Black Lives Matter – A thread to talk about the movement

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Let’s start a conversation about the actual movement here, not about how MJ’s songs are a part of it.

I’ll start with a video that I think gets the main problems across very well, especially for people outside the USA who have trouble understanding the magnitude of the issue. It’s 9 minutes long, and supposed to be the first video in a series.

It seems to only be available on Twitter so far, but this has the benefit that you can ask questions on Twitter that will be addressed in the next video.

Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man Pt:1

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Dear white people,<br>For days you&#8217;ve asked me what you can do to help. I&#8217;ve finally found an answer.<br><br>Let your guard down and listen. <a href="https://t.co/74SVv8XOqp">pic.twitter.com/74SVv8XOqp</a></p>&mdash; Emmanuel Acho (@thEMANacho) <a href="https://twitter.com/thEMANacho/status/1267609472589090816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Join the conversation. :)

EDIT: It is by the way absolutely not the duty of black people to educate white people. So if they do anyway, be double grateful.
 
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This image is from Bernice King&#8217;s Twitter.

While everyone (hopefully!) agrees that the issues above the line are unacceptable, we also need to challenge those below the line. Some of them often go unnoticed. Let&#8217;s educate ourselves and others and raise awareness.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">President Jimmy Carter expresses his grief over the hold of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/racism?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#racism</a> on our country and it&#39;s underminding our democracy. - <a href="https://t.co/A8oJ0scA8B">https://t.co/A8oJ0scA8B</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JusticeForGeorgeFloyd?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd</a> <a href="https://t.co/ENeWm8ITtj">pic.twitter.com/ENeWm8ITtj</a></p>&mdash; MJJJusticeProject #1Billion4MJ (@MJJJusticePrjct) <a href="https://twitter.com/MJJJusticePrjct/status/1268327499148046336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
WASHINGTON — A longtime friend of George Floyd’s who was in the passenger seat of Floyd’s car during his fatal encounter with a Minneapolis police officer said Wednesday night that Floyd tried to defuse the tensions with police and in no way resisted arrest.
“He was, from the beginning, trying in his humblest form to show he was not resisting in no form or way,” said the friend, Maurice Lester Hall, 42, who was tracked down Monday in Houston, arrested on outstanding warrants and interviewed by Minnesota state investigators.

“I could hear him pleading, ‘Please, officer, what’s all this for?’ ” Hall said in an interview Wednesday night with The New York Times.

Hall recounted the last moments with Floyd on Memorial Day, May 25, after they had spent part of the day together.

“He was just crying out at that time for anyone to help because he was dying,” Hall said. “I’m going to always remember seeing the fear in Floyd’s face because he’s such a king. That’s what sticks with me, seeing a grown man cry, before seeing a grown man die.”
Hall is a key witness in the state’s investigation into the four officers who apprehended Floyd, including Derek Chauvin, who knelt on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes, even after he became unresponsive.

But Hall — who had outstanding warrants for his arrest on felony possession of a firearm, felony domestic assault and felony drug possession — provided a false name to officers at the scene of Floyd’s arrest, according to a Minnesota official.
Hall left Minneapolis and hitchhiked to Houston two days later, after visiting a memorial at the site of the police encounter.
“When the whole world was finding out that they murdered George Floyd,” he said, “I went and said a prayer where I witnessed him take his last breath, and I left.”

Hall said he had left dinner with his family late Monday evening when their car was surrounded by at least a dozen law enforcement officers. After his arrest, he was questioned for hours by a Minnesota state investigator about Floyd’s death — not about his warrants. Hall was then transferred to the Harris County Jail in Houston, and Tuesday, he returned to his home in the city, after his lawyers fought for his release.

“When Hall’s family found us, he had been isolated in jail for 10 hours after being interrogated until 3 a.m.,” said Ashlee C. McFarlane, a partner at Gerger Khalil Hennessy & McFarlane, who is representing Hall. “This is not how you treat a key witness, especially one that had just seen his friend murdered by police. Even with outstanding warrants, this should have been done another way.”

“I knew what was happening, that they were coming. It was inevitable,” Hall said in the interview with the Times. “I’m a key witness to the cops murdering George Floyd, and they want to know my side. Whatever I’ve been through, it’s all over with now. It’s not about me.”

Hall and Floyd, both Houston natives, had connected in Minneapolis through a pastor and had been in touch every day since 2016. Hall said that he considered Floyd a confidant and a mentor, like many in the community, and that he went back to Houston because the “only ties I had in Minnesota that had me Houston-rooted was George.”

Agents of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which is building the state’s case against Chauvin and the three other officers involved in the Floyd case, “attempted to contact Hall numerous times to no avail,” said Bruce Gordon, a spokesman for the bureau.

