Miscreant-king - Wanting, Waiting.

Hozier is just like "I'm a corpse in the woods I have a complicated relationship with religion and I'm tastefully horny" and we all collectively went "same"

todays beanie is: woolly the lamb!

Maaaan, where were all these White folks during the past 8 years that Black Lives Matter has been protesting? Because, honestly, this shit is irritating and infuriating. 

Why do you care now?? What took you so fucking long to give a shit about us?? What have y’all been doing while we’ve been suffering at the hands of cops and your people? What have y’all been doing while we’ve been getting gunned down in broad daylight? What have y’all been doing while we’ve been fighting, crying, mourning, and dying for our people? WHERE 👏🏾 THE 👏🏾 FUCK  👏🏾 HAVE 👏🏾 Y'ALL 👏🏾 BEEN?!?! 👏🏾

Some of y'all only give a shit about looking “woke” and “progressive” to Black folks and your White counterparts, and it shows. Y'all need to cut that shit the fuck out. You only hurt our cause when you show your ass like this. Allyship is not allyship when it’s performative, and even if you’re an “ally,” you’re still an oppressor. And y'all need to realize that. 

We don’t want another George Floyd. We don’t want another Tony McDade. We don’t want another Ahmaud Arbery. We don’t want another Breonna Taylor. We don’t want another Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, Philando Castile, Rekia Boyd, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Natasha McKenna, Samuel DuBose, Alton Sterling, Aiyana Jones, Laquan McDonald, Jocques Clemmons, Deborah Danner, Terence Crutcher…. We want justice. We want change. We want a future for ourselves and our children. We want to be able to exist without fear, without pain, and without our lives constantly being threatened. And we want y’all to do your part and work to dismantle the system that was created to harm us.

We are so tired of Whites sitting around doing nothing while our people are dying. Sharing posts in support of us and the movement is not enough. Signing a petition or two is not enough. We need y’all to call out your White counterparts for their racism and work on your own racial biases as well. We need y’all to listen to us when we talk about the injustices we face and learn from it. We need y’all to listen to and uplift our voices. And we really need y’all to be actively engaged in destroying everything that works to destroy us. 

Do better, dammit, or don’t bother getting involved in our movement at all.

think it is a good time to bring up the fact that the police in the united states of america are not legally required to protect people. that is straight up not part of their job.

furthermore, the united states police system was created largely out of runaway slave roundup patrols, they never existed to protect people, they were created to protect “property rights.”

They do not and have not ever existed to help keep folks safe. That is quite literally not even in their constitutional job description.

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Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Help Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hi everyone,

Mod Lesya here.

On May 27th, 2020, police were called on Regis Korchinski-Paquet to take her to the mental health hospital for treatment. Instead of receiving care, she was pushed off the balcony by police. The police are calling it “unfounded allegations” and have claimed her death as a suicide.

News about her death isn’t widespread, and the police coverup has been swift. There is a long racist history with Toronto police, and they are a notoriously corrupt police force even among police forces.

The story is: while her mother and brother waited in the hall, police entered the apartment. Her family heard her cry for help, silence, then police returning saying she fell to her death.

Canada has had sporadic protests in response, but I do not want her death to be downplayed by the situation in America. This is an international issue of police violence.

A History of Police Deaths in Canada

Police are just as corrupt, just as racist, and just as terrible in Canada as they are in America. This is being tagged as Black Lives Matter because it is primarily about Regis, and this section is to detail how her death is not an isolated incident of racialized violence by police.

Black and Indigenous people have been killed in Canada en masse either by police, or their deaths at the hands of others have been ignored by police. 

Toronto had a homophobic serial killer targeting black and brown men that was ignored by police for years.

Some high profile racialized deaths across Canada (primarily Indigenous and black immigrants)

Colton Boushie’s killer was allowed to walk free

While this isn’t specifically to Black lives, it shows that Canada’s justice system is not better than America’s. 

Protests

As far as I’m aware, most protests remained peaceful, and no violence has erupted. The protests are taking the form of vigils, primarily. Protests are also scheduled at later dates.

Montreal protests turned violent on June 1st at 8 pm, after 3 hours of peace, when police fired tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowd. This protest is specifically being reported as one for George Floyd.

Violence in Canada has remained minimal, but most people are not aware of the death. Canada is beginning to spark in protests in solidarity with Black Lives Matter.

Ways to Help

If you are American, please focus on American relief efforts. They need it.

If you are Canadian, call/email:

City Councillor Gord Perks - Parkdale - High Park councillor_perks@toronto.ca / 416-329-7919

MPP Bhutilla Karpoche - Parkdale - High Park BKarpoche-CO@ndp.on.ca / 416-763-5639

MP Arif Virani - Parkdale - High Park Arif.Virani@parl.gc.ca / 416-769-5072

Mayor of Toronto John Tory mayor_tory@toronto.ca / 416-397-2489

Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders officeofthechief@torontopolice.on.ca / 416-808-2222

Solicitor General - Minister Sylvia Jones sylvia.jones@pc.ola.org / 416-325-0408 / 519-941-7751

Attorney General of Ontario Dough Downey doug.downey@pc.ola.org / attornygeneral@ontario.ca / 416-326-2220 / 705-726-5538

Special Investigations Unit of Toronto:  1-800-787-8529 OR 416-622-0748 https://www.siu.on.ca/en/contact.php Address concerns to SIU Director Joseph Martino

Ontario Ombudsman to conduct an independent investigation: info@ombudsman.on.ca

Find your local MPP https://www.ola.org/en/members/current/contact-information?fbclid=IwAR3tPJIxeYmUcc4U-GGv5shp4kFvHRbFfcT6VtqOhFhqDxJzfI_E-bWmXgk

Gofundme:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-regis

Sign the petition:

https://www.change.org/p/justice-for-regis-korchinski-paquet

More resources:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0TGDdHJIO6FGkKNWBBXINUmfGSXdM8eK6eY2ZmrK8Q/mobilebasic

Breathing underwater, Stig De Block

Walt Whitman, ‘Song of Myself’, Leaves of Grass

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