Recently I attended a rally in Kingston Jamaica in support of the Palestinian people fighting the genocide being inflicted upon their people by Israel. At the heart of this war in the Middle East is an issue of land sovereignty. Land sovereignty, the ability of First Peoples to assert control over their ancestral lands. Without… Continue reading A Struggle for Life and Land: Jamaica Protests For Palestine
Author: Mikisa Thompson
Sundown Town 2020 – Garner, North Carolina
Donald Barnet is a white man who uses the Garner Police Department as his way to terrorize and criminalize my family for living next door to him. His actions have proved to me that he would like to return to a time in history where Black women and children bow down to his existence or stance on anything. He is obsessed with criminalizing and overseeing me and the courts and police of North Carolina sanctions this.
Black Skin, White Agenda – Your 2020 Vote for Kamala is Against Your Best Black Interests
America loves to count on the Black vote without offering substantial gains to Black voters. Issues such as police brutality and the murder of Black people at the hands of the police is rampant. While America continues its decline. The states’ complicit nature to overlook or victim blame when a cop kills Black women and men and children i.e. Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Elonor Bumpers or Korryn Gains all four Black women were murdered by cops.
The Black Queen Controls the Board
In May of 2019 the DA of Wake County offered me a plea deal. If I took the deal all of my belongings that were stolen from our family would be returned to us if I agreed that my “neighbor” could now be my “overseer” and could call in a warrant at any time on me if he heard “ANY AMPLIFIED SPEECH” from my home. Due to the fact that my mere presence alone brought the police out. I am again reminded that my living is my resistance.
George Floyd’s Fayetteville Home Going Service
There are no coincidences in what I uncovered while simply trying to pay my respects to a Black man lynched by police. I have discovered what I have known for sometime. “Racism is nothing that Black people seek out racism lingers even when the flames are extinguished. The rebellions’ flames are extinguished but the embers are red for now as they should be, ready to go.”
Cops and Klan Go Hand in Hand: Javier Torres Stalked by Vigilante, Gunned Down by Raleigh Police
Below is the audio of two 911 calls that resulted in Javier Torres being shot in the stomach by RPD. You will hear as the caller stalks Javier as he goes about his business in the shopping center. On the third call to the police the same caller from Sopranos Grill feigns fright as he alleges that he was threatened by a Black man and needed help.
Intersectional Racism and Maternity
Black women will continue to do the work so that the least of these can flourish. The statistics brought up in this article should lead to a major uprising because white supremacy is dismantling our homes by way of harming Black women and our children. This is genocide — the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
Was Slavery Worse Than Death?
Garner had already started on the mercy killings of her three other children she intended to kill them all, and then herself. However, the federal marshals bombarded the house to enforce the legal fact that she was not a mother or a wife, but the property of the man who owned her.
Teacher Violence and the Complicit Wake County, NC School System That Condones it
People think we don’t like the song pledge of allegiance, and that is true! It doesn’t match up with most Black people’s lives in America, where Black children and adults young or elderly are shot down by police who act as judge and jury on behalf of the system of racism and the thin blue line.
No Revolution without Dangerous Black Women – Fannie Lou Hamer, Recy Taylor, and Erica Garner
Say her name: Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer. Born October 6, 1917, and died March 14, 1977. Say her name: Mrs. Recy Taylor. Born Dec. 31, 1919, and died Dec. 28, 2017. Say her name: Erica Garner. Born May 29, 1990, and died Dec. 30, 2017. The Black women listed above experienced the plight of being… Continue reading No Revolution without Dangerous Black Women – Fannie Lou Hamer, Recy Taylor, and Erica Garner