Whitney Mitchell, who was engaged to Foster before his death at the hands of Perry, laid out her feelings about the pardon in a statement sent to the Observer.
“I loved Garrett Foster. I thought we were going to grow old together. He was the love of my life. He still is. I am heartbroken by this lawlessness,“ she said. “With this pardon, the Governor has desecrated the life of a murdered Texan and US Air Force veteran, and impugned [the] jury’s just verdict. He has declared that Texans who hold political views that are different from his—and different from those in power—can be killed in this State with impunity.”
@StillIRise1963 We need to work to convert every racist we meet especially the polite wouldn’t say it to your face kind. They’re the breeding ground for the extremists & I think overall more damaging because so many people tolerate their “polite” racism rather than feel socially awkward. We need to suck it the fuck up & confront them every fucking time. Others’ll follow your lead but you have to be willing to be the 1st to stand up & the last to sit down. I try hard to live by this. #Racism
We rightly talk about anti-Semitism in relation to Israel/Palestine but we also let the hateful Islamophobia slide. This is from the Daily Telegraph in the UK. #racism
Very concerning: An Israeli Company Is Hawking Its Self-Launching Drone System to US-Police Departments. A Louisiana sheriff’s department has been testing the drone system, which is already used by Israeli police & many settlements. There’s a documented history of US-Israel security tech exchanges, which civil rights & racial justice advocates have long criticized for contributing to the militarization of the police: #Surveillance#PoliceState#Racism#Droneshttps://theintercept.com/2024/05/17/israel-orione-drone-us-police-louisiana/
"Republican Gov. Greg Abbott... pardoning Daniel Perry, the former Army sergeant convicted in the fatal #shooting of a protester during a #BlackLivesMatter march...
a REAL genocide is being perpetrated
and people are talking about radical student protests?
are we perhaps secretly reveling in this livestream of cruelty?
is this the actual hallmark of our so-called Western “higher culture”?
Virginia GOP banning fiction novels about slavery because they’re allegedly traumatic to white kids but renaming their schools to Confederate terrorists despite their documented trauma on Black kids, aren't protecting children or education, they're protecting white supremacy.
@QasimRashid
America was built on slavery. With slave labor and rich resources with a thin population, the country prospered very quickly in the early years.
Those who profited from slavery and their descendants are very much the social and political oligarchs today. They have incidentally congregated in the Republican party with Trump.
People who rap the benefit, the majority population won't speak the truth.
Remembering the ethnic cleansing, massacres and Zionist terrorism that lead to the creation of #Israel which remains to this day a pariah state and a plague on the Middle East and the world.
"for decades, American schools have been re-segregating... around 4 out of 10 Black and Hispanic students attend schools where almost every one of their classmates is another student of color.
"'If you have the tools taken away from you ... by the Supreme Court, then you really don’t have a whole lot of tools,' said Stephan Blanford, a former Seattle Public Schools board member."
— #law#racism#inequality#ushistory
Woman pleads guilty to conspiring with neo-Nazi leader to attack energy grid
A Maryland woman admitted to scheming with a neo-Nazi leader from Florida to destroy electrical substations surrounding Baltimore in an attack that she told a confidential FBI source would be “legendary” and “probably permanently completely lay this city to waste.”
After 75 years of failure, one would imagine that a people would learn what works and what doesn’t, both from their own experience, as well as the experience of others.