#ferguson #justiceformikebrown #blacklivesmatter

Because nothing says "post-racial America" than putting considerable effort into making sure a white man, enforcer and defender of the law of the land, who has probably committed violence before (but no one cared, see also 'white' and 'cop'), gets away with the cold-blooded murder of a black man whose only offense against the law of the land was having fucking melanin.

And I'm deeply saddened and thoroughly outraged and not terrified. Lucky me. Privileged me.

"I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

"I keep thinking I have to raise a kid in the middle of all of this." —EvNarc

Black. Lives. MATTER.

(I keep thinking of those Hunger Games Tumblr posts. Rue was the mockingjay. Rue, a young black girl, and her death changed the whole damn system. And I'm hoping so hard that Mike Brown is the mockingjay.)

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ETA: apparently the embed is broken! Ferguson Defense Fund is where it's supposed to go.

*eyes finances* There's gotta be somewhere I can squeeze a bit to do something actually helpful here.

#ferguson #justiceformikebrown #blacklivesmatter (tw: lynching)

In Texas, they lynch Negroes. My teammates and I saw a man strung up by his neck and set on fire. We drove through a lynch mob, pressed our faces against the floorboard. I looked at my teammates. I saw the fear in their eyes... and worse... the shame. What was this Negro's crime that he should be hung, without trial, in a dark forest filled with fog? Was he a thief? Was he a killer? Or just a Negro? Was he a sharecropper? A preacher? Were his children waiting up for him? And who are we to just lie there and do nothing? No matter what he did, the mob was the criminal. But the law did nothing, just left us wondering why. My opponent says nothing that erodes the rule of law can be moral. But there is no rule of law in the Jim Crow South, not when Negroes are denied housing, turned away from schools, hospitals, and not when we are lynched. St. Augustine said, ''An unjust law is no law at all,'' which means I have a right, even a duty, to resist, with violence or civil disobedience. You should pray I choose the latter.

—James Farmer Jr., as portrayed by Denzel Whitaker in Denzel Washington's The Great Debaters