Tag: black people
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Who Was Breonna Taylor?
On Friday, March 13th, Breonna Taylor was killed by Louisville police shortly after midnight while asleep in her bed. She was a 26 year old emergency medical technician. After surveillance on her home for what police indicated was a strange package delivery, 3 detectives executed a no-knock warrant to Taylor’s home and burst in. Taylor…
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White Referee Forces Black Kid to Cut Locks
Because this is already trending, it’s not really news. But today the amazing Shaun King posted a video, which has now gone viral of this high school wrestler getting his locks cut off. Well according to a white ref, Alan Maloney (whose had prior incidents with racism, substance abuse and assault) they were not in…
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Just Do It Nike and Kaepernick (buy or boycott?)
I had a whole other blog planned for today but I had to type up a new one for you today! Recently Nike and former 49ers QB, Colin Kaepernick revealed that he had been endorsed all this time. His deal signed back in 2011 had never been severed despite Colin not playing in the NFL…
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Racism is Not Dead
The events that have unfolded not only today in Charlottesville but recently all over the country didn’t show me the harsh reality of racism, fascism, bigotry the outright phobias in this country for the 1st time. It didn’t make me disbelieve the distortion that was freedom. Why? Because the shit was never abolished with slavery…
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HOW BLACK LIVES MATTER?
HOW BLACK LIVES MATTER? MODERN DAY LYNCHINGS! Well as usual I was poking my head around social media & scrolled to see in my feeds that a young black man, Alton Sterling was shot in cold blood, up close by a police officer in Baton Rouge, LA! The following footage was posted online on various social media.…
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A Country on Fire: Gun Violence
Am I the only one pissed off and enraged about these senseless killings? First we hear word of the church slayings, then mayhem with the Marines in Chattanooga and more recently there was a shooting in a local movie theater down in Lafayette, LA! We are a country at war with itself. No matter who pulls…