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5 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I’ve been struggling with completing laundry lately. I get into the wash. I get it out of the wash. Back in the closet is a struggle. I recently learned that the 1 percent have washer dryers IN THEIR CLOSETS and I’ve never been so close to switching political parties.
I have also seen kitchens with two dishwashers which cuts out that whole cabinet middle man.
Americans are gross lol

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6 Dec
It’s a big night for Hallmark movies. One if it’s best produced (and maybe expensive?) and diverse Christmas series is back but FEATURING A BLACK LEAD.
The lead is Holly Robinson Peete, which is fine. But the real story here is the secondary character actress, Rukiya Bernard. She gets some serious screen time tonight and let me tell you why I notice that:
I have watched EVERY Black and Black biracial actress in a Hallmark Christmas property, wondering if they would find their right mix. It is hard because casting is very white and the genre requires an eternal Bambi quality that runs counter to every Black woman stereotype
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2 Dec
Writing the syllabus (kinda - we are just gonna read some books, Uni is batshit for being open) and I’m reminded that this is my favorite tidbit to drop in a class: kottke.org/17/03/the-sati…
Anyway, the syllabus always starts as one looooong lecture draft. So far, I think we will focus on racial capitalism, information economy and social institutions.
I mean, the year is all a big crapshoot. Who knows how this goes. But, we will give it a go. I am arrogant enough to think it is my job to survey major theories of race and racism. I will focus on macro and meso theories because that's what I do:
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2 Dec
I watched “Being black at Cambridge University” - bless these poor babies’ hearts. bbc.com/news/av/educat…
When there are 150 of you, you don’t stand a chance.
It’s like going back in time. Not for the racism but for where the comparative race discourse is in the U.K.
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1 Dec
I said it when the roles were reversed (and got my ass handed to me #onhere) and I will stick with it this go round: it isn’t weird to want your spouse to pay foe the maintenance of your biggest investment, one from which they benefit. Don’t call it rent but call it something.
Having said that, if she needs a spouse who makes more than she does she shouldn’t, uh, marry one who does not make and never has made more money than she does. That’s gaslighting your own self.
But I have to say, I am always surprised that people aren’t - I don’t know - satisfied? grateful? to be paying only $200 to live somewhere and don’t just...let that roll.
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30 Nov
I could do without twerking over my waffles but also twerking with a SIDE of waffles somehow makes sense? What I am saying is, that whole True Kitchen thing is a hot mess.
The best strip club in Charlotte when I was growing up also had one of the city's best buffets. I don't know where this fits in, but I wanted to say it.
One problem that I see often is that...well, I don't know if I should break this to people. I really don't. But here goes.

There are never enough "suitable" Black customers with disposable income to support the number/amount of "high class" Black businesses vying for them.
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28 Nov
I’ve said it elsewhere but “defund the police” is a good, powerful slogan. If you can’t figure out how to make it also meaningful for your policy prescriptions then maybe you have another, bigger problem than the slogan.
Good slogans are evocative. That’s literally the point.
You are gifted a hot bar but can’t write the hook. Jesus.
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