Posts tagged #violence
No one is free until we are all free
No one is free until we are all free

My heart and mind and entire body really is heavy from the past few days of news about the horrifying attacks in Israel, the impacts, and the ripple effect of shock, grief and trauma even for those not directly impacted.

It feels out of my lane yet also very relevant to the work I do.

For now I am reading, listening, learning, and engaging in conversation where I can.

Here’s what I know: anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and anti-Arabism are all pillars of white supremacy. If destroying one pillar depends on fortifying another, white supremacy prevails.

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Dismantling oppressionAlethea Fitzpatrick#whitesupremacy, #collectiveliberation, #violence
The violence of unity
The violence of unity

When you come to learn the truth about this country, even just a little bit more than what we are typically taught or lead to believe, when you come to understand how systemic racism and white supremacy were a founding principle of this country, built into every aspect of its systems and institutions in ways that are still very much alive, present, yet invisible to so many of us today, Trump no longer is an aberration. It's the system working exactly as designed in ways that we all can't help but be complicit with, whether with our intention or consent or not.

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Dismantling oppressionAlethea Fitzpatrick#election2020, #unity, #violence, #jamesbaldwin, #paolofriere
Screaming into the wind
Screaming into the wind

BLACK LIVES MATTER

We say this because the US was founded on the principle that they didn't, and that principle is still at the bedrock of every institution today.

BLACK LIVES MATTER

George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Tony McDade. Ahmaud Arbery. And all the countless others, these only being the latest.

BLACK LIVES MATTER

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Dismantling oppressionAlethea Fitzpatrick#blacklivesmatter, #protests, #screamingintothewind, #seeingwhite, #whitefragility, #howtobeanatiracist, #natives, #characteristicsofwhitesupremacyculture, #georgefloydprotests, #jamesbaldwin, #paolofriere, #violence