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semi coherent ramblings.

[craig @thecraigp]

If you're more upset about a very old, rich white lady dying than you are about all of the black & brown bodies that were imprisoned & executed in the fight for decolonization & independence in the past 70 years....

You're a part of the problem. It's you.

#QueenElizabeth

[craig @thecraigp]

@natsechobbyist Perhaps it's because the queen helped obscure a bloody history of decolonization whose proportions and legacies have yet to be adequately acknowledged.

[craig @thecraigp]

@natsechobbyist Ask an Irish, Indian, Jamaican, South African, Kenyan, Nigerian, South African or Carribean person. And learn something.

Your privilege is showing, and it's NOT cute.

[craig @thecraigp]

@TaranaBurke @BreneBrown thank you thank you thank you. Would read Gifts of Imperfection, and had such a hard time accessing vulnerabilty inrersectionally. YAYBT gets to the heart and love of the Black experience. I was able to see so much of myself!

[craig @thecraigp]

@komonews A nap

[craig @thecraigp]

Since Bush 41, every President’s party has lost the Virginia and New Jersey governorships the year following their election.

This ain’t new. Don’t buy the hype.

[craig @thecraigp]

Y’all messed up and gave a diamond to an Island Girl. @GarcelleB is all henny and no coke. These women are used to the BS and Garcelle is here to give it to them straight. That’s how we island folk show affection, by not bullshitting you.

[craig @thecraigp]

@750orbetter Did I miss the 3 things?

[craig @thecraigp]

Before “Lambchop’s Play-A-Long” was a television success, Sherry Lewis was just sitting at home knitting sock puppets and talking to herself.

Don’t ever let anyone talk you out of your wildest dreams.

[craig @thecraigp]

Can someone please tell me what these Fast & Furious movies are about and why there are so many of them!? Like, how many does it take? Damn.

[craig @thecraigp]

@komonews Fish or ice cream.

[craig @thecraigp]

Elementary and middle school #teachers!

How did y’all decide which kids went to which classes? Was it random? Did you all conference?

I’m trynna see something.

[craig @thecraigp]

In case it isn’t obvious to you, *this* is the Civil Rights Era 2.0. *This* time period is what high school students will be learning about, and *this* is the time period your grandchildren will ask you about.

[craig @thecraigp]

The U.S. military too often uses poor kids as fodder for its endless wars. But y’all ain’t ready for that conversation. Instead I’ll just say “Happy Memorial Day.”

[craig @thecraigp]

Today, I met a full grown man the 👏🏽same 👏🏽 age 👏🏽 as 👏🏽 me 👏🏽 who grew up in central PA right in middle of Amish Country. He shared with me the fact that he didn’t know Black people were real until he was 18. And he thought the ones you see on TV and were for entertainment.

[craig @thecraigp]

Social media is just the connective tissue y’all. This stuff exists offline. For real.

[craig @thecraigp]

Where is the data-based consumer insight from Big Pot?

[craig @thecraigp]

I *know* the U.S. gov’t who has systemically oppressed & killed citizens of color for generations, & has even deprived their communities of potable water didn’t have anything to say about the illegal treatment of Palestinians.

Oh. ‘Cause I thought I heard a b*tch say something.

[craig @thecraigp]

The #Jewish people have suffered horrendous treatment and unspeakable #Crimes against humanity.

The #Israeli government has enacted horrendous treatment and unspeakable crimes against #humanity.

Both can be true.

[craig @thecraigp]

Someone should start a rumor and tell white people that the way they age is directly related to the amount of prejudice and bias that exists in their hearts, and that their hairlines recede as much as they are party to systemic injustice.

There, I fixed society.