There are people who still don’t “get it” about why black and brown folks, and our allies don’t think Michael Dunn getting convicted of attempted assault on a car, but not for murdering Jordan Davis was “justice”.
There are people telling us we should be satisfied with Angela Corey, the prosecutor, and the jury, who did manage to convict Dunn for attempted murder of the teenaged passengers of the car who are alive.
Well…we are angry. We are not satisfied. The twitterstorm that erupted after the verdict is still raging at #DangerousBlackKids
Look at him. That car seat can barely restrain him. #dangerousblackkids pic.twitter.com/JdMMUjoiko
– J.N.G. (@thewayoftheid) February 16, 2014
Know your meme reported:
Within 24 hours of @thewayoftheid’s tweet, the hashtag #DangerousBlackKids was used on Twitter more than 16,000 times. On February 16th, several websites reported on the hashtag campaign and compiled some of the most popular examples, including The Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, and Complex. Also on February 16th, @TheObamaDiary, a Twitter account about Obamacare, tweeted the hashtag with childhood photos of President Obama and the First Lady.
The pics posted to twitter tell the story.
I really don’t have much more to say today.
When armed white guys can kill our kids and get away with murder, and are given a
license to kill by Stand Your Ground laws, the only thing I can say, with certainty, is that we need to redouble, triple and quadruple our efforts to vote the people out of office who have enacted those racist laws and laws which were enacted to take away our right to vote.
And I’m really not interested in hearing from one more person who purports to be from “the real left” whose message is “don’t vote”.
Telling our folks not to vote when we’ve died to get the chance to do so is tantamount to being an accessory to our continuing oppression and deaths.
What I really want to say to these @!%^#***’s is unprintable.
Use your imagination.
Cross-posted from Black Kos
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