Determinedprotector

Gen X who believes in justice, competition, and right & wrong #M4BL

[Kimberly Nubine @KimNubine]

W.E.B. Du Bois coined the term "psychological wage of whiteness" to explain how poor white Americans were compensated with racial privilege rather than economic gain. This idea kept them loyal to a system that oppressed them and divided them from Black communities.

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

White MAGA evangelicals have found a new gaslight. Now they want to blame civil rights organizations for manufacturing racism.

As if America was not racist before the NAACP existed. As if white supremacy needed a nonprofit grant to build slave ships. As if the Klan was waiting on a donation from the SPLC before it burned crosses. As if Jim Crow needed a press release. As if lynch mobs needed a fundraising campaign before they burned down Tulsa and Rosewood.

Who funded the transatlantic slave trade?
Who funded American chattel slavery?
Who funded the genocide of Indigenous people?
Who funded the rape and breeding of enslaved Black women?
Who funded lynching?
Who funded segregation?
Who funded redlining?
Who funded convict leasing?
Who funded mass incarceration?
Who funded police brutality?
Who funded the theft of Black land?
Who funded the erasure of Black history?

It was not civil rights organizations. It was America, the government, banks, white churches, corporations, courts, universities, white mobs, white politicians, and white pulpits preaching a slaveholder’s gospel.

Civil rights organizations did not create racism, they documented it, challenged it, exposed it, sued it, organized against it, and forced America to look in the mirror.

And that is what MAGA cannot stand. They don’t hate the so called manufacture of racism, they hate the exposure of racism.

Because if racism is made up, nobody owes repair, nobody owes repentance, nobody owes justice, nobody has to return stolen land, nobody has to pay reparations, and nobody has to dismantle the systems that still reward whiteness and punish Blackness.

This is not a serious argument. It is white grievance propaganda with a church fan in its hand. America was racist before civil rights organizations existed.

America was racist when Black people were property. America was racist when Black people were lynched for voting. America was racist when Black children needed federal troops to enter schools. America is still racist when they try to ban the books that tell the truth.

You do not get to burn the house down for 400 years and then blame the smoke alarm for making noise.

Talbert Swan

[Determinedprotector @kellumbear]

How do I live in the dumbest state with the dumbest governor at the same time in a country with its dumbest president in history! WTF!!! #ThisisAmerikkka #Facts

[The Uncultured Black AristoCAT @camarawilliams]

This should showcase just how well thought out this plan to eliminate property tax really is.

If you ever wondered how Florida was run into the ground by 30 years of Republican rule. This is clearest modern example. smh.

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

Spread this photo far and wide - because the media isn't doing its job in telling the story about an increasingly unhinged president who is unfit to serve.

#25thAmendmentNOW

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

BOMBSHELL CONFIRMED: The Supreme Court corruption scandal that was lingering from a year ago? We can now call it CONFIRMED today.

Chief Justice John Roberts' wife pocketed $10.3 million recruiting for law firms with cases before his court. He illegally labeled it "salary" instead of commission on disclosure forms.

Justice Clarence Thomas took $500,000+ luxury yacht trips, $133,000 real estate deals, and decades of private jet vacations from billionaire Harlan Crow—all hidden from the public.

Justice Neil Gorsuch sold a $1.8 million property to the CEO of Greenberg Traurig—a law firm with 22 cases before the Court—just nine days after his confirmation. He left the buyer's name BLANK on his disclosure forms.

Republicans: "The Supreme Court is impartial!"
The Supreme Court: a billionaire-funded cash register.
Three justices. Three scandals. Tens of millions in hidden money and favors.
This isn't a court. It's a corruption convention with robes.

Tell me again why we should trust these people with our rights?

[Determinedprotector @kellumbear]

@METAVERZUZ Ah, Sweet Love! Without a doubt!

[Determinedprotector @kellumbear]

@IAmSophiaNelson Being a woman in this society is the most vulnerable time for a woman. We have allowed men to treat women as disposable property and I am sick of it, men!

[Nikki Fried @NikkiFried]

Cory Mills needs to resign. If he refuses and Congress fails to do it’s job, the people will do it in November. This will be Cory Mill’s last term in Congress.

[Determinedprotector @kellumbear]

@GovRonDeSantis Now do something about homeowner's insurance!

[Determinedprotector @kellumbear]

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[Determinedprotector @kellumbear]

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[Determinedprotector @kellumbear]

...even in 1st class, and unreliable communication at every step. @Delta, by contrast, has consistently demonstrated respect for us as customers when we traveled with them in the past. @united cut-rate fares simply aren’t worth the trade-off for poor service & ruined travel...

[Sophia A. Nelson @IAmSophiaNelson]

That part

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Former NFL pro Ryan Clark just DESTROYED trump in the most eloquent way for the disrespectful mixing of his football highlights, as well as comedy and video games, to make trump's war slopaganda videos.

This is a complete takedown everyone needs to see.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

"We do not have a history of killing white people, white people have a history of killing us."

—Louis Farrakhan