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#Every28Hours (1/23/15):Another young Black man has been extrajudicially killed by the police in St Louis. For all the stories I’ve seen of crazed gunman, armed-robbers, and murderers who are taken into custody, why does it seem like the only time cops forget how to use non-lethal force is with a Black kid. #staywoke #farfromover

“Another POC”

Please miss me with all of this bullshit. These are BLACK people getting killed not some amorphous group of “POC”. This young man was BLACK, police brutality is centered around the control of BLACK bodies. Stop erasing antiblackness and spreading this lie that this is a “POC” issue when this is by and large a BLACK issue. This is especially insulting to do on a post about yet another BLACK victim of police brutality, while reciting stats about BLACK victims of police violence.

So nope. Take bullshit posts like this to the trash talking about “POC” when another black person is killed by police violence. I’m not having it

Uhhh… you yelling at me or the tweets? Cause I’m damn well sure I typed “Black” and I know I’m reading my words and they say “Black,” not POC. Imma need you to take that bass out your voice while addressing me.

All I will say is the following— Were you not the one who made this post and assembled the tweets with all the white people erasing antiblackness? 

As content creators we have a responsibility not only for the words that we write ourselves, but for accurate curated content as well. Rather than telling me to take the “bass” out of my voice (which is deflection from the point at hand), think about the content of your post in its entirety, including the tweets. Erasure is always a form of violence, and we all have a responsibility to combat it when we see it. That is all.

All I will say is that I didn’t perceive the term POC as a form of anti-blackness or erasure, though I understand the perspective you’re presenting. I’ve edited the original post slightly, however I am stalwart in my belief and representation that BOTH Black and Brown bodies are under attack within the police state, and use generally view the term POC as a blanket attempt to incorporate both. That may have not been the intent of the authors of the tweets, but it was my interpretation.

Also, the bass out your voice comment was not a deflection. You easily could have approached me in your initial comments like you did in your response. I take time to curate the content I create in a responsible and forthright manner. If either my intent or interpretation were wrong, I’ll take responsibility for that and correct it for the future. 

Geez. And I was riding with you till this. If you’re talking American police as everyone else is (I hope) then this is by and large a problem faced by black people. Saying “both Black and Brown bodies” can mean many things. First of all, you really must designate which brown bodies, and even then in comparison to Black bodies, in sheer numbers by American police? It’s really not a question.This most certainly is a problem most likely to be faced by someone who is black. Also, with this in mind, if you can’t see how saying this is a POC issue and not a black issue is erasure, especially since relatively recent events and protests have been geared toward and created by, in large part, BLACK people, then there really is not much else to say. You’re purposely being blind. And in this case, it’s antiblack.

Luis Jobel, Andy Lopez,Joaquin Cibrian, Frank Al Mendoza, , Omar Abrega, Maria Rodriguez,James De La Rosa, 4 Latino Men in Salinas, California, and numerous others, all killed in the last year alone… yall just going to let our brown folk lay out there to rot? Not to mention regular raids by ICE in Hispanic/Latinx/Latin@ communities that frequently end in deaths or severe injury. Well shit! Guess you not riding with me anymore. You’re purposefully erasing the fact that nearly a third of all police-related killings last year were of Brown folk, and I can’t exactly figure out why. Like what do you lose by standing in solidarity with other oppressed folks, particularly in the instance of police brutality.

(And to reiterate, POC tweets have been removed, cause I see what owning-my-truth was getting at.)

socialjusticekoolaid, as a latin@ blogger, I feel the solidarity inherent in our usage of POC belongs to marginalized communities of color and should be avoided by non-POC. When referring to specific individuals, I don’t think we should use POC as it does then perpetuate erasure of context.