“In the throes of labour … they would be approached, harassed, coerced into signing these consent forms,” said Alisa Lombard, an associate with Maurice Law, the first Indigenous-owned national law firm in Canada.
The women would be told that they could not leave until their tubes were tied, cut or cauterized, she added, or that “they could not see their baby until they agreed.”
My aunt shared this with me on Facebook. Ongoing genocide still at work.
Brazil was a safe haven for confederates after the war.
I wonder what all those “heritage not hate” people are going to say to these people are replacing the swastika with a confederate flag. Kinda turns that myth upside down huh.
Emmet till was 14 years old. Tamir Rice was 12 years old. Jeremiah
Harvey is 9 years old. American society doesn’t view our black boys as
children. It’s been open season on them for a long time. It is improper
and unfair. Yes he’s traumatized…hes got to be in 4th grade!
…no words left…😔
Disgusting.
A 9 year old.
……
And it’s not even just those three, I’ve read so many stories of underage BLACK BOYS and BLACK GIRLS getting arrested and sent to jail on any false charge from sexual assault (which they couldn’t prove) to thievery. And it breaks my heart because as a black person, we always are looked on suspiciously when all we’re doing is trying to live like everyone else. It’s tiring and it’s easy to say “fuck all of y’all” and get all militantly angry. Makes me realize how strong activists back before my time was when no one was thinking we should have any rights. And in 2018, going on 2019, we still gotta deal with this. It’s so tiring. I’m past the point of anger, it’s just tiring!
Some racists in the notes proving the point and waiting to be blocked……
As a White woman, I am not going to claim that my experience is identical to those of Black people, but a similar phenomenon happens with women. Men just seem absolutely appalled by the idea of a movement/space that doesn’t exist to cater to them and just have to leap in and interject. Hence all the “What about the men?!” and “Not all men!”
Women have long had their own spaces they’ve carved out for themselves. When the wider culture makes it clear that they either don’t care about issues affecting people like you or if culture is actively hostile to people like you, the persecuted people will band together, find their own space to talk, and do what they can to take care of each other. Regardless of race, religion, gender, or orientation, humans make groups. It’s what we do.
The sad truth is that for all the progress we’ve made, women are still treated as some bizarre special interest group, lumped into the minority category, no matter how ridiculous the idea is. Women make up half of the population; that’s entirely too massive to be a minority group, which is why I try to make a point of never referring to women as minorities.
I suppose some jagoffs are all ready to leap into the ring, point out that I should have said “Some men,” instead of just saying men, but I am through with those disclaimers. They allow jerks a way of weaseling out of discussions and in any case, if they aren’t capable of parsing out nuance (i.e. A woman is talking about their experiences and not necessarily the entire 50.4% of the world’s population) then either they are completely incapable of grasping some of the ideas behind language or they’re being more than just a wee bit disingenuous.
I wonder if the people who do this sort of thing, if they show up at Gay Bars and are like “Straight people matter too!” Do they go to breast cancer fundraisers and are like “All cancer matters?” It’s akin to handicapped parking spaces. They don’t care that they have the whole lot; they care about the few spaces that they aren’t allowed to use.
And?? That’s relevant how?? I don’t give two shits what they found in his apartment. What was in the cop’s system?! What’s in her apartment?
This is the type of shit that makes me wanna hurl. A cop MURDERS someone who was just EXISTING IN HIS OWN HOME and now they wanna do any and everything to make it look like that Cop murdering someone wasn’t ‘that bad’. They’re going out of their way trying to find shit to make the victim look bad.
This just–
And then they wonder why nobody trusts cops. It’s bad enough that there are those who do bad shit, but the thing that makes people the most pissed is the complete lack of even attemptingto hold themselves accountable for the bad shit.
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