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This post contains acts of extreme anti-Blackness, misogynoir, anti-queerness, child abuse, and lynching. Discretion is advised.
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No act of violence committed against Black people can ever shock me.
Not after what white folks did to Mary Turner.
You don& #39;t know who Mary Turner is? Mary Turner was a woman, a pregnant woman, who publicly denounced the lynching of her husband Hayes.
You don& #39;t know who Mary Turner is? Mary Turner was a woman, a pregnant woman, who publicly denounced the lynching of her husband Hayes.
White people were so offended by the idea of Black solidarity, and Black rebellion in the face of anti-Blackness, that they grabbed Mary, tied her to a tree...
..."hung [her] upside down by the ankles, soaked [her] gasoline, set her on fire, [slit her belly] open with a knife like those used & #39;in splitting hogs.& #39; Her unborn [baby] fell to the ground and gave two feeble cries.
"One of the white folks crushed the baby& #39;s head with his heel, and the crowd shot hundreds of bullets into Turner& #39;s body. They cut Mary Turner down and buried her with her child near the tree, with a whiskey bottle marking the grave."
So after knowing that, after having that travel through my veins via blood memory and be lodged in my brain via generational trauma, I cannot be shocked.
But still, what they did to #MikaylaMiller.
But still, what they did to #MikaylaMiller.
I hope y& #39;all have more sympathy, more care, more empathy for Mikayla than you do for Ma& #39;Khia Bryant.
I hope Mikayla better fits your qualifications for being "suitable to not be murdered."
I hope Mikayla better fits your qualifications for being "suitable to not be murdered."
I hope your profound and unyielding hatred of Black children has exceptions and caveats, and your narrow understanding of "innocence" can be properly employed and directed.
I hope you don& #39;t do Mikayla like you do Ma& #39;Khia, or all the little girls that R. Kelly r*ped, who y& #39;all said were "fast," "grown," and "should have known better."
I hope, unlike how y& #39;all did with Ma& #39;Khia and Korryn Gaines, y& #39;all don& #39;t side with the racists over their victims.
I hope, unlike how y& #39;all did with Ma& #39;Khia and Korryn Gaines, y& #39;all don& #39;t side with the racists over their victims.
And I hope y& #39;all don& #39;t get mad if I can& #39;t trust y& #39;all if y& #39;all do.
And may Ancestor Mary protect me from your treachery by any means necessary.
And may Ancestor Mary protect me from your treachery by any means necessary.
Like I said though:
I cannot ever be shocked.
But--mercy--I am always, ALWAYS, shook.
Sixteen, they tell me, is supposed to be sweet, not sorrow. But look at this here: https://newsone.com/4149241/mikayla-miller-hanging-death-hopkinton/">https://newsone.com/4149241/m...
I cannot ever be shocked.
But--mercy--I am always, ALWAYS, shook.
Sixteen, they tell me, is supposed to be sweet, not sorrow. But look at this here: https://newsone.com/4149241/mikayla-miller-hanging-death-hopkinton/">https://newsone.com/4149241/m...
