The New Da Vinci

being nice to people working in customer service

girls in thigh-highs

receiving $400,000

Me: why

Her: idk you’re just different

Me:

I’m pretty chill .

#CancelYandy Part 1: on the invisibilization and criminalization of Indigenous peoples

Sources:

https://twitter.com/kawisahawii/status/1043173203248599042?s=19

https://twitter.com/AzieDee/status/1044712859341651969?s=19

https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1046832131467558912?s=19

Sign the petition for Yandy to remove the costumes here: https://twitter.com/zoexrain/status/1044699065290641408?s=19

https://twitter.com/blackhorse_a/status/1044218683466244101?s=19

https://twitter.com/xodanix3/status/1043978210357235712?s=19

https://twitter.com/xodanix3/status/1043244945606361089?s=19

https://twitter.com/Kanhehsiio/status/792134080179662848?s=19

https://twitter.com/xodanix3/status/1044227576535937024?s=19

BLM was started because they let our murderers walk due to antiblack racism, as in they argue that murdering us isnt a crime because, by nature of our blackness, we have to have deserved it. So we had no value. BLM addressed that. Stop implying that these “significant protests” werent built up from years worth of the hard work and pain of black people (mainly black women, who are also major victims of dehumanization and sexual assault), and they werent demonized, arrested, and they still didnt have to watch their murderers walk nearly every time. Dont contribute to our dehumanization by reducing those protests (which were about non black people’s ambivalence over out deaths and unwillingness to see us as victims) down to just “angry people blocking highways” and by equating being gassed, arrested, and even murdered our to freaking putting stickers on costumes. And yes, again, these costumes are racist and dehumanizing, but that has nothing to do with BLM. It’s not comparable unless you’re going to talk about the implicit black dehumanization behind the statement that they wont pull a *costume* unless there is a significant protest movement like BLM (because protesting for our lives is the same as social media uproar over costumes during Halloween season). Or at least bring up the miryad of racist, antiblack costumes folks come up with, many of which mock our enslavement or our murders.