabbed her violently by the genitals, his demeanor became threatening and, fearing for her life, she took a gun out of her purse and shot him.
Call Governor Bill Haslam (615)-741-2001. she has a Clemency hearing May 23rd. DEMAND JUSTICE!!
#StayWoke
The parole board split on whether Cyntoia should be granted clemency. /BillHaslam can still grant her clemency before he leaves in January. You can reach him at: phone #: (615) 741-2001; e-mail: bill.haslam@tn.gov
Look, I really can’t keep track of all those categories of what is an acceptable ship or not. I do in fact vocally dislike the first three ships and am annoyed with the shippers (and gotten the shit to show for it), but it’s like you said–I’m just not that woke™. If being an ally in fandom means being completely up on those different categories and toeing the line exactly, then I’m not up for it. All I have ever been doing here was trying to have fun and bitching about the shit that makes fandom unfun for me and others. I don’t consider that activism or political in any way and never have.
I’m sorry but this isn’t okay. I really hope you’re just angry and when things calm down you’ll understand how flippant and offensive what you’ve written here is. Being an ally in fandom has nothing to do with toeing any line and glibly speaking about wokeness in this way when there are actual people being hurt every day by fandom antiblackness is a really bad look. A lot of black fans are not able to have fun just being themselves. For you to complain in this way is extremely tone deaf and I’m really surprised at you.
I don’t like reylo but I was fine with your answer to my question. I don’t like reylo in any shape or form but I do think there are gradations they fall within and without the realm of shipping. I understand being frustrated by those who either are unwilling or unable to absorb what you’re saying. But your answer is an insult to black Finnrey fans who are reylo antis and I really hope that once tempers have cooled you will retract this.
After thinking about it and cooling down a bit, I agree with you and I apologize that I downplayed the crap Black fans go through by accusing their pain of being, basically, political correctness run amok. It was disingenuous of me to conflate the pushback against reylow etc. with, say, reyva. Thanks for being understanding of my position.
You didn’t even read my previous reply it seems. I did not “use” anyone, I didn’t hide behind anyone (if I had you wouldn’t have found me lol, the Wolf protected my identity and I’m the one who said it was me), and I would have had no compunction against moving on this myself if it weren’t for the sensitive racial issues involved.
Don’t lie and backtrack, you would still have been mad if I had made the post myself. Your major complaint in the previous ask was that Wolf and I had opened up Black fans to racist harassment, which would have been true no matter who wrote the post. So yes, you did in fact complain quite vocally about a sexual predator being exposed, and your history does not make that any less wrong.
And if racists do try to use this exposure against Finnreys as a whole, or to paint Black men in general as predators, guess what? They can’t, not without looking even stupider than they already are, because it’s a Black man who took it on himself to expose the predator. It’s almost like Wolf taking lead instead of me hopefully mitigated rather than aggravated any potential damage, how about that!
I’m not making this up, and have no reason to, and I hate reylos as much as the next person, but the blogger theautisticjedi admits to everything and she’s not a Reylo. She’s not even 18 and she was younger than she is now when all this was happening.
Beyond that, he’s been told before to chill, take a breather, and stop being so aggressive and antagonistic with people. I know he’s got issues and I really hope he gets help, but I wouldn’t make this up. I know there is barley any black fans left, I’m one of them, but when a blogger reaches out to me telling me that another blogger is creeping on a minor, and then I talk to the blogger and find out its true, then I gotta say something.
It sucks, it really does. As a black fan, I don’t want to be the one to do this and probably I’ll lose some points in a lot of people’s books and get black listed here and there, but I’m not here to be popular, I’m here to speak my mind. I wouldn’t be saying this if it wasn’t true and I don’t want to be the one saying this at all. I sat on this for the last 2 days because I didn’t know how to word it and…I really just didn’t want to be the person who said this.
