The FICKLENESS of White moderates and the CRUELTY of White conservatives are why this country is at such a perilous place.
This is what happens when a society is comprised of ⚪️people who experience no real risk and human trauma is outsourced, then converted into entertainment.
Anyways, I'm going to keep banging the drums about Project 2025, Trump's felonies and the most corrupt Supreme Court in history.
The mission hasn't changed.
@RepressedDoll
@ABC
@WrittenByHanna
Random Jim Crow fun fact: When visiting black sharecroppers in the early 1960s, Dr. king encountered entire communities of ppl who had never seen U.S. currency bcuz they had never been paid real $$ for their work, only scrip which could be redeemed with the landowners.
Seriously, f*ck his guy.
We aren't doing to Kamala what these jabronis did to Hillary (who was right about everything BTW).
The stakes are too high, and we don't have time to waste with performative progressivism just so these fools can feel good at the local Co-Op meeting.
Amid rumors that Kamala Harris has selected Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as her running-mate,
@marclamonthill
reminds us that neither Harris nor Shapiro can or should be seen as progressive politicians.
Longtime black here. I have cleaned out the homes of numerous elders after their passing.
We ALWAYS found a cash stash...a cigar box under a floorboard, a rolled-up sock, a pocket in a gun case...
All remnants of a pragmatism informed by living under Jim Crow.
This guy sucks
As a black person, I would like to inform the masses that, contrary to popular belief, we do not, in fact, keep large sums of cash in our homes. That's a corrupt Democrat politician thing.
No, y'all just misjudged Black folks' ability to spot anti-blackness hidden in liberation movements .
We aren't new to struggle. We know what real allyship looks like and this wasn't it.
Demanding, disrespectful and dumb will get you nowhere with us.
Now that it’s been a few days of this i think the surge in racialised, predominantly black, americans talking about “the watermelon people” on tik tok is just a counterinsurgency psyop by the harris-walz campaign. It’s those 40 million dollars raised on zoom overnight at work
A white woman pushed an aspiring black doctor into a lake knowing he couldn’t swim. The woman also lied to his parents saying ‘he fell into the lake’. They also watched him for 10 minutes before bystanders who did not know him intervened.
BTW, for all the people mad about me telling black kids not to be 'the only one', it was my mentor, an older white man who helped put me on game.
A thread:
@SunG108_II
For the love of God, PLEASE read a history book. Rice is heavily featured in Black southern cuisine cooking. Africans from rice producing tribes were specifically enslaved to cultivate it in the low country of NC, SC, GA, and FL.
I see a lot of the lefties coming for black folks... painting us as passive, neutral, or worse even, as collaborators with an unaccountable establishment against a righteous resistance.
Let me explain something to y'all. This simply proves how little they know. A thread:
Protip: These dudes are in fact, villains.
They are cornballs who cannot figure out how to show up as real human beings without masculinity issues. As a result, they are repellent to the kind of women they lust after.
Now, they wanna pout and take their ball home.
F*ck 'em.
Man frustrated with the media and celebrities villainizing black men who refuse to vote for Kamala Harris.
“They think they own us.” This is the reality he’s speaking facts.
Vlad was tweeting his opinion on his own timeline not bothering anyone, just like everyone else.
She decided to seek him out, QT, and tell him he couldn't have an opinion because he's white, and now she's the victim? Oh ok.
Let me make it plain, if you were not alive when the crime bill passed, and are not from the 'hood, you, like
@KillerMike
can shut the entire f*ck up about that crime bill. Period.
The people who want us to martyr ourselves for Gaza have not given even a hint of what support will be provided to help us survive a right-wing, white supremacist junta running the US gov't.
Not one political strategy, mutual aid resource, or Pokemon GO tip.
Playtime is over.
He told me his position was based on being one of the only Jewish people around when he was in undergrad.
He described the experience as lonely, terrifying and something he wouldn't wish on his worst enemy.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
This is a giant bullseye on the black middle class in the DC area. Republicans hate, hate HATE th4 fact that the DC Metro area votes overwhelmingly Democratic. Especially DC and MD.
We CANNOT let the orange, rapist back into the White House.
@streamsilka
You DO realize that floodwater will come in direct contact with the sewage system, trash, waterways (e.g the GOWANIS CANAL) and anything that is at ground level as it rises right?
It is VERY contaminated and you shouldn't touch it let alone play in it.
Black Americans are the savviest, most politically astute part of the electorate for one reason:
We fully understand the VERY finite nature of the white majority's appetite for justice, equity, and tolerance when it comes to outgroups.
I'm Gen-X.
I was a kid in the wild-ass 70s, a tween when crack hit, and came of age when murder was at an all-time high. I've seen it all. Firsthand.
The LAST thing I am worried about right now is street crime.
I AM, however worried about fascism under the Orange Man.
