Thread by @michaelharriot

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In every white savior movie there’s always a kid named Jimmy. Jimmy lives in a poor, underresourced school that doesn’t have a STEM program and has three books in the library, so he joins a gang

Sometimes, in the movie, Jimmy is a slave. Jimmy is kind, smart and idealistic.

All Jimmy the Slave wants is to be free. But whenever Jimmy’s cruel slavemaster catches Jimmy daydreaming, he whips Jimmy to within inches of his life.

But Jimmy keeps fighting because Jimmy has the one thing you can’t kill:

Hope.

Or sometimes Jimmy is a woman. Jimmy the Woman’s boyfriend is very abusive but Jimmy has two kids and they need a father.

Then, one night, Jimmy the Woman gets in a fight with her boyfriend and kills him.

Now Jimmy is awaiting trial for murder.

That’s when Jimmy meets Laura in the white savior Yesl

Laura is kind and sweet. She doesn’t have a lot of money but she has the one thing money can’t buy:

Spunk.

Spunky Laura decides she is gonna save Jimmy

Does Laura help the school get funding? Does she sneak into the slave quarters at night and free Jimmy? Does she help Jimmy get a lawyer?

Nah, that’s ain’t Laura’s style.

Laura introduces Jimmy to poetry.

See, the poetry sets Jimmy’s MIND free. It releases his/her imagination.

But then, Laura loses funding for her after-school plantation prison poetry project. Dismayed, she has a heartfelt scene where Jimmy thanks her for teaching him about freedom.

Then, Jimmy is killed in a drive-by in graduation day. Or he’s shot in the back during an attempt to reach the Underground Railroad. Or she is stabbed in the shower the night before her parole hearing.

They killed Jimmy.

Laura is heartbroken.

She mourns first days, until someone delivers Jimmy’s belongings to her and she finds a poem Jimmy wrote for called “Laura’s Spunk” which ends:

“Laura taught me about beauty and to believe in myself
So I no longer see emptiness beyond the night of death”

This breaks Laura.

Spunky L storms into the gang traphouse/plantation owner’s sitting room/school board meeting/warden’s office/parole board hearing & tells them a piece of her mind

When she stomps out a tear rolls down a gangbanger/principal/massa/parole board member’s face

Laura is strong and brave.

Credits roll.

This is every white savior movie ever made and it is also a true story that I watched today.

Laura is the House Democrats

Fin.

Oh, I forgot to say “Spoiler alert”