I was a Jehovah's Witness when I was little, went to a busing school, and often live in black & brown neighborhoods.
I'm constantly subjected to racism--but it's mere suspicion & mocking, not structural racism back by the state an enforced by armed thugs with badges, so it's ok.
Is there such a thing as benign racism? Because, like, it bugs me a little that Puerto Ricans call little kids "papi."
Especially if she's like, "Ai papi! in bed, then being all, "No, papi" to a misbehaving toddler.
It's just too much "papi" for me.
I'm not totally sure our brains can handle social media.
And in many ways, these companies are exploiting our biology, manipulating us with our own dopamine.
Like, they study what triggers your impulse to engage with people, notifications, etc.
We live in interesting times.
Black people are always hip to shit before white people. They've been living in a fascist state for hundreds of years. And know we're doing the Elvis thing. Hope we die on the toilet.
I can't decide if twitter is an overall good or an overall evil.
One of its most sinister aspects is making you feel like you're participating, fighting the good fight, but you're possibly just wasting your righteous energy.
i do not know
Life hack: The only big word you need to know is "sesquipedalian." It means "given to the use of large words."
Like is Cornell West comes at you with his vocab & you're all, "No need to be sesquipedalian, Brother West."
ad then ya roll
I like 'em. I do! A lot! But saying "Squad" makes me feel dumb. Not totally sure why. Ans then I start thinking about the Squid, and then squid accountants, at computers, filling out spreadsheets.
"It's a livin'!"
flinstones laugh track
I'd like to know why @SpeakerPelosi isn't performing her constitutional duty to check a rogue executive. Like, really, are they polling swing voters in Wisconsin who think impeachment is too far? I don't get it.
When I was little, my sister would torment me by singing, "Ian's peein' in the Caribbean!"
Over & over & over, etc.
It made no logical sense as a taunt, but her intent was all too clear, and it made me so fucking angry.
Draw that line from 9/11 to Trump.
Scary shit, yeah?
Buildings fell & from the ashes rose xenophobia, Islamophobia, and authoritarianism.
Trump's saying Omar loves al-Qaeda.
Are we seeing the death throes of state-sanctioned white supremacy or the birth of fascism?