If you come at me labels first, I don't have anything to say to you.
- I'm a "Christian"
- I'm a feminist
- I'm black
- I'm transgender
If you come at me as the Divine Spark you are, we can talk.
You separated yourself first. Don't expect me to reach across the divide.
@arthur_rumrill I try not to shit on law enforcement. They are, by and large, honorable men and women who want to make the world a better place.
But we must not forget they work for The Corporation and not for us. Most don't even take the Oath of Office.
@CentipedeLover2 When you were a baby, I worked for a woman who was so offended by my face, she demanded i take everything out before I came to work. I worked in a factory, so I wasn't a front-facing employee.
My appearance was irrelevant.
I once sat at a table in the southland when a woman spoke a word that felt like a sudden embrace, though I had done nothing to earn it.
"What can I get y'all?"
Y'all. I knew the word from television. I did not know it could HOLD people. My friends ordered. I sat there, freshly contained, working out what I had just been counted into.
In Japan, inclusion is earned slowly. Years of shared seasons before a group says "we" and means you. This woman did it in one syllable, between refills, without checking my paperwork.
"You good, hon?" she asked.
"You included me."
"In what?"
"In y'all."
She looked at my friends. My friends looked at the table. "He's from Japan," one offered, as if that explained it, because it did.
"Well," she said, "y'all want biscuits or not?"
TWICE. Contained twice in one minute. The biscuits arrived and I ate them as a member.
I have since studied the grammar. Y'all: two or more souls, bound. All y'all: an entire room, gathered into one word like rice into one bowl. There are scholars who say "all y'all" is excessive. Those scholars have never needed a word big enough for everyone they love.
"Y'all come back now," she said when we left.
We. I am a we, in Tennessee.
A word does not ask permission to include you. It opens like a door, and you are already inside.
I am practicing saying it. My accent makes it formal, "you all", which my friends say defeats the purpose. The purpose survives. The purpose is everyone.
⚠️⚠️ GUILTY ⚠️⚠️
Teacher, Jamie Varley, 37 has been FOUND GUILTY of sexually abusing and murdering 13-month-old baby Preston Davy in a campaign of horrifying abuse over 16 weeks.
His partner John McGowan-Fazakerley, 32, was found guilty of sexual assault, child cruelty and allowing the death of a child.
A port-mortem showed Preston had suffered 40 injuries - with three hospital emergency visits in the 4 months he'd been placed in their care in the process of adoption.
NO SENTENCE WILL BE LONG ENOUGH FOR THESE DESPICABLE DEPRAVED MEN.
Poor, poor baby Preston - left with absolute monsters
Plants are conscious and they DO speak-
If ya know how to listen.
They speak in green, electric whispers.
I've heard trees laugh at the capriciousness of humans.
I've always known this.