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Remember the video “Rosedale:The Way It Is” from 1976? The NYT has found the Black kids who were attached by white racist kids. Please watch.The final words from Renee McDonald on how the flag was used as a “do not enter” sign should chill us to the bone. nytimes.com/video/nyregion…
Of course they are unable to find any of the white kids. That’s always the way it is - those who attacked lunch counter protesters; snarling housewives taunting Black schoolchildren; mobs cheering on lynching.The white ppl who participated or bore witness rarely step forward.
And I’m struck anew by the reporter asking a young Renee McDonald - just moments after the encounter it would seem - whether she “forgives” the white children who attacked her & her friends. I really need white reporters to stop asking this question of Black ppl. Just stop it.
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In 2004 there was ugly opposition to a plan to erect a statue of Frederick Douglass outside the Talbot Cty courthouse in MD. White residents claimed the space was reserved to honor soldiers who risked their lives for our country. But what of the monument to Confederate soldiers?
White veterans' groups called the courthouse lawn "hallowed ground." Black community members argued that Frederick Douglass who was enslaved in Talbot deserved to be honored in that space. Indeed after he was free he returned & met w/the official who had once held him in jail.
I posed a different question. Who decided the courthouse lawn was hallowed ground? Why should a monument to Confederate soldiers who fought against our country be there? But more importantly, what of the 1919 attempt by more than 1,000 white ppl to lynch Isaiah Fountain there?
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In the video, I see a man literally fighting and then running for his life. The ofcr, I can tell you now, will say he felt that #RayshardBrooks was a threat to his life and to others. I know this b/c this has proved so effective for ofcrs who kill innocent Black ppl. Here’s why.
I literally woke up this morning thinking about #RayshardBrooks and abt Tennessee v Garner, the 1985 case in which the SCOTUS made clear that ofcrs cannot shoot and kill a fleeing suspect unless the suspect poses a threat to the ofcr or to others. supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/…
Some subsequent cases have refined this but it is still the law. So why do so many ofcrs do it and get away with it? Because in a country steeped in racist stereotypes and narratives about Black men, the word “threat” does all the work.
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A THREAD on this tweet released by DOJ yesterday. I presume they think it shows an AG hard at work. But on a day when the country was fracturing amid protests over racism & police violence, the photo is a reminder of the absence of civil rts leadership in this DOJ. By contrast..
In 2014 while protests continued in Ferguson after #MikeBrown, an unarmed teenager was killed by police ofcr Darren Wilson, then Attorney General Eric Holder visited Ferguson, meeting with community groups and local law enforcement to signal the dept’s engagement.
Similarly, in 2015 Attorney General Loretta Lynch visited #Baltimore to meet with the family of #FreddieGray, community groups, civic leaders and local law enforcement.
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