Madame Thursday

[“I haven’t done a video in a while. Mostly due to this entire Trayvon Martin case. It’s just something that’s been severely affecting my mood, my emotions, everything for a while now. At first I told myself not to do this video because I know how I am and I’d just be real loud and ignorant and yelling and telling people to go fuck their mothers and all kinds of ratchet shit. And I don’t really want this to be a super ignorant, furious funny video. ‘Cause this isn’t something laugh line funny. But I do want to talk about it. 

Dear Zimmerman, 

I’m hoping that you will watch this video so that I can personally inform you that you are the embodiment of everything wrong with the world today. You are a fat ball of ignorance. And this is the type of ignorance that leads to wars and hate crimes, gay bashing, all kinds of other senseless acts of violence. It’s just fucking stupid. 

You, a twenty eight-year-old man who weighs two hundred some odd pounds walked up on a seventeen year old boy and shot and killed him. 

Let’s just go over some of your claims:

You got into a fight with Trayvon and in the process he broke your nose, threatened to kill you, and bashed your head into the pavement. Yet in recent videos that were released after your arrest, you didn’t have a single scratch on you. 

I heard some bullshit about you saying that you were begging for your life and you thought he was going to kill you even though witnesses were saying they heard Trayvon screaming and heard him begging for his life. And police tried to switch witnesses’ stories around. You got your daddy and brothers and cousins all in the media trying to lie for you. Then you got some Black man that your legal advisors mostly found at a Red Lobster somewhere in Opalaka and paid him a large lump sum of money to get on CNN and some place  and lie on your behalf. Cut the bullshit ‘cause I know that’s trash. 

What we do are these facts right here, and I ain’t even got to get into all of them. 

You saw a young Black boy walking home and clearly felt so threatened that you had to call the police. As you’ve done forty-six times in the three months of this year. Now you clearly had a problem with this boy because of his skin color and your fuck ass daddy grandmama auntie cousin sister’s baby daddy they can all claim that you ain’t racist all they fucking want to but there’s nothing that he had on his person that was a threat to anybody. 

A hoodie? Look, hoods are fashionable, they’re fucking comfortable, they keep you warm, and a lot of times they keep rain of your goddamn head. Not everybody likes to carry umbrellas. And to be perfectly frank when I see a Black person in a hoodie I either think they’re cold or they’re comfortable. When I see a white person in a hoodie, I either think they’re cold, comfortable, or they’re about to blow some shit up. 

Also with him? A drink by Arizona. Because when Black people purchase these ninety-nine cent beverages, it’s only to be chucked through you white people’s windows so that we steal your plasma TV’s and your young children. 

Last but not least? Skittles! So when that pussy n**** runs up, you can make him taste the rainbow. Deadly!

All of these items carried by seventeen-year-old Trayvon were clearly so devious that you had to call the police on him. 

Now as far as I’m concerned, every part of your story is clear bullshit. But what we do know for a fact is that you called 911 and they told you not to follow this boy and you did anyway, with a loaded gun, and you shot and killed him after getting into a fight with him. 

I’m not gonna lie, I’ve been hoping that someone would find you and unleash a rabid pack of pit bull puppies on your nutsack. I really want somebody to blow your shit clean off. But that is what you and all the motherfuckers like you want. They want for Black people to be depicted as angry, violent, negative, nasty, deceitful, bloodthirsty savages when in reality all we’re doing is buying fucking snacks and getting shot for it. 

Mr. Zimmerman I’m quite certain that you are probably waiting for this entire situation to just blow over. That’s what y’all always want. That’s what you expect. It’s like Troy Davis, Jena Six, Sean Bell. You want for people to be upset about it and march and rally and then go back to watching 106 and Park. Well, I don’t want that shit to happen. I want for the law to do the right thing and throw your bitch ass in jail. 

And then I went seventeen big, Black buff ass 50 Cent looking’ n***** in prison to rip your bootyhole open to the size of Tyra Banks’ fucking forehead. And then I want them to bust a batch of nuts in your mouth everyday for the rest of your fat fuckass life. 

That’s just what I want. But even if neither of those things happen, God’s got something for you. Some people call it Karma. I like to call it the Lord’s last laugh. He may not wreck your set when we want him to, but he’s always gonna dropkick that ass sometime.” 

(A clip from an episode of the sitcom Roseanne, with Roseanne speaking, coming from speaker of a hand held device): “Black people are just like us, they are every bit as good as us. And people who don’t think so is just bunch of banjo pickin’, cousin datin’ embarrassments to respectable white trash like us.”]

jumpupgocrazy:

kid fury dropping truth AGAIN about trayvon martin.

and he didn’t do it to be funny, but naturally it still was.

Oh, btw, the first white person that comes crying about how nobody should get rape wished on them and therefore this whole video is wrong and yeah, Zimmerman’s bad but we shouldn’t wish rape people and somehow that’s the most important thing, even if he did just murder a kid who was getting some damn candy for his little brother and then lied about it and had his entire family lie about it and even paid a Black person to lie about it so that this could be used to deny and invalidate the rightful, deserved, just, and common sense anger of so many Black people who are now even more in danger because of bigots like him and the (in)justice system that gives them a fucking pass?

Well, as the man said in the video - your ass will get dropkicked sometime. And if God is running late, well, I’ll just speed the process up a little. 

(Source: ronnieisabellaglenn)

[Image: Two pictures. The first is a shoulders up picture of teenager Abdul al-Awlaki, a thin, smiling young man with brown skin, curly black hair and glasses. The other is of a birth certificate from the State of Colorado.]

barefootwarriorqueen:

dank-potion:

lapalomaazul:

trubr0wn:

arielnietzsche:

uniteordie:

To everyone so outraged about Trayvon Martin, please meet Abdul al-Awlaki. Notice his birth certificate, he’s an American, born in Colorado. 