Hall said that he was distraught and working through his trauma with his family and was not taking phone calls in the days immediately after.

The bureau asked law enforcement agents in Texas to arrest Hall because it believed he was not cooperating with its investigation. Hall and McFarlane, his lawyer, said that he cooperated fully with the Minnesota official’s interview.

“They got a testimony, and that’s what they were after,” Hall added. “They came and saw, and left me to fighting for my freedom.”
Passengers in the car with Floyd, a man and a woman, had remained unidentified until Hall spoke with The Times on Wednesday.
Hall said that he did not know the woman’s name.

Minnesota officials said Wednesday that the state had upgraded the charges against Chauvin to second-degree murder from third-degree murder and manslaughter. They also charged the other three officers who took part in the fatal arrest — Thomas Lane, 37; J. Alexander Kueng, 26; and Tou Thao, 34 — with aiding and abetting murder.

All four officers were fired the day after Floyd died and video of his death went viral online.

“I walk with Floyd,” Hall said. “I know that I’m going to be his voice.”

https://news.yahoo.com/witness-floyds-car-says-friend-121911886.html
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="und" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BlackLivesMatter</a> <a href="https://t.co/ke881GA5dw">pic.twitter.com/ke881GA5dw</a></p>&mdash; andjustice4some (@andjustice4some) <a href="https://twitter.com/andjustice4some/status/1268691253618552832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">At 8 years old, George Floyd did a project in which he wrote that he wanted to be a Supreme Court justice. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JusticeForGeorgeFloyd?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd</a> <a href="https://t.co/oimVaOCbk3">https://t.co/oimVaOCbk3</a></p>&mdash; andjustice4some (@andjustice4some) <a href="https://twitter.com/andjustice4some/status/1268702914530299906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">My mom did her own march since none of her friends wanted to join her &#10084;&#65039; <a href="https://t.co/ErL9NUyeoe">pic.twitter.com/ErL9NUyeoe</a></p>&mdash; Jeorge &#55357;&#56698;&#55356;&#57342; (@baddiejezzy) <a href="https://twitter.com/baddiejezzy/status/1267968516415782914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
If you&#8217;re feeling helpless, pick something from this list and do it.

75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234

It&#8217;s a bit too long to copy/paste it all. Lots of linked resources, organizations to donate to, books to read etc. on this list. Choose one thing and do it. Then choose the next and do that.

(Of course you don&#8217;t necessarily have to be white to do these things.)
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As President Trump speaks in the Rose Garden, Black Lives Matter has been painted on a street just outside the White House. &#55357;&#56391;&#55356;&#57342; <a href="https://t.co/J068zrrciL">https://t.co/J068zrrciL</a></p>&mdash; Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) <a href="https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1268922771456905216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The section of 16th street in front of the White House is now officially &#8220;Black Lives Matter Plaza&#8221;. <a href="https://t.co/bbJgAYE35b">pic.twitter.com/bbJgAYE35b</a></p>&mdash; Mayor Muriel Bowser (@MayorBowser) <a href="https://twitter.com/MayorBowser/status/1268928589975695361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
A very insightful video about how to be a true ally. :)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If you want to be a true ally to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BlackLivesMatter</a> please watch this.<br><br>Thank you to <a href="https://twitter.com/HamiltonMusical?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HamiltonMusical</a>&#39;s wonderful <a href="https://twitter.com/ObiomaUgoala?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ObiomaUgoala</a> <a href="https://t.co/byINXss8Kp">pic.twitter.com/byINXss8Kp</a></p>&mdash; PoliticsJOE (@PoliticsJOE_UK) <a href="https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1268264740171759616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

4 minutes well worth your time if you&#8217;re looking for ways to improve. :)
 
&#8220;The system is broken. It&#8217;s going to take the young people to fix it this time. We need new ideas, new life.&#8221; Prince wrote "Baltimore" in 2015 following the death of Freddie Gray at the hands of police, in support of Black Lives Matter.
 
It&#8217;s pretty screwed up that the KKK is still not deemed a terrorist group, even if they have the characteristics of one. Why isn&#8217;t there a bill that has outlawed the damn organization? Such wastes of space don&#8217;t deserve a voice.
 
Rocketeer;4293428 said:
It&#8217;s pretty screwed up that the KKK is still not deemed a terrorist group, even if they have the characteristics of one. Why isn&#8217;t there a bill that has outlawed the damn organization? Such wastes of space don&#8217;t deserve a voice.
Agreed man, agreed
 
This is a very well organized, concise explanation of institutional racism, great to send to people to start a conversation. And it has a decent soundtrack, too. ;)

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Of course, these problems don’t only exist in the USA. Those of us in the rest of the world can’t only point our fingers at the USA, there are similar patterns of racism everywhere on the globe, and we all have work to do.
 
