I’ve been seeing this post a lot and it makes me very angry that you all continue to reblog it. Yes USAmericans cried over 3,000 USAmerican lives lost. They didn’t cry when their government killed thousands upon thousands of civilians in Iraq. They don’t cry now that thousands of civilians have died in Yemen to weapons they manufactured. USAmericans cry when it’s convenient. The white USA isn’t upset for the same reason they’re never upset. This doesn’t affect them. White USAmericans, who are the ones who run the media, don’t care about black USAmericans, they don’t care about Native Americans, they don’t care about Latino USAmericans, they don’t care about the disabled, transgender, or chronically ill people of the USA. Nobody cares about a “sacrifice” they risk nothing for. The USA has an issue with “It’s shocking when it happens to us!”. First it was the arrogance to assume the virus wouldn’t reach the United States, then it was ignoring counsel based on the very developed field of epidemiology. Then there was panic, and then minimization, erasure, lack of accountability as the country realizes that only the most vulnerable are at a terrible risk, and those people are disposable to them. And finally, now, you see the push to go back to some imagined “normal” as the country reorients itself to try to make everyone forget the catastrophic failure this has been AND CONTINUES TO BE . As if the virus hasn’t laid bare every failure of the US government to protect and support the people of this country not only in an emergency, but also at every single point, systematically.
On this day, 13 May 1985, Philadelphia police attacked the home of Black liberation and environmentalist group MOVE with automatic weapons, then dropped a bomb on it, killing 5 adults and 6 children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black neighbourhood, and making 250 people homeless.
Almost 500 police officers fired over 10,000 rounds of ammunition into the house, which was filled with women and children, while other officers blew holes in the walls with explosives. The police commissioner then ordered the house to be bombed, which they did using an improvised device made from C4 given to them by the FBI.
Only two people survived the blast and ensuing fire: Ramona Africa, and Michael Ward, aged 13. While no officials were prosecuted, Ramona Africa was subsequently jailed for 7 years on riot and conspiracy charges. The incident occurred during the tenure of Philadelphia’s first Black mayor, a Democrat named Wilson Goode. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1424778457707300/?type=3
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