The state of Missouri is set to execute Marcellus, even though literally NO ONE with a stake in the outcome of the case—not even the prosecutor nor the victim’s family— wants him to die. Learn More Here

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    8 hours ago

    There’s additional context that people might not be aware.

    He is Muslim.

    The state didn’t just murdered a Black man but murdered a Black Muslim man. And from the interview between Black Myths Podcast and an organizer trying to get him out, he was a devout Muslim too, serving as an imam for the Muslim inmates. This means that his jailers are also aware of his Muslim faith. Besides the US just being foundationally anti-Black, there is also an Islamophobic component to this as well, which will only intensify as the Zionist entity continues to collapse on itself.

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      Becoming a priest doesn’t always abolish your past, but JFC how messed up do you have to be to execute one on shaky evidence? Imagine if this happened to a white preacher. Evangelicals would be foaming at the mouth at how “There’s a war on Jesus and Christianity!” It would fuel their persecution complex for decades.

      But since it’s a black Muslim, nothing will fundamentally change. This country is completely okay with killing sections of its population, so long as they aren’t straight, cishet WASPS. And even then, lol.

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    8 hours ago

    Death to America, there is nothing to be done to redeem this country but a total destruction of it

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    9 hours ago

    amerikkka

    I don’t want to hear another anglo ever ask me why I’d rather watch this country burn than organize with a cracker again. The crimes of this guilty land will not be washed away but by settler blood.

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    I was braced for disappointment, but this story lead me to look up stats on Americans’ opinions on the death penalty, and it was worse than I thought.

    The majority support the death penalty, even though the majority also believe that black people are disproportionately subjected to it, that it doesn’t deter serious crimes, and that there is risk of killing an innocent person. Americans are just that fucking bloodthirsty apparently, they can agree with you on all of the reasons why the death penalty should be abolished, and still turn around and support it.

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      Americans would rather kill a dozen innocents than risk letting someone guilty live. It’s lunacy. And as the empire collapses, have no doubt, Americans would absolutely rather watch the entire world burn in nuclear fire than let the wicked, undeserving people of the world control their own destinies.

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      10 hours ago

      Wow. I guess that’s what you get when you have generation after generation committing evil, racist acts for hundreds of years.

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        I’ve genuinely looped around to a point of assuming the same kernel of entitled evil that existed in the original pilgrims still germinates within settler spawn. Fuck all the kumbaya bullshit; there is unaddressed, both naturally in-bred and taught after the fact, evil in the white man and woman that can only be excised through self-awareness that most Amerikans will never attain.

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          It’s ideological within white supremacy, we’re not actually yakubian demons, but as a whole what’s the fucking difference when shit like this is allowed to happen

          If you grow up under it, as a white, you basically have to spend your whole life constantly fighting off bullshit the indoctrination did to your brains core processing. Otherwise you just become evil

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    Need a graphic George Floyd replaced with Marcellus Williams. With the Missouri gov putting his knee on Williams neck looking smugly at the crowd watching him as his the-pigs lackeys inject poison with a speech bubble “I can’t breathe” above Williams. Supreme Court looking the other way.

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    CNN — [Breaking news update, published at 7:18 p.m. ET]

    Marcellus Williams, whose murder conviction was questioned by a prosecutor, died by lethal injection Tuesday evening in Missouri after the US Supreme Court denied a stay.

    Cowardly country full of cutthroat murderers.

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    sadness-abysmal A white person recently told me that systemic racism against POC doesn’t exist anymore and that the roles have reversed to white people being the truly oppressed race nowadays.

    At this point, I sincerely wish that were true… gun-unity

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    This is devastating. Reminder that Dems took abolishing the death penalty off their part platform. Literally every single day there is another horror that convinces me that the America of 2024 is no different to the America of the Trail of Tears.

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        It still begs the question of how much longer they think they can keep murdering innocent folk, this is one of the most unambigiously ghoulish things the US has done domestically in recent memory. There is literally nothing that justifies this. No amount of concern trolling or formalism can take away from the fact that an innocent man, with DNA evidence already available that proved his innocence, was murdered for no other reason than being black.