@NYMag@roxana_hadadi I disagree; I think it slaps its core audience in the face. Eric Kripke recently commented about how some people didn't "get the memo."
I think subtlety went out with 70's movies and noir. People are numb and need it slapped in their face. This is America🤷
A car crash in Tennessee earlier this week revealed that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been using state government vehicles for his 2024 presidential campaign.
https://t.co/6tOKGIjyvJ
Oil companies brought in $200 billion in profit last year. Yet the prices at the pump and on our utility bills remain high.
“That, ladies and gentleman, is what we call the oil cartel.”
@KitMaherCNN He conveniently ignores all the suppression tactics and thievery that occurred after Juneteenth. Jim Crow was just another way for white Americans to continue stealing from black labor. The #TulsaMassacre is a prime of example of what became of those "skilled" former slaves.
@KitMaherCNN My ancestor was freed, took his skills and bought land in East Texas and worked for himself. Over the course of the next 100 years everything he sought to provide for my family was stolen thanks to Jim Crow and crooked white people. #Slavery
2024 Republican candidate Will Hurd: "Unfortunately, it has to be said — slavery wasn't a jobs program that taught beneficial skills. It was literally dehumanizing and subjugated people as property because they lacked any rights or freedoms."
Enslavers and their historians argued for decades that enslaved Black people benefited from American slavery, were civilized by American enslavers, were better off than peasants in Europe and Africa. All to defend slavery from abolitionists.
Here are two examples. A thread 1/
After this convo, and seeing their on screen chemistry in TFA, I need me some kind of funny, slice of life style, buddy comedy with John Boyega and Harrison Ford. @TheFirstOkiro
Have you ever wondered why someone who looks down on you and your entire culture would want to see you do well?
Seeking approval from #wypipo is asinine.