George Orwell worried that a shrinking vocabulary would eventually produce a shrinking range of thought.
It is difficult to think a nuanced thought with a blunt language.
The literacy crisis isn’t that people can’t read the words. It’s that they can’t understand the context, infer meaning, recognise nuance, identify contradictions, or draw logical conclusions from what they’ve read.
They cut funding for your healthcare, your children’s schools, and disease control.
But they can fund flock, data centers, wars that make everything harder. ICE can kill with impunity.
And if you dissent to any of it, you’ll be called a “commie” and they want to kill you too.
the sad reality about DreamCons appeal is that a lot of black people do not LIVE in abundantly black spaces
specifically ones where you have many niche interests in common, so to not have that kind of community daily is draining
You deadass forget you’re a minority for 3 days
Don’t call yourself a cinephile if you:
-don’t watch black cinema
-don’t take animated films seriously including anime
-don’t attempt to watch all genres even if you don’t like them
-don’t seek out female directors
Twenty years after its release, Common’s album Be has officially gone Platinum, he was presented a platinum plaque as a surprise at the end of his show
It also marks the first album of his career to go platinum. Timeless music forever🏆
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