There is *so much* happening in the world right now and while so much focus has been (rightfully) on racism and anti-blackness, global violence against women must be tackled as well.
Hollywood + Silicon Valley continue to cut deals with KSA.
Solidarity to Loujain's family, her brother @WalidAlhathloul and sisters Lina and Alia, who haven't given up speaking out for their sister and for others in Saudi Arabia.
Biden has the audacity to give that speech that protest shouldn’t lead to disorder — while planning to speak at Morehouse’s commencement— Martin Luther King Jr’s alma mater.
MLK spoke about white moderates more devoted to order than to justice.
I’ve been at Columbia all week. Yes there is a lot of fear, there’s a lot of disagreement about Gaza, protests. But I’ve seen a lot of hope, courage and solidarity.
In a multi-racial democracy, safety is not from supremacy or brute state force, but by safeguarding other.
Is the “order” Biden wants the US- sponsored slaughter of Palestinians, Islamophobia, breaking international laws, the weaponization of anti-Semitism, purging Black thought from education, and increasingly militarized police?
All of this “order” requires violence to maintain.
Not only is this racist, but it reveals that to many white people, allyship is transactional and performative and that Black people should be grateful.
It's also historically ignorant of the lengths Black people have gone to call out and fight Nazism and the oppression of Jews.
The Black press called out the Nazi atrocities against Jews:
"Negro America calls for an end to Hitler and to Hitlerism. Let the sympathy of black men for the stricken Jewish people strengthen the arm of every Negro soldier." -Chicago Defender, 1942 ushmm.org/m/pdfs/USHMM-H…
Not to mention the scores of Black American, Africans and other diaspora soldiers that fought, and died in World War II.
The Black Americans that fought Nazism and survived came back, only to be subjected to racist fascism back home.
"Tuohys used their power as conservators to strike a deal that paid them and their two birth children millions of dollars in royalties from an Oscar-winning film that earned more than $300 million, while Oher got nothing for a story "that would not have existed without him."
"...The movie paid the Tuohys and their two birth children each $225,000, plus 2.5% of the film's "defined net proceeds..
..contract purportedly signed by Oher appears to "give away" to 20th Century Fox Studios the life rights to his story 'without any payment whatsoever,."
"The deal lists all four Tuohy family members as having the same representative at Creative Artists Agency..."
But Oher's agent... is listed as Debra Branan, a close family friend of the Tuohys and the same lawyer who filed the.. conservatorship petition, the petition alleges."
Like... I can recall plenty of times when have hugged women, and been hugged by women I just met.. after sharing something personal or deep.
And yes, such moments have happened in the women's bathroom, lol.
Sometimes, I also wonder if the lack of physical touch in men’s lives is why some full body contact sports like Brazillian Jiujitsu have gotten *so* popular in recent years…
For a lot of guys, that might be the only form of physical contact with men they have…