Derek Chauvin Trial

It reads Black Excellence.

I thought so too!

The whole being painted out to be angry whilst people ignore the very pressing issue making you angry is very triggering for me.


“I said what I said.” coined by NeNe Leakes was so fitting for that line of questioning.

To be Black is to be gaslight constantly it seems. It’s been my signature for the last 4-5 years and I’m not even a Real Housewives fan.

It’s just like decades past. Regardless of presumed innocence or punishment matching the “crime” most people are perfectly fine with death being the consequence for Black citizens. Hundreds of dead Black bodies don’t move anyone into action because we are comfortable seeing Black people harmed. It’s almost like society has no real empathy/sympathy for Black people.


“On March 31, 1914, a white lynch mob in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, seized a 17-year-old Black teenaged girl named Marie Scott from the local jail, dragged her screaming from her cell, and hanged her from a nearby telephone pole. Days before, a young white man named Lemuel Pierce was stabbed to death while he and several other white men were in the city's "colored section"; Marie was accused of being involved.

The Associated Press wire report and accounts published by Northern papers explained that the group of white men had ventured into the Black residential area to sexually assault Black women and attempted to rape Marie Scott. According to some of these accounts, Marie stabbed Pierce in self-defense; in others, Marie's brother killed Pierce in an effort to defend her, and Marie was only arrested and lynched because her brother escaped. Local press reports, on the other hand, didn't say anything about why the white youth were in the Black neighborhood or what they did while there, and simply claimed that Marie Scott stabbed Pierce unprovoked and in cold blood.

For generations of Black women, racial terror included the constant threat of sexual assault and a complete lack of legal protection. The same communities that lynched and legally executed Black men for the scarcest allegations of sexual contact with white women regularly tolerated and excused white men’s sexual attacks against Black women and girls.

Given this history, Marie Scott may have been among the many Black women targeted for sexual violence during this era by white men who knew that they would face no judgment or consequences for rampaging her community. Whether she acted in her own defense or was protected by her brother, Marie Scott died at the hands of a mob, the victim of a society that devalued her life and body; deprived her of the chance to defend herself at trial; and denied her right to be free from rape, fear, and racial terror”





I knew by the dehumanizing way the peas talked about other Black men and women killed by police that America had an issue seeing Black people as fully human. And that was going to be the biggest hurdle of this particular foot race.


If Philando Castile was a white man killed in front of his child we would have never heard the end of it but because society somehow thinks Black children and Black women are “strong” enough to keep burying their fathers no one intervenes and more people die every year.


“Experts said Floyd's killing also helped humanize Black people in the minds of White people.”

"George Floyd turned Black men into human beings for White people, and he did that by calling out for his mother," Janet Helms, a Boston College professor of counseling and psychology, has told CNN. "Covid made White people sit and look at the murder of George Floyd. They couldn't get away from it, especially White women. ... They became aware they were allowing this to happen."

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