“The officer who fired the fatal shots at the 16-year-old, however, was cleared of all charges by a grand jury.”
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There is absolutely no justice in this. First of all why is he being tried as an adult?
basically the reasoning behind this bs is that he was an accessory to murder because he was involved in the robbery, which “caused” the officer to have to fire his gun. laiketh was offered 25 years if he plead guilty, 65 if he took it to trial. (long sentences like this are basically used to scare people into pleading guilty.) he decided to fight (because, you know, he didn’t actually shoot anyone) but he lost. it’s so sad and stupid.
This is an obvious threat to African American ex-prisoners, and the message is that the state will target and punish them with unreasonable prison sentences for voting, even while on probation.
”I don’t think I’ll ever vote again. That’s being honest. I’ll never vote again.” – Crystal Mason
This is the new Jim Crow. This is an example of how Texas disenfranchises Black voters and suppresses voter turnout.
This is why Black people are disproportionately arrested and injected into the criminal “justice” system for even the smallest infractions.
The threat of re-imprisonment is how you dissuade all Black former-prisoners from voting, “just in case.”
Can you even imagine how different the South would be – how different AMERICA would be, if so many states didn’t use the criminal justice system and prison as a means to suppress the Black vote?
ONCE AGAIN: We are not having a full discussion about gun violence if we fail to acknowledge that police brutality targets black people. When the police become a part of school campuses, the arrests on Black students only increases, as do physical assaults.
If you need a refresher, please recall how “School Resource Officer” Ben Fields body slammed a teenage black girl for the “crime” of being on her cell phone.
Arming school teachers is an incredibly bad idea. And placing Black students in proximity to police officers needlessly puts innocent Black children at risk. We need a better, more nuanced solution. “More police” fails as a solution for nearly the same reasons that “more guns” does.
call me captain obvious but the difference between how the parkland teens & the ferguson protesters were/are treated during protest & portrayed in media isn’t just like a matter of (for lack of a better term) post-hoc racism & antiblackness whereby white and Black people doing the same thing will be treated in different ways. the reason that the ferguson protesters were treated in ways spanning the range of dismissal, criminalisation, and police surveillance, violence & brutality wasn’t solely because individual protesters were Black per se but because their entire experience & platform was shaped by the experience of Blackness/racialisation, aka in order to defend their right to. exist freely, with the respect they deserve, safe from fear, they had to be against militarisation of the police, police violence, etc.. the reason the parkland teens can be treated with comparative respect & deference & magazine covers etc. isn’t just because “they’re white aka people will be more inclined to make positive value judgements about them” but also because “they’re white aka they exist under material circumstances that make it very easy for their platform to be subsumed into a capitalist police state & even to advance the goals of that police state.” we’re not looking at racism as attitude aka people being valuated differently for engaging in the same behaviour, but racism as structure aka people being.. constituted such that very different goals & behaviours are even available to them, & some of those behaviours are in line with the goals of a police state & some of them (by design) are not. there’s a difference between protesting to protect your lives if you’re (largely) the people whom police are designed to protect vs. if you’re (largely) the people they’re designed to harm. we need to implicate more in an analysis of racism & anti-Blackness than attitude, even “mass” or “collective” attitude. again ignore me if this is obvious but I feel from some people’s wording that they’re going the “attitude” approach
I’m pissed, pissed, at finding out this information. I even went to the journal site and read the article to make sure there wasn’t a spin. 47% of black kids and 67% of Puerto Rican children?! Those numbers are astronomical and point to a largely increased amount of morbidity (and mortality in some cases) in regards to asthma related complications in patients. Like all this proves is that white researchers only research white people despite how much it can help them and everyone else to diversify their subject pools. This is the community I am joining. The medical community has long been using racist sexist classist data to treat our patients and slowly but surely it is coming to light that we have been hurting our patients because of it. More research needs to be done immediately to figure out if there are better drugs (besides short acting beta 2 agonists) that can help minorities with asthma.
I am a black artist. I am a huge fan of Black Panther. These two things combined have resulted in me eagerly jumping into drawing Black Panther fanart. The movie was amazing and inspired me in ways that I cannot begin to describe, and yet, in the two fanart pieces I created for this fantastic movie, I have been called racist, terrible, accused of “white-washing”, and been harassed.
Me. A black artist. Racist against black people because apparently I’ve colored a character’s skin too dark for some people’s tastes or far too light.
None of them were genuine critiques, either. Not advice on how to better reach a more approved way of coloring a characters skin, but just either vicious accusations or outright rude statements, as if they forget that there is a person behind the drawings they consume.
I’m a person just like everyone else here. I am very open to critiques to improve my art when they come from a stance of actually wanting to have that person get better or learn rather than to just hurt them and put them down.
