A few things about me:
1. I STILL celebrate ALL Black women and girls.
2. I STILL ๐ค Black history.
3. I struggle with anxiety and depression.
4. I'm against white supremacy.
5. I'm an avid bibliophile.
6. I'm a Black feminist.
7. I STILL block with impunity.
So let me get this straight:
Governor Walz made sure menstrual supplies were available in schools because he understands that period insecurity is real and that girls' periods are unpredictable and somehow I'm supposed to be upset by this????
It occurred to me while watching the video of that little Black girl gymnast being publicly mistreated, humiliated and embarrassed why no adults stepped up and spoke up for her.
Because they didn't SEE a little girl.
Remember how Black girls are adultified.
Not only was she
invisible to them, but in their eyes she wasn't even a child worth protecting.
This is why our Black girls go missing and it's just ho hum. It's why our Black girls get trafficked and exploited and it's always HER fault.
@EmmJayed
There ARE unisex bathrooms and there are times girls bathrooms are unavailable or closer.
The way you don't think about these things in order to be anti-trans.
To the selfish bishes who said "well I didn't need that because I was smart enough to bring them," please fuck all the way off.
Period insecurity is real. There are many students who can't afford basic supplies. Also, periods can start at any time.
Little Black girls,
Love your K-pop, be alternative, be a cosplay nerd, read your comic books, be a skater Betty, do your thing and what makes you happy.
Your Fairy Gothmother of Metal has your back. Don't let ANYONE dim your shine.
Hugs!!!
Mr. Aldean.
First, you grew up in MACON. Which as memory serves me well, is far from being a "small town."
Now, John Cougar Mellencamp wrote songs about living in a small town. And he did it WITHOUT invoking the image of Sundown towns or shooting a video at the site of a
In the past 24 hours I have been accused of releasing a pro-lynching song (a song that has been out since May) and was subject to the comparison that I (direct quote) was not too pleased with the nationwide BLM protests. These references are not only meritless, but dangerous.
I want to talk about forgiveness and why no, white people, you are NOT entitled to it from Black people.
It's been around 72 hours since ten innocent people were brutally slaughtered for being Black and as usual when things like this happen, white comfort supersedes Black grief.
@ianbremmer
The fact that you honestly expect BIPoC and other marginalized people who've spent four years being actively harmed by this administration and its supporters is exactly why many of you are not allies in ending oppression. MLK wrote about you in Letters from a Birmingham Jail.
I haven't heard squat from Ice Cube, Luther Campbell, Charlemagne Tha God, Killer Mike or any of the misogynoirist "pro-Black" hoteps about Florida's ridiculous Black "history" that claims "slavery was beneficial" to Black folks.
They're not going to jeopardize that money.
Brian,
I have anxiety and depression.
I've had anxiety attacks in public, but you'd never know because 1) at that moment I'm trying to find a safe place and someone to call, and 2) I'm a Black woman who would never be given the benefit of the doubt if I were to have a public
Jaime Harrison is on track to being one of the most successful DNC chairs, and yet white folks are STILL insisting he wave some magic wand.
Christopher Bouzy crunched the numbers and against all of the professional pundit class actually called the midterms in favor of Democrats.
#mouthypolitics101
Just so you know - that kicker dude at the graduation talking about women need to be mothers and not have a career isn't talking to ALL women.
He's talking about WHITE WOMEN.
It's thinly coded "replacement theory" propaganda and it's long been espoused by
I've been undergoing a slow process of accepting what aging means for me. I've never been 58 years old before, but I DO know that all those "rules" can kick rocks. I love hats with flowers, big eyeglass frames and lip gloss. I'm boho auntie.
@toe__sucka
All right, who's going to be that person claiming Karen here is having a panic attack and/or other form of mental illness because I'm letting you know right now as someone with anxiety and has had panic attacks in public, this is NOT what we do. Entitled Karen couldn't bring
David, you sweet summer child.
WHITE Gen X likes to pretend that racism wasn't a big deal in the 1990's when we had Rodney King and James Byrd. For white Gen Xers, it was out of sight, out of mind. And listening to 90's rap - which was actually TALKING about the racism Black
#mouthypolitics101
I've had a German Shepard before.
