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reasoningdaily · 8 months

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As the world braced for the verdict of the Chauvin trial, in Columbus, Ohio, there was another fatal shooting of 16-year-old Black girl named Ma’Khia Bryant. Many who watched the graphic and gut-wrenching bodycam video have decried the officer who deemed it necessary to use lethal force to defuse a physical altercation involving the Black teenager.

When juxtaposing what feels like a never-ending pattern of police brutality against Black people with the treatment of white perpetrators, there is an obvious disparity that highlights the pervasive nature of systemic racism. White gunmen who commit heinous crimes are often treated differently, with police being able to apprehend white suspects and bring them safely into custody.

Three recent examples of this: 21-year-old Dylann Roof, who was safely arrested after entering Emanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina and killing nine people in 2015. What’s even more disturbing is reports that police brought Roof Burger King following his arrest. In 2020, during protests of the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a 17-year-old gunman, Kyle Rittenhouse, used an AR-15 assault rifle to kill two people and injured a third. Law enforcement apparently offered Rittenhouse and a group of militia members water at some point before the shooting took place.

In March 2021, after a gunman shot and killed eight people, with six of them being Asian, Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office Director of Communications remarked that the shooter was having a “really bad day.” These comments drew public outrage at the humanization of the mass shooter. Black youth aren’t given the opportunity to be humanized, with a number of tragic stories illustrating this.

Over a decade ago, 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley Jones was fatally shot by Detroit police who were looking for a murder suspect. In 2012, the world was gripped by the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, who was shot by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman, who thought Martin looked suspicious. In 2014, a Black youth named Tamir Rice was shot by police. Rice, who was only 12 years old, was thought to be 20 years old. In 2015, a video of McKinney, Texas police officer Eric Casebolt went viral. Casebolt was filmed yelling at Black teenagers and threw one teenage girl to the ground while kneeling on her back. The video sparked rightful outrage at the excessive force used on the young girl.

Examining patterns of police treatment towards Black youth highlights a prominent issue: the adultification bias, which is the phenomenon where adults perceive Black youth as being older than they actually are. When the adultification bias was examined, one study found that Black girls as young as five years old were perceived as being less needing of protection and nurturing, compared to their white counterparts.

Research indicates that Black boys are perceived as older and less innocent when compared to their white counterparts. “Black boys can be seen as responsible for their actions at an age when white boys still benefit from the assumption that children are essentially innocent,” shared Phillip Atiba Goff, Ph.D., who authored a study examining this phenomenon in more detail. Black girls are treated disparately compared to their white counterparts and are more likely to be seen as older, while having to navigate the combined effects of racism and sexism.

The adultification bias contributes to the continued harm and abuse that Black youth face, not just at the hands of law enforcement, but also in the education system. When Black women and girls are mistreated, harmed and abused, it is less likely to be reported on. The Say Her Name campaign co-founded by scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw was designed to bring greater awareness to this issue.

Disrupting the adultification bias must first begin with awareness that this problem even exists. Despite the wealth of evidence detailing the ways it manifests, greater understanding is necessary. Training about the adultification bias should be mandatory, especially for folks working with and around Black youth populations. Understanding the ways that the adultification bias manifests as well as how to mitigate this type of bias is imperative.

Although research indicates that those who are marginalized are likely to internalize some of the biases and stereotypes about their own identity group, it is likely that having more Black people working with Black youth populations would lessen the occurrence of the adultification bias. One can assume that having experience and exposure to Black youth may increase one’s understanding, and limit the adultification bias from taking place. Resources must be allocated to support education about the adultification bias and how it can be interrupted. Lastly, rather than resorting to punitive measures when dealing with Black youth, we must encourage the learning of de-escalation and conflict resolution strategies.

#How The Adultification Bias Contributes To Black Trauma #adultification of Black Children #adultification #Black Children Matter

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wakandamama · 1 year

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Now that I'm sitting here thinking about it, why ain't there 100 bands on Zimmerman's shit? Someone shoulda made him chalk lines day 1 of the acquittal.

Emmet Till, Latasha Harlins, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Aiyana Jones, Ma'Khia Bryant, all the Black children's who names are loss in the Mass amount of them dead. From the babies tossed into swamps by slave master to poor Ralph Yarl who has to suffer for the rest of his life because some evil white bigot who was proably in post card picnic in his youth decided him being lost in his neighborhood was cause enough for a death sentence.

If they feel bold enough to kill innocent Black kids with no justice for the lives loss. Welp, we should be bold enough to correct that shit🤷🏾‍♀️ they obviously only speak violence and it's time we speak they language to get the fucking message across atp.

