Here's the bottom line....the blanket kids gloves treatment given to the #January6th crowd has centuries lasting potential for all further public disobedience, protest&response. The free for all at the U.S. Capitol means the double standard has now meant critique is meaningless.
I don't remember anyone blaming music, or attire or parenting skills or culture or color on #January6th and if you plan to test me...white supremacy can infect anyone...
But tonight there will be right wing vitriol. There will be low key calls for neo-eugenics, there will be shaking of heads by hired Black right-ists who will tweet as their masters bid them....
The memory of this nation is too damn short.
In a nation where the previous executive bid us to worship the idols erected to honor the destroyers of the Union it makes perfect sense that his followers attempted the same.
All in an attempt to derail and disturb the idea of a Multicultural society in favor of a vampiric white nationalism urged on by the fantasy of white replacement theory. Tonight military grade weapons are used on handfuls of protesters that were never used on Capitol rioters
We are viscerally angry. We are hurt. If our feelings do not matter and our facts are ignored, what are the options?
You don't want us to encourage defunding or boycotting and you don't want us to vote....just be real and tell me how we will survive the impasse?
#LindseyGraham the king of the kkkloset told us to just think like him if we want our rights....
That's not an option.
We are never going back to being this country's peasant enslaved class. Ever. We are not going to exist to be victims. We are not here for punishment or traumas. We will never confess inferiority or that treatment of our Ancestors was a "necessary evil"
We are at "Never Again" and frankly we've been here for over 150 years if not 400.
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Part of being Black is telling white people who say "You should be offended..." that every single day we negotiate and navigate where our battles lie, and while their concern is appreciated, what we choose to confront individually is a matter of personal choice and mental health.
And not really their business....
While we are at it...also respect a groups humor and the things you will never grasp. Not everything is for you or within your realm of understanding. All culture is not community property or breachable just because you believe in the sketchy concept of "universality..."
I think its part of my destiny to write about the story of Black bears and I don't mean the ones living on the Appalachian trail. We Black queer cis/trans men who identify with #bearish culture have a very unique set of blessings and challenges and our own origin story.
And yes I own that entire outfit.
#LGBTQ history and lifestyle narratives will be incomplete until those of us with very different #bodyody 's are acknowledged not only as representative but thoroughly resistant in our demand that we have aesthetic and erotic identities too
It seems like we have a new divide. And I understand why. I also understand that we cannot return to practices that lead to cyclical repeats of systemic injustice.
To that end we need a few friendly reminders: 1. Twitter is not lobbying or voter registration or the voting booth.
2. Money talks and bs walks. 3. Diversify your activism portfolio--collective legal action is important, local activism, commit to shaping your local politics now....now...now...and your state legislatures, judicial appointments and executive branches.
4. Get people who are passionate but civically apathetic to get registered. We have too many people who can vote and do not. 5. Felons who have served their time and pay taxes should be voting. (Don't get in my ass...im going for what will get mass appeal.) 6. Organize and act.