They are fiercely protective of "their pack."
If Commander is "biting" secret service agents, those agents are suspect.
Given what we keep learning about the Orange Shitgibbon's administration, that dog is doing his job.
#mouthypolitics101
Fuck Carville.
Fuck Axelrod.
Fuck Plouffe.
Fuck every feckless wm so-called Democrat who keep playing in our faces and dancing to the Republicans tune like the dumbasses they are.
We will NOT be replacing Biden just because of one debate. A DEBATE in which
"There's too much power in gymnastics and less gracefulness" is low key for "too many Black and Brown faces doing things we can't."
Notice this complaint is seldom made about football or basketball.
@toe__sucka
herself to apologize for cutting the line. A "OMG I'm so sorry" and moving to where the line started would have sufficed.
This is a woman unused to boundaries but highly proficient in weaponizing tears and fake fragility.
@ShaunKing
Obama would have never even been elected. Don't tell me white privilege isn't a real thing when a glaring example of it is sitting in the oval office right now.
Question: what is it about ww sports commentators that makes them sound so jealous of Black women athletes to the extent of drawing attention to minor mistakes in otherwise flawless performances?
I mean I KNOW why, just curious if anyone else has noticed that.
@FUNKY1byNature
When I see BM list "unrealistic standards" and "attitude" as a BW problem, I already know what's actually being said. Women of other races have standards (even those considered "unrealistic"), but only Black women are supposed to accept just anything.
When Black people say "we're not here to educate you", this is yet another reason why.
Black woman explains the true history of Aunt Jemima. White woman in her best Scarlett O'Hara says "fiddle dee dee, I love my darkies." Then tries to play the victim of "reverse racism."
@HustleAndFro_
It's also anti-seniors.
A lot of people my parents and grandparents age don't always like using credit cards. They're a generation who used cash and are much more comfortable with it.
I've been to a Civil War re-enactment. It was interesting.
Especially when a group of Black men arrived dressed as the 54th Massachusetts regiment.
Talk about hearing a pin drop.
Better still some had their wives and children dressed in period garb, portraying seamstresses,
#FreePeteSouza
This is why MAGAts hate Obama.
Unlike their sainted Orange Shitgibbon, Obama didn't play footsie with a dictator.
Putin can't even meet his eyes. Coward.
Exhibit A of 100% peak Karen.
Not only did SHE attack Quinta Brunson first, but now she's doing what ALL Karens do when people aren't fawning over their nonsense.
"I'm the victim here."
Using the word "peeved" is another way of calling a Black woman "angry."
#mouthypolitics101
I see GenX is trending.
Let's be VERY clear though.
WHITE GenX males are the problem.
They'll brag about how they loved Michael Jackson and 2Pac, but voted for the Orange Shitgibbon, because they can't stand the fact that society progresses.
I'm an 80's
Dear white women,
Are you seeing how white men are treating Caitlin Clark as fragile despite her being an excellent player who also is passionate about the game to the point of trash talking? Is THIS okay with you? Is THIS your feminism that allows you to let a Black woman
@gabrielledoug
@JamieBroadnax
Unlike many here I'm not going to trash you or your achievements. You were wrong. Unfortunately you hold a view that is far too prevalent and damaging to women. The best thing you can do now is educate yourself and DO better.
It really does sound ridiculous, but the fact of the matter is that Barack Obama as president for eight years really angered a lot of white folks and 45 was their knee-jerk response to that.
lynching.
Whether you like it or not, flag burning is protected speech under the same First Amendment you claim to hold dear. Which is why I have no problem using the confederate flag as kindling.
You have an opportunity to educate yourself rather than this lame ass fauxpology
@ingloriousgigi
She's owns a dance studio.
He's a part-time mariachi (there was an article in the LA Times about how gentrification and the pandemic have harmed for-hire mariachi groups in Boyle Heights).
I'd read the hell out of this!!!
and please, don't think of using Kane Brown, Darius Rucker or any Black country artist as your convenient "see I'm not a racist" card.
Oh, and Journey sang about a small town and it's a very popular song. So have Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Cry in your beer.
