chasertiff:

ithelpstodream:

never forget

I was just talking about this with someone. The narrative we weave around civil rights is that they are granted by the government. We talk about peaceful protests but we don’t teach the violent rebellions that shape our culture and constitution.

We don’t teach about the Seminoles fighting back to hold their land (and actually holding their ground).

We don’t teach about Stonewall and the progress transwomen of color made because they started a /riot/.

Ferguson is unacceptable because it was civilian action, fighting from the bottom against the top.

The system granting you your civil liberties is a false construct. Your rights are inalienable. The system is wrong. The system giving you what it already owed you is not justice. It is merely what it aways should have been.