If I’m shopping at Target and I see this, I’m calling the cops.
Seriously. I don’t care about your fucking rights, I just want to buy some dad jeans and maybe a tub of frosted animal crackers without having to worry about your casually slung assault rifle going off and the bullet ricocheting off the price checker and right into my ass. Thanks but no thanks.
This can not be real
but think about it if it was armed black people or hispanic people. They would be considered “thugs” and “criminals”. If it was a group of people from the middle east they would be terrorists, But because it’s like 800 different shades of mayo they’re using their 2nd amendment rights…smdh.
rest assured that this rule is not for black people. they would freak out for sure if a black person came into the store carrying…let alone three or four
That’s because white people are automatically deemed “responsible” by default… even when they’re the majority of mass shooters in the US.
Some of the recent media coverage about the fact that more than 50 people in Peru – the vast majority of them indigenous – are on trial following protests and fatal conflict in the Amazon over five years ago missed a crucial point. Yes, the hearings are finally going ahead and the charges are widely held to be trumped-up, but what about the government functionaries who apparently gave the riot police the order to attack the protestors, the police themselves, and – following Wikileaks’ revelations of cables in which the US ambassador in Lima criticized the Peruvian government’s “reluctance to use force” and wrote there could be “implications for the recently implemented Peru-US FTA” if the protests continued – the role of the US government?
That law, no. 30151, was promulgated in January this year and is, according to the IDL’s Juan José Quispe, a modification of existing legislation passed by the previous government. The modification consists of replacing three words – “en forma reglamentaria” – with another five – “u otro medio de defensa” – which Quispe says means that any soldier or police officer can now kill or injure a civilian without needing to use his or her weapon “according to regulations”, or by using something other than his or her weapon.
“We continue considering this law as one that grants the armed forces as well as the national police a licence to kill,” Quispe told the Guardian. “It permits a high degree of impunity. During the repression of social protests, police officers and soldiers who cause injuries or deaths will now be exempt from criminal responsibility.”
I’m a big baseball fan, San Francisco Giants in particular, from the Barry Bonds, JT Snow and Rich Aurelia days. I’m also a Native person – Shoshone and Paiute from Nevada. So Native American Heritage Night at the SF Giants game on Monday, June 23rd seemed like an ideal time to attend a game with my little sister.
Unless you consider watching non-Native people prancing around in costume headdress and getting slammed to the ground by your hair by police ideal, I turned out to be quite wrong. Upon seeing a group of men who appeared to be non-Native passing around a red, white and blue plastic headdress, I and another Native man I just met decided to go talk to them about that not being an acceptable way to celebrate “Native American Heritage Night”.
We have to go back and learn what we ate, learn that we gathered food and ate wild game and there was no sickness. It’s going to be hard because our families are used to fast food, but we can adjust back to traditional food.
Bit confused here. I see a lot of people on tumblr indicate racism is power + prejudice, and that sexism is power + prejudice, therefore men cannot face sexism and white people cannot face racism. So what does that make Institutionalized racism, and institutionalized sexism?
Asked by Anonymous
Institutionalized racism and institutionalized sexism is part of the make up of “power” in the formula power+prejudice. Someone(s) in a position of power have a prejudice and continue to uphold themselves while dehumanizes those they have prejudices against by institutional and systematic operations of oppression.
what was the drum retreat like? did you only drum like at a pow wow or did you do more than that? i live in california and i never heard of it
Asked by Anonymous
Each drum retreat is a little bit different I have been going to the drum retreat directed by April GoForth since I was in high school and back then there were classes or lectures about health related issues like sex education or diabetes. But this last drum retreat we heard a few people speak about the drum, the life of the drum, and how to be respectful of it. There were two Lakota women who gave us their time and gave speeches. We also had a craft class where we made a pine nut necklace. Other than that we would drum in a round. The most important part about the drum retreat, in my opinion, is to connect with our fellow ladies. To be inspired by the strength of the people there with you and to honor them, and yourself. It is a time of healing. If you are interested in going I could give you April’s contact information but you will have to private message me for that.
i had to dance, not because I was ready to put my regalia on again, but because a child asked me to dance with her. The elders will tell us to encourage our children, to inspire them to preserve our ways. We cannot refuse to dance with these children, we cannot refuse to encourage these children.
One of the speakers at the retreat talked about community in a way that really spoke to me, left an impression. She talked about being new to her culture and how before she started participating in the communities here she felt alone. She said that being with the people have filled a void she never thought could be filled. And I thought about that a great deal. As someone who can walk in both worlds she can see the difference between those sides. The individualism of white culture(s) in America, that she had always known, and how it differs from being in a community of California Cherokee people who are active in education preservation, drumming, etc. There is something to be said about how collectivist cultures are made up of people who may have a sense of belonging, acceptance, etc. as opposed to being in an individualistic culture and simply feeling alone.
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