“I love how you own you. You inspire me.” -my umi said (🙏🏾umidearest♥️)
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Monthly Archives: June 2020
Black people should be tax exempt: A case for reparations
Been having heavy conversations with friends lately about what justifiable reparations looks like for us surviving descendants of enslaved Afrikan Americans.
To me it looks like black people being tax exempt for at least 400 years. Also, the government fully funding the purchase of a home or land to build whatever we want on it. That way we have an opportunity to build our own economic wealth in this country. That resonates for me.
What does #reparations look like to you? ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏾
#afrikanface #blackliberation #blacklivesmatter #blackpower #caseforreparations #girlrillavintage #reparations #reparationsnow #reparationsforslavery #reparations2020 #taxexempt #theeamazinggrace #thetimeisnow
Juneteenth Glo!
Shout out to all the GOGIS BLACK FOLKS being their beautiful BLACK ASS SELVES today and every day! I know I’m ouchea lol! Love y’all. Happy black freedom day! 🖤✊🏿🖤
🎶 @kojeyradical “No Gangster”
#afrikanface #africanoriginal #afromullett #autochthonous #blackityblack #blackjoy #blacklivesmatter #cowrieshells #decolonizeyourbookshelf #girlrillavintage #juneteenth #loveisintheair #theeamazinggrace #thelittlethings #trueafricanoriginal #wecomefromsomeplace
“She Can’t Breathe” 2018
Repost @ozmynoree
“She Can’t Breathe” 2018
from ongoing series “I’m Still Black”
“I took this photo roughly two years ago, and it’s crazy to me how it relates to current events now. I had no idea the impact her gesture would have in today’s climate. I wonder if some force was reaching out to me sub-consciously trying to tell me what was coming through my photography. It’s almost creepy.”
#africandance #artistsoflanc #blackphotographersmatter #blackphotographer #717creative #girlrillavintage #imstillblack #osmynoree #shadowkeeper #roothealer #theeamazinggrace
Protected: Watching “The Chicago Tenements of 1967” Shook Me Down: Still We Must Fight
Stone fruit
Stone fruit. A visual poem. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽
#afrikanface #africanroots #girlrillavintage #letloose #lovemood #selfieshoot #solitude #stonefruit #theeamazinggrace #trustinyou #womanoftheroot
What has protesting accomplished?
List via @msreid27 on Instagram. 🙏🏾
(Fact checked links in my bio)
👉🏾Within 10 days of sustained protests: Minneapolis bans use of choke holds.
👉🏾Charges are upgraded against Officer Chauvin, and his accomplices are arrested and charged.
👉🏾Dallas adopts a “duty to intervene” rule that requires officers to stop other cops who are engaging in inappropriate use of force.
👉🏾New Jersey’s attorney general said the state will update its use-of-force guidelines for the first time in two decades.
👉🏾In Maryland, a bipartisan work group of state lawmakers announced a police reform work group.
👉🏾Los Angeles City Council introduces motion to reduce LAPD’s $1.8 billion operating budget.
👉🏾New York Governor Andrew Cuomo urging state lawmakers to enact 911 “Amy Cooper” False Accusation Bill.
👉🏾NYC Mayor announcement to defund police and to reallocate those funds to community programs and social services.
👉🏾 Minneapolis City Council announced they were seeking to dismantle the city’s police department.
👉🏾 New York is seeking to reform Civil Rights Law 50-a-disclosure of police personnel performance & disciplinary records
👉🏾Police brutality captured on cameras leads to near-immediate suspensions and firings of officers in several cities (i.e., Buffalo, Ft. Lauderdale).
👉🏾 Denver Colorado banned the use of chokeholds. Officers will also have to report to a supervisor any time they intentionally point a fire on at someone while on the job.
👉🏾Monuments celebrating confederates are removed in (Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, New Orleans, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia).
👉🏾Mayor of Washington D.C. renamed the street outside the White House “Black Lives Matter Plaza.”
👉🏾Military forces begin to withdraw from D.C.
👉🏾 American companies have donated millions into the advancement of black communities.
Not to mention…
💓 Difficult public and private conversations that are happening about race and privilege.
💓Realizations that some white people are coming to about racism and the role of policing in this country.
Fact check sources:
https://apnews.com/ce3c4c56b683ae47d26bec1045a35fb7
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/06/03/us/george-floyd-officers-charges/index.html
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/06/07/us/george-floyd-protests-sunday/index.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Confederate_monuments_and_memorials#
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee_Monument_(New_Orleans,_Louisiana)
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