I'm just going to say this and be done for today...
Black womenโs valid criticism of First Lady Jill Biden inviting the Iowa team was NOT an "attack" on her, and I'm tired of people calling it "aggressive", playing into that stereotype attached to Black women.
Just so you know, the daughters and grand-daughters of these women are STILL alive and STILL behave this way.
They call themselves "Moms for Liberty" these days.
And you won't.
First of all, white men DIDN'T "free" us.
Black folks were freeing ourselves which was why white men enacted more punitive laws.
Second, the 54th Massachusetts would like a word.
Third, Harriet Tubman has entered the chat.
The district continues to violate the CROWN Act, meanwhile this child is missing just being a child. Sure, his parents can transfer him to another school but why should they when he's not at fault? Black hair styles remain penalized for no reason save racism.
Black Texas teen Darryl George continues to fight his school suspension months after he received an initial week-long suspension over his loc hairstyle. He asks a very important question that needs to be answered: "Why should I cut my hair for my education?"
I respect Dr. Jill Biden but she's wrong here and it sends a terrible message. Iowa should NOT be treated special when we know had they won, this invite would not have been extended to LSU.
1) I am not your "bro" or "sis."
2) I am under no obligation to be "nice" in the face of racism, nor accept passive-aggressive tone policing.
3) If people refuse to call out racism because Black folks aren't being "nice enough," THEY'RE the problem.
4) Get bent.
Black people will pick ourselves up, dust off our pants, and keep moving forward.
Who really thinks - given our history - that ANYONE can stop us?
We know how to make a way out of no way because we've had to.
Black joy and success cannot be stopped.
Pro-tip: don't be one of those "COEXIST" white people trying to shame Black people for being jubilant about the Fade in the Water.
1. It's not your place to police our feelings.
2. Your outrage needs to be against the white attackers who thought they could do as they pleased.
Scrolling through J*sh Hawley's Twitter feed showing him being thoroughly outclassed by Professor Khiara Bridges, as expected 53% of white women are calling Professor Bridges "condescending" like we don't know what they really mean.
It's New Book Tuesday and I'm just going to post photoshoots with Black women as mermaids because I'm supremely petty like that lol ๐ง๐ฟโโ๏ธ๐ง๐ฟโโ๏ธ๐ง๐ฟโโ๏ธ.
Anyone dissing peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and saying that adults shouldn't eat them gets an automatic block from me.
A PB&J on honey wheat bread with a tall, cold glass of moo juice is comfort food.
I've said this before....
The "problem" some folks have with Lizzo isn't that she's fat. It's that she's unapologetic about who she is, she's being sexy in ways that society dictates is the sole domain of white (skinny) women and she's not singing woe is me, my man done left.
teachers, nurses and even a young woman portraying Pvt. Cathay Williams.
Again, pin drop.
It was spring, but the frosty looks from the usual suspects had me looking for snow.
I guess that part of history didn't sit well with them.
It took less than 24 hours before the 18 year old shooter was being labeled "a boy" by the press. Within that time frame came armchair psychologists with their favorite fallback diagnosis whenever mass shooters resemble their sons - mental illness.
What comes next? Forgiveness.
By the way, how old was that little Black girl gymnast in Ireland?
If she's old enough to experience it, your little Brady and Brittany are old enough to READ ABOUT IT.
White people bragging about how they don't wash their hands or don't bathe everyday is the kind of privilege Black people will never have. Our hygiene has been linked with our Blackness and beliefs that we were intrinsically dirty because of our skin.
#mouthypolitics101
And now Tim Scott is no longer the GOP's favorite house negro.
When are Black Republicans EVER going to learn they're useful as long as they "know their place" and regurgitate racist talking points?
Ron DeSantis says Black people benefited from slavery by learning skills โlike being a blacksmith.โ
Black Republican Tim Scott offers a milquetoast response that there was โno silver lining in slavery.โ
And now Republicans are attacking [checks notes] Tim Scott.
Short answer - yep.
Long answer - Zaya is growing up to be a beautiful, healthy, well-adjusted and well-loved Black girl.
