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The Smile of Hope
This is a picture of a little 13-year-old girl arrested during the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest on the Brooklyn Bridge.
The picture tells us something very important, with brutal clarity. When the police are out on the streets arresting 13-year-old kids for peacefully protesting political issues then we know beyond argument something is terminally rotten in America.
When Black woman cops are arresting little white girls and not obviously inflicting any physical harm upon them THAT is when we know “beyond argument something is terminally rotten in America.” Yup. “Brutal clarity” happens when a quirky little white girl smiles bravely at the camera. Not when shit like this happens to little Black girls. No, no.
It tells us that there is hope too, though. The spark of freedom that flickered in the middle-east during the Arab Spring is being re-ignited all over in America. People are waking up from the long, bad dream. They are seeing the lies and exploitation and hypocrisy all around them and saying ‘Enough’.
The battles to be fought are formidable, the forces ranged against us are frightening, but now at least we have hope that a better America, and a better world, is possible.
Ellie
Oh, yes. America is waking up now that shit is starting to hit the fan for white people. Nobody woke up when Aiyana Stanley Jones was murdered for a tv show. Nobody woke up when Detroit was suffering. White people came and cheered on the economic destruction. Still do. They have “urban decay” photoshoots where they take pics of the sad, tragic, yet “beautiful” crumbling buildings. Completely ignore the people who haven’t been able to find jobs or access a decent grocery store w/in city limits in fucking decades.
No, when a white-skinned girl in a goofy hat smiles at the camera while being arrested, THAT is when America wakes up. THAT is a sign of hope. Not the people who BEEN marching and protesting and boycotting. Nawl. This watery-eyed lil girl is our “hope.”
ugh.
just saying.
^^
omgggggg
As someone else said, why are white people the only face of this shit. Unemployment has hit other communities a lot harder. For Black people, unemployment is nearly (if not more than) double that of white people. Foreclosures are higher. They’re the first to be laid off and the last to be rehired. For a lot of Native communities, shit is always bad that none of this was even noticed.
Fuck this picture.
Why is everything always “OMG WHITE PPLZZZ RAGEEE”?
why is it all you see is race i didn’t even notice the officer was black till reading this i just saw that some is fighting for whats right america no people are fighting for the 99% you are the 99% do you have a nice new car, house, job that pays millions do you turn on the news and say today was a good day. no maybe stop seeing the black and white people and go out there and see the black and white situashions where someone 13 fight for you. wake up with the world and see we are not ok we need to fix this shit maybe this won’t work but they are trying how about you.
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