I'm back from a week at my mom's house and now I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand, the brand I've been putting in my mouth for a week. We never talked about this brand or googled it or anything like that.
As a privacy tech worker, let me explain why this is happening. 🧵
YES, THE CHIEFS ARE OFFENSIVE. Harold Roe Bartle, a white man & mayor of KC, claimed that he was inducted into a local tribe and would wear a Native headdress. He started a Boy Scout-affiliated org called Mic-O-Say that uses Native ceremonies, customs, regalia, and imagery.
In grade school I was taught that the US government sent Native children to boarding school so they could get a good education.
I was 25 when I learned the truth about forced separation of Native children from their land, parents, and culture through the use of boarding schools
At Auschwitz we see the end of the long process. It's important to remember that the Holocaust did not start from gas chambers & murder.
The hatred slowly developed from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice, through legal exclusion, escalating violence & dehumanization.
Yesterday @ALALibrary Council voted unanimously to affirm Broadband Access as a human right. This action recognizes the connection between income and digital disparity the pandemic has underscored. Information redlining is among the key civil rights issue of our time and must end
"Learning is how we grow into people we want to become" @DrBiden as she spoke in the closing session of #ALAMW21 A perfect quote for the first day of Spring semester!