When you say “All Lives Matter” when I say “Black Lives Matter” it sounds like your saying “Black lives don’t matter as much.” And are things to condescend and minigate the importance of our message. And if “All Lives Matter” then “Black Lives” are included and you should be just as mad and heartbroken and standing with us.
When you say “White lives matter too.” when I say “Black Lives Matter” It sounds like you are saying “White lives matter more then black lives.” And it makes me feel like you see me as a traitor of my race for defending another. I akwoldge I have white privlage but at least I can use it to help anyway I can.
When you say “They are all just thugs who are looting and setting things on fire.” when I say “Black Lives Matter" you are only choosing to focus on the handful of the most radical and misguided of those involved and willfully ignoring the peacful protesrs who are using their voice instead of their hands. .
Those are crimes and that is wrong, But the only casualty were things, items, objects that could be replaced and profit, no one was harmed. Murdering unarmed indaviduals based on skin color and suspicion and brutallizing peaceful protesters is arguably much worse. They WERE harmed while not committing any crime other then speaking out and going about their day. Even if they did do something wrong, you should be arrested lawfully and investigated. Not murdered.
When you say “Blue Lives Matter” when I say “Black Lives Matter” it sounds like you are saying “Police matter more and should not be held accountable when they cross a line or take a life unjustly.”
Police know when they signed up that they put their lives on the line everyday to protect and serve others. They knew that there would be a chance they could get hurt or die to protect the community. Black people did not sign up to be black or be killed for doing everyday things or to be asssumed guilty and suspicious wherever they go or whatever they are doing. You can take off a uniform. You cant take off your skin.
When I say “ Black Lives Matter” I am merely stating a truthful fact. If you deny the truth or try to divert it, you are part of the problom, I’m trying be part of the solution.
Hello guys, so, you are many to follow me for years, and you all know how vocal I have always been about racism, and the place of black people in fiction and society. However I didn’t quite shared my thoughts about what’s happening in USA rn here in tumblr, but I definitely did on twitter and instagram, now it’s your turn to read.
In the light of recent events, riots happening in many cities around the US and of course, the unspeakable actions of many policemen, I need to talk about what also happens in France.
We are in 2016, and a young man named Adama Traoré, was allegedly murdred by three policemen in the same fashion of George FLoyd. Like George, his last words were “ I CAN’T BREATHE.”
Since then, his sister Assa Traore, demands justice for her brother and an actual mediatic war happens between the Traoré family and the police representatives. Many reports contradict each other like what we can observe with the reports issued by the police concerning George Floyd. These two cases are very very similar, but unfortunately for Adama, we didn’t have a camera that could show the actions of these policemen. HOwever, many witnesses came to deliver what they saw showing that the police went above their duties, but Adama Traore never got justice.
What’s happening in the Usa, then, reasonates particularly here in France. You have to know, that black and Arab people are unfairly racially profiled since they are teenagers in the blocks and even beyond. I have the story of my own little brother who is racially profiled everytime he goes in the city. Many cases of police violence happened during the quarantine, and this cameras recorded unspeakble actions. We saw a young man being tackled, took in a van where he was lynched. We saw another getting tackled, taken somewhere where he couldn’t be directly seen and we heard his screams. Lately, a 14-years-old teenager was attacked when he was in custody.. He may loose his right eye.
Police violence is a very serious issue against people of color, here in France, especially Blakc and Arab people. I am telling you that France that arrogantly sees itself the land of justice and human rights doesn’t respect them.
Today a protest will be very repressed since because of Covid 19, protests are forbidden. People will ge hurt because of Paris chief of police who is… very dangerous.
I am telling you, France is watching the US, and I really would like that black people in the US know, that the entire diaspora in many countries in the West knows. Please support us as much as we support you. No justice, no peace everywhere.
Adama was killed 4 years ago on his 24th birthday by the police in 2016; Assa decided to fight for her brother and not let this crime be an “accident” or be part of the local news, for 4 years she kept fighting for her brother and for the black community. Her voice will not be stifled and we will keep shouting Adama’s name until justice is done.
