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Deep cut, Good Sir. And I am here for it. #BrooksSumner
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It's the behavior we don't tolerate from children on full display. Elon doesn't wear a suit in the Oval, by the way. #highlyorchestrated
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You taking pictures off the tv like the rest of us!🫶🏽
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We must unlearn what we have learned.
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befits their interests expecting small-d democrats and small r-republicans to hew only to the Constitution while bemoaning the manipulations of those elected and appointed. #alutacontinua
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final term of a "2-term presidency". The long-term strategy employed by white supremist politicians from Atwater through Reagan through Gingrich through Bush2 through Boehner through McConnell to 🤡 to maintain and perpetuate power wealth and control will continue to ignore and disregard norms as
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But alas - I do give thanks for my family, and my friends, and peach pie. “…with mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage/ in equal scale weighing delight and dole…”
Happy Family Day.
#familyday #thanksgiving
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and I kneel while the national anthem is played as propaganda around sporting events, so too is the surface thin on which I walk this trail of giving thanks today. #thanksgiving #familyday
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and I struggle to mend our national fabric when so many take ignorant pleasure in the cultural genocide which birthed their Thanksgiving.
Just as I struggle to embrace the nationalistic jingoism surrounding the signing of the Declaration of Independence,
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I am thankful and grateful for the family that surrounds me; I am conscious of the price still to be paid for my respite; I am angered that people tout America's "greatness" when its laurels rest on violence that is yet to be curbed; #thanksgiving #familyday
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Being Black/Chicano in these United States on this federally-declared celebration, sent home to give & get loving embraces knowing this time away from capitalist participation rests among broken & bloodied bodies of people gleefully robbed of their land & lives means four things are true at once:
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It is a day that, in my homes and households, been called Family Day because that is what we are saying grace and giving thanks for. This legacy of celebration is just one of the ways being American means wearing golden handcuffs and reveling in being chained while marveling at how shiny they are.
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This day as a tradition, though, is steeped in laughter, love, sustenance, family, and the gratitude birthed by generations sharing joy around the table and squabbling for the last piece of peach or pumpkin or sweet potato pie. #familyday
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Even as a Day of Remembrance, couching the holiday in acknowledgement of those truths and tragedies, it is dancing on the graves of people killed & maimed by the manifest destiny of the US, who are primarily the First Peoples to populate the North American continent centuries ago. #thanksgiving
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Only it is more than White liberals who must answer the question now.
Thanksgiving as a holiday is steeped in white supremacy, genocide, imperialism, American exceptionalism, and oppression.