I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.

Read those.

Right now.

I’ll wait.

If you don’t want to read, I’ll explain the key bullet points, but please read them afterwords:

This is not “we didn’t protect him enough.”

This is not “the government screwed up some random detail or accidentally let his killer loose.”

The 111th Military Intelligence had a team taking pictures of his balcony during the assassination.

They brought in a Special Forces 8-Man Sniper Team from the 20th.

Memphis Police withdrew their regular protection detail from him.

A jury of 12 people, six black and six white, found the United States Government guilty of conspiracy to commit murder.

YOUR GOVERNMENT. MY GOVERNMENT. THE GOVERNMENT OF, BY, AND FOR THE PEOPLE, SHOT AND KILLED DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING. And the media never reported the case.

MLK was ASSASSINATED. By a government YOU PAY FOR.

I hate those posts where someone tries to pressure you into reblogging. I almost never ask you to reblog.

This shit is important.

Reblog this. I don’t care what kind of blog you have. I don’t care what you normally talk about.

My First Listicle, or Six Ways an Interest in Other Cultures Can Inspire Racism, By Sheena Louise Roetman

Sometime this past summer, I was lying in bed, scrolling through my Facebook feed one last time before going to sleep. After a minute or two I came across a post from an acquaintance — it was the result of a BuzzFeed quiz, sponsored by GEICO, entitled “What Is Your Spirit Animal?” Her result? A hawk.

I won’t take the time to go into why the arbitrary and flippant use of spirit animals in pop culture and the entertainment industry is cultural appropriation, because others have done it so well. This is appropriation, and it is offensive.