Unlike the beautiful 6-year old Jonbenett Ramsey who received coverage all over the media - every tabloid, newspaper, news channel, talk show, 7-year old Aiyana Stanley was killed by a police officer during a raid while she was sleep and her murder received very little coverage at all.
Police, searching for a murder suspect, threw a flash grenade through the window of her family’s apartment around midnight. According to Aiyana’s father, it landed on the couch, setting Aiyana on fire. A police officer’s gun then went off, and shot Aiyana in the neck.
Aiyana was asleep on the living room sofa in her family’s apartment when Detroit police, searching for a homicide suspect, burst in and an officer’s gun went off, fatally striking the girl in the neck, family members said.
Her father, 25-year-old Charles Jones, told The Detroit News he had just gone to bed early Sunday after covering his daughter with her favorite blanket when he heard a flash grenade followed by a gunshot. When he rushed into the living room, he said, police forced him to lie on the ground, with his face in his daughter’s blood.
“I’ll never be the same. That’s my only daughter,” Jones told.
We haven’t forgotten about you baby. R.I.P.
I remember this. RIP..
::Black ≠ Suspicious:: Million Hoodie March. Union Square NYC. March 21, 2012
Photo by J. Quazi King
http://quazimottoonwax.tumblr.com/
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HOLY SHIT. This could be an excellent album cover, great job Quazi.
People judge you without taking the time out to get to know you…
they see what you do but never know the true reason behind your actions…
they refer to you as a bitch in regards to your attitude….
not being able to understand why you choose to react the way that you do…
Dear you….
I know…
Ok. This is going to be very long and im going to go all over the place with this, but these are things that irk me about black women with natural hair that constantly lash out at women that choose to be relaxed/wear weave.
1. “Black women that have relaxers/wear weave want to be white.”
…
allnaturalytwashedblipsterbitch:
This really annoys me…
#it’s the blackness that makes things ”ghetto” or tacky and whatever else
(Source: manicuresetsandsilkyweaves)
(“Blue Black Boy” by Carrie Mae Weems)
The colors so natural blend into the skin of your past,
yet you’re rarely ever good enough to mention.
By both your people and theirs
You aren’t the striking figure that you should be
but a forgotten eyesore in need of a signifier.
“Smart for…
It’s actually quite ignorant. Their first dumb ass defense is “but if there was a page for only light skinned girls yall would be offended”… WE ALREADY ARE OFFENDED, BECAUSE 99.9% OF THE POPULAR
DUMBASSPRETTY GIRL BLOGS SHOW NOTHING BUT LIGHT SKINNED GIRLS ON THEIR PAGE… The only difference…
(Source: explore-your-talents)
The industry is real shady. They’ll suck you dry. They’ll make you even more insecure if you’re not strong enough. It wasn’t bluntly told to me but it was obvious. The label would hint to me that if I lightened my skin I would sell even more records. I was told by someone at the label, ‘Fox, baby you got everything going for you. You got one of the prettiest faces. You got the body. You got the skills. You got the audience now. But if you lightened up a little bit, you could go so far.’ The industry wanted me to show even less skin and bleach. I would do a photo shoot and see the final images and I would look so light. They don’t always given artists consent or ask of their approval of what is put out there. That’s when I had enough. They were trying to completely change me. I know other black women in the industry have gone through the same, some who aren’t even my complexion.
– Foxy Brown (via hiphopsnaomicampbell) Via Black Culture
