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knitmeapony:

jhameia:

This white dude is crying because he just received a one-year sentence for a hate crime in which he and maybe a dozen other white dudes beat up a black teenager with fists, feet, knives and beer bottles, even after the teen was unconscious. The highest sentence dealt for this crime was three years. The assistant attorney had recommended eight years. 

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One.  Year.

There are PoC (particularly young men of color) who get more than a year for possession of marijuana with no intent to distribute, and that’s after they got seriously fucked up by the police.  If this was a group of black men who beat up a white man, you can sure as hell bet they’d be getting the recommended eight years as a minimum.

Tell me again the justice system isn’t racist.

Barbados is a lot of things, but it’s not a place where a gang of racist white men can beat my black ass within an inch of death and just one of them gets three months from a conveniently-lenient (RIP Troy Davis), justice system. For that, I am grateful.

thedailywhat writes:

Kyle Willis, a 24-year-old unemployed father of one from Cincinnati, passed away last week from an easily treatable tooth infection because he didn’t have health insurance and couldn’t afford a simple tooth extraction.

(Source: thedailywhat)

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In the most recent cable leak from the United States Embassy to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Vincentian Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves leaves nothing to the imagination with his views on Alan Chastanet, St. Lucian tourism Minister and privileged mulatto.

Says Gonsalves, “[Alan] Chastanet talks a lot of rubbish when it comes to regional air transport.” He further criticized the Minister as being among “a species of brown people in the Caribbean with money” who are “not loyal to anybody”.

Gonsalves continued by noting that such people, whom he described as “Castries mulattos”, believe they are “oracles” and represent a “break in the social advancement in the Eastern Caribbean.”

PS. This really puts Gonsalves’ reaction to CARICOM Airways in a new context, doesn’t it?

PPS. Ironically, the US seems to think Gonsalves is a disloyal brown man with money too.