Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet: Ferguson Grand Jury Edition

“You motherfuckers will not own tomorrow.” – rapper Killer Mike

“This system you have admonished us to believe in has consistently, unfailingly, and unabashedly let us down and kicked us out, time and time again.” – an open letter from the protestors in Ferguson 

Why it’s impossible to indict a cop. And just how unlikely it is.

“To ask us to be ‘dignified and disciplined,’ to ask us to ‘respect the rule of law’ in the face of such a mockery of justice is to ask us to affirm the path to our own destruction.” – Brittney Cooper

“Are you not angry? Are you not sick of being unsurprised?” – our own Syreeta McFadden

The National Bar Association is “questioning” the grand jury’s decision.

“If this isn’t our collective ‘Black wake-up call,’ then it will never come. The whole damn system is guilty as hell, and if we fail to challenge it, then we are too.” – Jamilah Lemiuex

Darren Wilson’s story is literally unbelievable. As is the fact that he claims he “would not do anything different that day.”

#IndictTheSystem

“White people, we face a choice. We can choose to continue to invest in White supremacy and in doing so, surrender our humanity. Or we can choose to divest from Whiteness.” – Jamie Utt

“We are to be silenced, erased, destroyed. Still, we won’t bow down.” – crunkadelic

“Violence is not the answer but neither is peace.” – Roxane Gay

After the non-indictment, five paths forward.

Header photo credit: Jason Redmond/REUTERS