I made an error in my first Black Panther drawing of Shuri where I had drawn her a bit darker than I should have. I had realized that when I used a reference picture for her, I picked one where she was in a darker room with many shadows being casted upon her skin, adding more shade than what is usually shown by her skin tone. I acknowledged that mess up, but by the time I had realized, that post had already gathered a life of its own. I promised myself that the next time I made Black Panther fanart I would make sure to look at multiple references of the actor/actress and learn how to properly color-pick.
Which leads me to my new post I had created. I made a silly Killmonger comic that was a direct reference to the “you could shop at five or six stores or just one”. I was terrified to mess up on the skin tone, because I know even slight errors make people on this website go insane. I went out of my way to make sure I had a nice, flat skintone for him, seeing as I was only intending to implement incredibly minimal lighting and shadows in my comic.
I did research. I looked up information on how to properly identify skin tone (some of which were unreachable, seeing as they told me to check behind the ear of the person lol). All the information I looked up told me to find the skin tone through the “undertone”, which is the base skin color one has that is unaffected by light or shadows casted in a room. With that knowledge in mind, I made sure to find at least 5 references where I could color-pick out the undertones of Michael B. Jordan without focusing on any specifically bright or shadowed areas of his face or body. The readings I looked up also stated that more natural lighting may help with my choice, and a few of these (notably the Black Panther promo picture) have certain dramatic lightings. I kept that in mind and I predominantly focused on color-picking the area between his cheekbone and jawline to find his coloring. These were my results:
In all of my images that I referenced, where I made sure to avoid highlights in the cheeks, it showed that his skin tends to have a more honeyed brown undertone.
At no point was my intention for this comic to be white-washed or offensive. I did research and tried my best to stay true to his coloring (and the fanart I’ve seen of him on this site have too wide of a variation in skin color that I was too unsure to pick one from those). If I perhaps hurt or upset others with my coloration of his character, then I truly do apologize. That was nowhere near my intention. I love the character Killmonger and I ADORED Black Panther. If anyone has a better way of finding base skin tones from real actors/actresses (I primarily draw fanart of cartoons that tend to have base set palettes so I rarely encounter this issue), then please by all means give me the sources and information. I’d love to learn more!
What isn’t okay about this is how people on this website are so quick to jump and throw ridiculous and offensive statements without knowing anything about the person they’re targeting or the art they created. That these people are so easily able to forget that there is a person behind the art astounds me. I’m human. I learn, make mistakes, and grow like you do. I’m a passionate artist who was just trying to draw dedicative art to a movie that meant a lot to her in a number of ways.
This movie is important. It’s doing something that has never been done before and that’s going to inspire a lot of people to start creating content. Some who are younger than me, who possibly don’t have a firm grasp on anatomy, color theory, or skin tones. They’ll try, they’ll post, and they will get harassed endlessly if they have a toe out of line. And that’s no atmosphere to inspire growth. If we want more fanart and more celebration for black characters and black productions, we have to be more understanding of growth and how to properly critique people without screeching that they’re white-washing monsters or awful racists. Of course, it’s not our JOBS to spare feelings of those hurt or upset, but I promise you’ll find more PoC characters being illustrated when people learn to not stick to the “one strike you’re out” policy that Tumblr has created.
OP’s experience is an example of what I’m talking about when I say that shame culture is even more harmful/more likely to impact marginalized people than non-marginalized. A white artist getting bombarded with this reaction after an equally honest effort to pick a good skin tone would still be hurt, but at least the hurt would be limited to their online life. As a black woman, OP has to deal with racist shit everywhere, and now gets a bonus helping of being accused in participating in her own oppression.
OP, I’ve added a screencap of your tags because I want to draw attention to the emotional impact on you. I’m so sorry that you’ve been through this, particularly when some percentage of the outrage seems to be purely performative. And thank you for sharing this. It can’t have been easy. 😦
Representation matters, but this shit needs to stop.
OP, your fanart is lovely and you did nothing wrong. I love the expressive way you draw faces!
if youre gonna be a koreaboo at least read up on our history and spread awareness of the tragedies that south korea has faced because of japan. stop glorifying japan’s history if you don’t know it in full.
ive lived my whole life hating my heritage because no one cared about south korea since kpop and kdramas weren’t popular back then. i lived knowing that people were cheering on a nation that committed countless war crimes (cultural genocide, raping hundreds of thousands of women, torturing/beheading/massacring innocent civilians) against my country and other asian nations. i lived in that shadow knowing no one cared about my culture and its history.
since korean culture is becoming so popular nowadays please at least know how badly south korea has been treated by japan and how this shit still affects south koreans today.
Unit 731, a human experimentation death camp, primarily filled with Chinese and Korean citizens, absolved of all wrongdoing in exchange for the data they collected over 40 years of practice
wupacing 