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sayruq · 13 days

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#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #west bank #free west bank #settler violence #settler colonialism #lynching

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kropotkindersurprise · 9 months

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1941 - Disney animators went on strike after Walt Disney refused to let his workers unionize. The workers were angry about unfair policies on pay and benefits. On the picket line the animators lynched and guillotined an effigy of Walt Disney himself.

After four months Walt Disney caved to the demands and let the workers unionize, striking a deal which included the reinstatement of employees fired before the strike, equalization of pay, a clearer salary structure and a grievance procedure. [source] (this is a remake of a post that was deleted by @staff)

#disney #walt disney #strike #disney animators' strike #industrial action #unions #working class #workers #workers struggle #gif #1941 #guillotine #scabs #lynching #hanging #picket line

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hotvampireadjacent · 1 year

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#racism #antiblackism #lynching

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intersectionalpraxis · 1 month

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Ryan was also a cross-country running enthusiast who aspired to study engineering. He was murdered heartlessly -lynched by a cop, who are now trying to carefully justify this by saying HE was the violent one... Ryan was on the spectrum of autism, and he was triggered by something before his killers arrived -and although he was being calmed by his father, he became very understandably upset when the cops arrived -and instead of LEAVING Ryan alone and calling in for additional mental health support -and attempting to de-escalate the situation a cop shot him at least 3 times. WTF can a garden tool have on a fucking gun? And not only did these cops LET Ryan bleed to death on the ground, the Sheriff's department has yet to release a full, unedited bodycam video to the family.

The cops have been called a handful of times previously, so they knew Ryan had autism. These cops need to be held accountable, and there needs to be better interventions with mental health crises. Cops should NEVER be on the front lines for this. They're not educated, trained, or have the abilities to help people -especially kids and youths in vulnerable situations.

Ryan, may you rest in peace and power.

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metalheadsforblacklivesmatter · 1 year

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Body cam footage of Tyre Nichols lynching has not been released as of my writing this. But I do have more information.

5 police officers were fired and charged with 2nd degree murder, kidnapping, and excessive use of force. (I just typed "officers charged with murder" in the news search and all of the results were this. I didn't even have to specify Memphis.)

2 firefighters were also fired due to the role they played in his death.

They're calling in the national guard in preparations for the protest.

EVEN THE POLICE CHIEF CALLS IT HEINOUS AND INHUMANE.

Reports from Twitter say they're closing businesses early and boarding up.

They're calling this worse than the Rodney King footage which happened 30 years ago. (I just read what happened and what the actual fuck.)

Yeah. I'm changing my terminology here. This is nothing short of a lynching of Tyre Nichols. And again the footage hasn't even been released yet.

-fae

#black lives matter #blm #black lives still matter #tyre nichols #lynching #tw lynching mention #tw lynching

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mimi-0007 · 5 months

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The People's Grocery lynchings of 1892 occurred on March 9, 1892, in Memphis, Tennessee, when black grocery owner Thomas Moss and two of his workers, Will Stewart and Calvin McDowell, were lynched by a white mob while in police custody. The lynchings occurred in the aftermath of a fight between whites and blacks. The store was located just outside Memphis in a neighborhood called the "Curve". Opened in 1889, the People's Grocery was a cooperative venture run along corporate lines and owned by 11 prominent African Americans, including postman Thomas Moss, a friend of Ida B. Wells.

#black tumblr #black history #black literature #black community #civil rights #black history is american history #american history #lynching #black lives matter

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longliveblackness · 8 months

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The Horrors of Lynching: Photographs and Postcards

Note to readers: This post contains graphic and disturbing images.

During the late 19th and early 20th century, thousands of photographs and postcards of Black Americans killed by white mobs in racist terror lynchings were collected, traded and sent through the U.S. postal service.

The postcards and photographs, depicting gruesome images of the bodies of Black men, women and children who had been tied to trees, mutilated, tortured, shot and burned alive by white mobs, were often distributed as souvenirs and saved as mementos in family albums and stored away in attics for safekeeping.

The lynching photographs often captured the bodies of the murdered Black Americans and the hundreds of white people — including children — who gathered to witness the public spectacle of lynchings. According to historians, in more than half of these photos and postcards, white people were shown smiling and celebrating the spectacles.

WHITE PEOPLE MONETIZED THE MURDER OF BLACK PEOPLE

Lynching photographs and postcards were shrewdly distributed — often for profit — across communities by hand and through the U.S. mail. They were often sold for as little as a quarter, which would be worth about $3.46 today.