#rant #im just so exhausted of seeing Black children be fucking hunted at this point #killed with no justice #given no peace in life then mf want to get mad at Black people if we dont beg for their justices #they love the 2nd amendment so much lets give it to them #atp violence is the only thing these monster fucking respond too #blacklivesmatter #Black Children matter #whites AND non-Blacks dni yall opinion will never be needed on this topics #antiblackness

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ausetkmt · 8 months

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A 12 year old school student died after he was allegedly made to run in extreme heat despite asking for water.

Californian Yahshua Robinson was allegedly forced to run in 36C heat after wearing the wrong clothes to gym class. He collapsed and later died after running, on the same day his mother, a teacher, issued a warning about dangerous weather conditions.

Yahshua said he felt unwell before he collapsed students in the boy’s class told his aunt Amarna Plummer, according to NBC Los Angeles.

Plummer said: “He was reaching out to the teacher, saying he needed some water.”

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Emergency responders rushed to Yahshua’s aid, transporting the boy around 16 kilometres from Canyon Lake Middle School to Loma Linda University Medical Center – Murrieta, where he was pronounced dead at 12:55 p.m, Riverside Sheriff’s office said in a press release.

The 12-year-old’s family is now looking for answers following their child’s death.

Plummer said: “Why would you have a child in his clothes – he didn’t dress out – running a field?”

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Temperatures in Lake Elsinore reached a high of 36 degrees, according to the The Weather Channel. The boy’s aunt revealed Yahshua’s mother, Janae Robinson, a gym teacher at a neighbouring district, that same day, warned school officials about the intense heat.

Plummer added: “She informs the administration, ‘Do not let any children go out today for PE’ And what happened? She gets a call he passed out on the field.

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The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department confirmed they responded to the school after receiving a report of a minor needing medical aid and are investigating the tragic death, according to a statement released by the department.

A statement by The Lake Elsinore Unified School District said: “In this difficult moment, we are deeply saddened to confirm the passing of one of our students due to a medical emergency on one of our LEUSD campuses.

“Our hearts are with the family, friends, and our school community.” The 12-year-old's fundraiser is currently at $49,859 of it $100,000 goal (

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In a GoFundMe page set up by Plummer, she writes that: “The void Yahshua leaves behind is profound” after he collapsed in the “sweltering heat.”

“Janae & Eric Robinson and their three other children are trying to come to terms with this devastating reality. The agony of losing a child is indescribable, and as we wait with heavy hearts for the autopsy results, we are reminded of the unpredictability of life.”

The fundraiser is currently at around $50,000 of its $100,000 goal. Experts say children are more susceptible to heat related death (

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As the family waits to receive the autopsy report determining Yahshua’s death, US Environmental Protection Agency experts have shared the dangers of heat-related illness in children

Most children have a smaller body mass ratio to surface area and are at greater risk for heat-related death than adults.

Children are also more susceptible to dehydration than adults because fluids leave their bodies faster in heat and when exercising, the organisation also shared in their June report.

Flushed skin, deep breathing, little or no sweating, dizziness, fatigue, headache, or loss of consciousness are all signs of heatstroke — and if a child is believed to be suffering from the heat-induced illness, they should be placed in a cool environment and should seek medical attention.

#california #Black Children Matter #child abuse #children in school #Boy #12 #dies after being forced to run in 36C heat during class without water #heat related deaths #climate change crisis #Lake Elsinore Unified School District #Canyon Lake Middle School #Yahshua Robinson #Black Lives Matter

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longliveblackness · 2 years

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Many slave owners practiced wet nursing as a form of birth control among enslaved people.

During that time period, having an 'heir and a spare' was a common practice among the wealthy and affluent. Relegating the nursing duties to black mothers, which freed up the white mothers for giving birth to the next progeny.

With slavery and wet nursing, the invaluable breast milk often referred to as 'liquid gold', benefited the white children while cow or goat milk was fed as a substitute to black children. This often resulted in high mortality and susceptibility to diseases in the early childhood of black children.

In 1912, a black nurse living in Georgia described her duties:

"I live a treadmill life; and I see my own children only when they happen to see me on the streets when I am out with the children, or when my children come to the 'yard' to see me, which isn't often because my white folks don't like to see their servants' children hanging around their premises."

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Muchas dueños de esclavos decidían convertir a las mujeres negras en nodrizas, practica que se utilizaba como método anticonceptivo para las personas esclavizadas.

