Anissa R. Patton

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[Anissa R. Patton @GeneralARPatton]

@MrsJellySantos I am 54 and I am going to rock whatever hairstyle I please.💋

[Bandit 🟥⬛️🔱⬛️🟥 @BanditBrigand]

Any time Black people stand up for themselves or their own, here comes somebody whining, “You can’t fight fire with fire.”

But Black people have been burning for centuries. Don’t lecture the man in the fire about the temperature of his resistance.

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

“The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.”

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Scott Pelley issues new statement after being fired by CBS for opposing their pro-MAGA bias:

“New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.

Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done.

Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

Any time someone says “I don’t care if you’re white, black, purple, green…” they’re about to say something racist.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

bell hooks said that White people will meet a Black person who completely challenges every racial stereotype that they have, but rather than giving up the stereotypes, they create a special category for that person and say, things like “Well, you’re not like other Black people”, instead of saying, “My ideas of Black people were too narrow”.

This is called “subtyping” and it leads to the survival of negative stereotypes because the new category individual who’s supposedly “not like the others” is mentally isolated from the group.

What this shows is that bigotry is all about protecting an existing hierarchy and it doesn’t matter much whether a person is exposed to other people or not. Which is why meeting intelligent, kind, accomplished, or complex Black people does not dismantle prejudice if someone is emotionally invested in keeping the stereotype intact.

Exposure to facts and figures doesn’t change the situation either. Someone can know the statistics on crime, education, poverty, or discrimination and still keep racial stereotypes because the stereotype preserves a sense of superiority and avoids confronting historical responsibility.

This is part of why bell hooks further argued that racism is emotional and ideological more than just purely ignorant, which is then why facts by themselves usually do not overcome a worldview that a person is motivated to preserve.

[ℂ𝕙𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕒𝕟 @M4X_POW3R]

Every lawyer involved in the Trump/IRS settlement should be disbarred

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

I’m gonna post this video every day so we NEVER FORGET what Donald Trump did to the USA on Jan 6th

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Don Lemon: “If Barack Obama had sued his own government, settled with himself in secret, created a billion dollar fund with no congressional oversight to pay his political allies. What if he did that? They would’ve had him in chains before sundown. The National Guard would have been called in. Impeachment articles would have been filed. Can you imagine Fox News?”

[Anissa R. Patton @GeneralARPatton]

@KevOnStage I have 3. Gen X.

[Anissa R. Patton @GeneralARPatton]

@ReelingThespian This is the exact same response they had to the portrayal of BM in the original movie "The Color Purple."

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

President Trump's $1.776 billion settlement with the IRS is one of the single most corrupt acts in American history.

They moved fast to avoid the scrutiny of the judicial process, and very likely violated the Constitution. This is an outrage.

[jezz @JezziiB]

WHAT MEN DON’T UNDERSTAND IS THIS:
Nobody cooks for her.
Nobody cleans for her.
Nobody makes her meals.
Nobody does her laundry.
Nobody checks to see if she’s okay.
And nobody caters to her, period.
A woman is ALWAYS expected to take care of everyone, but she’s human too.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Donald Trump just stole $1.7B from us — and he's creating a slush fund to reward his political allies.

I've never seen anything like this in my 50 years in politics.

It makes Nixon look like a boy scout.

https://t.co/h50c8yzXtJ

[˖᯽ ݁˖ pop backup ˖᯽ ݁˖ @popbackupp]

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[ً @wynrosei]

"violence isn't the answer" only gets said when oppressed people start fighting back, not when the oppression is happening

[Anissa R. Patton @GeneralARPatton]

@TheCinesthetic Killmonger was an antihero, not a villain.

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

“WE NEED TO LET THEM DO INSIDER TRADING TO FEED THEIR FAMILIES”

That was the actual argument just made in defense of politicians trading stocks.

Members of Congress make $174,000 a year.

The median American income is roughly $63,000. (3x less)

Meanwhile the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour… also unchanged since 2009.

And you’re seriously being told politicians need access to insider trading to survive.

The system is designed to lead earth to neo-feudalism.

And it’s becoming more brazen by the year.

Asset ownership consolidates upward.

Living standards decline downward.

The middle class gets squeezed from both ends and disappears while the elite class accumulates more wealth, more influence, and more protection.

Leaving behind a permanent underclass.

And a permanent political-financial aristocracy at the top…

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Stone cold racism on a scale I have NEVER seen in my lifetime is happening in real time. 

Louisiana Governor Landry suspended a primary election — where tens of thousands of people had ALREADY VOTED — to redistrict and eliminate Black representation.

Our country is supposed to be about the expansion of liberty and freedom. We're seeing the exact opposite.

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

The rush to silence Black voters ahead of the 2026 election is stone cold racism.

It's Jim Crow 2.0.

[BIG DADDY @Hearts0faKing]

Remember yall was like. “I’m not voting. I don’t like neither candidate. It’s not like it’s going to make a difference anyway!”

Now look at you. Can’t afford food, gas, or plane tickets.