There white people who think I wrote the story about how Black people aren't here to serve white people as a service to white people. And thus am inviting white criticism of MY OWN DAMN EXPERIENCES.
Which just, like, takes some fucking NERVE man.
Like, if you read it and you learned a little something, I'm happy for you. And if you read it and learned nothing, I'm sorry for you. But, it wasn't really about you. NOT EVERY GODDAMN THING IS ABOUT YOU.
I wrote it (well at first to help MYSELF process my own feelings, as one sometimes does, when one is A WRITER).
I turned it into a post because A LOT of nonwhite people are feeling what I'm feeling, and I have the unique opportunity AND responsibility to give voice to that.
Anyway, I've written TWO stories since then, about law stuff. Because, as most people know, my social media is actually a guerilla marketing campaign to get people to accept substantive due process as the one true valid interpretation of law. I hope you read them when the post.
Meantime, I'm starting Dad O'Clock early today. Peace out.
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So... one thing that happens in hard core "intelligent design" circles is that they say humans could never have been "naturally selected this way" and one of the things they'll point to is the argument that bipeds are easy prey for faster quadrupeds...
Wife (to 8yo, in mom explaining voice): This is actually a good way to understand hyperinflation. [Explains] And that's why sometimes people want to have money back up by something like gold.
Me (barging in, using Dadsplaining voice):...
BUT, the "gold standard" is actually a devious way some rich countries try to cut off growth opportunities in the developing world, keeping those countries forever beholden to their evil banks.
Wife (annoyed and looking dead at me but keeping the Momsplain voice on):...
Yes, which is why I was about to explain about how now there's a new movement to have central banks issue their own digital currency, which, as I'm sure your father was just about to explain, could be a way for those countries to take control without risking hyperinflation...
Waiting in the CVS parking lot, this old white lady drives by, rolls down her window, and shouts at this black girl with a bag (clearly waiting for her ride:
"Is this where you get the vaccines?"
Black girl (couldn't have been more than 16) says nothing, goes back into phone...
White lady "I SAID, Is this where you get the vaccines?"
Girl now does an elaborate *look behind to see if there is somebody else this lady should be talking to*, LIKE AN EMPLOYEE. Says nothing.
White lady, screaming at the top of her lungs "IS THIS WHERE YOU GET THE VACCINES"...
Now people behind her in the lot start honking at her. She yells "THE SERVICE" as she rolls up her window and drives off.
To recap: Old white lady shouts herself out of vaccine information after assuming every random black person she sees is put on earth to help her...
Just to put a pin in the Seuss thing, there is not a Black parent my age THAT I KNOW who hasn't had the unique experience of opening a "new" Seuss story, starting to read it, and realizing that it's TOO RACIST TO CONTINUE and changing it on the fly in front of the kids.
It didn't take me long to realize I had to PRE-READ all Seuss stories, even ones I *thought* I knew well, before actually sharing them with my kids.
The fact that there are WHITE parents who haven't experienced this is actually white people TELLING ON THEMSELVES.
I really hope that people who are already complaining about Biden's immigration moves are listening to Mayorkas right now. "The entire system was gutted."
Trump (and Neilsen, and Wolfe and Steve Miller), simply BROKE immigration. Biden has to literally FIX ALL OF IT.
This is also why whenever I talk about @TheJusticeDept (my beat) I *always* emphasize how Biden and Garland need and should be given TIME. Cause Barr and Sessions BROKE JUSTICE too.
And I feel like this is actually what happens (though usually not to this scale) *every* time Democrats take power.
Republicans don't believe government can work, so when they're in charge THEY BREAK SHIT.
Then Dems have to spend years just putting it back together.
A year ago, I was in DC attending a @WeDemandJustice. It was a Dem debate night (the night Liz Warren went for Mike Bloomberg's exposed jugular). In my hotel room that night, I made a list about everything I knew about coronavirus... and everything I knew about Republicans
Instead of assuming the government was on top of it, I assumed complete incompetence. I figured, given Trump, he wouldn't do anything about it until white people started dying, so I had to survive about six weeks when mainly poor people would be left to die, before relief came.
I was actually terrified on the train back home. And then I had to do the hard part: convince my wife and 70yo mother to *stop going to work*
I couldn't do it that week, but I used ever skill of argument and persuasion and got them to burn a week of vacation at the start of March