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There’s another infamous shooting of a nine-year-old girl that is making headlines this week in Tucson. This time, we wonder if the rest of the media will bother to cover it.
The little girl’s name was Brisenia Flores. She lived near the border with her parents and sister outside the town of Arivaca, Arizona. On May 30 of 2009, a woman named Shawna Forde, who led an offshoot unit of Minutemen who ran armed border patrols for patriotic “fun”. Forde’s gang had decided to go “operational,” which meant they concocted a scheme to raid drug smugglers and take their money and drugs and use it to finance a border race war and “start a revolution against the government”. They targeted the Flores home, which had neither money nor drugs, based on dubious information. They convinced Flores to let them in by claiming to be law-enforcement officers seeking fugitives, then shot him point-blank in the head when he questioned them and wounded his wife, Gina Gonzalez. And then, while she pleaded for her life, they shot Brisenia in cold blood in the head. (Her sister, fortunately, was sleeping over at a friend’s.)
(via CrooksandLiars)
That poor baby. That poor family. That poor community.
I’m so sick of this shit. This is racism. Pure and simple. This is where racism always leads. This is what a culture of white supremacy looks like, people. White politicians on tv frothing at the mouth over “illegals threatening our way of life”. Is it any wonder that POC are rounded up and shot when the people who represent us continue to mark these minorities as “threats”?
This needs to fucking stop. We need to stop tolerating the people who help create this culture of xenophobia, white supremacy, and fear.
WHAT THE FUCK
oh my god.
(Source: onceuponanotsolongago, via tulletulle)
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This is just awful. :’/
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Patriotic “fun”? Wow. Wow.
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This is disgusting. Uphold whatever beliefs you want, but killing a child is always wrong.
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