To the half of America ignoring stories like this:
You won’t be able to look away forever.
Not when a masked man shows up at your own door.
That’s when you’ll wish you’d done something before the Bill of Rights was torched.
My father once told me the secret to a happy marriage.
“Stay out of the kitchen. Let her handle the holidays.”
I was 19. He was in his recliner.
My mother was cooking for 14 people.
She’d been up since 5 AM.
He’d been up since the football pregame.
I didn’t think anything of it.
That’s just how it was.
Fast forward 20 years.
I’m in the recliner.
My wife is in the kitchen.
She’s been up since 5 AM.
I’ve been up since the pregame.
My daughter walks by and I see her watching.
Not the TV.
Her mother.
Then me.
Then her mother again.
That’s when it hit me:
She’s taking notes.
My father taught me that holidays were for men to rest and women to work.
He didn’t say it.
He showed it.
Every Thanksgiving.
Every Christmas.
Every Easter.
The recliner passed from him to me like an inheritance I never asked for.
This morning I woke up at 4 AM.
Not for content.
For the turkey.
My wife found me in the kitchen at 6.
She didn’t say anything.
She just stood there.
Then she cried.
Your kids are taking notes.
Not on what you say.
On where you sit.
The recliner is an inheritance.
Be the generation that stands up.
The Oct. 15th general strike call at best will amount to nothing & will make it harder to organize people in the future.
At worst, a lot of people are gonna get fired with no community support system, & it will make it almost impossible to organize people for at least a decade.
WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO RECOGNISE AUTISM IN NON-DISTRESSED, HAPPY AUTISTIC CHILDREN. THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THEY ARE BURNED OUT AND BROKEN BY OUR ABLEIST SOCIETY BEFORE WE CAN DIAGNOSE THEM.
Epic Antique needs to own up to their wrong. They are perpetuating white supremacy, this was ignorant and careless. They need to do research and figure out who this was stolen from and pay reparations.
Black women are a gift. No matter my gender identity I will always be a BLACK WOMAN.
Lets do whatever the hell we want. Be whoever the hell we want. Dress however the hell we want. Black women are the back bone of everything.
not to victim blame but if my cat doesnt want me to nuzzle her soft little head with my nose then maybe she should stop being a perfect angel from heaven