It feels like the entire world hit refresh and I’m doing it right this time. I finally feel like I deserve happiness. And, fuck, I am happy. I’m so happy to be here.
white person: what if a white person was trapped on a mysterious island with an erupting volcano and there was a helicopter to get us to safety but it was activated by voice-only commands and there were no black people around and the password was the n word, would it be ok for a white person to say the n word then
“…it feels terrible to have to depend on a system that you know is illegitimate to adjudicate your “worth.” It really does. The criminal punishment system has ALWAYS been a tool in this country for enforcing and maintaining white supremacy. Yet that ‘analysis’ goes out the window as we are compelled by some to ‘celebrate’ charges and to ‘canonize’ public officials who under the rules of said system are SUPPOSED to prosecute killer cops.” - Mariame Kaba, “Some Thoughts on the Run”
is somebody raising money for this kid’s bail? I’ll give them some
remember when I said I’d only be excited when they were denied bail and put in gen pop? yeah
22-year-old Ramsey Orta, the young man who filmed the NYPD killing Eric Garner, was arrested shortly after on trumped up charges. He has since been locked up at the notorious Rikers prison in New York.
It was reported by the New York Post last month that 19 different inmates were denied medical testing after bluish green pellets were found in their food. The prison admitted that these pellets were rat poison, but failed to give the inmates medical attention, and failed to offer any kind of explanation as to why the prison’s food was tainted with rat poison.
Orta was not the only person to be targeted for filming the Garner murder either, Taisha Allen, who also filmed the death of Eric Garner, is speaking out and saying that her involvement with the case has put a target on her back with the NYPD.
Now, we are witnesses of how a man who stood up for our rights, for our equality, a man who tries to prove that for every life deserves to be protected, under pressure of a police state tyranny. He used social media to achieve justice, we must continue his work.
