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invisiblelad:

abbiehollowdays:

mollywobbles867:

mysharona1987:

akersnabihah:

mysharona1987:

So, um, you’d think people would be a bit more bothered about the fact St Louis is essentially a police state right now.

This is scary, why isn’t anybody upset about this? What the hell is wrong with people, when will yall wake up?

Maybe someone on vine did something funny, I don’t know.

I’m fucking terrified.

The media has carefully cultivated the idea that predominantly black areas are like a different country (think of the news calling Katrina survivors “refugees”) and white supremacy has always held that black and brown people (even citizens) are dangerous “aliens” just waiting to harm good white folk.

People are watching this with the same detachment as they would a war thousands of miles away. They feel no connection to the people of Ferguson. Ferguson is not part of “their America”.

That last post has so much truth in it it hurts. The public can detach itself from feeling any connection to its fellow citizens because the media has successfully coded them as “other”. Either through the concept that because some may have looted, they all did and therefore give up any right to be justifiably upset at their police state. Truthfully, its breathtaking how badly people wanted off the hook for not caring about these atrocities. 

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