Living with my parents this summer and having frequent conversations about politics, BLM, white privilege, and more had been hard. Putting @benandjerrys on the grocery list has made it easier. ;)
“Emancipation wasn’t a gift bestowed on the slaves; it was something they took for themselves, the culmination of their long struggle for freedom.” https://t.co/ayCc2SQMIs
The Confederacy existed for 5 years. Gilmore Girls was on for 7 years. That means Gilmore Girls is a bigger part of our history and we should build statues of Emily Gilmore.
Martin Luther King and Anne Frank would be the same age as Barbara Walters if they were alive today.
We tend to think they lived in very different times, but they were all born in 1929.
#MLKDay
Follow the money! Mass incarceration — especially of Black and Brown Americans — is no coincidence. Learn more about how private companies profit from mass incarceration: https://t.co/BsudBqo9w1
thinking about how it’s illegal for a therapist to have sex with a patient (because the power disparity makes it impossible for the patient to “consent”) but it’s legal for a cop to have sex with an inmate. in a jail cell