hennynut:

Repeatedly showing footage of black people being murdered on tv and on the front pages of magazines is a method to desensitize society so that when these murders keep happening, the response is “Honey, did you pick up the milk? Oh by the way another black died” rather than outrage.
They rerun these stories with the extra shock factor so eventually it becomes normalized and they don’t have to feel bad because “it happens all the time right?”
They do not nor will they ever care about the psychological affects caused by seeing black body after black body after black body laying in a pool of blood splashed on the news because it’s not them.
It’s getting exhausting having to reiterate this after another black person was murdered by police, even more exhausting that we keep being murdered.
With that being said, please if you have any sympathy, any humanity, any sense of respect, stop posting/reblogging videos and photos of murdered black bodies. Please.