"Lies? In your house of god?" -💙🦷 She/They/Him, 20s. Damagingly Bi
Denial
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In my opinion, it all started with Antoine Dodson. Mind you, the whole point of the news story was that a man broke into his sisters room and tried to rape her. He was a meme for years all because he saved his sister from a rapist.
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How do you even give this man his life back? What could you possibly give this man to make his life any better? 💔
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NFL star Azeez Al-Shaair honored another Palestinian girl today, wearing the name ‘Maryam Ghanem’ on his eye black during the Houston Texans’ game.
Maryam was saved from her burning home a couple days ago after watching both her parents burn to death after an Israeli airstrike.
This marks five consecutive weeks of Al-Shaair using his platform to honor Palestinian children.
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ICE run over U.S. citizen riding his bike—break his arm.
Agents handcuff him behind his back without calling paramedics.
They inflict even more injuries—send him to the hospital in serious condition.
Then agents detain another U.S. citizen—for yelling at them on the sidewalk.
Man with the broken arm's daughter says he was hit on his e-bike by an unmarked car.
He was then tased twice and pinned to the ground—currently receiving treatment at the hospital.
Multiple ICE vehicles were running through stop signs—speeding the wrong way down one-way streets.
All on a weekend afternoon with kids playing outside.
Incident occurred near the intersection of East 56th Street & Elm Avenue in Long Beach, California.
Stop ICE Net doesn't have an account on this platform—so posting first full length, English translated, and credited video here to help raise awareness.
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—the state of black actors in hollywood is unnerving,! like this genuinely horrifying. it feels like hollywood is trying to erase black people from the media(political blacklisting). we need new face. WE CANNOT LET THE ONLY ONES VISIBLE DOWN!⋆⭒˚.⋆
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🚨BLACKFACE: Four white high school girls darkened their faces to MOCK Black children in a racist TikTok post, sparking student WALKOUTS.
📍 Santa Barbara County, California
Four students at San Marcos High School recreated a photo of four Black children, darkening their skin and copying their poses.
They posted the images on TikTok with ninja emojis, which have been used online as coded references to the N-word.
The backlash was immediate.
School officials confirmed the four students were disciplined but declined to disclose the consequences.
Students from San Marcos and neighboring Dos Pueblos High School walked out of class, demanding accountability and stronger action against racism.
Four students chose to put this online. Other students chose to stand up against it.
RACISM ISN’T A JOKE.
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An Israeli airstrike targeted civilians west of Gaza City, injuring several people.
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A Harvard professor came home from a trip to China and found his front door jammed.
He forced it open. A neighbour called the police.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested on his own porch, in his own house, holding his own ID.
He is one of the most famous historians in America.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 16 July 2009. Gates, 58, had just flown back from China. His front door would not open. He and his driver shouldered it.
A passer-by called it in as a possible break-in.
Sergeant James Crowley arrived. Gates was inside his own house by then. He produced his Harvard ID and his driver's licence with that address on it.
What happened next is disputed by both men and always will be. Crowley said Gates was uncooperative and loud. Gates said he was asked to step outside, understood exactly what was happening, and said so — including asking the officer for his name and badge number, repeatedly, and not getting it.
He was arrested for disorderly conduct. On his own property. A fifty-eight-year-old man walking with a cane.
The charge was dropped within days. Cambridge later acknowledged the arrest was regrettable.
Barack Obama was asked about it at a press conference and said the police had "acted stupidly," which caused a political firestorm large enough that he convened the famous "beer summit" at the White House with Gates and Crowley to defuse it.
And that is where the story usually stops, with three men and some beer on a lawn.
Here is what it is actually about.
Henry Louis Gates has a MacArthur fellowship, dozens of honorary degrees and a chair at Harvard. He has made television series about tracing Black ancestry. He is about as protected as a Black man in America can be.
And none of it worked on his own porch.
Every Black professional who has ever been told that respectability is the shield watched that arrest and understood what it meant.
Gates said afterwards that the experience changed what he thought he knew about his own country, and he has spent some of the time since working on criminal justice.
If it does not work for him, it does not work.