It’s true. I saw the screenshots too, and they were horrifying. I’m the one who approached @themandalorianwolf about ibb’s behavior after @theautisticjedi spoke to me. I understand anon’s point, false accusations against Black people are rampant both irl and online, and it’s a sensitive issue which was why I wanted a Black blogger to take the lead. It was very hard for Wolf yet he stepped up like nobody’s business, and he will always have my admiration for that.
Do tell me if it’s soon. After all, as a person that’s just, fair, and means everything she says, you 100% will do something about it, given you are a non-white supremacist? I mean, you weren’t just talking shit and supporting it for opinions YOU don’t like, were you? You were supporting it for every racist, supremacist piece of crap out there, and unfortunately, that includes you. C’mon. Show us you’re a woman of your word, and not just one that wishes so on others.
This is the same anon, I think, still mad as hell about that racists dropping dead comment. They think they’re so clever help 😂
Imagine being this salty over my being happy at the death of a racist who attacked a Black man unprovoked and called him racial slurs. The other racist whose death I referred to was a fanatic who didn’t give a shit that he might kill an island of indigenous people from communicable disease. Why are you getting so sensitive on behalf of people who committed acts of violence against minority populations, I wonder? Did I hit a little too close to home?
A white man was throwing racial slurs at a Black FedEx Driver. He started Punching the driver, the FedEx driver punched him back one time, killing the man with One Punch.
He wont be indicted for the racist scumbags death either! Win!
Magnuson’s death from the fall was precipitated by “extremely poor health,” a medical examiner concluded, and the punch itself was not fatal, Senior Deputy District Attorney Adam Gibbs wrote.
Warren was within his legal right to challenge Magnuson’s “racist vitriol,” Gibbs noted, and said that Warren’s decision to confront Magnuson — rather than ignore him — was not legally significant.
Please keep up this energy of racists dropping dead on my dash.
I’m not sure if all versions released in China cut out Finn scenes, but I lived in a VERY mono-ethnic city (over 99% Han Chinese), and they were very proudly anti-black, so I’m not surprised that that province cut out a lot of his scenes/lines.
The scenes they cut were ones where he mainly appeared alone, as well as scenes where they would cut out some of his lines to make him appear less important. I also don’t remember seeing him hug Rey when he helps rescue her towards the end. I mostly remember that it left me feeling confused. Like, I could tell that the movie was missing something, that something had been edited. It wasn’t until I downloaded a Korean (? I think?) bootleg version of the movie that I was able to confirm that a lot of Finn’s scenes had been cut.
Again, I wish I could say that I was surprised, but I saw a lot of racist, anti-black shit going on in China that really saddened/disturbed me, as well as a creepy fetish and preoccupation with white people. There were restaurants with black face pictures on the walls. A black friend of mine was deported because his presence was “too frightening” (he was 6′5″ and 300 lbs which apparently made him a threat to public safety). Black people and even non-black Africans were banned from certain jobs (such as teaching English). My roommate (who was African American) was constantly belittled and called “dirty” by Chinese people. One time a woman grabbed my roommate’s arm and pointed out her skin to her child saying, “see? they don’t wash. that’s why their skin is black.” Honestly, I could go on and on with stories like that, stories of my black friends’ experiences in China, but there are too many to list here.
I’m white, so my experience in China was vastly different from that of my roommate’s or my other black friends. On the whole, I had a lot of fun in China and I met a lot of wonderful people, and I don’t want anyone reading this to think that I hate Chinese people or think they’re all racist. But there IS a prevalent culture of anti-blackness in China, at least in some of the smaller cities, that goes unchecked because there is no impetus for them to change their ways. In the West, even though we have our own myriad issues with racism, we have a system that (at least in theory) holds us accountable for our racist words and actions. That system doesn’t exist in China.
Ugh I can see it all too well. It’s in line with what I see in Korea as well, although we’ve learned to be a little sneakier about it and at least we didn’t cut Finn’s scenes (today in the realm of low bars…) Antiblackness in Asia is really serious–like in India there were actual mobs against African residents and a hit movie had villains in blackface–and it needs to be discussed more.
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