Source: wordinblack.com

Translated by Long Live Blackness by Shaneyra Thompson

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Los horrores de los linchamientos: fotografías y postales

Nota para los lectores: Esta publicación contiene imágenes gráficas e inquietantes.

Descripción de primera imagen: [Cinco afroamericanos fueron colgados de un cornejo en el condado de Sabine, Texas, en 1908 como "una advertencia para todos los negros".]

Traducción de la postal:

Esta es sólo la rama de un árbol de Cornejo;

Un emblema de la SUPREMACIA BLANCA.

Una lección que una vez se enseñó en la escuela de los Pioneros:

que esta es una tierra de GOBIERNO DEL HOMBRE BLANCO.

Una vez, temprano en la mañana, los blancos le dijeron al Hombre Rojo que enmendara su camino.

El negro, ahora, por gracia eterna, debe aprender a permanecer en el lugar del negro.

En el Soleado Sur, la Tierra de los Libres, que la SUPREMACÍA BLANCA sea para siempre.

Que esto sea una advertencia para todos los negros, o sufrirán el destino del árbol de Cornejo.

A finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX, se recopilaron, comercializaron y enviaron a través del servicio postal de Estados Unidos miles de fotografías y postales de estadounidenses negros asesinados por turbas blancas en linchamientos terroristas racistas.

Las postales y fotografías, que mostraban imágenes espantosas de los cuerpos de hombres, mujeres y niños negros que habían sido atados a árboles, mutilados, torturados, fusilados y quemados vivos por turbas blancas, a menudo se distribuían como souvenirs y se guardaban como recuerdos en álbumes familiares.

Las fotografías de los linchamientos a menudo capturaban los cuerpos de los estadounidenses negros asesinados y los cientos de personas blancas (incluyendo niños) que se reunían para presenciar el espectáculo público de los linchamientos. Según los historiadores, en más de la mitad de estas fotografías y postales, se mostraba a personas blancas sonriendo y celebrando los espectáculos.

LOS BLANCOS MONETIZARON EL ASESINATO DE LOS NEGROS

Se distribuyeron astutamente fotografías y postales de linchamientos (a menudo con fines de lucro) entre las comunidades, en mano y por correo postal. A menudo se vendían por tan solo veinticinco centavos, lo que hoy valdría unos 3.46 dólares.

Descripción de segunda imagen: [Una postal de un linchamiento en Duluth. 15 de Junio, 1920.]

Fuente: wordinblack.com

Traducido por Long Live Blackness by Shaneyra Thompson

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itsmythang · 8 months

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How craven and ghastly to want a postcard such as this.

A postcard showing a group of "Strange Fruit" hanging from the trees with a poem written at the bottom. Please take time to read it...it's America's history. The evil and ghastly scene took place in Sabine County, TX 1908.

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

Southern trees bear strange fruit

Blood on the leaves and blood at the root

Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze

Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees

Pastoral scene of the gallant south

The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth

Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh

Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

Here's a fruit for the crows to pluck

For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck

For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop

Here's a strange and bitter crop

#American History #Lynching #evil #strange fruit

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stiwfssr · 1 month

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#disco elysium #video games #disco ball #lynching #shit factory #my gifs #540px #10mb #When you hate your life and your job #and all your dreams are about your life and your job #I started this game like #Haha #Crazy guy!#But it keeps punching into my reality #While speaking with the Hardie Boys #one of them said the shit factory line #I did not notice before

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ausetkmt · 7 months

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newyorkthegoldenage · 8 months

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Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of young Emmett Till, who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi on August 28, 1955, addresses a crowd of 15,000 in Harlem later that year.

In her autobiography Death of Innocence: The Story Of The Hate Crime That Changed America, Till-Mobley wrote:

It is not that I dwell on the past. But the past shapes the way we are in the present and the way we will become what we are destined to become. It is only because I have finally understood the past, accepted it, embraced it, that I can fully live in the moment. And hardly a moment goes by when I don’t think about Emmett, and the lessons a son can teach a mother.

Photo: Grey Villet via Life magazine Instagram

#vintage New York #1950s #Grey Villet #Emmett Till #Mamie Till-Mobley #hate crime #racism #lynching #vintage Harlem

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the-garbanzo-annex-jr · 5 months

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#hamas #gaza #barbarism #collaborators #lynching

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a-sandquist-art · 2 months

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This scene from the Last Unicorn altered my brain chemistry and it reads SO Toad for me

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metalheadsforblacklivesmatter · 1 year

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About the Tyre Nichols lynching by police officers.

