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13 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read
I’ve been sitting here freezing for probs the last hour. I finally turned on both the heater and the “fireplace,” my fancy space heater that is where my fireplace goes...it looks like a fireplace.

I love Chicago but the cold is gonna take me out.
And before y’all come in here. I KNOW it gets colder.

I need y’all to also understand that 41° in Chicago ain’t the same 41° that I had in Virginia.

I would literally be wearing flip flops today if I were still there. I miss it so much.
To clarify, I didn’t wear flip flops in 41° weather in VA. It just didn’t feel as cold.

Missouri 41° is cold, but it’s not this Lake Michigan cold.
I’m a native Missourian and I know how to dress in the cold and alla that because we got this lil thing called wind chill.

But I’m sitting here next to Lake Michigan and I just don’t think my joints are gonna cope.
I live Chicago tho. It is the most beautiful city. EVERYWHERE is beautiful. Even the parts that need more attention.

Like even trash on the ground looks like a photo essay.

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14 Nov
So I’m going to share some of by banned/censored cartoon stuff with y’all. This thread will contain clips and stuff so be warned. I don’t know why I’m going this but somehow my brain is here so that’s where we’re going tonight until I get too creeped or tired to keep on.
So you might be asking, “Why is she into this? That’s a weird hobby.” IT IS.

I have Whoopi Goldberg to thank. There was a contest and of Hollywood Squares who said this was his hobby and she told him to look up Coal Black and the Sebben Dwarfs.
I was in high school at the time and it sparked an interest for me. This was before YouTube and I spent a LOOONG time looking for this cartoon (beyond descriptions) online.

This is the version of it that’s on YT rn. I’m goi f to comb through my files and see if I have it all.
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14 Nov
Let me try this again. So I’m watching the Looney Tunes Golden collection tonight on shuffle and this cartoon came up. It’s called “Old Glory.”
This cartoon came out in 1939, two months ti the day before Germany invaded Poland and WWII began. Of course there had been all kinds of cussery going on in Germany before that, but it’s notable that this cartoon came out when it did.
If you didn’t, I invite you to watch the cartoon. Look at it’s telling of American history. Look at who it centers (and who it leaves out and erases).
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20 Aug
So all the people who are all “how can Kamala Harris be an African American when her dad is Jamaican and her mom is from India...” make me irrationally angry.
This is such an ignorant comment and I’m tired of hearing it. People are trying to make it sound like she’s a fraud and policing her identity and I’m done with it.

I don’t usually get in the weeds with stuff like this, but I’m feeling froggy so let me go ahead and leap.
So for all of those ignorant, not understanding the Black community and Black culture folks out there (and the non-ignorant people who are unsure of how to respond to them):
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17 Jun
Some black leaders that are being elevated now not done the requisite racial identity/ trauma work to speak well on this issue. We talk a lot about how white supremacy affects white people, but we over look the collateral damage that being in whiteness has on black folks.
What I mean is that people in a lot of industries and disciplines are turning to the black people in the room for answers, but some of those folks are only just now starting to unpack their own stuff. The token black folks sometimes struggle to talk about race.
A lot of people who are the “only” or “token” black in their sphere of influence got to those spaces by actively suppressing g their blackness. Now white people are asking them to lead.
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16 Jun
I hope that the Black men who are quick to criticize Louie Giglio will also take a look at Lecrae and realize that a lot of y’all are one conversation, speaking engagement, platform, and Good Ole Boy invite from being him. Lecrae was the picture of Black men’s complicity.
The power dynamics in this situation are not lost on me. Lecrae was on that man’s stage at his invite. I get that y’all think that there are rules and decorum and stuff. But what was happening there was white supremacy and patriarchy.
I want to extend abundant grace to Lecrae for being put in a difficult spot. But as I extend grace to my brother for being oppressed right to his face, I also want to express frustration with a dynamic that I see among Black Christian Men.
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31 May
It seems a whole lot of waking up is happening among people of whiteness. I am going to reserve my critical commenting on this phenomenon for another post and focus on the question that I keep seeing everywhere:

What can I do?
1. Listen to people of color share their experiences.

2. Educate yourself. That means reading books and connecting with anti-racist resources.
3. Pay reparations to individual POC that have expended their emotional labor dealing with your privilege. Pay reparations to POC institutions. Pay activists and content creators for your education.
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