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16 Mar, 11 tweets, 5 min read
Like, people really just come in my mentions to be antagonistic for no reason. I don't know this person and I have never engaged with them. Yet...

#BlackWomenAreNotSafeOnTwitter
Imagine coming in my mentions and telling me I'm obligated to argue with people or else be deemed "close-minded."

#BlackWomenAreNotSafeOnTwitter
Somehow, if I argue, I'm wrong, but if I don't argue, I am also wrong.

Like, just say you hate Black women and go.

#BlackWomenAreNotSafeOnTwitter
The most violent vitriol on this app is reserved for Black women, and some of it comes from our very own.

#BlackWomenAreNotSafeOnTwitter
It's all flower crowns and #RespectBlackWomen until we say something you don't like, and then it's all attack everything, even over the most innocuous tweet.

#BlackWomenAreNotSafeOnTwitter
A tweet that makes a joke about my teenage experience with "cancel culture" should not result in the number of attacks I have received from people who misunderstood it. Yet...

#BlackWomenAreNotSafeOnTwitter
A tweet from four months ago about a bad experience I had with Instacart should not have resulted in a young white woman camping out in my mentions for over 4 hours yesterday, yet...

#BlackWomenAreNotSafeOnTwitter
I can't even share my experience or talk about it because then this happens

#BlackWomenAreNotSafeOnTwitter

I'm not allowed to respond to what people are saying to me nor is it OK for me to call it out because if I do, somehow I am wrong.

#BlackWomenAreNotSafeOnTwitter
It would take a rocket ship for me to reach the bar for Black women, but the bar for literally everyone else is buried UNDER the fucking floorboards.

#BlackWomenAreNotSafeOnTwitter
Honestly, I'm just tired of the shit.

So yeah, some of y'all got cussed out today, and rightfully so.

I only have so many cheeks to turn before I just start swinging.

#BlackWomenAreNotSafeOnTwitter

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monique, who is openly Black Profile picture
15 Mar
As a Black woman on Twitter who encounters this multiple times a day every single day 365 days a year, I want to show you guys something. Thread:
I saw Gen X trending, and when I clicked the trend, it was all about Fox News calling on us to "cancel" "cancel culture." I thought it was funny because the boomers tried to cancel everything we liked as teens, and so I tweeted this:

For the most part, people got it, agreed, laughed, RT etc Of course, there were some who either willfully or ignorantly misunderstood my point. Those (mostly white) people didn't even try to disagree in a reasonable way. They immediately began calling me names, disparaging me etc
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monique, who is openly Black Profile picture
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Gen X is trending because Fox News thinks we are the ones who can kill cancel culture.

*laughs in 2 Live Crew, NWA and Sinead O'Connor*
So, FOR THE DUMB PEOPLE IN THE BACK, this is a list highlighting the stuff they tried to cancel when we were younger.

those of you who got it, thank you.

Those of you who hopped over here calling me names and shit?

FUCK YO MAMA.
A little tutorial on Gen X:

We are the first generation to have existed in both the analog and digital world
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monique, who is openly Black Profile picture
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Can we talk about how good #SnowfallFX is?
As a homegrown Los Angeles native, I appreciate it for it's accuracy as far as the times and my city is concerned. Shit is so real.

I can literally remember the first time I saw a crack rock. I was 13.
I went to Palms Junior High (now Palms Middle School) in West Los Angeles in what was then one of the whitest neighborhoods ever. A lot of kid got bussed to our school from South LA.
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monique, who is openly Black Profile picture
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Nah, we gotta discuss how Shirley had the audacity to pick up her rotary dial phone, take all that time to dial Barbara's number and confront Barbara about a no good ass man who was probably lying to both of them anyway
Shirley told Barbara that she found her name and number by going through her "old man's pockets."

Already, we know Shirley is insecure as fuck, likely because the nigga has previously given her reason to be. That's problem number one.
Why she playing on Barbara phone instead of confronting that man? If she was going through his pockets, then we know that this wasn't the first time the gentleman in question has had Shirley out here looking like a gotdamn fool.
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monique, who is openly Black Profile picture
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So, my Instacart shopper kept marking stuff as "not in stock." Turns out, everything was there, he just didn't know where to look in the store.

Has this happened to anyone else?
I wasn't a bitch about it, and I always tip 30 percent in advance, but come on?

When he eventually found the stuff (he's at my neighborhood store so I told him where to look), I thanked him profusely just cause I don't want to be the irritating customer but also?
I don't want to have the laziest Instacart shopper ever. Like what is the threshold/requirement for them to find items in the store?
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