The part I'm most stuck on right now. Is after the body cam footage was released (on Vimeo). The number of people reblogging my content leading up to the footage being released saying stuff like "Yeah. I saw the footage on the news and then the news anchors talked about it for a while."

I thought about it, and I'm not going to watch the footage. Because I got all of the information I needed from the lawyers and family talking about it.

He was unarmed.

It lasted 3 minutes.

There were 5 officers.

He was crying for him mom.

His face was unrecognizable.

His neck was broken

His mom couldn't even watch the entire thing.

Even the police chief called it heinous.

Like. There is nothing that can justify that. I don't need any more information than that. That's all the information I need to determine that these officers lynched this man.

Black pain isn't your content. It isn't your airtime. It's not your discussion topics. The lynching of a Black man and Black trauma isn't your discussion topic for profit. It's only your discussion topic to enact change.

What did they even talk about after? Because given the 8 facts above alone, there's nothing to talk about. Shoot. Only the first two points alone is enough to determine that there's nothing to talk about.

Anything beyond an angry rate about how fucked up this was is unadulterated trauma porn. Unadulterated picnic lynching trauma porn.

The ONLY discussion you need to have after that is what events took place in this country to lead up to this level of police brutality and how we're going to fix it.

What the actual fuck.

These people are HURTING. The trauma alone they're experiencing just from knowing this happened it heart breaking. Black people are HURTING. And you're turning it into your trauma porn.

-fae

#black lives matter #blm #black lives still matter #acab #1312 #tw lynching mention #lynching #tw lynching #tw police brutality #police brutality #tyre nichols

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alanshemper · 1 year

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#jordan neely #nyc #lynching #subway car #on a crowded subway car

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reasonsforhope · 9 months

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"When President Joe Biden signed a proclamation Tuesday establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, it marked the fulfillment of a promise Till’s relatives made after his death 68 years ago.

The Black teenager from Chicago, whose abduction, torture and killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel the Civil Rights Movement, is now an American story, not just a civil rights story, said Till’s cousin the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr.

“It has been quite a journey for me from the darkness to the light,” Parker said during a proclamation signing ceremony at the White House attended by dozens, including other family members, members of Congress and civil rights leaders.

“Back then in the darkness, I could never imagine the moment like this, standing in the light of wisdom, grace and deliverance,” he said.

With the stroke of Biden’s pen, the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, located across three sites in two states, became federally-protected places. Before signing the proclamation, the president said he marvels at the courage of the Till family to “find faith and purpose in pain.”

“Today, on what would have been Emmett’s 82nd birthday, we add another chapter in the story of remembrance and healing,” Biden said...

On Tuesday, reaction poured in from other elected officials and from the civil rights organizing community. The Rev. Al Sharpton said the Till national monument designation tells him “that out of pain comes power.”

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jefferies said the monument “places the life and legacy of Emmett Till among our nation’s most treasured memorials.”

“Black history is American history,” he said in a written statement...

Till-Mobley demanded that Emmett’s mutilated remains be taken back to Chicago for a public, open casket funeral that was attended by tens of thousands of people. Graphic images taken of Emmett’s remains, sanctioned by his mother, were published by Jet magazine and fueled the Civil Rights Movement...

Altogether, the Till national monument will include 5.7 acres (2.3 hectares) of land and two historic buildings. The Mississippi sites are Graball Landing, the spot where Emmett’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River just outside of Glendora, Mississippi, and the Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi, where Emmett’s killers were tried...

The Illinois site is Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago, where Emmett’s funeral was held in September 1955...

Mississippi state Sen. David Jordan, 90, was a freshman at Mississippi Valley State College in 1955 when he attended part of the trial of the two men charged with killing Emmett. As a state senator for the past 30 years, Jordan, who is Black, spearheaded fundraising for a statue of Emmett Till that was dedicated last year in Greenwood, Mississippi, a few miles from where the teenager was abducted.

On Tuesday, Jordan praised Biden for creating the Till national monument.

“It’s one of the greatest honors that a president could pay to a person, 14, who lost his life in Mississippi that’s created a movement that changed America,” Jordan told the AP."

-via AP, July 25, 2023

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