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b_binaohan

i have to say... i don't really share stories of ppl being arrested/sent to prison over trans hate crimes.

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b_binaohan

i've noticed a pattern in who gets 'caught' and convicted of transmisogynist hate crimes... almost always Black men.

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the thing is, is that i read/scan a lot of news stories.

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are Black men the only people out there killing/attacking trans women of colour? i very sincerely doubt it.

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b_binaohan

but i find it interesting that whenever someone is arrested for a violent hate crime... it is (almost) ALWAYS a Black man.

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b_binaohan

how many unsolved murders and attacks are there because the police weren't able to identify a Black suspect and so stopped looking?

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b_binaohan

it isn't very common for there to be an arrest or conviction in violent crimes against twoc...

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but when it does happen, i'm supposed to believe -- based on arrests -- that only Black men attack twoc? yeah... seems legit. :

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b_binaohan

like it all feels very much like the whole 'Black on Black' crime thing replicated in the twoc microcosm.

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and in a general point: i just cannot see another Black man going to prison as 'justice' for twoc.

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like. u realize that these men end up in the same prisons/system as incarcerated twoc? yeah. think about _that_ for a second.

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and then the system also criminalizes and targets twoc as a matter of habit? yeah. there is no justice here.

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b_binaohan

and some of this is easy to say as a non-Black person without immediate connection to a Black trans woman who was murdered...

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b_binaohan

i don't begrudge the feelings of family members and friends who are glad that an arrest/conviction is made...

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b_binaohan

i'm partially explaining why you rarely see me tweeting links to these stories of arrests and convictions.

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b_binaohan

i'm partially writing this based on what i just tweeted about Jennifer Laude. bc a white soldier being held responsible for murder overseas?

east indian princex
b_binaohan

now _that_ is something i can get behind. but the context is super different re: neo-colonialism, the US military presence in PH, etc.

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b_binaohan

basically... part of what i'm saying here re: arrests for twoc hate crimes, is that don't think for a second that these are progress/justice

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b_binaohan

i'm not even commenting on whether or not the arrested Black men did it.

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see what i'm talking about? another Black man arrested for the murder of a Black trans woman... http://t.co/Jk7LhPjqWc

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'They Got The Wrong Guy,' Says Suspect Accused of Killing Islan Nettles http://t.co/8xdNIhwpH4

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"police told him they were arresting him on an open warrant for something unrelated" http://t.co/8xdNIhwpH4

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"The reason for the delay in charging him for Nettles' death was not clear" http://t.co/8xdNIhwpH4

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"investigators say they struggled because witnesses had difficulty telling Dixon and Wilson apart" http://t.co/8xdNIhwpH4

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soooo. you know how i was talking just yesterday about how... i don't think that arresting Black men for trans hate crimes is justice?

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now. yeah. i'm just like. reading this story and i have far too easy a time imagining that this happened just as he said.

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that -- for whatever reason -- two years ago he confessed _something_ to the police but it took them two years to arrest him....

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b_binaohan

bc witnesses couldn't tell the difference between him and another Black man?

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b_binaohan

given the NYPD super stellar track record with the Black community, forgive me if i lack confidence in their abilities.

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b_binaohan

like. i just. yeah. again, not saying anything about what Islan Nettles' family should feel or want...

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but i look at this and the last thing that it makes me think of is 'justice'.

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b_binaohan

two years _after_ this happened and the police say themselves that witnesses couldn't tell the dif. between two men?

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b_binaohan

here's what i know: the state (nypd) gives nary a solitary fuck about who murdered Islan Nettles.

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what i also know: the state (nypd and beyond) has a vested interest in incarcerating Black ppl.

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i think that fact #2 is why we see that the only perpetrators (as ID'd by the state) of transmisogynist hate crimes are Black men.

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bc the state's deep level of 'idc' re: Black trans women isn't strong enough to override their need to see Black bodies in jail.

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""There are transgender people here in jail and I get along fine with them.”" http://t.co/8xdNIhwpH4

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also LT? remember how i mentioned this just yesterday?

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like. whatever. idk whether or not Dixon did it (or anything).

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b_binaohan

but. BUT. can anyone tell me how it is justice at all for twoc to be incarcerated with men convicted of murdering girls like them?

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like. i literally cannot get this out of my head.

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b_binaohan

but the solution, however, is not 'put twoc in women's jails' the solution is: abolish prisons. just... to make that clear.

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b_binaohan

but this is also why the carceral aims of trans*nationalism and homonationalism just don't fucking work.

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b_binaohan

they want these hate crime laws passed... but all that happens is further criminalization of Black bodies.

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i feel like i read a story/article/stat once that mentioned that marginalized ppl are charged with hate crimes more often than oppressors

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Suspect Arrested in November Shooting of Tennessee Trans Woman http://t.co/Hw4cWuJzuU</p>

care to guess what race he is?</span>