This happened a while ago, but look…another Black person has lost their life due to a racist system. A system pitted against them at every turn.
This womans home was lost in a tornado, as a result, she became homeless and her children were taken out of her custody and put into her mothers custody. Anna Brown went to the hospital complaining of severe leg pain. The doctors judged her, said shewas a drug addict (despite being drug tested 3 or more times with negative results), and a bum looking for a place to sleep. They said she was fine, and called the police. This is when the video begins. She has to be dragged out of the hospital, and once in police custody at the local jail, she is brought into a room with THREE beds…but is laid on the floor. There, she cries, and moans in pain until the blood clot that was IN HER LEG makes it to her lungs and kills her.
This is not an isolated incident. Trayvon is not an isolated incident. These are a part of a collective issue in this country where people of color are NOT treated as equals. This is a part of a collective issue about a racist society that supports the ideology of white superiority, and uses this ideology to HURT and even KILL people of color around every turn. This is part a collective issue where people of color are failed by the systems that are put in to help people like this woman. This is America. This is not an isolated incident.
Me On White People.
Y’all gonna learn something interjecting your white opinions into conversations you can’t even relate to.
What if you are not using opinions, you are using facts?
Like facts supporting the inequality of jail time for non-violent offenses and the…
I am reblogging this because I both agree and disagree. Not all white people are ignorant, racist bigots. There are intelligent white people out there who are not at all apathetic about the situation of PoC all over this world, there are white people out there who UNDERSTAND the way the system works.
When I was in the 8th grade, I had a childhood crush on a black guy. I would go so far as to say that he was my first ‘love.’ We lost contact after freshman year of high school.
Thanks to Facebook, he has come back into my life. Our very first conversation as adults was about the state of PoC in this country. This man got caught up when the streets called. He is a beautiful, intelligent human being who got caught up in a cycle of oppression, crime, and a “you aint shit” mentality handed down to his people by the the ideology of white superiority that pervades this country. He was a victim of his circumstances. A victim of his environment, and a victim of the LACK of options PoC are given (especially poor PoC).
I went on a very long rant about this to him. How, white people (and not the white man working a minimum wage job to pay bills..I mean the white man we DONT see) have stripped his people of their identity. He is a descendant of those who survived the middle passage …this inherently makes him STRONG. An intelligent, strong black man is frightening to white ideology. As soon as we unshackled his ancestors, we began to mentally and physically tear them down. This is when the “you aint shit” mentality took root. And, for so many, being told you aint shit cements into your head and you think “Well, im not gonna be shit.” Not only this..but when youre hustling selling dope, making hundreds sometimes a day…and this is the environment and options that has been given to your people for generations, then some white man tells you to get a real job making less than half of what you make selling dope….ITS A FUCKING JOKE. The system is designed to strip PoC of their strength and pride and we live in an age of neo enslavement.
I said all of this to him, and then I apologized for going on a tangent. Then I said “Do you know, like, do you realize that white people are the single most BULLHEADED, IGNORANT, RACIST, DUMB MOTHER FUCKERS ON THIS PLANET?”
…and he laughed and it went silent.
A few seconds later he said “To hear you say this shit…you dont know what this means to me, as a black man. To hear all of this truth coming from a white girls mouth is ….revolutionary. We need people like you and that really just meant so much to me. You dont even know.”
All I was doing was telling the truth. So, with all due respect, I know that someone very important gave a fuck about my feelings that day. When you tell the truth, people tend to give a fuck. You just have to tell the truth.
*I also want to point out, that there are many things blacks and whites can relate to..especially if they come from the same social class. Whites will NEVER be able to relate to being black in America, or being a PoC. Never. But some whites (including myself) can relate to growing up in the hood and doing what the fuck you HAVE TO DO to provide, and survive..with the very limited options youve been given.
As white-passing people of color, we have our own set of struggles.
We have to hear all the horrible, racist things that our white friends (and sometimes even our not-white friends) say about people of color that they wouldn’t dare say if we were visible poc. And because we …
Yes, yes, yes! It bothers me when white passing PoC do not want to admit their privilege. To society, we are white, and we are treated as a white person which is…a hurt all in itself. But, its true. We have privilege that our non passing PoC brothers and sisters do NOT and its time to start admitting it and doing what we can to open others eyes about the racial hierarchy in this world.
