Lead on, oh Kinky Turtle

strugglingtobeheard:

peecharrific:

so-treu:

notyourkinddear:

I would only add that it would be more appropriate to say that we know there’s something rotten when WHITE 13-year old kids are being arrested for peaceful protest. Brown & Black kids get arrested for peaceful protests, or just for being in public, every day.

this makes me want to break things. america isn’t rotten when a 7 year old black girl is shot in the head by the police who were showing off for a tv show, america isn’t rotten when a 9 year old latina girl is shot by a supremacist vigilante posing as law enforcement, but let a little white girl get put in handcuffs and the whole world is ready to riot. 

and yes, i’m fucking bitter. bite me.

reblogging for this. because it’s the truth.

but “we’re all the same”, right?

Sad thing is, for most of these kids, it’s just bragging points. The ability to say they were arrested once in their lives. It’s not going to affect their ability to get a job or get opportunities like it affects the black and brown people targeted everyday. They get to go through the system without having the face any of the same horrors and think its so bad but also that it’s kind of cool and something they secretly always wanted to experience to have some sort of “street” cred since they know nothing about street shit but find it fascinating.

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