Hey. While I'm giving y'all the whole "Black people experience this every day, it's not new for us," let me give you one more important Black nugget of info:
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Hey. While I'm giving y'all the whole "Black people experience this every day, it's not new for us," let me give you one more important Black nugget of info:
"You don't have to watch the video."
Seriously. You don't.
Your life won't be improved by seeing it. Especially if you already oppose ICE.
I found the summary of todays Minneapolis video and I'd like to offer a better video to watch instead.
Jamelle Bouie argues the next step toward destroying ICE is to hold hearings of the abuses and crimes committed by ICE, as was done with their Klan predecessors in the 1870s.
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Hey. While I'm giving y'all the whole "Black people experience this every day, it's not new for us," let me give you one more important Black nugget of info:
"You don't have to watch the video."
Seriously. You don't.
Your life won't be improved by seeing it. Especially if you already oppose ICE.
@mekkaokereke appreciate you sharing this
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@mekkaokereke appreciate you sharing this
@nora It's all over Bluesky now. I don't know if people are sharing it for clout or something, but it's bad.
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@nora It's all over Bluesky now. I don't know if people are sharing it for clout or something, but it's bad.
@numb_comfortably yeah i had to mute my autoplaying video switch off guide because so many people were quoting it. i didn't even know why they were doing it at first because i logged on to say hello to the people who said good morning to me and checked my mentions and there were a million new quotes
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@numb_comfortably yeah i had to mute my autoplaying video switch off guide because so many people were quoting it. i didn't even know why they were doing it at first because i logged on to say hello to the people who said good morning to me and checked my mentions and there were a million new quotes
@nora Apologies, I was one of those quoting it, because apparently it's needed. That's the last thing I did before logging of for a few hours, it's a really bad place now.
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@nora Apologies, I was one of those quoting it, because apparently it's needed. That's the last thing I did before logging of for a few hours, it's a really bad place now.
@numb_comfortably oh no im glad it was being shared!!! it was just a cold water in the face
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Hey. While I'm giving y'all the whole "Black people experience this every day, it's not new for us," let me give you one more important Black nugget of info:
"You don't have to watch the video."
Seriously. You don't.
Your life won't be improved by seeing it. Especially if you already oppose ICE.
@mekkaokereke well, I hope at least this clusterfuck helps end this experience for all of us.
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Hey. While I'm giving y'all the whole "Black people experience this every day, it's not new for us," let me give you one more important Black nugget of info:
"You don't have to watch the video."
Seriously. You don't.
Your life won't be improved by seeing it. Especially if you already oppose ICE.
@mekkaokereke yup! and if people need more confirmation of this eminently reasonable advice, bellingcat's handy guide has a point 8 dealing with the issue explicitly.
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Hey. While I'm giving y'all the whole "Black people experience this every day, it's not new for us," let me give you one more important Black nugget of info:
"You don't have to watch the video."
Seriously. You don't.
Your life won't be improved by seeing it. Especially if you already oppose ICE.
Thanks! I haven't. I won't. #ICEout !!
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Hey. While I'm giving y'all the whole "Black people experience this every day, it's not new for us," let me give you one more important Black nugget of info:
"You don't have to watch the video."
Seriously. You don't.
Your life won't be improved by seeing it. Especially if you already oppose ICE.
@mekkaokereke YES, thank you. I talk a lot about this in my job. I feel like culturally, we’ve created this obsession with “bearing witness”. But bearing witness without community support and with no plan of action to take afterward is just trauma.
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@mekkaokereke YES, thank you. I talk a lot about this in my job. I feel like culturally, we’ve created this obsession with “bearing witness”. But bearing witness without community support and with no plan of action to take afterward is just trauma.
@jonobie @mekkaokereke The bearing witness is the documenting, recording, so accountability can come. There will be a day of reckoning and the videos and eye-witness reports will be very useful.
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@jonobie @mekkaokereke The bearing witness is the documenting, recording, so accountability can come. There will be a day of reckoning and the videos and eye-witness reports will be very useful.
@CStamp Agreed — that’s definitely how it should be used. It seems like it’s drifted over time to mean “I am watching those artifacts so I don’t become complacent.” (Or at least, that’s how I sometimes hear it in my communities.) That’s a worthy sentiment but not great for mental health.
