A movement inspired by an interest in both creating awareness of and demanding legislative action toward the problem of systemic racism and physical references immortalizing slavery.
You gonna protest tonite?
Yeah, I think so. Except with all of those Federal Officers shooting tear gas and rubber bulletts, it seems like we should be protesting our First Amendment Rights being violated rather than Statuary Abolitionism.
Well, let's do both...
A country that has the death penalty only for extraordinary crimes, such as crimes under military law, crimes against humanity, terrorism, treason, or espionage.
There are currently seven countries classified as Abolitionist For Ordinary Crimes Only by Amnesty International: Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Israel, and Peru.
churchhurt is where you experience a degree of distance, pain, or judgement from your church community. Essentially, you are just unable to “find your place”. This is prevalent in the Christian community, but can be extended to other religions.
Now that I am an adult I am beginning to heal from the churchhurt that was inflicted on me as a child.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.