I was just surprised that TSN was racist before when they refuse to hire Hal Johnson who wanted to be a reporter for sports and that led him to come up with “Body Break” working with Joanne McLeod to co-host the short fitness show during Canadian commercials by ParticipACTION after TSN rejected the idea of Johnson and McLeod co-working.

[video=youtube;c03bii23QCI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c03bii23QCI[/video]

Here’s a classic:
[video=youtube;GDmP46Kdh0U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDmP46Kdh0U[/video]

And now TSN issued an apology to Johnson.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">An apology to Hal Johnson (<a href="https://twitter.com/bodybreak?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bodybreak</a>) from TSN: <a href="https://t.co/vOih7kiiox">pic.twitter.com/vOih7kiiox</a></p>&mdash; TSN PR (@TSN_PR) <a href="https://twitter.com/TSN_PR/status/1272959565215272961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
It's sad, and almost pathetic, that we still need to convince people that black lives matter. I thought the message was supposed to be relayed years, decades, and centuries past, like after the Civil War, or following the Civil Rights Movement?

Not even Michael Jackson could make that message any clearer to a lot of people, and the man has influenced many lives, pre and post-demise.

Some people are just stupid, ignorant at that, and so much that they make me question their existence in the first place.
 
Powerful art meets powerful words.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&#8220;But I want you to know tonight...&#8221;<br><br>My father&#8217;s last words to us.<br>A powerful connection to today.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Juneteenth?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Juneteenth</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BlackLivesMatter</a> <a href="https://t.co/qyVC2QEAJ7">pic.twitter.com/qyVC2QEAJ7</a></p>&mdash; Be A King (@BerniceKing) <a href="https://twitter.com/BerniceKing/status/1274073879292661761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A Brief History of the Policing of Black Music <a href="https://t.co/lqkrB4xV8w">https://t.co/lqkrB4xV8w</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/lithub?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@lithub</a></p>&mdash; andjustice4some (@andjustice4some) <a href="https://twitter.com/andjustice4some/status/1274146767517306880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
The emotional impact of watching white people wake up to racism in real-time

By Natalie Morris, Senior lifestyle reporter
Friday 12 Jun 2020 10:32 am


Over the last few weeks we have seen a tidal wave effect in the global consciousness of issues of racism.

Since the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests began, the movement has gone far beyond marching in the streets. As a direct result of protest action, we are now starting to see real changes, meaningful apologies, and conversations about privilege and racial injustice had on a larger scale than ever before.

It really does feel as though it has the potential to go beyond the hashtags and the performative solidarity. Statues of slave owners and racist historical figures are being toppled, TV shows where comedians wore blackface have been taken down, people with problematic views are leaving their jobs, institutions are pledging to reform their internal structures to improve diversity.

Many Black people and ethnic minorities are tentatively hopeful that this could be the beginning of monumental change. But, witnessing this change happen in real-time can also feel incredibly draining and triggering for people who have experienced racism their whole lives.

Just this week, a collection of powerful, white Hollywood celebrities released another cringe-worthily earnest video in support of racial equality – giving off strong GSCE drama vibes – in which they pledged to ‘take responsibility’ for their privilege, and ‘no longer’ turn a blind eye in the face of racism and police brutality.

It was the ‘no longer’ that felt jarring for many. So, before today, these influential actors would have been fine with ignoring a racist joke, or staying silent about the unlawful murder of Black people at the hands of the police?

It feels like we are watching the collective belated awakening of white people to racism – as though, somehow, it has only just occurred to them to do something about it.

While it is obviously a good thing for people to acknowledge their own complicity in historic racial injustice, it is emotionally draining to realise that before this ‘moment’, so many people just didn’t care.

Honour* says she has found the reactions from some white friends disingenuous. She doesn’t buy that they have only just noticed that racism is a problem.

‘I think all Black people would be lying if they said they weren’t disappointed at how long it took white people to arrive at the party,’ she tells us.

‘We all like to think we are good at picking friends who are moral and conscious. But how can we be in the face of such incredulity from our white friends?

‘I just don’t accept the “we didn’t know how bad it was” rhetoric. Black people have been calling out racism for generations. We said it calmly, we protested, we put it in our music, our art, our movies, our television, our stages. And they watched, danced, laughed and clapped. But they never heard.

‘Or perhaps they did hear, but just didn’t care until it was at their front door.’