Many LGBTQ Black kids are abused and kicked out of their homes, live in poverty and suicidal but yeah, let's criticize the supportive parents.
@louisebjacob
Oh I'm sorry, but you don't get to blame Black and Brown folks for shit! This isn't our mess.
You seriously need to delete this tweet yesterday.
Seriously, the audacity of caucasity.
Black people are expected to once again forgive these endless trespasses, not because WE want to, but because our righteous fury at being targeted for no other reason save than our skin color makes white people uncomfortable. Even now on this bird app, white folks calling
We hear a LOT (way too much in fact) about (white) parents rights, but what about BLACK PARENTS? Where are THEIR rights?
Do we think Black parents are okay with their children being told their history and books written about them have no place in schools?
Do we think Black
Every damn day on this bird app someone just has to show they don't know jack squat about Black folks.
I grew up deep sea fishing. My girly girl nieces fish AND can fillet their own catches.
That's disrespectful, but part for the course. Dehumanization of Black people is as American as apple pie.
By the way, explain to me about Elijah McClain and why his disability got him murdered by the police.
I'll wait.
My post on Monday about the old white dude demanding that Black folks thank whites for our freedom touched quite a nerve with some people.
Let me make a few things perfectly clear so there's no misunderstanding:
1) The Civil War was unequivocally about slavery. This is a FACT.
People need to understand Grace Jones wasn't considered beautiful or popular and she had to find fame in Europe. Even some Black folks here didn't know what to make of her. She was dark-skinned, wore a fade and wore outrageous/androgynous clothing. She was ahead of her time.
JUST FOR ONE DAMN DAY
It would be great for people to leave Black women and girls ALONE.
Shut up about our hair, our makeup, our nails, our clothes, the way we talk, the way we move through the world, our dancing, the music we make -
Just let Black and girls women BE!
While I'm not full-on Khive, I not only appreciate how they bring the receipts for the VP and speak up for her in ways that she would be penalized as the "Angry Black woman" for, I've also seen how they've raised money for each other and have mourned the passing of one of
Sit down and let's have a wee chat about "low information voters" and who they REALLY are.
Black political and Black folks Twitter aren't buying Cassidy Hutchinson's "I'm A Pretty White Woman With Tears" apology tour. We know who she is by the company she chose to keep and the
@_shukura_
You forgot the abuse. Perry makes sure the Black heroine goes through hell in a gasoline thong before she's allowed a "happy" ending. That whole "long suffering mule" trope.
herself. You don't care about Ijeoma Ukenta's mental health or what this incident did to HER.
You see an op-ed and here you are, riding in like the 5th calvary, to save the white woman.
By the way, the actual victim's name is Ijeoma Ukenta. You called her "the Nigerian woman."
PSA: Every white woman fangirling over Liz Cheney is loudly telling Black women just how unreliable and untrustworthy that demographic really is.
Then again, their suffragist foremothers threw Black women under the bus, so this behavior is par for the course.
While we're cheering DA Fani Willis, let's make damn sure she's being PROTECTED.
When you see misogynoir aimed in her direction - be it from the right and the left - call it out and cuss 'em out.
Let' em know we're not playing.
the likes of The Heritage Foundation, the klan and other white supremacist groups.
The attacks on reproductive freedom are the tip of the iceberg. Men like that clown are terrified that younger ww are not just choosing the bear, but cats and chardonnay. They are literally trying
to make child marriage acceptable, which is why they keep calling it "freedom" and framing it as a "state's rights" issue.
Social media is being inundated with trad wife content aimed at white women Gen Z.
The rest of us? Black and WoC are considered collateral damage.
Former Ren-Faire re-enactor and historical costume nerd here.
One comment from people that always makes me cringe is the "oh, I wish I lived in (whatever) that era."
No. You. Fucking. DON'T.
Lack of sanitation. Lack of medical knowledge. Childbirth.
Bridgerton isn't REAL.
So
#CarleeRussell
is home safe, yet because she's a Black woman, assholes are now claiming she faked the whole thing. Sounds to me like the only ending these shits want for ANY missing Black woman or girl is for them to be found DEAD.
That is some fucked-up pathology.
