#baltimore

Kelly Rowland Freddy Vs. Jason Premiere, 2003

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ebonykain:

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This one needs to go right next to the Baltimore accent with the Aaron earns an iron urn.

In case anyone hasn’t seen it

The “dummy” as a term of affection is a specific Baltimore thing too. Hehe

The number of people globally talking about Baltimore, MD, and previously Ferguson, MO, undermines the “Rioting doesn’t do anything” argument. You - middle class, white person - are now talking about or reading about systemic racism publicly when there was a zero percent chance you would notice it before.

Do you know how I know that? Because none of my friends (including me) posted about or read about the literal hundreds of peaceful candlelight vigils that were held for black men killed by police in the last year.

The last forty years of politely asking for police to stop killing minorities without repercussion hasn’t changed anything. “Hey, mind not beating handcuffed black men to death? How about not shooting 7 year old black girls in the face? If it troubles you, can you find it in your heart not to shoot twelve year old children carrying toys? Gee, that’d be swell!”

So for the love of fucking god, can we please start talking about “Why are Americans being murdered by police so often that we’re rioting” instead of listing *property damage* related to said riots?

Property can be replaced. People cannot. ‪#‎Blacklivesmatter‬

Oh and for the record:

Systemic racism isn’t a problem for minorities to solve. It is not the job of rioters to “change things” in an effective manner.The people who maintain and implement systemic racism are the people who need to change the system and “solve the problem” of systemic racism.

If riots are what has to happen in order to raise white america’s attention level, so be it.

White America isn’t allowed to create a justice system that completely disenfranchises minorities, direct funding away from predominantly minority schools, change voting hours and laws to make it harder for minorities to vote, redistrict the effectiveness of their vote away, present only wealthy candidates who aren’t familiar with the issues that poor Americans deal with, aim the justice system disproportionately at minorities and then prevent them from voting because they’re felons, use disproportionately long sentencing and make a legal defense too expensive to carry out, and then claim that it’s black america’s job to change things - but only in a manner that we approve of. Fuck. That. Noise.

And then on top of that, posting bullshit fucking condescending posts about rioting? About how you don’t *approve* of it? Jesus. It’s a good way to get added to the “List of people who should be punched in the groin.

"Stop "shaking your head” at rioters. Start “shaking your head” at systemic racism.



Edit to address a comment below:

>>chicagochefleesaid: I’m on your side and yet I’m white. So how is this a white problem? Racism can’t be cured by more racism. This is a backward, idiot, racist problem. No color involved. These same idiots are shooting dogs for no reason and are against gay marriage

This is an unfortunately simplistic view of the situation. Systemic racism (meaning, codified laws and policies aimed at disenfranchising minorities) are very very real racist problems and have nothing to do with ‘backward idiots’. They have to do with every white American who votes for politicians that favor redistricting to prevent candidates minorities support from gaining office, laws that are harder on minorities than whites, juries that are more likely to convict a black person than a white person, police that stop and randomly search minorities more than whites. 

As a white person, you have the option to call for color blindness and then just wait with your head in the sand until this all blows over. But fuck that noise. We need to dig racism out at it’s core and shine the light of day on it. 

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