Durante ese periodo de tiempo tener un “heredero y otro de repuesto” era una práctica común entre los prósperos y adinerados. Delegar la tarea de amamantar a las madres negras, le dejaba espacio a las madres blancas para dar luz a otras crías.

Con las esclavizadas como nodrizas, le lecha materna, usualmente llamada “líquido de oro”, beneficiaba a los niños blancos mientras que a los niños negros se les daba leche de vaca o cabra como sustituto. Esto a menudo resultaba en una alta mortalidad y susceptibilidad a enfermedades en la primeros años de infancia de los niños negros.

En 1912, una nodriza negra que vivía en Georgia describió sus deberes:

“Vivo la vida como una caminadora y solo veo a mis hijos cuando estoy en la calle con los niños o cuando mis hijos vienen al ‘patio’ para verme, lo cual no es a menudo ya que a la gente blanca no les gusta los niños de sus sirvientes estén dando vueltas cerca de sus terrenos.”

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risingphoenix87 · 2 years

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Please help Kiena and her siblings escape their abuser and thrive!

#mutual aid #community care #black lives matter #black children matter #black families matter

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imkrisyoung · 2 years

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Black disabled and neurodivergent children often face both racism and ableism, especially in educational settings.

When I was in the first and second grades I went to a special ed school that was for kids in grades preschool through second grade, and the final two years I was in that school there was a racist white woman principal there. Also, the student population was estimated around 90% Black.

The principal of the school had the fire alarm go off almost every day, and it was a buzzer noise. I’m autistic, so those noises and many others are physically painful for me.

I didn’t want to go to school anymore, and I kept telling my mom and grandma that, so my mom went to the school and told the principal about the fire alarm. The principal’s response was that the fire alarm was “broken” and it couldn’t be fixed.

My mom and I both know now that response from the principal is bullshit. Both of us now know that she was setting it off on purpose for whatever twisted reason. Maybe the principal loved the power dynamics associated with that job and was on a serious power trip; maybe she was trying to desensitize us [students] to the noise; or maybe she even got off on torturing disabled Black kids.

Either way, that experience highly impacted my life in a lot of negative ways. To this day I have PTSD from the noise of that fire alarm, and I no longer trust institutions, especially educational ones.

#actuallyautistic #actually autistic #actually neurodivergent #autistic while black #disabled while black #racism #ableism #neurodivergent #disabled #disability #black lives matter #black children matter #blm #institutional abuse #actually disabled

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cyarsk52-20 · 1 year

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Ralph Yarl, 16, was shot twice by a white man in Kansas City after accidentally ringing the doorbell of the wrong home. The man shot Ralph in the head through his glass door, and then when Yarl was already bleeding out on the ground, shot him again tw/cw: for upsetting images

Update: Ralph Yarl has been released from the hospital and is recovering at home in Kansas City, his father says.

“He continues to improve. He’s responsive and he’s making good progress.”

Oh and here’s the information on the information on the person who shot him

https://twitter.com/Weirdberto/status/1647775575849705473?s=20

If Andrew Lester is 80+ & that fuckin racist, bet money he's killed before.

In Missouri?

I bet He probably been part of a few lynchings including attempted lynchings .

Make him famous and ruin his life (or what’s left of his life)

Black children should be able to make it home without fear of death especially when it comes in the form of a white racist attempting to hunt them down like wild animals for trophies

#theshare #us news #blm #black children matter #protect black kids

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queenvlion · 2 years

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#Sophia Mason #protect black children #say their names #known #unknown #black children matter #Youtube

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troythecatfish · 18 days

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beam-of-sunlightbb · 5 months

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Be silent when the children are sleeping, not when they are being killed.

#palestine #israel #gaza #gaza strip #children #human rights #civil rights #social justice #black lives matter #blm #history #jerusalem #yemen #the hunger games #theatre

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butterflikisses · 3 months

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This 👏🏾

#butterflikisses #black twitter #black men #black men matters #blackout #black positivity #black people #blackisbeautiful #black children

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reasoningdaily · 8 months

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Police Called on 9 Year Old Black Girl: The Adultification of Black Youth

Exploring the Story of a 9 Year Old Black Girl Who had the Police Called on her in front of her home for spraying Lanternflies. While she was not physically Harmed, the trauma of not feeling safe in front of ones own home and the adultification involved is something still worth talking about. This young girl was trying to help her community and ended up learning a lesson in racism that often robs young children of color of their childhoods and lives.

