The city of Memphis wanted the statues removed, but their state’s legislature decided to be a big bag of dicks about it and passed a law forbidding them from doing so.
To get around this, a plan was devised: the city could sell the parks to a private organization and now that it was private property, the state couldn’t tell them what they could and couldn’t do with that property.
The city counsel voted under cover of darkness to sell the park to the non-profit run by these men, and construction vehicles immediately moved in to remove the statues. They were gone by morning.
Like… this is still #BlackExcellence because (and correct me if I’m wrong here) Memphis is a predominantly black city. I just think it’s important to remember that this was a community effort and not the work of individuals. Fascists love to worship the narratives of “Great Men.” It is the responsibility of the resistance to remember that nothing can happen without the support of the community.
To sum up what happened (biologically), cholera had not existed in Haiti for at least a century before this happened, this means that Haitian people had 0 immunity to any form of the bacteria (cholera is really common in many parts of the world). That’s why the death toll is so horrendous. The bacterial strain was isolated and was found a match for a cholera strain from Nepal, and the UN had sent over peacekeepers from Nepal.
The article likens this to what happened when Europeans brought smallpox to America, so, yes, it’s indeed a very serious problem. And it was their careless handling of fecal matter that introduced a disease that has spread and stayed on the island since 2010.
“she-ra is queerbaiting” oh ladies we are Not doing this today
i havent seen a single scene from this show but it takes 1 second of critical thinking to know that a lesbian creator dancing around censorship & having gay subtext is astronomically different from straight creators dangling around gay rep like a donkey with a carrot and stick
