My siblings and I went out to dinner with my dad and we started talking about dad jokes we liked. All of a sudden my dad goes “I’ve only made 3 dad jokes my entire life and they’re all sitting in front of me right now
@NicoleLewisLCSW That's why I love my therapist. I don't care if she's eating or drinking because she is helping me. I show up how I show up, and she helps me process. Everything else is extra.
@Karnythia Can we talk about how when they say grandparents, they really mean grandmothers? Men are never expected to take care of their grandkids in such a way. Just another way to burden women with unfair expectations.
@WendellPierce I remember watching you talk about this in When the Levees Broke. How all your father wanted was for them to be fair to him, and they couldn't even look him in the eye. Insurance is a legalized scam.
“I have seen men survive diseases that women do not because of the care that women caregivers provide to their male partner when they are sick-I have only seen that happen once or twice for a female patient being taken care of by a man when she is sick.”
My jaw is on the floor.
Why continue to assassinate my father’s character, after he already died by assassination, with erroneous information and comparisons?
Why even bring him up in this post about a conversation that possibly didn’t even happen?
Why not do the initial research and share the truth about his arrests in pursuit of civil rights and the eradication of racism, poverty, and war?
ALL of the SARS-CoV-2 studies from 2020-2023 are like “SARS-CoV-2 inflicts immense permanent damage to every organ system. It will be ESSENTIAL to follow up with every human who acquires Covid in order to monitor them for the onset of extremely serious complications—which often begin silently.”
And then we pretended the pandemic was over, while normalizing endless reinfection. No one is being monitored and doctors insist Covid is mild & benign. When folks show up with Covid complications that cannot be ignored, individuals and their lifestyles are blamed, instead of the virus.
FIVE YEARS of data & studies are aggressively memory-holed, & we are forced to continue pretending for profits & convenience.
There are people in this country who feel entitled to Black people putting their safety and their bodies on the frontline for whatever their personal cause is and when you’re unwilling to be the sacrificial pawn the racism jumps right out. Hiding just below the surface all along.
Keep in mind:
They abandoned neighborhoods rather than live with Black people.
They cemented swimming pools than share with Black people.
They closed down schools than learn with Black people.
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They’ll absolutely destroy democracy to avoid sharing power with Black people.
This thread is for Black women, and Black women only. If that’s not you please scroll. Let me tell you about the Pet to Threat Phenomena.
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