Another Black Life Was Taken Today In My Country, Brazil.

Another black life was taken today in my country, Brazil.

This time, not by the white supremacist police force, but still because of racism.

Miguel was a 5 years old little boy from Recife, son of a domestic worker, who went to work with his mother.

Yes, his mother was still working as a domestic worker during a worldwide pandemic, just as MANY other women and black folks who have not been liberated of their non essential jobs in white and rich people’s homes.

Miguel’s mother left the apartment to walk her employer’s dogs, leaving her son behind with the apartment owners. The young child was scared and started crying for his mother. Somehow, he was so terrified he went after his mother, made his way to the elevator and ended up on the 9th floor where he fell from the great height. According to the investigators of the case, the apartment owner is responsible for allowing Miguel in the elevator as she is seen doing so in surveillance cameras.

His mother’s employer didn’t talk to the child. She didn’t comfort him. She didn’t keep an eye on him and protected him from going into an elevator by himself. He was neglected because she didn’t see him as a child. But how could she, if she didn’t even see his mother as human enough?

The media is hiding the apartment owners names. They are white, rich and, apparently, involved in politics in Recife. The woman who employed Miguel’s mother was taken by the police but has paid a 20k Reais (brazilian currency) bail out. Twenty thousand Reais. And they couldn’t pay Miguel’s mother her salary to allow her to stay home during COVID-19 pandemic?

This is what structural racism does. Slavery has never ended in the Americas, it just evolved into something that is “maskable”, “acceptable” and normalized.

Please sign this petition and share if you can to help bring Miguel’s life to justice.

We need visibility. We are done seeing black folks becoming statistic numbers. It is horrifying that we had to wait for USA to revolt against racism for white rich Brazilian folks to “decide they were anti racist too” and start talking about it more on social media.

If you are Brazilian or would like to help Brazilian BLM movement, please access this website.

You can also go here for some worldwide BLM resources.

His name was Miguel, he was 5 years old. Say his name.

Justice for Miguel. Justice for João Pedro. Justice for Marielle Franco. No justice, no peace.

Important

I have reason to believe that someone is going around into other people’s accounts and sending them messages on IM with fake links.

This happened to me just now. I thought it was suspicious after seeing the tinyurl link, but I clicked it anyway and it brought me here:

Whatever you do, DO NOT LOG IN. Take a closer look at the URL at the top.

This is a scam. It’s a website made to look like tumblr’s home page, and it will steal your information and hack you right out of your account.

My guess is that this has already happened to tumblr user @turntableking and their account is being used to drag more people in.

Please be careful!

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cloechou

6 years ago

Reblog if u support Yellow and Blue Pearl’s artistic pursuits

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cloechou

4 months ago

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cloechou

5 years ago

OKAY SO. MEGAPEARL

she is an iconic, unexpected fusion. but as soon as i saw her on screen, i immediately recognized her design. the hair? the outfit? very clearly referenced from:

REVOLUTIONARY GIRL UTENA!! megapearl’s hair is obviously from anthy (right) and her outfit is obviously from utena (left). but as you may know, rebecca sugar has referenced RGU in steven universe several times!!! RGU has a lot of meaning to me so this is especially exciting for me to see!! it even helped me to realize how similar our pearl and pink/white’s pearl are!

our pearl is like utena. she fought because she believed it was what she had to do to reach her destiny. yet her “destiny” caused her so much hurt and she failed to realize it until much later, after things had gone sour.

pink/white’s pearl is like anthy. she was repeatedly used by others for their own gain, and simultaneously idolized these people because not doing so would result in abuse. she then adopted this mindset of idolization because it was all she knew how to do, and didn’t realize how badly it was hurting her.

ANYWAYYYS that’s my rant on SU and RGU. not sure if anyone else put two and two together but it made me extremely happy to see this!!

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cloechou

7 years ago

Well, I Can`t Draw But I Can Share This Jackie`s Theory .i Don`t` Know May Be Sameone Told It Already

well, i can`t draw but i can share this jackie`s theory .i don`t` know may be sameone told it already but i didn`t see that so…

the thing is,we all know that this blue streak is natural but wasn`t always there as we saw in the show.So i have an idea that she past through mewberty but for mermaids (because she is a mermaid and even canon can`t tell me otherwise)

what i wanted to say is that i believe that in her full mermaid form she has this shade blue hair

that`s all

im not even sorry for wasting your time on that cause its about jackie and everything about her is important

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cloechou

6 years ago