#blackinamerica — Public Fediverse posts

Do you have a skin tone darker than a #KKK robe? Do you have fewer assets than the 1%? Well, a Federal Court would like you to fuck off and die, then.

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 10-5 that the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee a right to clean drinking water or to accurate information from public officials about water safety in #Jackson, #Mississippi.

As a resident put it, “The problem the rest of America needs to worry about is, while they were making sure not to guarantee me my rights, they were quietly taking yours, too.”

The CapitalB link covers more social impact, this law commentary link covers legal history and the conflict with the 6th circuit re #Flint about clean water rights. https://www.lawcommentary.com/articles/federal-appeals-court-clean-drinking-water-constitutional-right

#water #rights #BlackInAmerica #CivilRights #GuillotinesAnyone
https://capitalbnews.org/jackson-water-crisis-clean-water-constitutional-right/

#BlackInAmerica

Black August began 1970s in California prisons by Black freedom fighters who wanted to honor the lives & deaths of Black political prisoners killed by states & to bring awareness to prison conditions

Read more w/actions here
https://www.theblkcollective.org/blackaugust📌

The people who most often presume to lecture me about racism are those who have absolutely no idea what it REALLY means to be a target and victim of it: White people.

To be Black in America is a daily exercise in remaining sane, patient, kind, and in repressing occasional temptations to go “Nat Turner” on ignorant, hateful people.
#IgnoranceIsBliss #LuxuryOfIgnorance #racism #arrogance #presumption #BlackInAmerica #BeingBlackInAmerica

Being Black in America, from 1619 until this very day, is an ongoing exercise in patience, self-restraint, illusion, faith, hope, and immeasurable strength.
No Black person escapes it. Some think they have, but they’re in denial; they can’t. The choice isn’t entirely theirs. It never will be.
#BlackInAmerica #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #SixteenNineteen #America #racism

What can be done to stop excessive criminal punishments across the United States?

57yo Sydney Holmes was falsely convicted of armed robbery & was sentenced to 400yrs in a #Florida prison

He ultimately served 34yrs before his conviction was overturned & he was released

#BlackInAmerica🤔🤬

https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-serving-400-year-prison-sentence-exonerated-after/story?id=97849931