But, we're the best country in the world! Um, no we are fucking not. We are seriously, seriously broken fucked up. All over. It is not just a Southern thing, this is an American thing. This poor woman and her family, her children.
There was a Muslim 15 year old girl who was taken and killed this past weekend in my county. Of course, police do not want to say she was targeted for being Muslim, but from all accounts of what happened, that is exactly why they went after her and her group of friends.
This is so fucked up, and so...I don't know...is "telling" the word I'm looking for? Ironic?... that this happened right before Juneteenth. People like to pretend we've made it so far since then, but we're still just as awful.
I'm local to this--it is absolutely horrific and never should have happened. A local parents group has organized a clothing collection for the kids because their aunt can't get into their home to get anything.
I'm not hopeful that this family will ever get justice. Those poor children.
Both the officers shot her, which tells me they did absolutely nothing to try to talk her down or get the knife. The chief expressed his condolences to her family *and* to the officers involved. What kind of fucked up statement is that? Your condolences to two white guys who murdered a pregnant black woman in cold blood in front of her children?
I don't even know how to respond to these stories anymore. Everything just feels so false and hollow when it's the same damn thing everyday.
Post by claudiajean on Jun 19, 2017 15:32:12 GMT -5
I haven't commented on these threads because I just don't know what to say. It's absolutely disgusting. Are the police only here for white people? POC can't even call the police when they feel threatened without getting murdered in their homes? When will people stand up and say "enough is enough?"
'Police harassment and violence, and the ways the system facilitate and enable it, are not exceptional to the US. They are part of what makes the US what it is.'
This is horrific and stomach churning. And every time I hear these stories, I think about how often this happens and how often it happened in the past and just got swept away. My mind cannot even begin to comprehend what it must be like to live in fear like this happening to your family. What a utter disgrace we are.
Post by creamsiclechica on Jun 19, 2017 16:32:36 GMT -5
This is repugnant and absolutely horrific. Fucking murderers. That poor woman and her children, and their entire families.
And in the same vein of @kirkette's post, my husband is in the military and last month, he had to go to a training area just a couple hours outside of Seattle for a month. In that time, he was pulled over and searched by the cops dozens of times, denied service in restaurants, shouted at with racial slurs, and treated worse in 30 days time than he was in 13.5 years in Kentucky/Tennessee, and that's really saying something. He has to go back for two more weeks, and I'm genuinely fearful for him and his fellow soldiers who are black or mixed race/ethnicity (my husband is Indian and white, but often confused for a number of races). White liberal spaces are NOT safe, and for damn sure our smugness about them is what leads to these tragedies. Burst this fucking bubble already. It's far more dangerous than even the outspoken, easily identifiable racists.
The tragedy and trauma inflicted on communities of color by those who are supposed to protect is staggering. Not only have those poor children lost their mother, but they are greatly traumatized and will likely get no help.
Well, all signs of history and shit point to the family won't get justice and it's so incredibly fucked. Seattle is gonna pull some feel good "listening and learning" shit and that'll be that. Fuck it all.
Because that's how Seattle rolls! I'm so glad we didn't move there a few years ago. My anxiety would be through the roof, with all the holier than though, "At least we're not as racist as the South, or conservatives" style shit. Nah, you folks up north are just as scary, if not more, because you're in deep denial about your microaggressive and benevolent racist ways.
This. All day every day on here people love to talk about the racist South but then fail to realize (in other words acknowledge) they live in the racist North. But then it's understandable because well they are white and racism occurs in someone else's backyard. Lol for days...