Trayvon Martin was walking home from a store. George Zimmerman falsely accused him of being a criminal.
Philando Castile was reaching for his license. Jeronimo Yanez falsely accused him of reaching for his gun.
If conservatives are so worried about men’s lives being ruined by false accusations, why didn’t they feel the same way about these men being falsely accused?
But the notion that we might understand a person with the capacity for violence to also have the capacity for gentleness is downright laughable set against the contemporary backdrop of state violence committed against black men… . It’s a stark contrast that plays out all around us, the horrifying product
of a culture, of a media, and of social, economic, and political
structures that teach us to value white men more than any other kind of
human beings.
In the same month that Roof quietly ate his Burger King after killing
nine people, 15-year-old Dajerria Becton attended a Texas pool party and
got into a fight after some white kids reportedly told a black girl to
“go back … to Section 8” housing. When white cop Eric Casebolt arrived
on the scene, he slammed Becton to the pavement, grabbing her violently
by her braids. Later reports helped us understand that Casebolt had been
particularly stressed that day, having already attended to two suicide
calls. But Becton, the black teenager, was described by Fox News host
Megyn Kelly as “no saint,” for having not obeyed the officer. There was
little curiosity about Becton’s experience of having been held roughly
by her hair while wearing only a bathing suit, just the pressing
question about white-male psychology: What could this one-dimensional
black girl have done to make the multidimensional white man react in the
way that he did?
I don’t care who you are, if you complain about the amount of attention Black Lives Matter and Black issues get you are antiblack. “But Native Americans!” “But Asians!” Shut up. Tearing down Black people does not help any other community. Yes it can be frustrating when issues you care about don’t get enough focus, but I promise it’s not Black people’s activism that’s getting in your way. Do your own work and don’t act entitled to what gains Black activists have achieved. You’re not as progressive or nice as you think you are if you’re willing to use Black people as a scapegoat.
People don’t say BlackLivesMatters sucks, because we’re “anti-black.” We are against BlackLivesMatters because everyone who is for it is FULL OF SHIT. You lie, you have a hypocritical mindset, and YOU ARE SELFISH. We say asians, native americans, etc. need attention too, BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY RACE THAT MATTERS. You people act like everything needs to be centered around you! You ignore every single race around you and say, I’m the one being oppressed! See that black girl in human trafficking?? “THIS MEANS WE NEED TO SAVE OUR BLACK WOMEN FROM HUMAN TRAFFICKING!!!” You people representing BlackLivesMatter take one situation and make it ALL about you! There other races around the world that have to go through shit and STILL go through shit. You don’t KNOW what racism IS!!! You’ll make anything an issue about you and you’ll only mention “history” when it actually benefits you, but even that you twist around and create lies out of it. You’re just a toxic community full of people who do nothing but harrass people, make lies, and act like complete hypocrites. You’re racist, you’re selfish, and you people are DISGUSTING for making every single problem in the world about YOU.
I’m like… nonblack and Asian… but pls go on about how I make everything about Black people, you’re funny. Also Black activists have stood in solidarity with Native Americans and Asians, and spoken against the deaths of nonblack people at the hands of police.
So like if you get this salty about Black people speaking up and organizing around an issue that disproportionately affects them while harming no other group’s efforts to stand for justice and lending a hand wherever possible… then yeah, you’re antiblack as fuck.
Asian person here to say #blacklivesmatter and don’t use us as your fucking tools you racist trash.
Misunderstanding the goal of BLM is easy when you hate black people!
What drives me crazy about anti-BLM bullshit is that BLM’s goals benefit EVERYONE. Police reform to decrease violence against civilians is not just good for Black people, it’s something everyone should get behind. But no, these dumbfucks hate Black people so much they’d rather live with police killing innocent people than see fewer Black people killed.
They’re not actually stupid, though. That’s the point, isn’t it? It’s entirely by design. They WANT Black people and other minorities to be afraid and unsafe. They WANT to keep using the police as a tool of state terror. The hatred is terrifying and poisonous.
I don’t care who you are, if you complain about the amount of attention Black Lives Matter and Black issues get you are antiblack. “But Native Americans!” “But Asians!” Shut up. Tearing down Black people does not help any other community. Yes it can be frustrating when issues you care about don’t get enough focus, but I promise it’s not Black people’s activism that’s getting in your way. Do your own work and don’t act entitled to what gains Black activists have achieved. You’re not as progressive or nice as you think you are if you’re willing to use Black people as a scapegoat.
I don’t care who you are, if you complain about the amount of attention Black Lives Matter and Black issues get you are antiblack. “But Native Americans!” “But Asians!” Shut up. Tearing down Black people does not help any other community. Yes it can be frustrating when issues you care about don’t get enough focus, but I promise it’s not Black people’s activism that’s getting in your way. Do your own work and don’t act entitled to what gains Black activists have achieved. You’re not as progressive or nice as you think you are if you’re willing to use Black people as a scapegoat.
@gamrlinafrye How so? Because I call out people who use anti-Asian racism and Native rights as an antiblack talking point? And here I thought both causes deserved so much better than be used to tear down Black people’s efforts to, uhhh, not be murdered. Pitting Black and Native peoples against each other is actual white supremacist rhetoric, btw, espoused by Klansman Asa Earl Carter (better known as the author of The Education of Little Tree). The model minority myth about Asian Americans is another antiblack construct. Our different communities have been used against each other in a classic divide and conquer tactic, and it serves no one except white supremacists to play into it.
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