Have yall seen this shit?! Black women cannot even pump gas without being harassed. This was both terrifying and disgusting to watch, and what was worse was the narration, like it was somehow supposed to be a compliment to be degraded and damn near assaulted. I’ve seen folks on Twitter go so far as to claim the woman in the video must have liked the attention because she can be seen smiling. Those are people who are privileged to have never experienced this kind of humiliating experience. I too remember smiling back at the older men who used to accost me on my walk home from school, mostly out of fear that if I was perceived as “being rude,”I was more likely to be assaulted or raped. I remember day after day trying to figure out what would be the best route to take home that would garner the least amount of attention, but enough visibility that if shit went down, someone would hear me scream. These are calculations I had to make at 12. Some girls and women learned this math of survival earlier, some later, but all of us had to learn it at some point. In 2019, we must bring as end to this culture of fear, entitlement, and degradation that has too long permitted men to behave this way.
*This video and related tweets are not mine, and proper attribution should be provided to https://twitter.com/NaomixSuicide/ and whoever Kevin Warren is (the asshole who posted this to snapchat like it was something to be entertained by…)*
The targeted ex-wife survived but was paralyzed from the waist down. The unwitting gun woman was cleared of wrong doing. And the asshole attempted murderer killed himself before he was caught.
The women actually became close friends after the incident, bonding over the fact that the same man tried to destroy both of their lives.
Remember that movie in which Jack Black was a teacher and building a rock band and when a little black chubby girl asked to be a singer he only said “sure! let me hear you” and the moment she started using her beautiful voice his lit up like all of his dreams came true, PLUS the same little girl was scared that people would make fun of her because she was fat and he started listing awesome singers with some weight on and included himself and told her that people wouldn’t laugh because she is awesome at what she does and that is all that matters PLUS that it’s ok to enjoy food?
Also, when a little boy asked to be the band’s stylist he just said “sure, go ahead fancy pants” like, there wasn’t a single second of questioning it, he went into “ok, that will be your position then” right away
That fucking movie is an hour and a half of Jack Black teaching kids to love themselves disregarding all of the stereotypes
And don’t forget the Asian guy said he shouldn’t be in the band because he thought he wasn’t “cool enough”. Jack Black didn’t miss a beat by making up a secret handshake between he and the kid.and telling him he’s amazing at what he does playing the piano. After that the Asian kid even stood up for himself against a bully.
And he put the violent kid with anger issues on drums and let him constructively work out his aggression.
