"The world is mine can't you see, I'm just trying to be all I can be." - The Notorious B.I.G. (featuring Too $hort & Puffy), The World is Filled (Life After Death)
Humiliated, Angry, Ashamed, Brown. Just read it. I have no words.
(found via punkassbitch.com)
Note: The first person that says, "Would you rather them not investigate. Things are different since 9/11" will get punched in their fucking mouth. I'm feeling much more peaceful now but still...tread lightly.
addendum: Gitmo on the Hudson.
You must have missed that when I linked it from on the side back in July. It had me insane when I first saw it.
Jesus wept. I don't know what I would have done.
Happily this sort of thing never happens to me. Probably because I have long blonde hair and blue eyes, and keep my supplemental pigment (tattoos) covered when I see hands resting on sidearms.
I was randomly arrested all the time when I lived with my mom in Alameda. Back then I wore a long fuscia mohawk and t-shirts with anti-Reagan slogans, and reportedly painted backdrops for anti-Reagan protest events (of course I did, but that was neither illegal nor done in Alameda). I was barely a teenager, and the cops thought it was awfully funny to pull me *out of bed* and throw me in the local adult jail for a day or so. Show me who was in charge, etc. So did my mom, but I had the option of not talking to her for a few years afterwards. As a local dealing with local security thugs and jumpy cops with too much time on their hands in this latter-day Reagan era, Ian Spiers doesn't have that option.
Good luck to Ian, being brown and in a clearly racist city (every day since Bush was elected I am more and more thankful that I live in the Bay Area) in these delicate times. And thank *all of our* lucky stars for his grounded demeanor and clear-headedness in the wake of that travesty: he took some beautiful photos.
That is some seriously fucked up shit. I know all too well how dificult it is to live Brown...
It made me sick to read that. I hate that cops can infringe upon our rights and we feel compelled to comply out of fear of getting in trouble for not cooperating.
Wow, this really pisses me off to no end. Thanks for pointing this site... I've already sent the URL to a few friends of mine.