#antiblack violence /

[alwaysinbetweeninsaneandinsecure]

This family HAS BEEN ABLE TO FLEE SUDAN!! AND ALSO They are still in need of funds to help with immigration costs. Every give and share helps this family move toward the safety and peace that they so deserve.

[intersexfairy]

Last week, two young Black men were murdered. 33 year old Ricky Cobb II was shot to death by Minnesota State troppers. 28 year old O'Shae Sibley, a Gay dancer, was stabbed to death while playing Beyoncé's music and vougeing with his friends.

The cops responsible for Ricky Cobb's death are Ryan Londregan (the shooter), Brett Seide, and Garrett Erickson. His relatives (and many others) are fighting to have these troopers held accountable. A currently unnamed 17-year old turned himself in for stabbing O'Shae Sibley, although he was accompanied by others.

I don't know if Ricky Cobb's family has a crowdfund set up or not (if so, someone please add on), but O'Shae Sibley's family does. You can find the GFM here.

O'shae not only was the glue to this family, he was a great dancer and performer for the majority of his life. His spirit lit up every room he stepped in. His smile was contagious! To know him, was to live him. He did not deserve this. Everyone loved his spirit ❤️

-- from the GoFundMe started by O'Shae Sibley's father, Jake Kelly.

From Ricky Cobb's relatives:

"I'm exhausted. My heart is heavy every day for the last three days. Waking up, I have migraines. And I'm hurt. I would like those officers to man up. I'm here to be a voice and stand strong like a rock that I am for my son and speak out." -- Mother, Nyra Fields Miller

"My brother was a good man. He was a provider for all of us. He protected all of us." -- Sibling, Octavia Ruffin

These men should still be alive. Their families, friends, and community should not be going through this loss and grief. If there's one thing any of us (nonblack people) can do, it's not let them go through this unheard and unseen.

Rest in power Ricky Cobb II. Rest in power O'Shae Sibley. Abolish the police.

[icedsodapop]

I can't believe I'm seeing people defend Liam Neeson's antiblack confession about wanting to commit a violence against Black men on youtube in our year 2k24??

"He didn't actually commit the crime", "he said he felt guilty about it", "he didn't actually hurt anyone", "he told the story to show that this is never the way u deal with those kinds of feelings", "he was deeply ashamed that he even felt that way at that time" etc. I swear to god, White pple can frame a horrifying racist confession as a feel-good and refreshing story about honesty and candor.

[wormthe]

A man was shot and killed in his fucking apartment building less than a week ago, if anyone can be generous and help support his family with the funeral cost and legal fees, everything and anything is appreciated <3

[feelingemotjons]

That whole Dandandan thing is just more proof that everyone just hates black people. It’s really not even black edits anymore like these people actually want to kill black people.

Two years ago these people did the same thing with nagatoro’s english va. Y’all would not leave that women alone. Constantly tagging her and harassing her. they were even saying she got choosen because nagatoro has dark skin. They fucking hated the idea of people thinking nagatoro was blasian or black. Because again, everyone hates black people

Even during the whole Miku worldwide thing a few months ago, people were still hating on black miku designs. Miku, the character who’s supposed to be anything you want her to be, still gets shitted on if someone makes her black. Because again yall really do not like black people

Y’all just hate black people. Y’all don’t give a shit about black edits or black headcanons, yall genuinely, actually, legit, want black people dead

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Two PhD students walking home after a night out in Montreal's west end decided to skirt around a police operation by stepping into the empty road.

Within minutes they found themselves slammed against a fence in what they say was a violent arrest — one with his arms twisted to the near breaking point and the other his legs spread so far apart that his pants tore and both his knees were injured.

"It was confusing because I didn't really understand what was going on," said Amaechi Okafor, a Black man from Nigeria who came to Montreal three years ago to pursue a doctorate in history at Concordia University.

Speaking during a Friday news conference organized by the Center for Research-Action on Race Relations (CRARR), Okafor's voice shook as he recounted what happened at around 3 a.m. on St-Jacques Street in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (NDG) on July 22.

"All of a sudden I was pinned to the fence wall by several officers, and I had my hands handcuffed," he said. [...]

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada, @vague-humanoid

[bossymarmalade]

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Since Neely’s killing, the station located at the intersection of NoHo and SoHo has become a center for actions protesting the city’s racist criminalization of its unhoused residents and memorializing Neely. The crimson display, reminiscent of a brutal crime scene, was accompanied by a letter to “cop mayor” Eric Adams that called out “vigilante violence” and the structural imbalances of power and wealth in the city’s political and social landscape.

