"People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die." Plato 🌺
Let's work on nourishing each other so we can grow together and reach our full potential. 💜
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During National #PoliceWeek we pay tribute to the law enforcement officers who have made the ultimate sacrifice. Every year, the names of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty are engraved on the walls at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in DC.
@NileGardiner -sorry*proving citizenship* -
... locations rather than the DMV or SSA to get yet another ID which also proves citizenship/ right to vote?
It's redundant.
ALSO: I am intelligent enough to recognize AND correct my typo. 'Stupid' couldn't see the error. Neither could 'prideful.'
@NileGardiner explains polarization in our society. I lean left and was talking with someone on the right. They were criticizing Dems voter ID bills as allowing undocumented people to vote, I asked /explainted what is the difference between presenting documents proing citizenship at polling
@RehtaeHRenee provide services, documents. and translators. A white lawyer asked Trayvon's black friend in the stand "Do you understand English?" Confidently, brilliantly, she said "I understand English, I don't understand *you*"
@RehtaeHRenee On a related note, years ago there was a public debate about making ebonics an official language in the US, More recently we hear about Spanish. Making these official languages has some broad legal implications I don't fully remember. But it obliges more organizations to....
@RehtaeHRenee ASL and deaf culture is its own thing. Cultural differences in language are developed through who they communicate with. English has many dialects, black, New York City, southwest, 'the south', I can't recall if ASL is classified as distinct language vs a dialect of.....