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Sheena Stewart was 4 ½ months pregnant when she was pulled over in her car for allegedly not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign.

Stewart handed over her license, and was looking for the registration in the glove box when the cops’ indicated their impatience, according to the suit filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.

Officer Matthew Castellano angrily complained, “What the f—k is taking you so long?” 

Stewart, 29, responded, “If you are going to continue talking to me like this, I am going to record how you are speaking to me,” 

Castellano tried to yank Stewart out of the car while she was still belted in. The cop removed the seatbelt and “threw her to the ground on her pregnant stomach,” the suit alleges.

She was called a “fat bastard,” but it is unclear if Castellano or his unidentified partner made the nasty remark.

Stewart was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and obstructing governmental administration.

She remained handcuffed in a cell at the 121st Precinct for approximately one hour at the station before an ambulance arrived to take her to the hospital.

The charges were later dismissed. She later learned that the cops had written her up for three traffic violations.

#BlackLivesMatter #SheenaStewart #Cops #Abuse 

#StayWoke

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Wow..

I swear man

This is fucking nuts !!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON

We have the AMA for Doctors and the BAR for Lawyers, we need a similar licensing/insuring organization for Cops.

And people still don’t believe black women are the most mistreated, abused, disregarded, and unprotected people in the world

Police need to die…

Where are the pro life whites @

look at those little girls’ faces, they’re so in love

THIS is what the new ghostbusters for

DeRay McKesson, a prominent #BlackLivesMatter activist, was arrested during the Baton Rouge protests

McKesson, who was one of hundreds marching the Airline Highway for Alton Sterling, a black man killed by police officers while selling CDs outside of a store, was livestreaming on Periscope at the time of his arrest. #FreeDeray is now trending nationwide and many are calling out that the violation McKesson was charged with is both ridiculous and untrue.

#WhitePrivilegeMeans trends on Twitter amid nationwide Black Lives Matter protests

While policing is one of the core issues at stake, so too is the implicit privilege enjoyed by those who aren’t the subject of so much physical force by the authorities. On Twitter, users responded with the hashtag #WhitePrivilegeMeans in an attempt to shed some light on the forms this privilege actually takes — including Donald Trump. 

The Dallas shooting does not mean that there is now a “war on cops”

in the wake of a mass shooting at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas that killed five officers, an old and ugly canard has made its way back into the airwaves: There’s a war on police. This notion is demonstrably untrue and must be challenged — especially considering a notable politician just referred to Black Lives Matter as a terrorist organization. 

All homophobia is an act of violence.

Violence is defined by the World Health Organization as “the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation" 

ALL HOMOPHOBIA IS AN ACT OF VIOLENCE. 

All homophobia is an act of violence. 

This supposed to be feminism numb-nuts. Also, homophobia Is not violence, It Is simply disagreement with another human with very homophobic ideas, and yes It can be extreme, just like other ideologies (like feminism.)  

Sorry, maybe I wasn’t clear. Violence is defined by the World Health Organization as “the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation"

  ALL HOMOPHOBIA IS AN ACT OF VIOLENCE. 

There is no way to “disagree” about LGBT+ people’s right to exist, exist safely, and exist with dignity that is not violent. 

Langston Hughes (via coffeeandgrace)

Tell me about your respectability politics again

Big shout-out to Unity Autoworks in Brooklyn Park for doing this.

Non-problematic fave: Matt McGorry.

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28 COMMON RACIST ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS

(By Jona Olsson)

Below is a list of 28 common racist attitudes and behaviors that indicate a detour or wrong turn into white guilt, denial or defensiveness. Each is followed by a statement that is a reality check and consequence for harboring such attitudes.

1. I’m Colorblind.

REALITY CHECK + CONSEQUENCE:

Statements like these assume that people of color are just like you, white; that they have the same dreams, standards, problems, and peeves that you do. “Colorblindness” negates the cultural values, norms, expectations and life experiences of people of color. Even if an individual white person could ignore a person’s color, society does not. By saying we are not different, that you don’t see the color, you are also saying you don’t see your whiteness. This denies the people of colors’ experience of racism and your experience of privilege.

“I’m colorblind” can also be a defense when afraid to discuss racism, especially if one assumes all conversation about race or color is racist. Speaking of another person’s color or culture is not necessarily racist or offensive. As my friend Rudy says, I don’t mind that you notice that I’m black.” Color consciousness does not equal racism.

2. The Rugged Individual, the Level Playing Field and the Bootstrap Theory.

REALITY CHECK + CONSEQUENCE:

These are three of the crown jewels of U.S. social propaganda. They have allowed generation after generation to say, “If you succeed, you did it, but if you fail, or if you’re poor, that’s your fault.” Belief in this propaganda is founded on a total denial of the impact of either oppression or privilege on any person’s chance for success.

Attacks on programs like affirmative action find rationalization in the belief that the playing field is now level, i.e., that every individual, regardless of color or gender, or disability, etc., has the same access to the rights, benefits and responsibilities of the society. 

The rationalization continues: since slavery is ended and people of color have civil rights, the playing field has now been leveled. It follows, then, that there is no reason for a person of color to “fail” (whether manifested in low SAT scores or small numbers in management positions) EXCEPT individual character flaws or cultural inadequacies. These “failures” could have no roots in racism and internalized racism.

3. Reverse Racism.

REALITY CHECK + CONSEQUENCE:

A. Let’s first define racism with this formula: 

Racism = racial prejudice + systemic, institutional power. 

