Black coming of age movies that actually focus on them being kids with hobbies, growing pains, crushes, that don’t solely focus on racism and we get to see black kids be teenagers and children
Exploring sexuality, gender but also just plain having fun
Credit scores were used to deny loans; the bar exam was used to prevent blacks from becoming attorneys; marriage licenses were used to stop interracial marriage; college was free until black people were allowed to go to college; free health was halted to not include blacks,
My classmate was raped on her way back home from university and got pregnant, but couldn’t get an abortion due to the laws. She had to drop out of university where she was studying medicine. Because of pregnancy and childbirth expenses, she couldn’t continue her studies, left college, started working at a coffee shop, lost the fun of her early twenties, and lost the chance to attend international medical conferences she once dreamt of… all just to give birth to a child she never wanted.
People say, “What if the baby you abort grows up and cures cancer?”
Okay — but what if the 19-year-old you deny an abortion to grows up and cures cancer?
Now she can’t afford to get an education. Instead, she has to take care of a baby. What about her? An actual living human being???
“Abortion ends potential life”… So do property disputes, war, and genocide. You only seem to care about lives when women don’t give birth to them.
It's incredibly painful to see people who are able to help but ignore you.
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this is fascism in its purest form and if you think it won’t end up on your own doorstep with your own kids getting teargassed if we don’t put a stop to it right now in minnesota, you’re deluding yourself