This Christmas Eve, one thing I’m thinking about is everyone in jail because of money bond and the existential threat covid has to their lives on top of everything else. It’s not the only thing, but it is one thing.
Happy birthday #RekiaBoyd she would’ve been 30y/o today! Let’s remember her as we fight for #BreonnaTaylor
Our mentor Camiella is best friends with Rekia’s brother Martinez. We appreciate her & orgs like @ALongWalkHome @AssataDaughters & @byp100 who taught us to #SayHerName
People worried that $600 unemployment benefit is discouraging people from going to work. Let’s flip it. That money is freeing employers and employees to make safe and healthy choices for themselves and our communities. People want to work, but they also deserve to stay alive.
As if she was not involved in the decision-making in the first place. It infantilizes her needs, her power, and her ask while hiding under the guise of artistic integrity, as if the art is not a commodity from which they have made millions of dollars.
Allowing more than the point of divergence requires that the oppressor give something up, which is unacceptable to them. Blaming advisors also allows Lady A(ntebellum) to distance themselves from personally attacking Lady A while calling her to subsume her interests to theirs,
It is when the oppressor allows something good to happen for the oppressed because their interests are aligned with the thing the oppressed wants. But the gain is only allowed to the point where the interests diverge, no more.
Their statement just keeps giving. Lady A(ntebellum) blames Lady A’s advisors, i.e. “outside agitators” for the ask. The implication is Lady A would otherwise do the right thing. The “right thing”is of course what they want her to do. Derrick Bell calls this interest convergence.
Hi everybody, RBG just reminded you that she was never your savior. She is a middle of the road, law and order judge. It is up to you to be our new tomorrow.