since tumblr is us-centric, this is probably going to be one of the only posts about it, but here it is.
early this week, naomi musenga, a 22-year-old black woman, called the samu, our equivalent of 911, because she was suffering from extreme stomachache and had a fever. when the operator picked up, naomi was out of breath, as if she had difficulty breathing, and was basically begging for help, saying that she was going to die. you’d expect them to be worried about her and do anything in their power to help, right?
wrong.
the operator who took the call – and another colleague of hers – proceeded to make fun of her, not taking her seriously and saying that “everybody dies eventually”. the operator threathened to hang up on naomi because she wasn’t clear enough, because of the fact that she was in pain? because of her accent?the operator told her to call either sos doctor or her attending physician because “she couldn’t do it for her”. after she did call sos doctors – and taken seriously – she was rushed into the ER before dying of a heart attack, six hours after she called the samu.
naomi musenga was only 22. she has a daughter, who now has to grow up without a mother because of racist – yeah, this is about racism and bigotry and just plain hatred – women who didn’t want to do their jobs.
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26-year-old Jamarion Robinson’s grandmother Beverly Nixon said her grandson was bipolar and schizophrenic. Still got shot 76 (!!!) times. Would a white person get the same treatment?
The witness said he saw more than a dozen patrol cars at the complex where US Marshals killed Robinson on August 5, 2016. Why were there no behavioral specialist? Surely one of them would know how to interact with a bipolar schizophrenic better than the police.
them: listen the government and big pharma are drugging up the people over medicating them not letting them be themselves the entire structure of capitalism is about drugging people into submission maybe we should just fuck a tree instead
“The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[6][7]”
Don’t forget that basically half the country thought the students deserved it…
Another picture from Kent State.
But it was not just Kent State, eleven days later Mississippi Police fired 150 rounds into a dormitory at Jackson State College, killing 2 and wounding 15 black protesters.
Btw half of the students killed at Kent State weren’t even protesting, they were just there
What in the absolute fuck
When the Irish guy has known about this since he was like 8, but it’s suspiciously hard for Americans to learn about…
I literally only know abt this bc my parents are hippies it’s fucked up
Dont forget about southern university! Where national guardsmen killed two unarmed black men who weren’t even protesting
“The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[6][7]”
Don’t forget that basically half the country thought the students deserved it…
Another picture from Kent State.
But it was not just Kent State, eleven days later Mississippi Police fired 150 rounds into a dormitory at Jackson State College, killing 2 and wounding 15 black protesters.
Btw half of the students killed at Kent State weren’t even protesting, they were just there
What in the absolute fuck
When the Irish guy has known about this since he was like 8, but it’s suspiciously hard for Americans to learn about…
Protesting gun violence is massively important – but we need to recognize those most targeted and affected by it. Civilians with assault rifles/weapon stockpiles/bullet hoards, militarized police, normalization and support of heavily violent private security – these are all a huge part of what needs to be addressed re: guns in the US
And YES, Native Americans are disproportionately targeted by all violence (esp by non-Natives), but especially by gun violence.
From our children to our Elders, we are disproportionately injured/killed, despite making up such a small percent of the population of our lands.
This isn’t pulling focus from this movement. This is demanding that this movement (like all movements on this soil) must address anti-Native violence. It’s not just white kids and teens being attacked in these schools, so everybody needs to remember to also highlight anti-poc affects and intentions.
don’t forget – when you help the most vulnerable members of society, everyone benefits.
So y’all need a reminder on what the word “agenda” is?
Putting even more police officers in schools will only feed the school-to-prison pipeline. And needlessly endanger, arrest and criminalize innocent black and brown students, destroy their futures in the process, and in essence, help to maintain a permanent underclass.
“Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways in which it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination – employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, exclusion from jury service – are suddenly legal.“ – Michelle Alexander
Make no mistake: The true agenda here is not “school safety.” The real goals are to, 1. Keep the for-profit, prison industrial complex supplied with cheap prison laborers, and, 2. Disenfranchise the next generation of black and non-white voters, who will face additional hurdles to finding employment, rental housing, home loans, student loans, public food assistance, and most importantly, voting — all because they will now have a ~criminal~ record for minor school infractions.
wupacing 