The book They Were Her Property utterly destroys Rebecca's nonsense post.
The notion of "white woman not knowing better" is just an excuse. From enslavers to the Daughters of the Confederacy to the Mary KayKayKay, white women have cheerfully upheld white supremacy.
@shannonrwatts
White women have also been the most manipulated and weaponized by white men, and they are still abused by them. More women need education and open arms once they realize theyโve been duped.
themselves "allies" are tone policing Black posts with a vengeance. We're being told to "find common ground" with kindly Uncle Ed who thinks n*ggers are getting free stuff. We're being told "what about Black on Black crime" as if we don't mourn those tragedies and want something
Hoteps whining about
#WakandaForever
was definitely on my 2022 bingo card.
Their hatred of Black women is never ceasing, even in a fictional super hero movie.
You have NO IDEA how exhausting you are to us - online and in real life.
You demand we forgive. That we move on and not saddle you with our messy emotions because emotions are part of what makes us HUMAN - and you still don't believe that we ARE.
You know what happens to anger
I don't care, I'm crying happy tears.
The way these women's whole demeanor changed. They are literally GLOWING.
Protect and bless this young man and these women.
I stopped bringing TikToks over here but I just love what this man is doing with these womenโs makeovers. The look on their faces when he reveals them at the end. MY HEART EXPLODES EVERY TIME! The love he has for Black Women shows and I will watch/support every single video ๐ฅนโค๏ธ
meltdown like Abigail here.
Mental health is already stigmatized in this country and often used to justify/blamed when there's a mass shooting - ESPECIALLY when the perpetrator is white. All you're doing here is keeping up the narrative and blaming the Black woman for protecting
So let's see if this bird app will let me tweet this:
Charles Stuart - murdered his own wife and blamed a Black man for it.
Susan Smith - drowned her toddler sons and blamed a Black "carjacker."
Sherri Papini - blamed two Hispanic women for her kidnapping.
wearing the masks that make us safe and palatable to you.
I wonder if any of you have ANY idea of the emotional, physical and psychological costs Black people pay every day holding ourselves in check given the daily fuckery we have to deal with from too many of you.
We've got a Black father doing right by his wife and little girls. Those girls will remember this forever and they'll respect the man who showed them this kind of love.
Then we've got broke ashy dusty who's in a mess of situationships and only knows how to be a sperm donor.
at our capacity for grace.
Our "strength".
Newsflash white folks, this isn't FOR YOU.
If Black people were actually ALLOWED to express the full range of our pain, anger, grief, sorrow and frustration - you'd call the police. Not for anything we've actually DONE, but for not
"I understand the anger and frustration of the parents of the young lady who was the target of the abuse."
The adultification of Black girls Exhibit A.
She. Was. A. Little. GIRL. Who. Was. Beaten.
Not a "young lady."
Words matter!
Exhibit A of a ww being more concerned about my tone in responding to racism rather than the racism itself is everything I needed to know.
Blocked.
She needed to demand peace from the racist woman who tried to whitesplain the "benefits" of enslavement.
done about them.
We're being not all'ed to death by incredibly tone deaf white folks wanting allyship cookies for doing even less than their least.
Then we're expected to forgive this murdering coward and quote scripture and hold our heads heavenward so white people can marvel
The "anti-woke" crowd's real problem with Chevalier - based on the life of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges - is that his story directly flies in the face of their racist belief that Black people lack the intelligence to not just succeed, but to be BETTER.
Oh fuck your poor white tears!
BLACK CHILDREN cannot wear the hair that grows from their heads.
BLACK CHILDREN are being told their history is "too traumatizing" for your precious snowflakes to read about.
Yeah punk, I am SOOOO ready for this conversation.
Bring. It. On.
@pettyispraxis
You have no idea what white children have been forced to grow up around. Walking on eggshells their entire lives because someone put an idea into another person's head that if said white body started emulating "black" culture they would be seen as an adversary.
You are not ready
@TichinaArnold
There is no "emasculation of the Black man". This question is straight from the Daniel P. Moynihan playbook and has done untold damage to Black women and children. Black women have intersecting identities and yet we're told that only ONE should matter. Black men have issues, true