#Police Called on 9 Year Old Black Girl: The Adultification of Black Youth #adultification #Black Children Matter #white supremacy #white ignorance #systemic racism #Black Girls are Girls #Black Boys are Boys #stupid policing

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theivorybilledwoodpecker · 2 years

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So the police aren't obligated to protect children, but they can handcuff parents trying to protect their children and they can shoot rubber bullets at peaceful protesters...but defunding the police is a radical idea?

#defund the cops #Texas #Uvalde #george floyd #black lives matter #bipoc lives matter #Children's lives matter

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ausetkmt · 11 months

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A Washington state mother was charged last week with assault of a child after it was discovered that her daughter was receiving excessive medical treatment for unverified conditions.

Sophie Hartman of the Seattle suburb of Renton, Washington, who is white, adopted two Black children from Zambia where she worked as a missionary, according to court documents obtained by Atlanta Black Star. The children were removed from her home on March 17, 2021. One of Hartman’s daughters was held at a hospital, and doctors at the medical center informed authorities of the child’s “suspicious medical history.”

Hartman carried her 6-year-old daughter to an estimated 500 medical appointments over the span of about five years, according to charging documents filed on May 24. Doctors said that as a result, she has received an “unnecessary medical procedure,” as well as a surgically implanted feeding tube, with a cecostomy tube, to flush out the intestines. Though doctors advised against it, the young girl was also committed to a wheelchair and wore leg braces at least as early as 2016, court documents said.

In 2018, Make-a-Wish granted the child a wish. In a video sent to the foundation, Hartman explained that her daughter had Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (AHC), a disease she said could cause her child to become paralyzed at any time.

“She can lose the ability to talk and go into all different types of seizures and have extreme pain. It’s really tough,” Hartman said in the video.

The 31-year-old mother also said that even the “best pediatric specialists” have no idea what to do, and that “…she needs access to oxygen because her breathing shallows and slows; she depends on her feeding tube when she’s unable to eat.”

Medical providers informed detectives that they did diagnose Hartman’s daughter with AHC, but only based on the symptom details that Hartman provided — symptoms that were only witnessed by her, according to search warrants.

A Seattle Children’s Hospital physician advised detectives that according to medical findings, it was likely that the child was not afflicted with the disease.

In 2019, “a group of (redacted) specialists and providers at Seattle Children’s Hospital” requested consultation of the Safe Child and Adolescent Network (SCAN) due to alarm concerning “a pattern of parental requests for increasingly invasive procedures based upon undocumented signs and symptoms reported by the parent,” read investigative reports.

A report warning of the risk to the child was “co-authored by four medical professionals of the child’s care team,” and was “reviewed and signed by the medical director for Seattle Children’s Hospital.”

“This situation is a case of medical child abuse … ” said the report. “It is not necessary to know the possible motivation of a caregiver, only the outcome of the behavior. It is my concern that this pattern has resulted in unnecessary medical testing, medication, procedures, surgeries and debility of this child.”

In February 2021, the report was sent to the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families. The Renton Police Department was contacted, and commenced their investigation.

Detectives also discovered diary entries written by Hartman, in which she allegedly described several instances in which she lied about having various diseases, such as meningitis and mono, in her youth, said court documents. Detectives noted that in one entry Hartman allegedly transcribed, “when it comes to suffering, I am a compulsive liar/exaggerator.”

Hartman penned an account of her work in Africa in a book that she said initiated her decision to adopt, reported The Independent. She received a flurry of interest once she publicly revealed the youngest daughter was diagnosed with AHC, and A GoFundMe page was established for a wheelchair.

The child’s various procedures date back to 2016, according to court documents. They also revealed that Hartman allegedly searched for “cochlear implants Black child,” “how to get paid to take care of a member of the family with a disability,” “making a pretend model of hearing aid,” and “funeral songs” on her iPad and iPhone.

In March, the child was taken from the care of her mother and monitored for 16 days at a local hospital, according to investigators.

“At no point during her admission were there any findings or reported symptoms to support any of her prior diagnoses. All the available evidence obtained during the course of her admission suggests (redacted) is a health young 6-year-old,” said court documents. Within the two week stay at the hospital, the child was able to eat and drink on her own, run and walk without the use of any aids and “demonstrated no need for a wheelchair”

Hartman was charged with second-degree assault of a child and second-degree attempted assault of a child. The state requested her bail be at $100,000 based on the defendant’s likelihood to commit a violent offense and interview with the administration of justice.

Hartman’s attorneys released a statement asserting that the charges “are based on false statements and misrepresentations of the medical record by a doctor at Seattle Children’s Hospital who has never seen the child or spoken with Ms. Hartman.”

