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This really breaks my heart because the list shouldn’t be long scratch that—NONE of these people should even be on this list!! They should be out living their lives and spending time with their families. But they can’t because some other human being decided that their lives weren’t WORTHY, that they were INFERIOR. But my question is WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? You think just because you wear a uniform that you have all this power that you can exert over defenseless, unharmed black individuals. When you got that fucking uniform you promised to protect and serve but me and my people are not feeling protected, were getting murdered in cold blood by the people who swore to protect us. But when we demand justice and equality the right way in a peaceful manner— y’all turn your backs to us like we don’t matter. Y’all just sweep us under the rug like dust. But when we’ve had enough and start being about that action then y’all wanna call us crazy and angry. Well you got that right because WE ARE FUCKING ANGRY AND FUCKING TIRED OF DEFENDING OURSELVES AGAINST PEOPLE WHO JUST DONT GIVE A FUCK. The rulings are all the same besides a few and justice is still not happening. I shouldn’t have to grow up in a world afraid for myself and my family to go outside because of the color of my skin. Or about when I have children how can I protect them from the cruelty of the outside world and wonder if they leave house will the come back? This is really fucking sad🥺😭 but at the end of the day we’re just gonna take it one day at a time and one signature at a time because we need all the help to demand justice for the families that were promised but got nothing in return. 🖤✊🏼🖤✊🏽🖤✊🏾🖤✊🏿. Down below are petitions you can sign.
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The names of those killed by racism and police brutality are written along Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, where #GeorgeFloyd was suffocated by police.
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"I just want to say thank you to Naomi Osaka for representing Trayvon Martin on your customized mask, and also for Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor," Fulton said in the moving clip. "We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Continue to do well, continue to kick butt at the U.S. Open."
In 2012, Martin, an unarmed Black teen, was fatally shot by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman.
Arbery Sr. said his family "really, really appreciates" what Osaka is doing during the tournament.
"Thank you for the support on my family and God bless you for what you're doing and you're supporting our family with my son ... and God bless you," he shared.
Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was allegedly chased down and fatally shot by two white men while jogging through his Georgia neighborhood in February.
Osaka was nearly moved to tears by the tributes, later telling reporters that she was "trying really hard not to cry."
"It means a lot," Osaka said. "They're so strong. I'm not sure what I would be able to do if I was in their position. I feel like I'm a vessel at this point in order to spread awareness and it's not going to dull the pain, but hopefully, I can help with anything that they need."
"It's extremely touching that they would feel touched by what I'm doing," she added.
I didn't finish this in time for his birthday, but I still wanted to paint him.
R.I.P. Ahmaud Arbery!
Ahmaud Arbery.
Breonna Taylor.
George Floyd.
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Whiteness, without racism, has no meaning.
Racists use 'white extinction' to describe changing demographics that never puts any actual harm onto their whiteness. No one is killing white people. White people are not having kids, so they are becoming a smaller percentage of the population.
These same racists have not connected their conservative policies of no health care, no pre-natal care, no social food programs for children, nor their general misogyny/incel/loner attitudes to lower birth rates/marriages/general intimacy, etc.