One of the most ominous aspects of kids going back to school is we’re sending them into the classrooms of a teacher workforce that’s 79% White at a time when White people are the least likely to wear a mask consistently & get vaccinated. yahoo.com/lifestyle/whit…
If we don’t immediately start requiring masks and vaccination (or frequent COVID testing) of teachers and school/bus staff, we’re at risk of super spreader outbreak events that originate in thousands of classrooms across every corner of this country.
It also has the makings of a few racial health disparities because we’re exposing a predominately not-White student body to a system that’s already prone to prioritizing White freedom/choice/grievance above the health and safety of people of color. washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/…
A June 2021 UT-Austin study showed that 56% of White Texans don’t wear masks in public vs. 12% of Black Texans and 28% of Hispanic Texans. The unparalleled freedom to choose personal irresponsibility is a lethal White privilege that puts us ALL at risk. texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/response-c…
As opposition to mitigation efforts among White Americans has grown, so has their rate of COVID hospitalization & death. It’s NOT a mystery or surprise and we shouldn’t be giving society’s most radical anti-mask/vaxxers a license to become COVID suicide bombers in our schools.
Delta’s ripping through red states (especially in the rural Deep South) because refusing masks/vaccines/lockdowns has become a proxy for White Republican identity. They’re peer pressuring themselves into catching/spreading Covid, overdosing on Ivermectin and dying of Whiteness.
Much of the White peer pressure to refuse all Covid prevention strategies ignited after early reports showed Blacks/Hispanics/Natives were disproportionately dying from it. Now despite 58% of deaths occurring amongst Whites, many still presume both superiority and invincibility.
67% of Texas Republicans don’t wear masks in public. 86% of Texas Democrats DO wear masks in public. For every finger @GregAbbott_TX and @DanPatrick point at the border and Black people, 3 fingers point right back at the Texas GOP. texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/response-c…
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As I’m wont to do, I’d like to take y’all for a quick stroll down memory lane b/c the conversation around Biden’s age is so severely lacking in couth and nuance that I’m about to crawl out of my skin….
When Biden announced his candidacy in April 2019, he literally framed it as ‘look, I know I’m old, but America is in such tremendous peril that I’m compelled to un-retire and lead the battle for the soul of our nation.’ We had a ginormous field of youthful candidates, but HE WON.
As he is today, he was met with a resounding chorus of “he’s too old,” but you know what?! He didn’t give a flying FUCK! He watched how the primary unfolded & knew the MSM-built field was *incapable of mobilizing Black voters/the Democratic base*. Battle for the SOUL of a nation.
If the argument is Biden’s too old to do the job he’s *already been doing exceptionally well* for the last ~3.5 yrs, doesn’t it then follow that VP Harris has been secretly doing it for him, thereby proving that she’s fully capable of being POTUS if something happens to Biden?
Y’all aren’t fooling anyone but yourselves, WE know full well what a line of succession is b/c we already voted for it in ‘20, resoundingly. WE already have a VP we trust to be a heartbeat away from the presidency and her name is Kamala Harris. Put some respect on it & #ExpectUs.
Reality is Trump’s a deranged convicted felon/liable rapist & disastrous former fake POTUS under numerous additional indictments who still hasn’t picked a VP despite the very real prospect of him being incarcerated and/or progressively incapacitated. That’s a line of regression.
“To even pose this as not just a possibility but a campaign strategy is deeply condescending, dehumanizing and cynically, diabolically racist.”
@LeslieStreeter Inevitably, Black people end up re-explaining this shit over and over again, *every election cycle* because the GOP insists on lying about us to win votes and the MSM insists on amplifying said lies. Not only is their strategy diabolically racist, it’s mindnumbingly AHISTORICAL.
If the GOP was capable of producing a scrupulous candidate who could *both* appeal to moderates and speak explicitly to the bigotries & grievances of the GOP base without committing endless crimes, they wouldn’t have had to hitch their wagon to an aspiring felon in the 1st place.
Aside from the fact that Trump’s hubris and ego would never allow him to step aside, he’s irreversibly stuck to the GOP base like glue b/c he echoed their fear, jealousy and hatred of the 1st Black POTUS and promised them he’d “take our country back” and make America White again.
They felt traumatized by watching the Obamas restore our reputation on the world stage, while their most cherished Confederate statues, heroes & flags were torn down in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement. They cried out for a White savior and Trump answered w/Birtherism.
Reality is the predominantly rural & suburban White Texans who keep electing Republicans aren’t actually winning anything but the freedom to die of Whiteness without interference from a functional social safety net. Their electoral “victory” ultimately amounts to self-sabotage.
They’re gonna keep killing themselves with guns, drugs/alcohol & science denial and the folk they just elected will keep not giving a fuck. Their kids will remain uneducated, unmotivated & uncompetitive and the wages of Whiteness won’t be enough to sustain them or turn the tide.
Also their feigned religiosity isn’t ever gonna save them from the consequences of their disastrous political choices. Their family systems are in a shambles and there aren’t enough behavioral health providers or community resources to clean up the endless messes they’re making.
FYI the reason why the usual suspects are so busy trying to stir up shit betwixt and against Black & Jewish ppl is b/c we’re the 1st & 2nd most reliable Democratic voting blocs & the midterm election’s quickly approaching. Intersectionality is OUR POWER. pewresearch.org/religion/2021/…
Matter of fact, it was this same intersectionality & solidarity in the fight for civil rights (and against White supremacy) that fueled passage of the CRA in the aftermath of the “Mississippi Burning” murders of 1964. It’s a bond solidified by trauma. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_o…
Bonus points if you’ve already connected the dots between the heinous killing of Black & Jewish civil rights workers in 1964 and the Mississippi location Reagan *intentionally hand-picked* for the launch of his racist ass presidential campaign in 1979… #SouthernStrategy101