“What Black people want is fair and equatable policing...We aren’t going to choose between fair policing and safety; we want both. Safety and reform aren’t mutually exclusive.”
-Bakari Sellers on his podcast, The Ringer (July 9, 2020)
Am old enough to have seen previous West backed/supported genocides.
This is different. I have not seen this lack of shame, this brazen lack of even a pretence of caring for human right or basic morality. This is imperial Whiteness laid bare at its most monstrous grotesqueness
DEVILS: "our top news story today is on the erosion of traditional masculinity"
ALSO DEVILS: "i am going into literal shock over diversity in cartoon mermaids someone call an ambulance i cant see through my tears of rage i cant breath oh my god i cant stop throwing up help me"
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is qualified, experienced and ready to serve on our nation's highest court. It's time for the US Senate to Confirm Judge Brown Jackson for SCOTUS Justice! #ConfirmKBJ
@jarvis The NYT Editorial Board: The question of "should women have rights" is a legitimate debate, and we shouldn't shun or shame those on either side of this important academic question.
Next Week the NYT Ed Board debates: "should the question of slavery be returned to the States"?
every quarter i give my students an extra credit assignment to make a meme about something we covered in class. this quarter i taught US History from approx 1815-1920(ish), and the kids had some spicy takes (thread of memes)
Hey, as the parent of a kid with a speech impediment, let me just make a blanket statement:
To conquer a stutter & deliver a speech to hundreds of millions of people is a much bigger accomplishment than “borrowing money from dad”.
Your jokes about it are tired.
#SOTU
Many international observers have – rightfully – expressed horror at the ongoing atrocities in Ukraine. However, as @MehdiRHasan and @AymanM point out, there have been more than a few instances where certain commentators’ shock at the war in Europe ebbs into outright racism.