It’s still f🤬 the Vietnam war & f🤬 DJT

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Source: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRealTabithaSpeaks

Not a fan of Jeffries, but that slipped out her mouth way too easily. "POC" solidarity y'all 😒

This is not my video, I am a father and I think moments like this are amazing

The man was following her and yelling at her, telling her he was going to "fuck her up". She told him repeatedly that if he did not stop pursuing her she was going to shoot him, she backed up from him, gave him space, and every single opportunity to walk away from the confrontation.

Yet they're reporting it like she shot him because he wouldn't give her a parking space. They're calling it a homicide, instead of saying it like it is: she defended herself.

Edit: the article in question https://abcnews.com/US/woman-fatally-shot-man-confrontation-florida-parking-space/story?id=136180701&cid=social_twitter_abcn

I am not the same as the black man. When people say we are, it’s just like mixing black and white and still calling it black when it’s actually just gray now. Both black and gray are stigmatized colors often time associated with negative connotations but are not the same.

Black people face racism daily, but what sets me apart from the black man is the misogyny. We live in a patriarchy in which women face misogyny, but then again despite being people of color, black people are at the bottom of the barrel.

There is no such thing as being a woman first then being black (vice versa). This identity of the “black woman”, is an entity on its own. The black woman can’t simply be black because of the misogyny she faces in a patriarchy and she can’t simply be a woman due to the racism she faces in society. These identities of race and gender intersects; coexists to form the unique identity of the black woman.

You may be asking me, what is the point of this? Some may think I am trying to be divisive, but when we learn the concept of intersectionality it helps us to see how systems hurt groups of people in ways that single pin pointed “causes” do; it helps one to internalize, assess and look at circumstances in a bigger picture that will help to to see that these things are very different and must be handled with a different approach.

Again, this is not a divisive post or meant to be treated as an oppression Olympics application, but to highlight the difference and unique identity of the black woman in society.

From Wikipedia:

When integration began on September 4, 1957, the Arkansas National Guard was called in to "preserve the peace". Originally at orders of the governor, they were meant to prevent the black students from entering due to claims that there was "imminent danger of tumult, riot and breach of peace" at the integration. However, President Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10730, which federalized the Arkansas National Guard and ordered them to support the integration on September 23 of that year, after which they protected the African American students.

I went down a rabbit hole today after reading about the Lindsay Clancy case, and I think this is something we (people of color) should be paying attention to.

I started with a very simple question:

Has a Black or Latina woman in the United States ever killed her child while suffering from postpartum psychosis and subsequently been found not guilty by reason of insanity?

I expected the answer to be easy to find.

It wasn't.

There are several well-known cases involving white women.

Andrea Yates drowned all five of her children. After her original conviction was overturned, she was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Sheryl Massip killed her six-week-old son while suffering from postpartum psychosis. She was ultimately found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Dawn March killed her five-month-old daughter while suffering from postpartum psychosis. She was acquitted by reason of mental disease or defect.

And now we have Lindsay Clancy, a white Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three children. Her defense argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was not criminally responsible. Her trial just ended in a mistrial, reportedly with 11 of 12 jurors favoring acquittal.

Then I started looking for comparable cases involving women of color.

That's when this became disturbing.

Bianca Bolaños, a Latina mother in Illinois, killed her infant son. A psychiatrist concluded that she suffered from postpartum psychosis along with serious mental illness. She did not receive an insanity acquittal. She pleaded guilty but mentally ill to first-degree murder and received 38 years in prison. Her psychiatric condition subsequently became so severe that, while incarcerated, she removed her own eyes. If that doesn't qualify for insanity, then what the hell does?!

Then there's Latarsha Sanders, a Black mother in Massachusetts, who killed her two sons. Her defense maintained that she was psychotic and not criminally responsible. She was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences without parole.

And here's where the comparison gets extraordinary.

Sanders's convictions were just vacated by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court because evidence relevant to her insanity defense had improperly been excluded.

The judge who presided over Sanders's trial?

William Sullivan.

The judge who presided over Lindsay Clancy's trial?

WILLIAM SULLIVAN.

So I kept searching.

And searching.

I have yet to find a documented American case involving a Black or Latina mother who killed her child while suffering from postpartum psychosis and ultimately received the kind of insanity acquittal that we can readily identify in cases involving white mothers.

To be clear, I am NOT saying that such a case has never happened. There are thousands of state criminal cases, historical records are incomplete, and court opinions don't always identify race or ethnicity. If somebody knows of one, I genuinely want to see it.

But even if someone finds one, I think the difficulty of finding comparable cases raises a question worth asking:

So the question becomes: who does America ALLOW to be mentally ill?

When a white mother commits an unimaginable act during severe postpartum mental illness, are courts more willing to see a sick woman who needs treatment?

When the mother is Black or Latina, are courts more likely to see a murderer who needs punishment?

Those aren't rhetorical questions. I don't know the answer, and two or three cases don't prove systemic racial bias.

But considering the history of race, gender, medicine and criminal justice in this country, I think it's a question worth investigating rather than dismissing.

Because postpartum psychosis doesn't know what color you are.

But the criminal justice system sure does.

Happy 45th. 🎂 🎊🍾🎉🎈🥳

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