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@CStamp Agreed — that’s definitely how it should be used. It seems like it’s drifted over time to mean “I am watching those artifacts so I don’t become complacent.” (Or at least, that’s how I sometimes hear it in my communities.) That’s a worthy sentiment but not great for mental health.
@jonobie Yeah. I think being aware and “woke” are what’s important. That 17-yr-old girl who had the presence of mind to video a murder taking place before her eyes, with nothing else she could do, should be the inspiration. The video proved the cops lied, committed murder, got some justice for Floyd, even if it couldn’t bring him back to life. @mekkaokereke
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Hey. While I'm giving y'all the whole "Black people experience this every day, it's not new for us," let me give you one more important Black nugget of info:
"You don't have to watch the video."
Seriously. You don't.
Your life won't be improved by seeing it. Especially if you already oppose ICE.
@mekkaokereke That is valid advice, but I'm glad I saw the longer video of the man assaulted in the street who refused to be dragged away. It was a gut punch.
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Hey. While I'm giving y'all the whole "Black people experience this every day, it's not new for us," let me give you one more important Black nugget of info:
"You don't have to watch the video."
Seriously. You don't.
Your life won't be improved by seeing it. Especially if you already oppose ICE.
@mekkaokereke Amen. I just want to add: there are photos that are historically important as well as deeply traumatic to see. Kent State, Napalm Girl, Emmett Till's body, etc. But the difference is whether one needs to see them to understand a reality being denied. A deeply shocking photo can shed light, change minds, and shift political agendas. So there are people who DO need to see this video. It's unnecessary for those who know all too well that ICE is a rogue paramilitary force that gleefully terrorizes, kidnaps, and murders civilians of all ages/races/statuses--without consequence. Those won't learn anything new from it. Arguably, ICE even wants its opposition to take in many videos like this, to heighten fear and acquiescence.
Stay angry, stay mobilized, but _do_ share the video to individuals who still are deluding themselves about what ICE is. Because that's who needs a searing traumatic image that they can't get out of their heads. They need to confront the disconnects that they are clinging to.
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Hey. While I'm giving y'all the whole "Black people experience this every day, it's not new for us," let me give you one more important Black nugget of info:
"You don't have to watch the video."
Seriously. You don't.
Your life won't be improved by seeing it. Especially if you already oppose ICE.
@mekkaokereke thanks for this timely reminder.
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Hey. While I'm giving y'all the whole "Black people experience this every day, it's not new for us," let me give you one more important Black nugget of info:
"You don't have to watch the video."
Seriously. You don't.
Your life won't be improved by seeing it. Especially if you already oppose ICE.
@mekkaokereke I agree that no one should feel guilty for not watching a snuff video. Anyone posting those videos should use the appropriate hashtags and content warnings.
On the other hand, snuff videos are the only thing that springs liberals into action.
We had an ICE murder just two days ago, and it was largely missed.
I've never had anything more than a wishy-washy opinion on this. Idk.
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@mekkaokereke That is valid advice, but I'm glad I saw the longer video of the man assaulted in the street who refused to be dragged away. It was a gut punch.
@dnkboston
That's one I would want to see.
More of that please.
But, most of all, the videos of huge masses of people have been giving me strength to hope. -
Hey. While I'm giving y'all the whole "Black people experience this every day, it's not new for us," let me give you one more important Black nugget of info:
"You don't have to watch the video."
Seriously. You don't.
Your life won't be improved by seeing it. Especially if you already oppose ICE.
@mekkaokereke +1.
The videos are important, in that they will serve as evidence in the presumed scenario that we will overcome and take all these fuckers to justice where they belong.
But if you already know what’s happening, then I don’t see the point in torturing oneself.
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Hey. While I'm giving y'all the whole "Black people experience this every day, it's not new for us," let me give you one more important Black nugget of info:
"You don't have to watch the video."
Seriously. You don't.
Your life won't be improved by seeing it. Especially if you already oppose ICE.
Re: Controlling input. In this interview, Sharon Hurley Hall was asked how she keeps her optimism.
“…one of the ways I do that is by being selective about input, about how I get it, about what I see, what I read.
Because at this point, okay, and as a person, and a black person, right. Racism is not news to me. It has never been news to me…”
@SharonHurleyHall
https://federate.social/@SharonHurleyHall/115951814536118462
