#civil right's leader

[hussyknee]

[alwaysbewoke]

[melaninpov]

Decided to follow the trend of posting our favorite scenes from Genius MLK\X

Here’s one of mine..

Aaron Pierre as Malcolm X walking his daughter home from the bus stop

[ohnoitsz1m]

Uhh post canon Barney

Man who has not had a break since the rescas and refuses to start now. Alyx and Gordon are hiding his gear as we speak while Kleiner distracts him.

I was sposed to do Alyx too but I blinked and it was 3 am so. Next time

Oh also I forgot to make a note but he does carry a sidearm

[notaplaceofhonour]

I don’t know who needs to hear this but famed civil rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X were not talking about pogroms or shooting up music festivals and daycares when they said “a riot is the language of the unheard” and resistance “by any means necessary” respectively.

[bubblinelovechild]

The RWBY fandoms treatment of Adam makes me very uncomfortable

This is very long sorry I was rambling <3

There’s something really odd about the dedication RWBY fans have to hating Adam. So much so that they’ll admit the writing of the WF is racist but refuse to admit that Adam a member of the white fang also suffered from that racist writing.

There’s this weird dedication to pretending there are no problems with the choices made around Adams character and vilifying literally everyone who tries to talk about it, for the sake of continuing to blindly hate him. The fandom seems to struggle with understanding that the show is fictional and everything that happens in it is a direct choice of its writers. Y’all talk about Adam like he is a real person who has personally offended you irl. Just a huge lack of media literacy tbh.

A white man wrote a civil rights group, that he admittedly based off the black panthers, as the generic bad guys of his shitty anime knockoff and made a central theme of the show the idea that fighting against your oppression violently makes you just as bad if not worse than your oppressors. Then he mad the leader of that group a generic abusive meanie bad guy. Who essentially is what white supremacists think civil rights activist are all the way down to being the fictional equivalent of a black supremacist.

When there was backlash to this he made a knockoff Malcom X and then killed her in her only scene and made a character whose ideology is basically sit down and lick the feet of your oppressors and had the audacity to say he was based off of MLK. How the fuck do you base a character off of somebody without doing basic research on them because contrary to what people seem to believe MLK was not a doormat and this is a conversation for a different day but I’m sick and tired of his memory being weaponised against black people.

What’s worse is that Adam is the only character portrayed as actually doing something to fight racism. Ghira’s faction is only ever seen fighting against other groups. I don’t know if y’all know this but that’s not how the civil rights movement worked. Most of the leaders didn’t agree on methods but they coexisted because the main goal was the liberation of black people and they knew they had to coexist. MLK did not go around calling the cops on revolutionaries he disagreed with.

The problems with Adam and the WF are not separate and cannot be. Most of what’s wrong with the Faunus plot line is the way the show handles Adam. The choices made with his writing cannot be separated from those they made with the WF overall. Adams choice to kill his attackers to keep himself and other Faunus safe, from people literally trying to kill them, is treated the way it is because of the stance they took with WFs writing. When Adam kills a human supremacist trying to kill Ghira you’re supposed to see it as an extreme and the beginning of his turn to evil. Adam isn’t a real person every descisiom he makes is informed by the white writers of the show. Why would the bias they displayed writing the WF not apply to him?

Some of you have been abused and relate to Blake in that sense, a lot of you seem to be projecting your abusers onto Adam. I’m sorry you went through that but you are not excused from buying into racist rhetoric. It’s incredibly uncomfortable as a black person to watch people talk about how “healing” it was for them to watch a civil rights leader admittedly inspired by black people slapped around and killed by two white women. It is anger inducing to watch fans celebrate “queer representation” dancing on the corpse of a monumental disrespect to black people and our history.

RWBY doesn’t even handle abuse well tbh and most of the queer rep is not that great, there are many shows that do it so much better, there is actually no excuse for hanging on to the black people are bad for fighting against racism show.

[swizziee]

Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali. (1964)

[blackstar1887]

The Courageous Sacrifice of Bunchy Carter and John Huggins: Inspiring the Fight for Justice

[reasoningdaily]

The daughters of Malcolm X have filed a $100 million lawsuit against the CIA, FBI, NYPD, and other government entities, claiming they were involved in the assassination of the civil rights icon. The suit, filed in Manhattan federal court, accuses these agencies of being aware of and participating in the plot to kill Malcolm X and failing to intervene.

Attorney Ben Crump, representing the family and the Malcolm X estate, spoke at a press conference with family members, urging federal and city officials to acknowledge and address the “dastardly deeds” committed by their predecessors. “We hope they learn from this and seek to right these historic wrongs,” Crump said.

The agencies named in the lawsuit have yet to respond publicly.

Malcolm X, who was born Malcolm Little and later took the name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was killed on February 21, 1965, while delivering a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. He was 39 years old. Questions about who was truly behind his murder have lingered for decades.

Three men were initially convicted of his killing, but two were exonerated in 2021 following a new investigation that revealed the original prosecution withheld critical evidence. This exoneration intensified calls for accountability and justice from Malcolm X’s surviving family.

The lawsuit claims that prosecutors and government agencies suppressed their involvement in the assassination plot and that the Shabazz family has suffered immensely from not knowing the full truth. “They did not know who murdered Malcolm X, why he was murdered, the extent of the NYPD, FBI, and CIA’s involvement, the identities of those who conspired against him, or who covered it up,” the suit states. It describes the damage to the family as “unimaginable, immense, and irreparable.”

The family first announced their intent to sue these agencies last year.

[yearningforunity]

"What could be more natural? After sorrow, comes joy."

Fannie Lou Hamer on the Meredith March Against Fear, Mississippi, 1966.

Photo: Charmian Reading

[albertayebisackey]

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." - Ralph Nader

[blackbackedjackal]

Shit's fucked.

[troythecatfish]

[sergeant-angels-trashcan]

Why would I stan the white cop robot when the mixed race android Moses is right there

[moonfables]

speaking with m*n legitimately takes years off my lifespan

[aaliyahunleashed]

Happy Heavenly Birthday to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968