These soft mfers can't process gluten or function for more than a day without Concerta, but think they are built to be an effective resistance against fascism and GOP-lead one-party rule.
They are lying to themselves.
Our aim is to nullify the retrograde ideology of the Right and thwart its ability to win elections via nominally "respectable" means.
This means being in coalition with compromised allies and NEVER holding our votes hostage.
It doesn't mean tearing up college campuses for vibes
His words, in a thick BK accent "There's no f*ckin' way I would send a Black or Puerto Rican kid from Brooklyn 'out there' by himself, completely cut off from his community..."
'Out there' meaning schools in the heartland with student bodies that were >90 percent white.
One of the most "black famous" bands ever, the GAP band is an acronym for Greenwood, Archer and Pine, the hub of Black Wallstreet in Tulsa, OK.
Assuming black folk don't know our own history prove our point.
AIDS, White flight, and Reagan's "War on Drugs" (the unrequested sequel to Nixon's "War on Crime") which criminalized blackness to an extent not seen since Reconstruction, were all a giant "F*CK YOU" to the changes brought about by the Civil Rights Movement and 1960s uprisings.
@henrymcmaster
Here's a suggestion, let the market move to pay living wages that are actually higher than those offered by federal assistance.
This is much more humane, moral and Christian than lowering the income floor and thereby the standard of living for your constituents.
The election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 was a DIRECT repudiation of the integration of non-whites and gay folk into mainstream society, of restorative justice, and of any accountability for allowing Jim Crow society to persist for almost a century.
Remember Brittany Watts who was arrested in Ohio for FELONY ABUSE OF CORPSE; she miscarried in her home. In December, an Ohio judge ruled that the case against her could proceed & is now in under consideration by a grand jury.
When powerful men rule, powerless women suffer.
I hope this answers the question of why black people over the age of 40 are unmoved by the calls to "radical" action by relative newcomers to the struggle against the shibboleths of white supremacy, corporatism and neocolonialism.
That door closed 40 years ago.
“I won’t vote for Biden. At this point voting Trump is on the table (…) I won’t support anyone anti-Israel or anti making USA safe,”
Visegrad24 spoke with
@MichaelRapaport
about his how his political views have changed since Oct. 7th.
Link to full interview in the comments ⬇️
And you know what? He was MILITANT about not allowing non-white students to attend these schools alone.
He would always insist that these schools, where he'd gained some influence, would at the very least accept the first AND second ranked candidates from a given community.
What a lot of ppl are missing is that during the Civil Rights movement, being arrested was part of the larger strategy of illustrating just how nakedly unconstitutional Jim Crow statutes were.
These circumstances informed the pragmatism in black political activity that an activist corps comprised of youth, tankies & non-Americans mistakenly interpret as passivity or collusion, thus the disrespect of black people within the latest resistance du jour
A secular Jew and child of Holocaust survivors, sometime in the 1980s he made the choice to spend some of his fortune helping Black and Latino kids from less fortunate backgrounds obtain academic scholarships to mostly PWIs.
He did this up until his death in the late 2000s.
This admin has done: Reparations for black farmers, carve-outs for AAs within the Office of Minority Business Development, and the largest reinvestment in HBCUs ever.
Booker introduced a Black maternal health bill in 2018.
It was blocked by you know who.
Google is free.
@BKCaliNative
Yep. They couldn't be more wrong. If not for the coalition of black folks, other POCs, gay folks and the Jewish community, this country would already be a fascist dictatorship
A portion of the land my family acquired after slavery was taken via eminent domain because it lay in the path of I-95. My great grandfather was forced to sell it for pennies on the dollar.
A reminder that urban planning and eminent domain started being used as tools of racism and oppression almost as soon as Black Americans had been free long enough to acquire land and build communities.
Because Russia figured out the lifeblood of conservativism is not only fiscal austerity, or small government (both huge lies btw), but is fact aggrieved, terrified whiteness.
That's why the GOP was easy to flip to anti Americanism.
How did American conservatism go from “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” to the beating heart of pro-Russia propaganda?
Russia bought a party. This is just a tiny portion of the story.
See, this is that bullsh*t we be talking about.
CONSERVATIVES will use every breath they can muster to pass laws and enact policies which are catastrophic to outgroups, even if it takes decades, but let's give them credit for being open about their misanthropic pathology.
As a woman of color, I’ve had both liberal and conservative friends, and ironically I sometimes find liberals more frustrating. Conservatives will admit to their biases and you can confront them directly. Liberals will secretly hold biases, and then gaslight you about it
I need Gen-z to understand that the orange moron proposed a TikTok ban first.
Why is Biden doing the same?
Because ESPIONAGE.
If we throw this election to the bad guys over a sh*tty, toy app, we deserve the fascism they will inflict upon us all.
Whenever I see a black Trump supporter, it's always the kind of dude you meet at the barbershop who holds crazy opinions on basic stuff "MLK was a sellout!", is clearly behind on child support, and has never read a primary source in his life.
