Racism is blighting Swedish society, and people of African descent face daily harassment and hate crimes, according to a United Nations reportpresented to the UN human rights council earlier this week. Yet the country is so convinced by its tolerant reputation that it refuses to acknowledge the problem. The report found:
The Swedish philosophy of equality and its public and self-image as a country with respect for human rights, non-discrimination, and liberal democracy blinds it to the structural racism faced by Afro-Swedes and Africans in its midst.
There has been a 31% rise in reported “Afrophobic” hate crimes from 2010 to 2014, according to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (pdf). The UN Working Group of Experts of People of African Descent reported “a real fear within the communities, especially for young black men, that they could be violently attacked at any time.” Structural racism means that black people in Sweden have reduced access to health care and education, according to the UN report, while “the police view people of African descent as criminals rather than a vulnerable community that needs protection.”
…
But Sweden is so convinced by its own reputation that the government has removed the word “race” from the Discrimination Act—because the law assumes that all people belong to the human race. The United Nations was unimpressed:The Working Group is aware that to delete “race” from the lexical corpus does not eliminate racism based on racial discrimination. Rather it may be a way to ignore, minimize, or obscure the reality of the specifically “racial” racism faced by a part of the Swedish population.
My surprise, let me show you it. Where is that gif with the parrot from Aladdin?
But Europe has no racism tho! Never mind the fact that it’s the birthplace of modern white supremacy as we know it!
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy)
“Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother’s death and her family’s bloody history.
With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate - and gods and mortals - are bound inseparably together.”
N. K. Jemisin is an American speculative fiction writer and blogger. Her debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, was nominated for the 2010 Nebula Award, the 2011 Hugo Award, and the World Fantasy Award, was short-listed for the James Tiptree Jr. Award, and won the 2011 Sense of Gender Award. Her fiction explores a wide variety of themes, including but not limited to cultural conflict and oppression, via fantasy and science-fictional milieu.
On February 16, 2014, Yvette Smith, a 47-year-old mother beloved by her family and community, was shot and killed on the spot by local police as she opened the front door of her home. A full 18 months later, as her case finally came before a jury, it’s disturbingly clear that the police lied, repeatedly, in an attempt to cover up their murder of Smith.
On the day of her murder, Smith called 911 for help because two men in her home were arguing over a financial dispute and she felt it was getting out of hand. She had nothing to do with the dispute and was an innocent bystander—a victim, even. When the police showed up, both men were already in the front yard and it appeared that the dispute was settled. This should’ve been case closed, but it wasn’t.
The lies and the coverup began immediately. The entire department was involved.
What you need to know:
Police claim she was holding a firearm and they acted in self-defense. This is a lie. When Sheriff Terry Pickering issued the statement, he was fully and completely aware that Yvette Smith wasn’t armed. No weapon was found on or near her. He knew this. The officers on the scene knew this, but Sheriff Pickering issued that statement anyway. It sounded better.
Knowing that the evidence and scores of eyewitnesses saw that she was unarmed, police later retracted the statement, but have given absolutely no answers or held anyone responsible for the earlier lie—which was the primary reason given for shooting Smith in the first place.
Officer Gaskamp literally admitted that he made the whole damn thing up. He also stated that he couldn’t remember telling this lie to the lead investigator, until they played him the recorded interview where he stated the lie over and over again.
It was discovered that the officer who shot and killed Smith was found incompetent by another police department. The evaluation said the police officer who killed Yvette Smith struggled with “common sense,” but was hired by a neighboring department anyway.
You’re standing at a crowded bus stop when, all of a sudden, you have a seizure. Someone calls 9-1-1. In the time it takes for the ambulance to arrive, will bystanders come to your assistance? The chances are minuscule. New data shows 4.2% of white patients in need received help from bystanders, for people of color that number was much lower.
Water is wet.
Supremacy is white
No shit
But of course the only way something is valid is if it is proved by “studies”
You’re standing at a crowded bus stop when, all of a sudden, you have a seizure. Someone calls 9-1-1. In the time it takes for the ambulance to arrive, will bystanders come to your assistance? The chances are minuscule. New data shows 4.2% of white patients in need received help from bystanders, for people of color that number was much lower.
Water is wet.
Supremacy is white
No shit
But of course the only way something is valid is if it is proved by “studies”
Yep. So glad a Latino was present when I fell onto the train tracks.
Look at how disgusted he is by the very notion that she could touch his hair too without permission
Pay close attention folks.
VERY close attention folks.
This is the nature of everyone else vs. black people’s hair summed up in two gifs.
You touch ours willy-fucking nilly but are repulsed when someone DARES to invade your precious boundaries. I see you double standard, I fucking see you.
For real. If you wouldn’t dream of allowing someone to do that to you, why are you doing it to anyone else?
The family of a missing Georgia State University college student is asking for the public’s help in finding her.
Photos of 21-year-old Monique Priester were posted on Instagram, and fliers are circulating around the Georgia State campus in hopes of locating her.
Due to the increase of hate crimes today, we need to spread this information, because there might be a chance to save someone!
BOOST!
ATLANTA, GEORGIA!!!!!!
BOOST!!!!! Really tho!! Last I checked in on this story the police has refused to get involved (as of now) and Uber has said the only way they’ll give up driving records from the ride is if the cops request them. BOOST THIS as much as possible.
