I'm so tired of BIPOC, and specifically women and/or femmes of colour, speaking about valid things unapologetically and with clarity, and immediately being called "aggressive," and seen as attacking people.
I spent a lot of my life being told by family, ex friends, ex partners, school admin, etc. that I was too sensitive. Turns out that I was unwilling to sit silently through mistreatment/cultures of abuse.
Sensitivity is a strength. Never let weak people convince you otherwise.
Why are people so mad about people wearing masks outside? If they want to wear masks after the biggest mass death event in the US in generations, let them. Why does someone else wearing a mask bother you? Do you get mad when other people wear their seatbelt?
Do not ever EVER EVER TELL ME to respect a police officer the same way I respect our military. Police officers abuse their power. I’m not saying the military is perfect in any way, because it’s not. But they deserve FAR MORE RESPECT THAN THIS
Army Lt. Nazario was driving his new car home. He was pulled over, pepper sprayed, and arrested without explanation.
This is racism. It’s about the domination and humiliation of a Black man because he asked questions and “didn’t comply.”
@Tome_Topple I got into a bad reading slump when I first started reading it over a year ago. But I loved it this time around, 4/5 stars. The author is planning another book in the same world so I’m excited for that!
As of today she’s 79.. Biden is 78.. a lot of those “white peers” and peers of them alike are sitting at tables like congress to this day makin those same faces to what we see as progress