Eyad Hriebat (39 yo) from the city of sakaka, Hebron West bank, he was unjustly sentenced by the israeli courts to 250 years behind bars for his resistance and fight against the Israeli occupation, He was arrested when he was 19.
For 6 months Eyad got tortured, brutally assaulted and beatened in Hadarim prison by IOF, and left with complete medical negligence, he is currently in a very serious health condition he is amnesic, paralysed, septic, and in danger of developing a shock and death.
Update: rumours between the prisoners and other witnesses saying that the IOF injected Eyad’s head with an unknown substance which explains the rapid development of the amnesia and paralysis and the very recent mental deterioration.
Don’t leave him alone facing his death under the torture in the Israeli prisons.
Support him and his family by sharing his story and exposing the war crimes of the israeli occupation.
Odeh family is a Palestinian family, living in Silwan and the IOF forced them to demolish their own house, otherwise they will get their house demolished for them and get fined with >20,000$
Odeh family and other families‘ houses are going to be demolished and left homeless, this is a part of a zionist plan to forcefully expel the Palestinians from Jerusalem to change it from an arab-majority city to a zionist majority city, this form of colonisation is called “Settler colonialism” where the indigenous people of the land are being forcefully replaced by the people of the occupier.
Eyad Hraibat, 39-years-old, is currently in a coma in Soroka medical center after the Israelis removed his prostate last June. He was injected with an unknown medical drug in 2014 that caused to him complete paralysis and memory loss.
During the Israeli attacks on Gaza, the past May, Israeli settlers marked palestinians’ houses with red paints in Al-lydd city in Jerusalem, so they could be raided on by armed Israeli thugs.
Meanwhile, the “Garin torani” or the “torah seeds” group aims to create a jewish majority in Arab-majority neighbrhoods by forcefully displacing the indogenous palestinians from these neighborhoods and welcoming settlers from all around the world.
A soldier of the “world’s least moral army” spraying pepper at a press‘ face to prevent him from documenting their terrorism in Palestine.
Typical terrorists. Israel is nothing but a political cult, same as ISIS covering their war crimes in name of religion. Fuck Izrael and the world’s double standards.
In August 2021, the Israeli government plans to continue its ethnic cleansing across all of Palestine by forcing Palestinians out of their homes in the Jerusalem neighborhoods of Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan, and beyond. Together we rise up for the Month of Action.
The Palestinian people remain steadfast in their resistance, refusing to be uprooted from their homeland, even as Israeli murder of Palestinians accelerates. For decades, the U.S. has funded this violence, and now in solidarity with a continuing, historic Palestinian uprising of unity against Israel’s colonialism, we in the U.S. have a role to rise with them. Rise up in solidarity with the steadfast Palestinian people and demand an end to U.S. military funding to Israel, and don’t let up until reps support H.R. 2590 as a bare minimum.
Mohammad Al-Allamy (11 y-o) was shot dead today by IOF , he was directly targeted at his chest while he was sitting in his parents car coming back from a grocery trip, the Israeli military intentionally targets children. this is a cold blooded murder, we have to hold this fascist Israeli occupation accountable for its crimes against the Palestinians, share and expose these crimes.
Palestinian lives matter, save the Palestinian children from the Israeli terrorism.
Muhammad Tamimi, a 17 year old resident of Nabi Saleh, was shot and killed by IDF soldiers in his own village today. The regular loss of Palestinian children’s lives due to soldiers’ unregulated use of excessive force is impossible to bear.
Don’t forget about the Palestinian captive in Israeli prisons Eyad Hriebat, he is in a very serious medical condition due to the intentional medical negligence by IOF. he was subjected to pharmacological torture in Hadarim prison by IOF for 6 months, according to trustful witnesses, we don‘t know yet what was injected in his head that caused the amnesia and complete paralysis. when he was 19, he was sentenced to 250 years behind the bars, just because he fought for freedom, for his resistance, for the land, for Palestine
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