#sandra bland
Burn out The Darkess Bring in the Light! This is one of the Most beautiful photos that I’ve ever seen.❤️❤️ I stand with each and every one of my people that has had their life ripped away from them because of the color of their skin, .
Remember
‘Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.”
James Baldwin
Tay Keith told me to fuck it up and I will!!!!!
Y'all with me or y'all scared??? Cause I’m not talking about marching nor yelling through megaphones. Change begins within. That means the plans have to change. The formula must change. The method must change. Because EVERYTHING that has been done in the past didn’t work. Time has passed. It didn’t work. The era has changed, but the fight is the same. That means that we are more knowledgeable about the battle. The tactics can be reprogrammed to fit the narrative along with the weapons that we now possess.
Busting windows out of insured businesses isn’t bringing attention to injustice. It’s creating avenues for the rich to continue to sit home and profit without work while more blacks are being hurt and becoming casualties in a one sided war.
We are becoming mascots and cheerleaders for our own deaths while continuously listening to degrading music penned by the brothers and sisters who should be supporting and rebuilding their own communities.
Each day, a black community is being infiltrated by whites and they are giving you free paint and brushes to garnish former trap houses and plant gardens while they move their 501c organizations into your grandmother’s old home and build their grandeur mansions into the vacant lots. These are properties that you’ll never be able to afford.
Your ‘hood’ is no longer a safehaven for you because your son, sister, Aunt, husband, nephew, daughter, Uncle, and wife now look suspicious when walking because the predator is now pretending to be afraid so that they can have you legally ejected from your habitats.
Neighbors are killing us out of fabricated fear while law enforcement officers are killing us out of fabricated protection.
Think about that!!!
Change the dynamics!!!
Blanca Bitchcraft
- Justice for Sandra Bland
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- Justice for Sandra Bland
Be the match that sets the flame sis! Speak highly of yourself and know that you are deserving of so much more! Queen today and everyday! Queen for the sistas who can no longer Queen for themselves; Breonna Taylor, Ayanna Gray, Sandra Bland, Atatiana Jefferson, Aura Rosser, and many, many others!
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A poem by Tayo Oredein about unarmed Black and Brown men, women, and children being killed by the people who are supposed to protect.
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We’re telling our husbands/wives, brothers/sisters, and sons/daughters to comply with police authority no matter how bad they are dehumanized by the police physically and/or sexually in hopes of keeping them alive. But even with all the precautions black people are still turning up dead in jail cells and in the back of police cars while in custody of the police. So lets ask ourselves is that really the best advice? I wonder how many innocent black people have surrendered to police not knowing that the last time the saw their loved ones would be the very last time.
I’m not saying I have the answers but I’m not afraid to ask questions
Peace.
Post made and written by @Solar_innerG
#sancophaleague
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“to be black…a woman…and not be hunted…and not to hold your head down…and not have to quiver…when you pass a man…police…or professional…yet still knowing…at any given moment…you are a target…“
- Nikki Giovanni
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh in New York City - August 8, 2015
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The Texas Sheriff Where Sandra Bland Died Was Previously Suspended for Racism
The head sheriff of Waller County, Texas, where 28-year-old Sandra Bland was allegedly found asphyxiatedin a jail cell on Monday, was fired from his job as Hempstead, Texas, police chief in 2008 following allegations of racism, according to the Houston Chronicle.
TheDaily Kos recovered old Chronicle reports on Thursday showing that in 2007, R. Glenn Smith, then police chief of Hempstead, was suspended for two weeks by the Hempstead City Council after they “[viewed] videotapes and [heard] allegations of racism from local residents against him and … four [other] officers.”
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Sandra Bland was stopped Friday by authorities in Waller County, Texas for a traffic violation. In a video of her arrest, while being forcibly held face down, Ms. Bland can clearly be heard saying to the officer, “You just slammed my head into the ground. Do you not even care about that?” As she’s being picked up off the ground and placed into the police vehicle, Ms. Bland can be heard again, this time thanking the person recording the video, saying, “Thank you for recording.”
Bland was arrested and booked on “assault of a public servant” charges.
A police statement says the following Monday morning Ms. Bland was released on a $5,000 bond, and was subsequently “found dead” by a female jailer who was “worried” about her recreation time. Waller County Sheriff Glenn Smith claims this was a case of self-inflicted asphyxiation. An autopsy performed Tuesday showed Bland’s death “has been classified as a suicide, with the cause of death (listed as) hanging,” according to Tricia Bentley, a spokeswoman for the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences in Houston.
Hanged. Suicide. A young 28-year old woman who was moving to Texas to begin working her dream job suddenly decided to commit suicide, supposedly because of a small traffic infraction?
Ms. Bland’s friends and family feel that the police’s story doesn’t add up. For one thing, the odd quickness with which everything seemed to escalate seems off. In a matter of 72 hours Bland went from being pulled over for a minor traffic violation, to being arrested for assaulting a cop, and then to killing herself, according to the police’s story. There’s also the fact that Bland is black, and Waller county has a history of discriminatory law enforcement behavior.
The police are lying again.
#WhatHappenedToSandyBland #JusticeForSandy #ALLBlackLivesMatter
The cop asked the guy recording in the video to leave right after they said ‘good, good’ while she was screaming at them for slamming her on the floor I feel sick
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DA promises ‘thorough’ investigation of Sandra Bland jail death
The death of activist Sandra Bland in a Texas jail cell is being investigated as murder, a district attorney has said. Police in Waller County said Bland had committed suicide, but her family considers that unlikely.
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Happy Birthday to Sandra Bland! She would’ve been 33 years old today! May she continue resting in peace
February 7, 1987 - July 13, 2015
so I’m a pussy and won’t tweet this poem I wrote, so tumblr it is. I’m in my feels, don’t @ me. 7/06/16
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Hey everyone, as some of you know- a few weeks ago I created a series on my Youtube channel called “Poems from Prisons.”
This poem is called “A Black Man” written by an anonymous inmate. Even though it was written in 2004, its still relevant today.
