Reminder: Emmett Till was killed in 1955
Despite what white people of today want to believe, it was NOT that long ago. At all.
Like, my father who is absolutely still alive (he’s sleeping right now though cause it’s after midnight) vividly remembers being packed in a car with some of his siblings and my grandparents and going to hear MLK speak in DC
Rosa Parks only died in 2005
I can only trace my paternal lineage back to my great-great grandfather who was an escaped slave. Like, me myself is only three generations removed from chattel slavery
The daughter of a slave was in the opening ceremony of the National African American History Museum
This isn’t even touching on the ramifications of Jim Crow Laws. There are literally Sundown Towns (though not with the blatant signage they used to have at the height of Jim Crow) and redlining is still a thing that happens (Google them if you’re unfamiliar)
I really hate that when White people talk about slavery and segregation, they frequently act like it was so long ago because it wasn’t. And that green strip? We’re still going through systemic oppression and racist practices held over from the segregation era. It’s not like the US desegregated and everything was copacetic after
Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to go to a White school is only two months older than my dad
Please, if you’re White, really try to conceptualize how recent these events were and what’s still going on. Just because something is historical doesn’t necessarily mean it happened a long time ago or that its effects aren’t still felt
Also a reminder that slavery didn’t actually stop when slavery officially stopped. There were white people in out of the way places keeping black folks enslaved for decades after by just not telling them the law had changed.
ALSO A REMINDER THAT FORCED LABOR FOR NO WAGES IS STILL LEGAL IF YOU HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF A CRIME
We are not out of the shit yet and there is work to do.
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Words can’t express our devastation, fury, and sorrow. Our hearts break thinking of the lives that will go unlived, and the families left behind.
If you’re suffering from fear or anxiety, or know someone who is, call the NAMI helpline at 1-800-950-6264 or text NAMI to 741741. Trained counselors are available 24/7 to help you process what you’re feeling, free and confidentially.
Where do we go from here?
This won’t be the last mass shooting in America. Until Congress puts aside the politics of gun control and honestly faces the human toll of their inaction, guns will continue to ravage our communities.
If you’ll be 18 by November 6, 2018, please register to vote. Help your friends register. Help your neighbors register. On election day, organize carpools to polling places. Trade shifts with people who can’t get time off, or babysit their kids. A single vote for gun control is more powerful than all the thoughts and prayers in Washington.
Tens of thousands of people will be killed by guns before we can wrest control of Congress from the gun lobby. Many hundreds will be students sheltering in classrooms. But change is possible.
TurboVote.org will help you register online or by mail. Go now. We don’t have time to wait.
See how much the gun lobby has given to your representative, or spent on their behalf.
Tumblr is entertainment, stay out of political issues. The death of anyone is tragic. Gun control wasn’t an issue 150 years ago, when more homes had guns per capita than today. Back then more families were together. People didn’t give up on each other so quickly. Marriage was worth fighting…..for. There wasn’t the blurred line between right and wrong. There was no such thing as tolerance, either you were descent, or you were a degenerate. But there was always a place for a second chance. Today ¼ of society has been thrown away into the penal system and is forever lost, even after they get “ out” they never really leave. Gun control isn’t the answer now, Man control is, Sin control is. If it had been a gun, it would have been a toxic substance or an explosive. If evil wants to kill, it will kill. It’s not the gun thats is evil, it’s the person behind it. Was It Hitler or his guns that were evil?
A hundred and fifty years ago people just got told they weren’t allowed to own other people anymore (slavery was abolished in 1865, 152 years ago) and the civil war had ravaged and destroyed the country. Talk all you want about families staying together when brothers were killing each other on the battlefield.
When women had no rights to leave abusive spouses and marital rape was just being a good wife.
Fuck you with this “things were better 150 years ago” bullshit.
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