Abdul was a 16 year old American citizen that was murdered on orders of our very own President. His crime? That his father was a suspected Al Qaida member. 

Unlike the Trayvon Martin situation there is no grey area here. This teenager was specifically targeted and killed because of his religious and ethnic background and who his family was. 

He committed no crime, he was guilty of nothing yet he was murdered by a drone strike. 

WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU PEOPLE WHEN THIS TEENAGER WAS MURDERED? 

WHERE WERE YOU PEOPLE WHEN THE SAME PRESIDENT WHO SCORED POLITICAL POINTS COMMENTING ON ONE TEENAGERS DEATH ORDERED THE DEATH OF ANOTHER AMERICAN TEEN? 

You look foolish. You look uniformed, you look ignorant because you are. In one situation we have what appears to be an extremely unfortunate, tragic mistake and we have Congressmen on the house floor wearing hoodies and thousands protesting and screaming for justice.

On the other hand you have a child who was intentionally targeted and assassinated on the orders of the President yet you turn a blind eye. This country makes my stomach turn. 

What? If I believe so, he is the son of Anwar al-Awlaki. Even though I disapprove of what his father has done, why would they done that, unless the son was in the lead of his father? This is just brutal. 

i’m going to cry

you don’t even fucking understand that this could happen to ME and it could be completely legal. there would be no CHANCE of ANY sort of legal action. if someone hated me enough, they could simply report me to the government and i could be murdered or imprisoned and tortured for years. that’s it, those are the facts. this has happened to SO many more people than this young man. SO MANY PEOPLE. PEOPLE MY FAMILY KNEW.

i literally can’t even hold myself together, i’m about to bawl.

this is the last thing i needed to see right now. a reminder that my existence doesn’t mean shit to my own government.

Um, I am glad that this case is getting attention but the wording of the OP and the comparison to the Trayvon Martin case is really problematic. What the hell do they mean by “gray area?” Like Trayvon somehow deserved it? That whole thing reads like ‘why are you all paying attention to that black boy when this is so much more important?’ NO.

There needs to be more awareness about case of Abdul Al-Awlaki, but that is NOT the way to do it.

Shame on you, OP. Shame on you for trivializing a teenager’s death to exemplify another’s. Both of these boys are worthy of recognition, but your method is deplorable, at best.

Thank you for adding the commentary I couldn’t find the energy to do.

This story is devastating.

The OP said:

WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU PEOPLE WHEN THIS TEENAGER WAS MURDERED?

*sips tea slowly*

First of all, you need to fall the fuck back. Like really back, before someone tells you something about yourself that you aren’t going to like.

Where was I? Mourning the death of Trayvon Martin. Focusing on the healing and uplift of MY people. If you haven’t noticed (which I’m sure you did not), we’ve been under siege since we got here and, being born with a death sentence written into our skin, we’ve had a bit to deal with. So pardon us if we stop to mourn a fallen child while the world moves on without him.

So where the hell you get off asking where “we” been? Shit, where were you?? Unless you out there protesting with us and assisting with our rallies and helping to demand change, you really need to keep your mouth shut about “where are we.” You don’t get to ask for our support when you aren’t backing us up in OUR struggles. It is VERY clear that you don’t actually give a damn about OUR children, seeing as you made it seem as if one Black boy’s death is irrelevant compared to this situation. And while I’m real sympathetic to his case, YOU need to stop addressing US like we owe you shit.

“You look foolish. You look uniformed, you look ignorant because you are.”

Go to hell.

(via ladyatheist)

karnythia:

deusexignis:

mmmpasodoble:

mohandasgandhi:

Black teen shot and killed in mostly white gated community he lived in while going to a convenience store to get snacks by a Neighborhood Watch official who said he looked suspicious

Via Global Grind: “17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by a Neighborhood Watch captain inside his own gated Orlando, Florida community where he was living with his father, stepmother and little brother, according to the family’s lawyer. Martin was shot after returning home from a local convenience store, where he bought snacks including Skittles candy requested by his 13-year-old brother, Chad.

According to the family’s lawyer Ben Crump, the family is calling for the Watch captain’s arrest, saying Martin was “on his way home and a Neighborhood Watch loose cannon shot and killed him”…”.* Was the teen singled out and shot because he was black in a white neighborhood? Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss if race was involved on The Young Turks.

HE HAS A NAME: Trayvon Martin, Shot & Killed By His Own Neighborhood Watch (DETAILS)

I know Tumblr doesn’t like hearing about this but when people talk about “white privilege,” part of what is meant is stuff like the ability to exist beyond the confines of your home without the fear of being killed due to your race or ethnicity.

And white people have the nerve to feel “discriminated” against. And white people have the nerve to say we live in a post racial society. And white people have the nerve to call us reverse racists. My anger towards white people will never ever be enough.

I agree that SOME white people make stupid claims about post-racism, but no one helps the argument by going “My anger towards white people will never ever be enough.” What gives you the right to generalize about an entire race based on the actions of some? Doesn’t that sound a bit familiar to you? I feel like minorities, of all people, should understand that it’s not right to judge someone based on the colour of their skin. There are white people who understand white privilege, such as myself and many others I know. It frustrates me when PoC make generalizations about me because I’m white. You have every right to be mad at our society, furious, actually. But do not make judgements about me based on my skin colour, because I do not do so to you.

So that thing where there is a good time not to speak & to shut up and listen? This would be one of those times. In a world where we die for being black and our killers not even be arrested, why the hell would we think some random white person is safe because they say so? Like, what the hell kind of logic is that?