“The kids don’t want stimulation and enrichment” bc your youth program sucks. “Homeless people would rather be on the street” bc your shelter operates like a jail. “Kids don’t wanna learn!” bc you’re a shit teacher and your administration pushes testing over education.
do not let the government fool you. they absolutely do owe you functioning systems, they owe you clean water, they owe you access to housing, they owe you opportunities to work, they owe you dignity. that’s within their constitutional mandate, that’s their purpose and their duty.
Say their names. They are the victims of the state they were supposed to protect them.. in loving memories to them. And remember their families.. as we celebrate Black History Month. 100 years of black history did not started 100 years ago. It started thousands of years ago long before the Arabs slave trade and the European Atlantic slave trade..#BlackHistoryMonth .#PanAfrican.
Always remember that capitalism is a lie. You deserve food, shelter and drink because you exist. You do not have to earn them. You do not need to prove your worth through labor and you are not lazy for hating it.
“But if the roles were reversed, suddenly it would be wrong?”
This critique is generally only valid when there isn’t a power imbalance. You can’t just copy and paste a moral judgment between situations with different power dynamics and pretend the real world works like that.