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shamelessly_mkpyou know, I thought I understood the ‘hands up/don’t shoot’ movement and protests and the sheer horror of the danger of just being a black man/ in this country (as much as a white person can, anyway, I am in no way saying I thought I understood it as a visceral truth), but about a week ago it hit me that if I and my family were black, my brother would likely be dead.
He has severe ADD and might well be autistic (he’s certainly got traits) and is generally just large and physically imposing. He moves suddenly and in odd ways and will just sort of explode into motion and noise without thinking about it.
He has long hair and wears a goddamn trench coat and is mouthy as fuck. He’s not particularly quick to anger but he’s terrifying when he is - loud and aggressive in a way he doesn’t mean to be. He slams doors and hits the wall because the anger flares up so quickly and strongly it has to explode out of him somehow and that’s better than possibly hurting someone.
He can’t help but call people out on their idiocies and irrationalities. He will pick at your words because you said it wrong, don’t you understand that?
He’s weird (look I don’t know how else to put it) and will do shit like stop in the middle of walking just to stare at the moon for a good fifteen to twenty minutes, which has in fact gotten him stopped by cops in the past because he looked shady as fuck.
If he were black, would they have bothered asking what he was doing? Or would they have just started yelling and scared the shit out of him, making him jump wildly?
would he have died two years ago, a first-year art student, his only crime wanting to look at the moon?
via:Tumblr http://ift.tt/WGKWcR
He has severe ADD and might well be autistic (he’s certainly got traits) and is generally just large and physically imposing. He moves suddenly and in odd ways and will just sort of explode into motion and noise without thinking about it.
He has long hair and wears a goddamn trench coat and is mouthy as fuck. He’s not particularly quick to anger but he’s terrifying when he is - loud and aggressive in a way he doesn’t mean to be. He slams doors and hits the wall because the anger flares up so quickly and strongly it has to explode out of him somehow and that’s better than possibly hurting someone.
He can’t help but call people out on their idiocies and irrationalities. He will pick at your words because you said it wrong, don’t you understand that?
He’s weird (look I don’t know how else to put it) and will do shit like stop in the middle of walking just to stare at the moon for a good fifteen to twenty minutes, which has in fact gotten him stopped by cops in the past because he looked shady as fuck.
If he were black, would they have bothered asking what he was doing? Or would they have just started yelling and scared the shit out of him, making him jump wildly?
would he have died two years ago, a first-year art student, his only crime wanting to look at the moon?
via:Tumblr http://ift.tt/WGKWcR