“We are fed up with the attacks on the working class, crime baiting, the austerity budgets, the endless demonizing of the most vulnerable people in our society,” the letter read. “This wasn’t a single tragedy — we are in a crisis. Whose side are you on?”

[meatcute]

the recent breonna taylor ruling is so fucking horrible. so the cops can break into a black couples house and kill an unarmed black woman, and then it can be legally decided that she died bc her boyfriend was trying to defend them both? why is this even possible??? (rhetorical question.) there are not words to describe how disgusting and disrespectful this is. i hope everyone involved in allowing this ruling to happen gets the lifetime they deserve.

[fluffytimearts]

Just uh- gonna leave this here. a certain english va of a current popular anime was given racist remarks and pretty much harassed into deactivating his account because of racists--

I'll leave a reminder here:

creating your representation in art is nothing wrong as long as you aren't doing it in "fixing" or harm but just doing it out of enjoyment and sharing with others.

being a major hypocrite and creating double standards when all it supposed to be is fandom art and fun is really shitty. Call out actual things that are harming people like l0lic0ns/p3d0s/MAPs or ACTUAL racists or stuff like that.

if you need example of why this isn't a problem look at international miku day the biggest example of how people make their own versions of a character and feel happy doing it and sharing with others without discourse or harassment. take their example.

if you disagree and can't handle the basic decency of not being a jackass then unfollow me or block me because I have no time to deal with shitty people.

-- (OOC) Al

PS. a lot of these art communities are really fucking toxic so be careful and love ya'll <3

[renegadeurbanmediasource]

White supremacy rebooted! Those who lynched Blacks were never, ever prosecuted. That’s because the culprits usually included judges, police officers, and regular citizens. They also believed it was their right and they’d get away with murder. Sounds familiar right?

[angelsaxis]

There's a woman on Twitter who's made a tweet saying that there's a white man stalking her who knows where she lives and where she works and she's filed a restraining order and everything but if she ends up dead it's a white man from Louisville named Thomas Brown who did it. Guess whos in the quotes and comments casting doubt, mocking her, victim blaming, and generally being vile fucking people.

[blackownersseekingsuccess]

The Greatest Show On Earth: Richard Wright’s Between the World & Me

by Levi Wise Kenneth Catoe Jr.

When people say that life is a ‘circus’ they mean chaos, a spectacle, such as the dehumanization of Black bodies, which was once performed as a public spectacle in America... Written in (1935), African-American writer Richard Wright's poem Between the World and Me serves as a powerful reminder of how lynchings in the American South became just another form of the traveling circus. A circus is defined as noisy, confused activity, and by exploring Wright’s use of diction in the double entendres that are present and through the poem’s circular narrative, the symbolism is conveyed throughout every character, every scene, and every moment played out metaphorically on the page, representing multiple roles in the assassination of Black bodies swinging from and then dropping from trees to the sadistic, overwhelming applause of Jim Crow-era white southerners. Wright’s most significant literary aspect in Between the World and Me is the irony of the Black male protagonist portrayed as the story’s tragic hero, dispelling the familiar white trope narrative of the white damsel in distress living in constant fear of the antagonistic Black male, often depicted as the monster, while setting the stage for Wright’s tragic irony of a maliciously racist and incomprehensible traveling circus act.

Through Wright's use of a “circus” as an extended metaphor in the narrative, with the “whites” as its ringmasters presiding over the exploitation of the Black male body as its unwilling performer, it reinforces the historical trauma of colonial chattel slavery in America that Blacks have long endured. According to Herman, “the ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness" (Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery, 1992), and she goes on to say that “atrocities, however, refuse to be buried," so as Black bodies have been historically forced to submit to the American colonial capitalist economic system, an unfair system in which the white oppressor benefits through financial gain over the Black oppressed, who remain historically uncompensated, leading to the irony being implored throughout. But, ironically, unlike the days of chattel slavery in America, a debt will finally be paid but paid to the future Black Americans in the form of knowledge, which allows this surreal 1935 lynching to not have been done in vain because future Black Americans became audience members without having to be one of the appalling white circus “revelers” in attendance of the blasphemous circus event.

