#keith porter

Yeah I said something similar yesterday but we can NOT let what happened to Renee Good cloud what happened to everyone else at the hands of these SS Demons!!!

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I log back into this app and see the conversations around the white woman, Renee Good, who was just recently killed. And I can’t help but notice the stark difference in circulation of news and boosting of stories between both of them across this app…

Shit has BEEN happening to Black people across administrations and is currently happening to Black people under this administration, and is met by crickets. Yet when it starts touching white people, I see real anger start being felt from the gen pop followed by amplification and co-opting of Black terms and memorialization… I stg it takes everything in me to give af about yall.

**Edited: linking a gfm for Keith

***update: the gfm is unavailable. Will post an updated link as soon as I have one (removing the link until then for less confusion)

*** updated gfm link verified by Keith Porter Jr’s grandfather

In a sense, though, they're right, just not about the US military. The people who died for my freedom were never a part of the military. They weren't white men in uniform planting a flag on land that isn't theirs. The people who died for my freedoms did it here, and they did it in the streets. In our neighborhoods. In our schools.

The POC who have fought—and still are fighting—to be treated like equals both in the eyes of the government and in the eyes of those around them. The women who have fought—and are still fighting—for freedom from the patriarchy and bodily autonomy. The queer people who have fought—and are still fighting—for the freedom to simply exist and be who they are without scrutiny from the government. The Native Americans who have fought since the beginning for the right to preserve their own culture and land. Our freedom fighters aren't white men in green vests halfway across the world, they're marginalized groups in our own front yard.

"Freedom" doesn't look like this:

"Freedom" looks like this:

And they're dying today. Every day is another news story. Every day another person dissapears into a detention center never to be seen again. Every week another innocent person is shot and killed in the streets. Most of these people didn't even sign up to fight. They are mothers, trying to get home. Innocent Americans trying to get to work. Now, an ICU nurse who tried to help a women who got pepper sprayed was executed in broad daylight. They didn't sign up to have their life on the line, but I will always remember them. I will always remember. We cannot forget their names. THESE are the people who died for our freedoms.

And now, Alex Pretti. Trust me, more have died then are on this list, as well.