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Fallacies to avoid when discussing racism and police brutality

#ActsofPride Day 17 - Remember: Pride isn’t just a celebration, it’s a riot

Although many of the marches and Pride parades are canceled, Pride Month continues. From the beginning Pride has always been about more than just festivities. We must remind ourselves that the fight is not over until equal rights are established for all, regardless of skin color. Intersectionality is the key to our freedom. 

Tumblr Creatr @animatedtext​ created this artwork inspired by today’s prompt and discussed why it is important to her:

“I can live today as an out lesbian because people I’ve never met sacrificed their safety 50 years ago to start a movement. Remembering the first Pride was a riot isn’t about looking back. It’s a reminder  that our current fight for racial justice is necessary for future generations to live freely.“

His administration spent years pushing back on requests for funding for treatment and research. It’s impossible to know for certain, but if the disease had been aggressively studied and treated in the early years it might have been contained to a few hundred or few thousand deaths here in the USA.

Also he cut funds for mental health treatment and facilities, turning disabled people out onto the streets, the War on Drugs was cranked up to inner-city warfare, and the fundamentalist Christian “Moral Majority” that was his power base happily watched queers and black people and sex workers and homeless people die alone and scared.

Until Donald Trump was elected, he was the best example of an oblivious wealthy white person riding a wave of bigotry into the White House, and empowering that bigotry to a degree that cost tens of thousands of lives.

Flowers for handcuffs

Pictures taken by frame_of_reference_photography in Philadelphia

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