While human rights can be violated by individuals or by institutions, they can only be defended by institutions. The European Court of Human Rights does not deal with single individuals who have committed crimes. Rather, it focuses on why the government in question could not take action against what happened. But where are the doctors, politicians and all the people who personally contributed to or carried out such surgeries, and when they are going to take responsibility for their actions? In order to take action against this human rights violation, blaming the Communist regime is not enough. The practice continues today and forcibly sterilized Romani women are still a long way from receiving true justice.
if you are non Rromani you need to stop what you’re doing and reblog this. Don’t ignore it. They are literally treating us like animals. They set our houses on fire. They lynched (literally) a Rromani chavo not too long ago. We are dying. Please don’t ignore us.
Beyoncé released the video on Saturday, February 6th, and then the
next day performed the song at the Super Bowl’s 50th halftime show. If
you haven’t seen it yet, you might want to go ahead and catch yourself up before reading further.
The claims that the music video and performance of ‘Formation’ are
‘racist’ and ‘anti-cop’ stem from allusions to the Black Panther
Movement.
To get any sort of understanding of what Beyoncé was saying with
her halftime performance, we need accurate information around what
the Black Panther Party was about. And we are probably not going to get
it from our major news networks or school books.
A bit of helpful history: The Black Panther Party was founded in 1966
as a response to ongoing terrorism perpetrated by not only
by explicitly white supremacist groups like the Klu Klux Klan (KKK), but
also by the U.S. government. One of their main goals: self-defense.
Self-defense from lynchings, police brutality, and the continued denial
of black economic participation. The Black Panthers were also about
quality education, housing, healthcare and employment for their
communities. They created programs that fed and clothed their people.
They drafted a ‘Ten Point Plan’, a party platform, where they envisioned
things like freedom
and an end to war. The Black Panthers formed themselves on a foundation
of love for their people. (But for some reason the only thing we seem
to remember about The Black Panthers is that they had guns…)
Conversely, the KKK operates (notice the present tense) on a party platform of hate and created programs for raping, bombing, and lynching black people.
So, we need to stop repeating all of the media nonsense about
comparing the Black Panthers to the KKK. Comparing the Black Panthers to
the KKK is kinda like comparing a helmet to a skull-crushing torture
device. One is designed to protect, while the other was made for
inciting terror and dismemberment. Also, watch yourself when you feel
tempted to throw around ‘anti-cop’ allegations. Once we start getting
ourselves some accurate history, we will see that describing Beyoncé and
the Black Panthers as ‘anti-cop’ for asking that their children not be
murdered by police is as logical as calling dolphins ‘boat haters’
for requesting they not be sliced open by propellers.
The Black Panthers existed not because they were ‘racist’ and
prejudiced against white people. (Though I’m sure they weren’t
altogether thrilled with white folks after 250 years of formal
enslavement, 90 years of Jim Crow, and then the whole ‘separate but
equal’ thing). The Black Panthers existed to uplift and protect the
black community from a white-led enslavement and genocide of black
people. And the black liberation movement persists today in the ongoing
efforts to combat slavery in the age of colorblindness.
Whether you agree with the means by which black people organize for
their freedom or not, the Black Panthers, Black Lives Matter, or any
other movement for black liberation would not exist if white people had
not kidnapped and enslaved Africans, created racism, and then continued
to this day to oppress, exploit, and exclude black people. The white supremacist founding of our nation
and ongoing oppression of the black community and other communities of
color is the precise reason black people build movements of resistance.
So, if you really can’t stand Beyoncé’s race politics popping up on your
television or YouTube feed, you’d be wise to get to work on dismantling
white supremacy. It will be a lot more effective than calling her a
racist.
Lastly: Folks, this is bigger than Beyoncé. The
movement for black liberation is about all of us and especially the
folks doing the grassroots work in the trenches. The movement began the
moment white people forcibly put African people onto a boat and mandated
they build this ‘Land of the Free’. Putting an end to a 400+ year-old
oppressive force like racism requires radical changes in our
institutions, in our minds, and in our hearts. It’s going to take a
cultural transformation. Our choice is to either keep standing on the
sidelines, or to finally take that step into the rolling river headed
for justice.
I’m gonna reblog this every time I see it because never forget.
This hurts my heart
This has just finished me
Rest in Power young soldier
i think as a tumblr citizen i have to reblog this..and as a tumblr community we all should no matter how dope ur blog is..this cannot be forgotten. only we can keep this alive..cuz u no dam well the news wont and ppl will soon rarely talk about it.
My family ranted to me last night about how they think Donald Trump is the only responsible person trying to run for president and they think “everyone supports him”.
In Spanish we don’t say “I love you” we say “donald trump es un pedazo de mierda ojalá que un día se convierta en un insecto y lo puedo matar con mi chancla y después untar su sangre de insecto en una toalla y tirar esa toalla en un fuego grande que hice con los cuerpos de un millón de republicanos pedazos de mierda come culos hijo de putas” and i think that’s beautiful.
