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here is a petition to reopen Sandra Bland’s case 

any black followers and friends, a thread of mental health resources if you need them can be found here!

I hate the white supremacy pyramid; I hate that it’s suddenly an article of faith though similar versions have circulated before, and that I have to see it in every story on IG right now. It misapprehends what’s happening and what has been happening. First, white supremacy isn’t the only thing to be concerned with here, because we also have antiblackness as an arguably preceding and encompassing problem. And the separation of “overt” and “covert” or “socially acceptable” and “socially unacceptable” does scant helpful work. What appears as “socially acceptable” - lets just call it “normalcy” - only concerns the maintenance of liberal life. But the illusion of normalcy is just that and does little, if anything, to stand in the way of black people being ritually killed. In other words, antiblackness works over and against what is considered within civil society as normal or abnormal, acceptable or unacceptable, overt or covert. Those terms have no actual meaning.

it doesn’t make sense to spend any of your valuable time trying to convince people that riots in response to state-sanctioned violence are just. enslaved africans who were trafficked to the west, as well as their descendants, had to engage in war to gain concessions. from raids on slaveowners in the u.s., to black muslim uprisings against the police in brazil, to the severed heads of the french in haiti. we have always engaged in war to loosen our chains. this is not the first time black americans destroyed property for this purpose and will not be the last. if our resistance is palatable enough for apologists of the state to support it, then that resistance probably isn’t disrupting any kind of social order. i take their distaste as confirmation that the tactic being used is inconvenient and disruptive, as it should be. my hope is that we can become organized enough to transform spontaneous violence to material gains and engage in more protracted struggles where we can defend ourselves and force them to heed our demands.

if you want to help bail out protesters but don’t know where to send your money — act blue put together a secure page that will split your donation between 30+ bail funds across the US