Gala Williams
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🧵The criminalization of black ppl has been an essential part of white supremacy in America. And globally.
It is a powerful way for white people to explain why it’s important for a white power elite to control and contain Black communities.
10:51 AM - Feb 03, 2024
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Gala Williams
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Those ideas about “crime” and “Black” and “race”, became ingrained in thee American and throughout the globe imagination. When we think about how criminals are represented in the media, they tend to be people of color and specifically Black men.
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Gala Williams
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There are ways to criminalize people without it being in their face.
Crime becomes a code word for
Black,for race.
The invention of Black criminality is by such intentional design,that it pervades all of culture.
10:52 AM - Feb 03, 2024
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Gala Williams
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Racists ideas get reinforced over and over again by what we see on tv,what we see on the news.
What we see on commercials,films social media and on newspapers.And a lot of those ideas are silent.There sort of subtle because they’re cloaked in..you know fancy dressing in disguise.
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Gala Williams
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By the time in the 1930s, it is sort of socially unacceptable to just be lynching Black folks on camera, but what we get is still the invocation of aspects of Blackness. Even when you don’t have Black characters present. In cinema, you’re not bound in reality.
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Gala Williams
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You can make the village as big and black as, and powerful and horrible as you want them to be.The reason why it works, the reason that it’s legible to us as audiences.
10:53 AM - Feb 03, 2024
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Gala Williams
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It’s because we’ve already been trained in stereotypes about Blackness that we may not even realize that we are bringing in our viewing practices.
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Gala Williams
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Black people are no more violent or dangerous than any other group of people.
But we are taught the faces of violence is Black, causing us to overlook the white individuals who in engage in violence.
Because apparently, they don’t have the face of violence.
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Gala Williams
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Wides spread poverty and access to guns better explain violence than race. But we are taught that white violence is self-defense.

The potential violence that comes from propagating these ideas, the potential violence is extraordinary.
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Gala Williams
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They talked about George Floyd as under the influence, and thus at any moment could potentially become a beast.

Ahmaud Arbery is running. And merely running, he becomes bestial in the minds of these white men.
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Gala Williams
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These so-called innocuous ideas, they have this power to infect the minds of people,who then use them and twist them to justify the massacre of Black people.
10:55 AM - Feb 03, 2024
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Merlene Taylor
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And that's it.
In response to Gala Williams.
11:11 AM - Feb 03, 2024
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