Have you ever heard of the Orangeburg Massacre? You probably haven't, and with the laws that are being written in this country, it's a story that will continue to go untold.
I got a firsthand account of what happened from Cleveland Sellers, Jr. Mr Sellers is a Black man, and the ONLY person to be convicted in an act of white terror that left 3 people dead and many more injured, including Sellers.
For @damemagazine, I wrote the story Mr Sellers told me, and dug into the history of white vigilantism in this country. America was founded on it, and white terror (or vigilantism or state terror or whatever you want to call it) is still a thing.
So in this instance, kids, your favorite TV mom is loud and wrong. There was no miscarriage of justice, and Cosby is being released on a technicality. I will explain it all in this thread.
Bill Cosby admitted to everything he was criminally convicted of in a civil deposition. His victim sued him, and in his deposition, he admitted to drugging her and sexually assaulting her. He did this because he believed that this evidence would not be used against him.
The prosecutor at the time told him he would not be prosecuted. But years later, a new prosecutor picked up the case and decided to follow through on prosecution using the statements that Cosby made during the civil deposition.
So my auntie said she was going to fry me and my uncle some fish. They live off Flores and Normandie, so we went to the Ralphs on Western and Manchester to get some more fish.
Nigga.
Because it's the hood, they make you go to the cash register in the front to pay for your stuff from the meat department first, and then the cashier goes back to the meat counter to get it for you.
You can tell I live in the white neighborhood, because I was fucking APPALLED. Do you hear me?