Wright’s use of imagery and symbolism in Between the World and Me illustrates the sordid scene of events throughout its diction. The narrator, being the ancestor or soothsayer of the African Diaspora, paints a picture that’s surreal. Often when the circus comes to town, its frenzied activity, sensationalism, theatricality, or razzle-dazzle; and its characters, according to the narrator, “the gin-flask passed from mouth to mouth, cigars and cigarettes glowed, the whore smeared lipstick red upon her lips, and a thousand faces swirled around me, clamoring that my life be burned." (Richard Wright, ‘Between the World and Me) It is here that Wright initiates the show-not-tell literary device of a celebration of life while being consumed by death. A colorful circus scene enthralled with consumption of everything from liquor to cigarette smoke to laughter to joy to burning flesh to negrophobia According to Semmes, “white ambivalence toward the Black body was reflected in its most extreme form through lynching.” (Clovis E. Semmes, Racism, Health, and Post-Industrialism: A Theory of African-American Health, 1996)

Wright implores the literary device of personification because trousers do not stiffen on their own but human males become stiffened, using the literary device of metaphor to gender the victim by drawing attention to the sexual organ that hardens inside a man’s pants, while also equating race to the victim by using the colloquialism "Bloods." According to Semmes, “African Americans remain symbols of sexuality, immorality, and violence. These images help to dehumanize African Americans and shift the blame for socially induced health problems to some inherent defect of personality.” (Clovis E. Semmes, Racism, Health, and Post-Industrialism: A Theory of African-American Health, 1996) All of those elements are present within that one line from the poem at the end of its second stanza, which illustrates the trauma of racism perpetuated against Black people within the USA. When people say that life is a ‘circus’, they mean chaos, which draws on Wright's use of the literary device of the extended metaphor to establish Between the World and Me as a tragic irony. According to Britannica, “a circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that may include clowns, acrobats, and trained animals." (Circus | Definition, History, Acts, and Facts), and according to Semmes, Europeans “likened Africans to apes,” using diction lynching becomes Wright's metaphor for a circus.

Finally, in 1935, Wright used a circus metaphor to convey cruelty and disarray, antisocial and uncivilized behavior, and style over substance in his poem Between the World and Me. In 1952, Hollywood director Cecil B. DeMille referred to the circus as The Greatest Show on Earth. In my opinion, Wright’s use of metaphors and vivid imagery in Between the World and Me depicts the internal battle of an individual against societal norms, revealing the complexities of identity and resistance in African American literature. I found the use of irony and dramatization in representing the metaphor of a circus in anti-lynching literature of the Jim Crow Era to be a critical analysis of America. I also felt through the lens of tragic irony that this paper examined the use of lynching as a metaphor for a circus and its impact on how trauma generationally plays a role in the Black community in America. Richard Wright's poem Between the World and Me mourns the tragic scene of a gruesome lynching and expresses its harsh impact on the narrator.

Wright depicts this effect through the application of personification, dramatic symbolism, and an extended metaphor of a traveling circus that evolves into a three-ring circus as all of the characters take center stage: from the whore to the drunks to the Black body being exploited on a trapeze hanging till he drops like the human cannonball being exploited by his master of the ring. It is through this diction that Wright manifests the narrator's agony, creating sympathy for its protagonist, the tragic hero, as this three-ring circus concludes in tragic irony. Between The World and Me serves as a poignant reminder of the struggles of African Americans to assert their humanity and dignity in the face of institutional racism, making it a vital contribution to the canon of Richard Wright's work. To summarize, folks who came to a circus did not come to see the ordinary; they came to see the sublime; the “freaks” and Black people were viewed as freaks, right alongside the bearded lady, the elephant man, the African pygmies, the dwarfs, and the Siamese twins. The circus was where, turn of the century Vaudeville acts came to die... Lynching is basically like a circus; everything is all out on display, but ironically, it’s not, but some might still call it the greatest show on earth...

by Levi Wise Kenneth Catoe Jr.

[singsongraptor]

I'm sorry i cannot properly caption this right now. I am not in a good brain space because of the racism two people that are supposed to be friends and allies slapped me with.

Here is the first tweet in the screenshot. I know it's not the proper way to alt text but i do not have the cognitive bandwidth because of my emotional distress and physical pain today

https://twitter.com/SingsongRaptor/status/1632406330563604482?t=KC0Y_41XbCKTEfvR_NA5uQ&s=19

[deaddee-anime-brownfanlady]

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A family is searching for answers after a 19-year-old man was fatally shot by Winnipeg police on Sunday. On New Year’s Eve, Winnipeg police were called to an apartment building on University Crescent for a report of an armed man who was acting erratically. Officers say they were confronted by an armed man at the suite and that during the encounter, an officer shot him. The man was taken to hospital in critical condition and later died of his injuries. Jean-René Dominique Kwilu, a lawyer for the family, has identified the man as 19-year-old Afolabi Stephen Opaso, an international student from Nigeria who was studying economics at the University of Manitoba.

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Tagging @politicsofcanada