Poussey was not assaulting or attacking anyone, she was trying to keep the peace. She kept saying, just let me talk to Suzanne, she doesn't know what shes doing. Watch the scene again with an open instead of narrow mind.
Poussey was not assaulting or attacking anyone, she was trying to keep the peace. She kept saying, just let me talk to Suzanne, she doesn't know what shes doing. Watch the scene again with an open instead of narrow mind.
Black people are not afraid of guns. That's why there's so much black on black crime conservatives love to report on. Someone is always strapped up. I have been gifted guns by my family and am now a proud and responsible card-carrying legit gun owner. I hear gunshots (or firecrackers) every night and deal with the…
Thank you. I have no words for the disgust I felt reading Myles' privileged and "uncomfortable" take on this episode. Thank you for using nice ones and calling out how he chose to frame things and what he chose to omit.
May I challenge your perception about reality for just a second? Why is it so easy for you to believe something you read about a guard's "story" when a human being's life has been snuffed out?
For me, the most powerful moment in this episode was the inmates literally taking a stand against injustice. United we stand, divided we fall. RIP Poussey Washington.
I work in EMS and I, too, was kinda pissed how no one even attempted CPR. I don't really expect mostly uneducated and impoverished prisoners to know CPR, but you would think guards, especially military vets, would be trained to do it. Then again maybe the show was poignantly pointing out how Black lives don't matter.
A few quotes for those enraged at this fictional television show:
I'm not raging. I don't rage over a fictional television show or the stupidity of peoples' reactions. I am exasperated and frustrated but my feelings are not directed towards allies and those who protest social injustice. At this point, I'm past anger. The more I rage, the less I'm heard. I've lived long enough…
The darkest part of the darkest hour of OINTB is that this show is written by mostly Whites and White people are sobbing over a fictional character's death but silently awkward or worse, victim-blaming when this stuff happens almost every single day somewhere in America. You'll cry over a TV show but gloss over…