"#LetitiaJames criminally charged in #Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals"
A number of prominent #blackwomen are targeted by Trump's ugly vindictiveness
Know what #racialEquality would look like in the #USA?
If James wrote 20 ALL CAP #socialMedia screeds at 3 AM, like Trump, in response
And it didn't count against her
She would never, she's not a #manchild
It makes you think
About #humiliation, #anger, #whitePrivilege, being #black in #America
Early in the morning on April 21, 2012, Sharmel T. Edwards, a 49-year-old African-American woman, was fatally [executed] by five Las Vegas, Nevada [pigs].
https://blackpast.org/african-american-history/edwards-sharmel-1962-2012/
#blacklivesstillmatter #blackwomen #blackpeople #blackamerican #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackmastodon
Early in the morning on April 21, 2012, Sharmel T. Edwards, a 49-year-old African-American woman, was fatally shot by five Las Vegas, Nevada police officers. Her death occurred while the national discussion of police brutality was gaining publicity in the wake of similar killings and about a year before the creation of Black Lives Matter. Edwards was a single mother living with her two teenage daughters. On the night of her death, she had gone on a date with her boyfriend, Ken Droog, at his apartment. After Droog fell asleep, Edwards took his Cadillac and headed to a local bar for drinks. When he woke up a few hours later, realizing that his car was missing, Droog called Edwards, who didn’t have her cell phone. He subsequently called the police and reported his car stolen. He also informed them that his handgun was in the car’s center console. Responding to the call, Las Vegas police officer Todd Edwards drove around looking for Droog’s car. Around 3:37 a.m., he spotted the vehicle and began following it. Sharmel stopped the car a few minutes later near the bar she had visited earlier, and other officers arriving on the scene reportedly ordered her to exit. Over about 30 minutes of […]
I had a Spanish white girlfriend once. Every time I made her laugh she'd reply, How stupid you are.
None of my Black girlfriends/friends have ever thought to emasculate me in that way.
Stonewall vet Miss Major Griffin-Gracy 'surrounded by love' as she enters hospice care
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/stonewall-miss-major-hospice-care
@theleftistlawyer, a white woman wrote:
...it's certainly not my place as a white woman to decide who is right.
But it IS my place to say that every white woman in the United States - and yes, that includes me - is racist. Every one of us does misogynoir...
[If all whyte women in the US are racist, then all white women in the world are racist.]
@theblackgirlatleisure, a Black Goddess shared:
Hey Black girl ✨🫶🏾
It’s okay to love beautiful things and lush experiences. To wear your joy on your sleeves. To be vocal about what you like and don’t like. What you will and won’t tolerate.
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Mary Ann Camberton Shadd Cary (October 9, 1823 – June 5, 1893) was [a Black] American-Canadian anti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher, teacher, and lawyer. She was the first [Black Woman] publisher in North America and the first woman publisher in Canada.
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#blackwomen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blactivists #blackjournalists #blackpublishers #blackteachers #blacklawyers #blackmastodon
Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Mar 20 1915 – Oct 9 1973)
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#blackwomen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blacksingers #blackguitarists #blackmastodon
Ben Royce 🇺🇦
Audubon Ballroon (he/him)
Shine My Crown
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