9 times out of 10 I tend to say things that make practitioners of white supremacy uncomfortable.
If you don't like it, we CAN have a "civilized discussion" about it...
Ghana has been calling Black Americans and the diaspora “home.” But what happens when a homecoming movement collides with rising prices, gentrification, and land displacement?
"About one-third of Americans qualify as Christian nationalism "adherents" or "sympathizers," a new survey released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute finds."
Where Christian nationalism is most dominant in the U.S. https://t.co/s6ax2c1M6k
BREAKING: An Illinois jury convicted a former sheriff’s deputy of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who had called 911 asking for help. https://t.co/Kis9QksI2z
Remember James B. Gosnell Jr., the racist South Carolina judge who presided over the Dylan Roof trial?
Well he's back in the news again. This time for having child pornography, including sexual abuse material of minors and even babies.
Is anyone actually surprised he's like that?
Republicans never cared about states’ rights, individual liberty, or the Constitution.
They wielded those ideals as a smokescreen. They were tools of deception used to seize power and construct the most oppressive, authoritarian administration America has seen in modern times.
From the very beginning, it was never about freedom. It was always about control.
“Defending liberty” was just the mask they wore to hide their true intent.
I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.
I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.
Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.
However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.
When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.
The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.
Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?
I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.
The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.
Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.
Right-wing figures across the U.S. and Europe are now exploiting Ukrainian refugees’ tragic stories not to promote wartime aid for Ukraine but to stoke fear and push racist, xenophobic policies at home.
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Y’all are corny asf on this app tryna shit on Carmelo Anthony.
It’s called “Afro-Latino”.. he’s mixed. He can’t show love to all parts of his culture???
He’s supposed to listen to yall when y’all were cooking him for his whole career & cooking him for having a daughter and everything else y’all talk funny about??
Now you want him to say what you want him to say… FOH.
Go get to a bag…. & stay outta everyone’s business. #StayMelo
Toyota is up +8% on the news of a 15% tariff.
Why?
It's simple.
Ford, GM, Tesla, and all the other American manufacturers are going to be paying 50% more for their steel, 50% more for their copper, 25% more for their Canadian production, 25% more for their Mexican production, and 55% on their Chinese production.
Toyota only has to pay 15% more and they're done with all the shenanigans.
Ford has to pay much more than that. A lot more in fact.
We've given a Japanese car company an advantage over American car companies.
All in hope of bringing auto jobs back to America.
0D Chess.
🚨BREAKING: Austin Metcalfs father, Jeffery Metcalf was just caught on his official Tik-Tok account calling a Black woman a N*GGER. 😱
“FUCK YOU N*GGER F*CKING WH*RE.”
REMINDER: Jeffery Metcalf, who has a lengthy criminal history including charges of s*xual assault, was still allowed to raise funds on GoFundMe following his son’s death—even after this evidence was presented to the platform.
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