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In 1955 Emmett till was killed by white men after a white woman admittedly lied about his interaction with her. In 1956 his killers did public interviews bragging ab it. Sixty five years later , and it almost feels like, what’s changed. We have cameras to show us how things
Happened. But not a person in the world didn’t see Emmett tills face, and ten years later Rodney King was born and in 1992 the la riots were born in the aftermath of the Rodney King trial. In between those years. Lynching happened. Constantly, and anonymously.
Here’s a photo of the lynching monument. It’s kind of beautiful, and scary. But it’s in Alabama , and that’s just a place I never want to be.
Skipping forward to 2012 ( and passing countless murders of innnpcent blacks) something again awoke in america with the slaying of Trayvon martin. And black lives matter was born. 57 years shy of Emmett till. And I’m not gonna lie the whites were pissed. Are still pissed.
Since then countless people of color have been gunned down. Daily.
Rekia Boyd, Shereese Francis, Ramarley Graham, Manuel Loggins Jr, Jamar Clark, Yvette Smith , Tamir Rice, LaQuan McDonald, Akai Gurley, Eric garner, Ezell Ford, Michael Brown, Christian Taylor , Walter Scott , Natasha McKenna , Freddie Gray, Brendon Glenn ,
Samuel dubose, Gregory Gunn , Akiel denkins , dontre Hamilton, John Crawford, tanisha Anderson, Rumain brisbon, bettie Jones, Kevin Matthews, Michael Noel , Leroy Browning, Roy Nelson, philando Castile, Alton sterling, jamar Clark, Jeremy mcdole, william Chapman,
I want to be actively as loud as possible about police brutality, racism, and call out bullshit. I’ll add more names to this thread as I come across them. And if you’re reading this as a white person and you feel annoyed or tired or over hearing about it, just imagine how we feel
After nearly 300 years of slavery, 90 years of segregation and Jim Crow and 70 years integrated, bitch we are tired too. Stop shooting us.
