making paragraphs

“BLM and the Dal­las PD have had a good re­la­tion­ship for those who would seek to blame these hor­ri­ble sniper shoot­ings on the protest move­ment. Among po­lice de­part­ments, the DPD is known as one of the more trans­par­ent around, and has a far bet­ter record in terms of its re­la­tion­ship with the com­mu­ni­ty than most any oth­er you’ll find. BLM folks would not and DID not tar­get DPD of­fi­cers. This gun­man had his own agen­da, un­re­lat­ed to the move­ment for po­lice ac­count­abil­i­ty.”
—Tim Wise

Post it, print it out, write it down.

Be­cause soon­er or lat­er, your friend from high school that has a Blue Lives Mat­ter pro­file pic for every day of the week and an ex­cuse for every PoC mur­dered for jay­walk­ing is go­ing to point to Dal­las as if to say “that’s just how ‘those peo­ple’ are.”

There is zero af­fil­i­a­tion be­tween the shoot­er and the Black Lives Mat­ter move­ment. Zero. None.

And
THIS is a very, very, well spo­ken piece:

 

To all of you
who deny that racial­ly-tar­get­ed po­lice bru­tal­i­ty and mur­der is a prob­lem in this coun­try: You are be­com­ing a fast-shrink­ing mi­nor­i­ty, cling­ing to a blind­ered, ig­no­rant, out­mod­ed view of the world. And you will find your vol­ume drowned out soon­er than you think from your even­tu­al de­mo­graph­ic ir­rel­e­vance.

Time and mod­ern com­mu­ni­ca­tions tech­nol­o­gy are catch­ing up and over­tak­ing your ig­no­rance, no mat­ter how many com­ments sec­tions you bar­ri­cade your­selves in to (fun fact about that by the way: Se­ri­ous peo­ple don’t both­er with that shit. So all those peo­ple in the com­ments sec­tions of the lo­cal news that re­in­force your back­wards views? Lit­er­al­ly no one takes them se­ri­ous­ly. Not any­one of note any­way. The sen­si­ble peo­ple rolled their eyes and left that room like *years* ago. Sor­ry).

On a more some­what-pos­tive note
as hor­rif­ic as this week has been, I’ve seen a glint of light peek out in its wake: Quite im­prob­a­bly, I have seen every­one from Newt Gin­grich to redstate.com *fi­nal­ly* come around on the top­ic of in­sti­tu­tion­al racism and po­lice bru­tal­i­ty to­ward mi­nori­ties in the past 48 hours. That would have been an un­think­able fan­ta­sy just a week ago.

Hell,
take a look at the guy in the video/pictured up top. Does he look like a wild-eyed ir­ra­tional rev­o­lu­tion­ary to you? Nope. Looks like a pret­ty stan­dard is­sue old white dude to me. Yet here he is drop­ping the kind of truth that prob­a­bly seems like sac­ri­lege in those kind of far-flung points on the map where no one ever in­ter­acts with a mi­nor­i­ty, but they’re cer­tain they know all they need to know about them.

Here’s the thing though
This mes­sage is get­ting out and it is spread­ing. And this ge­nie doesn’t go back in the bot­tle.

You can’t hold it back or hide it. No mat­ter how back­ward your think­ing or how in­cu­ri­ous about peo­ple dif­fer­ent than your­selves you and the oth­er peo­ple that nev­er moved on af­ter high school you sur­round your­self with are.

Progress may lurch for­ward in fits and starts, but it al­ways moves *for­ward* – just like every sin­gle so­cial jus­tice move­ment peo­ple like you ini­tial­ly fought against, you *will* come around on this as well.

Or you will reap the har­vest of your own com­plete ir­rel­e­vance. You won’t be missed.

‪#‎black­lives­mat­ter‬

Also,
in times like these it’s im­por­tant to re­mem­ber laugh­ter, par­tic­u­lar­ly when set-upon on all sides by fac­tions both evil and ridicu­lous.

That’s why I bring you this fresh new piece of ap­par­el based on the sin­gle dumb­est thing I’ve ever forced my­self to read, on Face­book, just mo­ments ago:

This piece also fea­tures a cameo ap­pear­ance from Face­book stal­wart Josh Fer­nan­dez.

So open your hearts and your dig­i­tal wal­lets.

All pro­ceeds go to­ward get­ting me drunk­er.
 

—ja­son malm­berg

Flom­mist Ja­son Malm­berg is a sim­ple man who be­lieves in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art some­times. Copy­right © 2016 Ja­son Malm­berg. Pic­tured up top: Not Tim Wise, but WFAA-TV sports an­chor Dale Hansen. Watch the video.

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