Waiting for the call that Jacq is out of surgery (bye bye gallbladder) so I’m answering unknown numbers & I now know that my car’s warranty will expire if I don’t act fast, my bank account has been compromised (they wanted my SSN), and I’ve defaulted on my mortgage.
Is it appropriate to ask our neighbors (who we don’t really know) if we could watch their front door camera footage so I can see Jacq fall down our steps LITERALLY onto her face? Based on how hard we laughed while she recounted the story, watching it would be life-giving.
Me annoyed at people screaming their conversation across the whole neighborhood: 🙄
1: HOW YA DOIN?
2: GOOD, AND YOUSE?
1: GOOD, HOW’S YER MOM?
2: SHE’S DEAD!
Me: 😵
1: OH!
2: SEE YA LATER!
There’s a small gathering of clanging pots and pans peppered up and down our little, old school, South Philly street as our Trumpist neighbors glare out their windows cursing us goddamn transplants. #bluephilly
The power keeps going out in our neighborhood and every time, our street erupts with whisper-down-the lane, South Philly style: a steady stream of “Yo, yous out too?”
Also TFW your love sees your tweet and can’t figure out what TFW means because apparently they’re 80 years old and their best guess is, “Something...for the win?”
TFW your love stops you in the hallway just to give you a hug and sweetly whispers:
“I’m so glad you’re my wife...
...mostly for the insurance.”
#itsthelittlethings
And if you can truly and honestly educate yourself on these issues (something I’ll have to work on my whole life), and listen to the experiences of black people and believe them, and watch this shit unfold on film, and STILL only focus on looting, then where is your humanity?
If you are a white person who has black people in your life who are willing to have difficult conversations around race, you are certainly lucky. But PLEASE do not ask them to teach you everything about racism or white privilege or to speak for black people everywhere.
white men walk around my neighborhood and others across the city with semi-automatic weapons, rifles, handguns, bats, and even hatchets, after curfew looking for someone to brutalize and police assure those who report them as dangerous that “they’re on our side.”