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everyone reblog this and tag it with the piece of media that you consumed when you were too young to handle it and it scarred you, i’ll start, mine was the things they carried
This country is such a fucking joke. Did you know that if we were to divide the income in this country fairly it would be about 300,000 per person. That’s annually. You could give each person in this country 100,000 and still have enough to invest in infrastructure and research. Instead we have people who don’t have water, don’t have their basic human rights fulfilled, because they don’t have enough to pay a bill.
ALWAYS REBLOG WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS PLEASE; ITS SO MUCH MORE THAN IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE. IT MEANS EVERYTHING TO SOMEBODY AND EVEN THOUGH YOU MIGHT NOT SEE THIS IN THE SAME LIGHT, SOMEONE MIGHT. INFACT YOU REBLOGGING THIS COULD STOP SOMEONE TAKING THEIR LIFE TONIGHT.
Most of us were saddened and disgusted by the graphic photo of the little boy from Claremont, N.H., who was nearly hanged from a tree. If that wasn’t bad enough, the town’s police chief went on record shortly thereafter, saying of the kids who assaulted the biracial 8-year-old: “Mistakes they make as a young child should not have to follow them for the rest of their life.”
In short order, not only did young Quincy get an early lesson in injustice, but he also got a searing taste of a tried-and-true American dictum: Black lives don’t matter (also, the criminal-justice system protects white men; also, nooses are just play things for silly kids; also, white kids who make mistakes will be protected; also, your body is less important than someone else’s “future;” also, racism is OK; also, you’re not safe).
Quincy, who will be 9 years old in about a week, is recovering from his injuries and has started fourth grade, according to his mother, Cassandra Merlin. On Tuesday night, his hometown of about 13,000 held an interfaith vigil in his name, and earlier that day, Claremont Police Chief Mark T. Chase released a “Special Press Release” promising to prosecute the case as a bias or hate crime if the investigation bears that out, a markedly different tact from his initial comments. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu has also sent a team of state prosecutors to help police investigate…
“I want people to know about this; I don’t want it to be hushed down and people acting like it never happened,” [Quincy’s mother] says. “And I want Quincy to know that they’re not going to get away with it. And he doesn’t have to walk down the street in fear. I can’t even let him leave the house by himself now. And that’s really sad because he used to love to be able to do things.”
