Notices by Biped Earthling (obeto@mas.to), page 5

It is Independence Day tomorrow.

I am pretty sure all minority, LGBTQ, female college students are looking forward to celebrating Independence Day tomorrow. <sarcasm/>

As a Black man, with a Black wife and Black kids, our joy tomorrow would be at the severely diminished rights we now have. <drippin' sarcasm/> #BlackMastodon

"In 1 month, the city's police officers did 588 stops of Black drivers and only 262 stops of white drivers.

Over 15% of Black drivers experienced a search, handcuffing, or arrest, while less than 1% of whites did."

"The study initially set out to look at patterns related to traffic stop escalation for white drivers too, but realized that it happened so infrequently for whites that there were insufficient numbers to even include them in the analysis." #BlackMastodon https://www.npr.org/2023/05/29/1178279383/for-black-drivers-a-police-officers-first-45-words-are-a-portent-of-whats-to-com

This innocent man got a 400-sentence for a crime he didn't commit.

A crime where there were no deaths, no eyewitnesses, nothing!

However, he is a Black man, and therefore expendable.

Even murderers get less time for their murders than the 30 years this poor guy has already spent in prison!

So, don't fucking tell me about peace.

Like Peter Tosh said, I want equal rights, and true justice.

Not peace. Equal rights, AND justice. #BlackMastodon https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/15/florida-man-serving-400-year-sentence-freed-exonerated

A letter from a former slave to his "owner".

Backstory: the owner wanted the freed slave to return to him.

This reply, by the former slave, is genius.

It was published in the Cincinnati Commercial newspaper on August 7, 1865. #BlackMastodon https://www.good.is/Culture/jordan-andersons-legendary-clapback-rp