I kid you not.
These women are actually being investigated because of this photo. This fists in the air are "a problem."
Black West Point cadets under scrutiny for raised fists in photo
"(CNN)It's a time-honored tradition at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York -- graduating seniors in small groups don their ceremonial high-collared uniforms and pose for a photo in front of historic Nininger Hall.
Their poses are typically stern and stoic, mimicking sepia-toned editions that date back to the 1800s.
They do not typically raise a clenched fist in the air.
So when a photo of 16 female, African-American cadets making the gesture was posted online last month, it raised eyebrows at the elite training academy, which produces many of the nation's future military leaders...."
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http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/08/us/west-point-cadets-photo/
Message: Anything we, as white people feel outside of is political, possibly racist, against us.
Got it.
Got it in the 1960s too
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Dear White People,
This photo means our success is your success. It is a message to oppressed black and brown people in this country-- where higher rates of poverty among black and brown people, higher rates of unemployment among black and brown people, and higher rates of death at hands of police (when unarmed) among black and brown people are not an accident but signs of that oppression.
These problems of the black community are solved by political action but they are are not "political" issues, they are empathy, ethical, and moral issues.
The raised fist in solidarity is good to see anywhere and everywhere, always.
Some people, need to listen to President Obama's commencement speech to Howard University, especially that section on what links us together as African Americans.
http://blackchickrocked.blogspot.com/2016/05/president-obama-at-howard-university.html
West Point's "scrutiny" is a good way to intimidate, to keep up that "us" vs "them" war too many of you have going on in your heads. Good way to keep that white supremacy in place and unacknowledged as real.
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| In essence, the black power fist HAS ALWAYS MEANT " BLACK LIVES MATTER TOO! "
I think we should write West Point and let them know how we feel about their "inquiry"
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