By Jay Syrmopoulos Award winning filmmaker, writer and social justice organizer Dream Hampton took to Twitter, breaking the silence surrounding numerous large private financial donations, allegedly made by Shawn ‘Jay-Z ‘ Carter and wife Beyoncé, to fund the Black Lives Matter protest movement and bail out protestors in both Ferguson and Baltimore.
Hampton, illustrating one of the most insidious ways in which political dissent is stifled in America, tweeted, “Protest is literally punished with tariffs.” The quote referred to the state’s preferred method of usurping the American people’s ability to assemble and protest through financial attrition.
When people without adequate financial resources are fined precipitously …read more