Among Black people who support Trump, especially working class folks, I think the big reason why they like him is Covid stimulus checks. They think Trump gave us money so we like him.
So what happens if Biden eliminates student debt with the "stroke of a pen"?
How long would it be before a conservative judiciary fast tracks a case to the SC to not just reverse it, but to prevent the future admins from intervention in contract law for ANY reason whatsoever?
You wanna know the sad part? I really WANTED to believe the youth would be smarter, and better than we were.
Unfortunately, it seems like a lifetime of no primary sources, a relatively risk-free existence, and a sense of entitlement has ruined yet another generation of youth.
@michaelharriot
@haylesatan
You missed one....the mythical black slaveholder whose alleged existence lets everyone else who set up, profited from and perpetuated slavery off the hook..
@dissentingj
@QJames
@OutcheaFoReal
Black people do not want the police to operate
1. in an illegal manner
2. differently than they would in well to do white communities.
Same applies to the courts and prison system.
We still want protection of the law from criminals, which is why "defund" is unpopular.
@FriendEden100
The Pentagon should cancel his contract and expropriate Starlink under 50 U.S. Code § 1701.
If the contract has any liquidated damages clauses, leverage them to offset any FMV value claims Musk would file seeking compensation.
@TheJessieWoo
Ukraine has absolutely nothing to do with the intentional mismanagement of federal appropriations to Mississippi.
It's not a zero sum game.
@fatoo7__
It wasn't just 'a' TikTok. It has been a campaign of malign racism, disrespect and disinformation, including running up in Mother Emmanuel.
As for "support", it starts with stopping the man who will let Bibi "finish the job" from winning in Nov. while keeping the US a democracy
I need people to recognize that the ownership class has instructed their vassals in the mass media, and their agents within govt to engage in the psyop of getting us to stop fighting for our democracy. That's why you see all these people coming at Biden.
Don't give up.
@bothgoifriend
A lot of black kids with creative energy looked up to Basquiat. He represented a kind of authenticity to oneself that a black kid growing up in the 80s would admire. I'd bet that Jay, who is a product of Marcy projects, is looking from the perspective of his younger self.
At no point in the last 10years would I have predicted George Lucas being a hero and Dave Chappelle being an absolute villain in "Rich People Land Use Wars".
@CBSNews
Don't you mean: "What age is too young to encourage humanity and compassion in children?"
FYI: Black children have had to learn about racism as young as possible in order to save their lives (from white violence).
See, this is that nonsense we be talking about.
For who? Stein the Russian asset? Williamson the abusive swivel-eyed loon? Birdman Kennedy? Or someone else who is likely just as compromised by foreign powers with just as few allies in Congress.
PASS.
It's Biden for me.
🇺🇸Joe Rogan: If Biden wins, you'll have a president in decline with diverse idiots under him
"He's gone. You know he's gone. You're going to be relying on his cabinet that'll be a sideshow of diversity.
You can't have those kinds of people running a Ben and Jerry."
Source: JRE
@wyntermitchell
The opposite is true. The 80s were deadly serious..AIDS, crack, nuclear brinksmanship and Reaganism had ppl on the ropes. That's why the partying looked so brazy.
@DaHeathenOne76
That part. My grandfather had to go the local LOAN SHARK to open a grocery store in the hood in DC back in the day. He couldn't even get in the door at a bank. Sadly things have changed little since then.
@brian_g_moore
@alex_sammon
@chrislhayes
EVs have far fewer moving parts...electric motors are much, much simpler than internal combustion engines. This will = lower the long-term costs of ownership.
Perhaps hectoring the administration to exert absolute control over a situation it didn't create and cannot unilaterally defuse, while stating your community's 1% of the available votes will not be attainable (without committing political seppuku) wasn't a good strategy.
The Biden campaign has such disdain for Arabs and Muslims that it sort of takes my breath away. Its policy is to write us off, dismiss us, or ignore us.
@MBLGMCR
You clearly weren't there if you think this, and by there I mean NYC clubs in the late 80s.
This was yet another example of 🍞 appropriation of underground (queer, black and Latinx) culture.
@jacobin
Because nothing says 'economic anxiety' like having enough $$ to procure a $700 rifle plus another $1K in tactical gear, then driving 200mi. with gas at $5.00/gal in order to commit mass murder.
Bigotry and the infantilization of whiteness are the problem, not capitalism
Waitaminit!
Someone with BLM and as of late, a watermelon and a Palestinian flag has been desperately trying to convince me that both parties are the same and that Biden is Ming the Merciless.
Could they have been lying to me?
BREAKING: The Biden administration will repeal parts of a Trump-era rule allowing health care institutions and providers to deny treatment based on personal beliefs.
This news comes at a critical moment. We have a right to access health care without discrimination.