#KendrickSampson
Swipe Left for my thoughts on Vegas. Praying for those people who are affected and for the city. Praying for and demanding policy change. Praying for the dismantling of the SYSTEMS and the PEOPLE that prop up and encourage this kind of violence. Praying that people are aware of the medias polite framing of this horror. By Nevada state law, this IS an act of domestic terrorism. And as you will see if you swipe left, this is the largest mass shooting in RECENT HISTORY and they only seem to be getting worse BUT this is NOT the largest mass shooting in U.S. history. The largest mass shootings were acts of white supremacist terrorism. From 300 Lakota men women and children in 1890, to the massacre of the affluent black community in Tulsa in 1921 and several others, this is important in the framing of this act of domestic terrorism. Politicians are QUICK to jump on a Muslim ban, or a wall, or ICE, or war on drugs aka war on POCs, or heightened security at airports, etc, when violence is associated with a person of color. But they constantly diminish the threat when it specifically targets people of color and/OR when the violence is carried out by white people. This impedes the urgent need for change. This violence affects ALL of us. We ALL must demand change. Together. Call these acts what they are to push this urgent need for reform. White supremacy is not separate from the NRA, not separate from environmental justice, nor the specific oppression of certain ethnicities or the broad economic oppression of the masses regardless of race/ethnic background. It is ALL interconnected. We need to pray and take these prayers and turn them into DEMANDS and ACTION. Swipe left. #PrayforVegas #guncontrol #domesticterrorism
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