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Exactly. I remember a few times folks (usually not Black) arguing defund was too scary for white folks and my response was that white fear was one of the paths towards Breonna Taylor's and George Floyd's murders. We'd still be in Jim Crow (at least) if we based our politics on white folks' fears

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Placement of stories and repetition of them ("drumbeat") is a more powerful influence than the content of them. The times is signalling, along with the neutral-framed headline, to everyone that they don't consider this story a big deal or scandalous

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Bc they hate dems. They don’t even want to be dems. They want to destroy the Democratic Party for their own white supremacy driven movement

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Should’ve still Been our president and then Kamala in 2028 but foolish people fooled around And then fooled around worse when Kamala became our candidate

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Imagine hating Black people so much you don't want clean milk or healthy kids.

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Reminder that a certain DNC Vice-Chair, who makes noises about funding primary challengers to "establishment Democrats", isn't himself old enough to run for Congress

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Reminder that the person trying to do this (and his wife) are Birthers, and galloped into the White House on this horse

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It's going to be skin color because anything else and Black and Indigenous people are citizens immediately since they can't use "Where were your grandparents born?" to weed us out

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Maybe this is a surprise to you when the ~1350 accounts you follow are predominantly white and predominantly academics/professors and you lose touch with the common people (/s). But anyone paying attention to Black women and other marginalized groups has always known this was the goal.

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No. There needs to be a class action suit NOW. Sounds like this motherfucker is FAST tracking a HIPPA violation. NO-ONE should be able to share your medical data w/out your permission! Fuck. I'm not a lawyer but this sounds illegal AF! 😡

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

" in the aftermath of the flood, local law-enforcement authorities arrested thousands of black men, caged them in “pens,” and released them to white planters in need of rebuilding their businesses."

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MLK was standing on a balcony wearing a suit. Emmett Til was dragged from his house in pjs Sandra Bland was heading to her new job when she got pulled over Ahmaud Arbery was going for a jog… Nobody had guns, nobody was “dressed like a gangster” Please, shut the fuck up forever.

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It’s a way to avoid dealing with the racism, infrastructure implosion, and crippling self doubt that comes with spending all of their time to make sure they were centered and the only ones heard And failing this spectacularly

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THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT. sincerely, a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

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I have an even hotter take, anti Blackness isn't rooted in logic. None of our explainers for their aversion to DEI take in the very real issue of how much pleasure they get out of hate. The most successful bigots still hate equality laws because if they don't have anyone to hate they're unhappy

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

1/? This quote from June: "I just think if we start comparing our suffering, then those fuckers have won." It cuts like razor blades, especially having June say this to Moira. It typifies something white feminists say to escape culpability for their role in white supremacy. #TheHandmaidsTale

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See this is what I mean. Mississippi is a state with a 40% Black population. African American candidate Mike Espy garnered nearly 45% of the vote in the 2020 General Election for the U.S. Senate. Why isn’t there a 10 yr Dem plan for organizing Mississippi? Why concede the state w/a 40% Black pop?

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Read the whole thread, again young white women are in danger and they do not understand exactly how far back white men want to roll their rights. White supremacy in church pants is still white supremacy. They will go after all of us, but the slavery they fantasize about most is young white women's

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The Daughters of the Confederacy and like groups (like Sons of Confederate Veterans) are the most directly responsible parties for the erasing, reframing, and just straight up retelling of the civil war and the confederacy. They started work IMMEDIATELY after the war ended.

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This is also why I'm never ever ever trying to hear Black people complaining about stories of enslaved people that highlight just how absolutely evil white folks were and how they built this country on our literal backs. Bc US taking that own as our shame when it's THEIRS let's this bullshit breathe

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Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

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I think it's in Upside Down by Galleano that he notes that during the crusades Europeans weaponized the fact that Muslims washed up so often (at least before praying 5x a day) as a sign that they were dirty. If they were clean they wouldn't have to wash so often. This idea of innate cleanliness /1

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I live in an apartment. I'm not growing my own food. And as someone who spent three years working in a food producing garden and too many summers as manual labor in my dad's backyard, telling people to grow their own is not a solution

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This is exactly America. Black people have been telling y’all for decades. Law enforcement has regularly wrongfully arrested, circumvented due process, incarcerated and not solved murders of Black people under the umbrella of “gang related!”

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

Do people not understand how votes in Congress works? We need more Dems in Congress, not fewer of them. Primarying safe Dems is not a winning strategy. Even Manchin voted with Dems 50% of the time, which is better than what WV has now.

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In 1938, when FDR (!!) tried to "purge" Democratic congressmen who would not support the previous year's Supreme Court-packing plan, most of them were reelected anyway and the Republicans still gained seats

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Berner or Liberterian? Wants a bunch of stuff for free: housing, roads, education, food, cars. But they don't want to pay taxes. Hate women. Hate Black people. Arrogant beyond belief. Would sell their grandmother to get ahead. Are ageist aholes.

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