In addition, they vouched for the legitimacy of the daughter’s illness, writing, “Contrary to the allegations of the King County Prosecuting Attorney, the child’s diagnosis was made by more than one doctor, is legitimate, and is based on a substantial record beyond the reports and information provided by Ms. Hartman.”

“That record includes independent medical examinations by multiple doctors, direct observation of the child by doctors and nurses at Duke and at Seattle Children’s Hospital, standardized testing results, videotapes of the child’s symptoms, MRI, EEG and other diagnostic tests. The King County Prosecuting Attorney has the medical records from Duke as well as records from Seattle Children’s Hospital amply supporting the diagnosis and the consistent reports of Ms. Hartman,” the statement read.

“Sophie Hartman is the mother of a young child with a rare neurological condition diagnosed and treated by doctors at Duke University Medical Center. … Ms. Hartman is innocent of these charges.”

Representatives of the Make-A-Wish Foundation released a statement soon after news broke of the investigation. “We are deeply saddened and dismayed to learn about the alleged child abuse case involving one of our former wish families,” read a statement provided to Q13 FOX. “This is a very serious allegation and any threat to the well-being of a child is not in alignment with the child-centered focus of our mission. We hope this matter is quickly remedied in the best interest of the child.”

#seattle #white supremacist #munchausenbyproxy #Black Children Matter #Protect Black Children #trans racial adoptions #child abuse #Black Lives Matter

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longliveblackness · 2 years

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The Black Codes

Slavery did not end in 1865... It evolved.

In the 1880s, Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida passed laws making it a crime for a black man to change employers without permission. It was a crime for a black man to speak loudly in the company of a white woman, a crime to have a gun in his pocket, and a crime to sell the proceeds of his farm to anyone other than the man he rented land from. It was a crime to walk beside a railroad line, a crime to fail to yield a sidewalk to white people, a crime to sit among whites on a train, and it was most certainly a crime to engage in sexual relations with-or, God forbid, to show true love and affection for a white girl.

And that's how it happened. Within a few years of the passage of these laws, tens of thousands of black men and boys, and a smaller number of black women, were being arrested and sold into forced labor camps by state officials, local judges, and sheriffs. During this time, some actual criminals were sold into slavery, and a small percentage of them were white. But the vast majority were black men accused of trivial or trumped-up crimes. Compelling evidence indicates that huge numbers had in fact committed no offense whatsoever. As the system grew, countless white farmers and businessmen jostled to "lease" as many indigenous "criminals" as they could. Soon, huge numbers of other black americans were simply being kidnapped and sold into slavery.

El Código Negro

La esclavitud no finalizó en 1865…esta evolucionó.

En los 1880, Alabama, Carolina del Norte y Florida aprobaron leyes, convirtiendo en delito que el hombre negro se cambiara de trabajo sin primero pedir permiso. Era delito si un hombre negro hablaba demasiado alto cuando estaba en presencia de una mujer blanca. Era un delito que tuviese un arma en su bolsillo y era un delito vender los productos de su granja a alguien más que no fuese la persona que le alquilaba la tierra. Era un delito caminar a lado de las vías de un tren, era un delito no cederle el paso en la acera a una persona blanca, era un delito sentarse entre personas blancas en un tren y definitivamente era un delito involucrarse en actividades sexuales y que Dios no lo permita, demostrarle verdadero amor y afecto a una mujer blanca.

Y es así como sucedió. Unos años después de que se aprobaran estas leyes, miles de hombres y niños negros, y una pequeña cantidad de mujeres negras eran arrestados y vendidos por funcionarios estatales, jueces locales y alguaciles, a campos de trabajo forzado. Durante este tiempo, verdaderos criminales fueron vendidos como esclavos y una pequeña cantidad de ellos eran blancos. Pero la mayoría eran hombres negros acusados de delitos triviales o inventados. Pruebas convincentes indican que, de hecho, un gran número de ellos no había cometido ningún delito. A medida que el sistema crecía, innumerables granjeros y empresarios blancos empujaron para "alquilar" a tantos "criminales" indígenas como pudieran. Pronto, un gran número de estadounidenses negros simplemente eran secuestrados y vendidos como esclavos.

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lovelyheartclover · 1 month

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Black neurodivergent children deserve to have meltdowns without being killed by the police.

Ryan Gainer should still be alive.

Rest in peace Ryan Gainer 🙏🏾🕊❤️

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#🎨 Clover's art 🎨#ryan gainer #protect black children #protect autistic children #blm #black lives matter #important #rest in power Ryan Gainer 🕊❤️#tumblr artists #artist on tumblr #traditional art #art

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