macibiri.bsky.social
🇷🇼🇹🇿🇧🇮 | Lover of Politics, Black Peoples 🖤, & Black Culture | Dog Mom | SIPA Alumn | TZ ➡️ IA ➡️ NYC | FREE 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 | Ubuntu Ubumwe ✊🏾
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As a Burundian and former refugee, I vividly recall being 8 years old when my family and others received sacks of corn and beans from USAID during a time when food was inaccessible as we fled genocide. This assistance was a lifeline to me and countless others. Dismantling has caused so much harm
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I’ve come to realize that the trauma they experienced in their home countries may have been so profound that it’s all they know, and perhaps it’s all they feel capable of handling. Hope and courage might feel so unfamiliar and overwhelming that they struggle to believe in them.
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As someone who understands the political and economic conditions they fled, it’s frustrating to see them use faith as an escape from accountability. They recognize injustice when it happens elsewhere, but not when it happens here.
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many refuse to see the connection between their votes and these policies. When confronted with the consequences of being uninformed, their response is often: “Don’t tell us that—it’s God’s will.”
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Most of these individuals are low-income and depend on public assistance. Now, they’re facing the possibility of losing Medicaid, SNAP, or SSI, and rent hikes as Section 8 housing funding is threatened. Yet, despite these direct impacts,
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organizations that once helped them apply for green cards or prepare for naturalization are now unable to do so. Some discovered that their family members, who had been approved to come to the U.S., are no longer allowed entry.
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Over the past three weeks, I’ve been working with a nonprofit to help refugees and migrants understand the impact of their votes and educate them on recent policy changes. Many who voted for the administration were shocked to learn that executive orders have restricted key services they relied on -
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Make sure to put on the fire-est playlist you can find
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I seeing pics of her. Who is she? And what happened?
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The way I chuckled when I saw IOWA
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I do hope you never get a chance to enjoy a restful sleep EVER!
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“Inappropriate statements” and it’s racism and eugenics.
Elon is a Nazi.
www.jphilll.com/p/inaugurati....
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Remember that the same people who decided that we were unequal, also decided that we should raise their children, build their homes, and reap their crops. They are aware that we are competent.
And since emancipation, these rich men have relied on poor racist, white people to keep the system going.
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It makes absolute sense why. Your response to the original post is the “why!” Take time to reflect on that
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A life saver 🫶🏽🫶🏽
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Stoppppp I needed this 🤭🤭🤭
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lol it’s giving “cause and effect,” which we were all taught in early childhood.
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I can just taste the juiciness of the veggies with the steak through the picture