There are many disturbing moments in the video of Breaion King’s arrest by two Austin police officers last year. The video, which surfaced this week in the wake of a new investigation into the incident, shows officer Bryan Richter violently dragging the 26-year-old black woman out of her car during a traffic stop.
Richter throws her around like a rag doll, pins her to the ground and can be seen at least once picking her body up and slamming it to the pavement.
Black women are not exempt from police brutality. They are equally as susceptible to profiling and abuse from police, because in the minds of many officers, their blackness is proof enough of their “violent tendencies.”
Ivanka Trump is known as much for intelligence as she is for her beauty, and Thursday night at the RNC, her intelligence shined through in a well-written, expertly-delivered, unimaginably shrewd speech where she introduced her father, Donald Trump.
“[Donald Trump] is colorblind and gender neutral,” she said during her address.
Wow.
“Colorblindness” is not a positive thing, even if it sounds like it might be. The term “colorblindness” suggests a willful refusal to acknowledge race ― not because you don’t hold prejudices, but because you’d rather skate through the world pretending race doesn’t exist. Because if race doesn’t exist, you don’t have to acknowledge the actual realities of racism.
Chicago-based artist Shani Crowe’s photo exhibit “Braids” is a love letter to the beauty of black hairstyles.
While black natural hair has a fraught history in the United States, often facing inordinate scrutiny or deemed outwardly political, Crowe’s photos aimed to showcase the beauty of braids. In a new HuffPost Rise video, she said she drew inspiration from various cultures when deciding on the hairstyles, one of which took 12 hours to complete.
“I’m creating myself according to my own image of myself. It gives me control and it gives me freedom,” she said.
Watch Shani Crowe discuss her beautiful exhibit in the video here.
WNBA Players Double Down On Protest Movement In Spite Of Fines
Following Thursday’s WNBA game between the New York Liberty and the Indiana Fever, players from both teams refused to answer questions related to basketball. Instead, they only wanted to talk about social issues outside of the sport.
The WNBA had fined the Liberty and Fever, as well as the Phoenix Mercury, before the game for wearing black warmup shirts, which they first wore on July 10, honoring the deaths of Philando Castile, Alton Sterling and the five Dallas police officers.
“We want to be able to use our platforms. We want to be able to use our voices. We don’t want to let anybody silence us and what we want to talk about.” Liberty guard Tanisha Wright told reporters. “It’s unfortunate that the WNBA has fined us and not supported its players.”
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