Honour admits, however, that her thoughts on this are nuanced. In some ways, she says she can understand why white people may not have a full picture of what it’s like to live with racism, because she says Black people tend to keep day-to-day microaggressions to themselves.

‘Some of my friends were horrified when I recently revealed that I research racism levels in other countries before I go on holiday, or that in 2020 I stagger entrances into clubs with my other Black friends because all together we look “dangerous”,’ she says.

‘They just couldn’t fathom that anyone so close to home was dealing with anything like that on a regular basis.’

‘Just say you didn’t care before because it didn’t affect you, and go.’

But when it comes to the overt examples of undeniable racism – a Black person dying at the hands of a police officer – Honour says claiming to be oblivious just doesn’t wash with her.

‘It’s insulting to my intelligence frankly. Just say you didn’t care before because it didn’t affect you, and go,’ she says.

Honour is determined not to let the disappointment at the reactions of white people distract from the important task at hand – the task of dismantling racism.

‘I am more hopeful than I’ve ever been that we are capable of eradicating racism. So I’ve put aside any bitterness at white people’s late arrival as it doesn’t serve my cause,’ she tells us.

‘It is not up to Black people to deconstruct an issue we did not create. And further, what’s both frustrating and humiliating is that Black people don’t hold enough power to end racism ourselves. We need as many white people to care as possible. Therefore, rather they woke up late than never at all. We need to stay focused.’

Zahra* has South Asian heritage, and she says that this sudden and intense interest in racial equality from her white friends and colleagues, has been a lot to handle.

‘I could never speak for the specific pain of Black people. The levels of racism and discrimination that Black people face is on a different level to other people of colour,’ Zahra tells Metro.co.uk.

‘I can talk about racism, though. I know what it is to be subject to racist abuse; to be held back by structures that endlessly favour white people.’

Zahra says that every time she logs on to social media or a WhatsApp group, white people are sharing pledges, links to articles, screenshots of arguments with racist people in their lives.

‘Someone will text me to tell me they have called out a racist at work, but do not care to begin the conversation with, “How are you?” It’s a double-edged sword for many of us,’ she explains.

‘It’s good these conversations are happening, but it’s also draining to be the person that has to clap and applaud and validate. Why should we be white people’s cheerleaders at the moment? Where has everyone else been for decades?

‘I feel like white people are grabbing me by the shoulders and shaking me, desperately pleading – “You have to understand I’m not racist. I’m not! Look! I’m trying really hard!” – but they simply don’t realise that they’re shaking too hard.

‘They’re unearthing old wounds in people of colour, and their grip is leaving bruises. Can’t you educate yourselves quietly?’

Zahra has had counselling sessions in the last week because the emotional stress of talking these issues through with her white friends was becoming too much. She was exhausted, her body was aching and she found herself randomly bursting into tears.
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‘I have cried too many times to count because I’m frightened that white people will use our pain and experiences to fix their own guilt and then just… forget.’

Psychologist Dr Roberta Babb says it isn’t surprising that this sudden influx of public conversations about racism is causing a severe emotional reaction for so many people.

‘Seeing white people discuss racism with an apparent sense of freedom that has not been afforded to ethnic minorities in the past is painful and more than frustrating,’ Dr Roberta tells Metro.co.uk.

‘It feels like conversations about race have been sanctioned and are now allowed, which can evoke feelings of sadness, powerlessness and hopelessness. This can trigger traumatic memories of their own experiences of racism, which are characterised by demotion, devaluation, not having a voice and not being seen or heard.’

How to cope if racism conversations are emotionally draining

There are a number of things you can do to manage the impact conversations about race can have upon you:

As a Black person, it is important that you do not feel that you always have to be the educator during conversations about race.
If you find you are in a conversation that feels too emotionally overwhelming, you can leave the conversation, request that the topic is changed, because of the emotional impact or decline to participate.
If you are finding you are having lots of conversations about race, you may wish to create specific spaces where these conversations can place.
If you are feeling emotionally exhausted or fatigued by having conversations about race you can take a break from spaces where conversations about race, racism, and racial violence take place. You can do this by being mindful about watching the news, which television programmes or films you decide to watch, and the type of social media posts you read and how often and long you engage in the activity.
It is also important to engage in self-care activities which help to alleviate the stress and anxiety that can be present during conversations about race.
You can read and watch stories and instances where Black people are empowered and achieved, as this is an important way to retain a sense of hope about the socially just anti-racist cause.

Dr Roberta Babb, psychologist

She says these conversations also re-enact some of the destructive dynamics of racism – which are associated with power, privilege and position and which have served to keep racism alive.