To say people of color can be racist, denies the power imbalance inherent in racism. Certainly, people of color can be and are prejudiced against white people. That was a part of their societal conditioning. A person of color can act on prejudices to insult or hurt a white person. But there is a difference between being hurt and being oppressed. People of color, as a social group, do not have the societal, institutional power to oppress white people as a group. An individual person of color abusing a white person – while clearly wrong, (no person should be insulted, hurt, etc.) is acting out a personal racial prejudice, not racism.

B. This form of denial is based on the false notion that the playing field is now level. When the people with privilege, historical access and advantage are expected to suddenly (in societal evolution time) share some of that power, it is often perceived as discrimination.

C+D. C is a statement by Rush Limbaugh. Though, clearly he is no anti-racist, both c+d follow closely on the heels of “reverse racism” and are loaded with white people’s fear of people of color and what would happen if they gained “control.” Embedded here is also the assumption that to be “pro-black” (or any other color) is to be anti-white. (A similar illogical accusation is directed at women who work for an end to violence against women and girls. Women who work to better the lives of women are regularly accused of being “anti-male.”)

4. Blame the Victim.

REALITY CHECK + CONSEQUENCE:

All “blame the victim” behaviors have two things in common. First, they avoid the real problem: racism. Second, they take away from the picture the agents of racism, white people and institutions, who either intentionally perpetuate or unintentionally collude with racism.

This is similar to agent deletion in discussions of rape. Statements referring to a woman being raped, many by focusing on her clothing or behavior at the time of the rape and delete the male rapist from the picture.)

As long as the focus remains on people of color, white people can minimize or dismiss their reactions, and never have to look directly at racism and the whites’ own responsibility or collusion.

5. The White Knight or White Missionary.

REALITY CHECK + CONSEQUENCE:

It is a racist, paternalistic assumption that well meaning white people know what’s best for people of color. Decisions by white people, are made on behalf of people of color, as though they were incapable of making their own. This is another version of “blame the victim” and white is right. It places the problems at the feet of people of color and the only “appropriate” solutions with white people. Once more the power of self-determination is taken away from people of color. Regardless of motive, it is still about white control.

6. Lighten up. (Lighten? Whiten?)

REALITY CHECK + CONSEQUENCE:

Here are racism and agent deletion in partnership again. The problem and perpetrators are exonerated, because the rationale declares that humor isn’t hurtful. This form of denial serves most to trivialize the pain and reality of daily racism.

7. Don’t Blame Me.

REALITY CHECK + CONSEQUENCE:

Often white people hear blame whenever the issue of racism is brought up, whether or not blame has been placed on whites. As beneficiaries of racism and white privilege, you sometimes take a defensive posture even when you are not being individually blamed. You may personalize the remarks, not directed personally at you. It is the arrogance of your privilege that drags the focus back to whites.

When whites are being blamed or personally accused of racist behavior, this defensiveness and denial further alienate you and may preclude you from examining your possible racist behavior.

8. BWAME.

REALITY CHECK + CONSEQUENCE:

This diminishes the experience of people of color by telling our own story of hardship. We lose an opportunity to learn more about the experience of racism from a person of color, while we minimize their experience by trying to make it comparable or less painful than ours.

9. We Have Overcome.

REALITY CHECK + CONSEQUENCE:

The absence of legalized, enforced segregation does not equal the end of racism. This denial of contemporary racism, based on inaccurate assessment of both history and current society, romanticizes the past and diminishes today’s reality.

10. The End Run, Escapism.

REALITY CHECK + CONSEQUENCE:

I agree with Audre Lorde’s statement, “There is no hierarchy of oppression.” I would not establish a rank order for oppressions. At the same time, we cannot attempt to evade recognition and responsibility for any form of oppression.

Statements like the ones above divert attention from racial injustice to focus on some other form of oppression. They are usually said by white people, (women, working class people, lesbians, gay men or others) who experience both white privilege and oppression in some form. Whites are more willing and more comfortable decrying their oppression than scrutinizing their privilege. Oppressions are so inextricably linked that if whites allow their fear, guilt and denial to constantly divert them from confronting racism, even while we work to dismantle other forms, no oppression will ever be dismantled.

11. Due Process.

REALITY CHECK + CONSEQUENCE:

White people’s belief that the police, courts, the legal system and social services work without bias; that due process, fair trials, juries, judges, police officers and case workers have everyone’s, including people of color, best interest at heart. Or at least, no less than they do for white people. This belief clouds reality. Whites tend to look at isolated incidents rather than the patterns of institutionalized oppression.

12. The Innocent by Association.

REALITY CHECK + CONSEQUENCE:

(Perhaps, if all white people who say they marched with Dr. King actually had, the current situation would look different!) This detour into denial wrongly equates personal interactions with people of color, no matter how intimate they may be, with anti- racism. There is an assumption that our personal associations free us magically from our racist conditioning.

13. The Penitent.

REALITY CHECK + CONSEQUENCE:

While there is probably no harm in the “sorry,” if it is not attached to some action taken against racism, it is most often just another expression of white guilt. Being an ally to people of color is not limited to an apology for other white people’s behavior, it must include anti-racist action.

14. The Whitewash.

REALITY CHECK + CONSEQUENCE:

We’re trapped by another version of white guilt response. Whites attempt to excuse, defend or cover up racist actions of other white people. White people are particularly prone to this if the other person is close, family or friend, and if we feel their actions reflect on us.

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