‘Racism is serious and is a public health issue,’ says Dr Roberta. ‘Eliminating racism should be a priority. It should not have taken the numerous violent tragedies that we have witnessed in recent times to make the conversations about racial inequality, racial violence and racial trauma mainstream.’

On the other hand, Dr Roberta knows that anti-racism is everyone’s business, and it is vital that white people and non-Black people continue to have these conversations.

‘The wider the diversity of people discussing and challenging racism, the more it helps to actively deconstruct the idea that racism is a problem for/of Black people,’ she explains.

‘In order to progress anti-racism, important conversations about race cannot prioritise white discomfort and white guilt ahead of racism, racial inequality and trauma.

‘Bearing the responsibility of having to hold the conversations about race all the time, can have a detrimental impact on Black people, their mental health, and their relationships to racial inequality and social justice.’

So, if you are feeling emotionally exhausted by the current conversations about race – you are certainly not alone.

In order to truly progress this movement, white people must find a way to discuss racism without placing undue burden on ethnic minorities to educate, validate or applaud their efforts. Because otherwise it is just an unfeasibly draining process.

https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/12/emotional-impact-watching-white-people-wake-racism-real-time-12839920/
 
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man - Episode 2 with Matthew McConaughey



Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man - Episode 3 with Chip & Joanna Gaines + kids

 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Armond White &quot;When black artists only receive mainstream media attention for scandal, their artistry gets ignord.&quot; We know that&#39;s right !! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MediaBias?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MediaBias</a> and Michael Jackson is as legendary as he is! <a href="https://t.co/OPApcukT4i">pic.twitter.com/OPApcukT4i</a></p>&mdash; MJJJusticeProject #1Billion4MJ (@MJJJusticePrjct) <a href="https://twitter.com/MJJJusticePrjct/status/1293653487700463617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">WE ARE THE WORLD -- Love is the Answer!! -- Michael Jackson Wisdom &#10084;&#65039; <a href="https://t.co/hSkoVbJcOZ">pic.twitter.com/hSkoVbJcOZ</a></p>&mdash; MJJJusticeProject #1Billion4MJ (@MJJJusticePrjct) <a href="https://twitter.com/MJJJusticePrjct/status/1293699621735133184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
BTS donated $1 million to Black Lives Matter in the wake of the George Floyd murder, and the BTSArmy matched it.
 
Not even children are safe from such deeply embedded racism.

View this post on Instagram 💔💔💔 Nicholas Heyward was shot and killed by a police officer while playing cops and robbers with his friends in Gowanus. His last words were "We're playing." Tamir Rice was shot and killed by a police officer while playing in a Cleveland park. The cop fired less than 2 seconds after arriving on the scene. Tyre King was shot multiple times and killed by a police officer when they believed he matched the description for a robber in the neighborhood. He was 5ft tall and weighed less than 100 pounds. The robber being investigated had stolen $10. Aiyana Stanley-Jones was shot and killed by a police officer when, while investigating a local shooting, they bust into her home without warning and fired within seconds. She was SLEEPING. She was SEVEN YEARS OLD. And the whole thing was getting filmed for a true crime TV show. Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer while walking home. The shooter claimed to act in self defense. Martin was holding a bag of Skittles and an Arizona Ice Tea. Cameron Tillman was shot and killed by a police officer while hanging out with his friends in an abandoned house with the owner's consent. He was alive for at least 45 minutes. The officers offered no medical assistance. Jordan Edwards was shot and killed by a police officer in the passenger seat of a car while leaving a party. The car was driving AWAY from the cops and the officer fired inside the car under the grounds that the car had backed up towards him "in an aggressive manner." Kiwane Carrington was shot and killed by a police officer outside a house in broad daylight while the cop was investigating a suspected break in. Carrington was known to the house's owner and welcome there. Laquan McDonald was shot and killed by a police officer while under investigation for slashing a squad car's tires. He was shot SIXTEEN TIMES while walking AWAY from the officer. DeAunta Farrow was shot and killed by a police officer while walking in the park. The officer claimed Farrow had a toy gun, while witnesses claimed he was holding a bag of chips. All children. All unarmed. A post shared by Kenric Green (@iamkenricgreen) on Jun 11, 2020 at 10:33am PDT
 
A great place to fact-check claims, rumors or memes about BLM and other topics is &#8220;Snopes&#8221;. Follow them to keep up with all the hoaxes out there. You can also send them stuff to fact-check. :)

Here&#8217;s an example:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It&#39;s a total hoax. <a href="https://t.co/o1NuYch4pg">https://t.co/o1NuYch4pg</a></p>&mdash; snopes.com (@snopes) <a href="https://twitter.com/snopes/status/1301369598919544833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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