I feel heard.
White people can be terrible hosts. They nickel and dime you for everything. It’s like they don’t know how to give of themselves without equating it to a transaction. They live transactionally and it’s sad bc they don’t know how to be a part of a community
This spills over into every part of their lives: their relationships are transactional and therefore lack depth and true emotional support. And if you say something they don’t like they cut off communication because it’s a transaction that didn’t go through to them
How many times have you been to a BYOB party or dinner 🙋🏾‍♀️
First time I told my parents about BYOB they were like “if you can’t afford to have a party/treat your guests why are you having a party?”
It’s white nonsense.
I had a BBQ for some friends over the summer. Did I ask them for anything? No bc I wanted to celebrate them and our friendship. Did they bring stuff? Yes because my parents also said “never show up anywhere with your two long hands”
Also want to point out: why do y'all let your kids' friends call you by your first names? Like, they're not your peers...
I mean even I get jarred when I hear it

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So. We threaten people who take CERB and the unvaccinated. K.
I don’t like that people are unvaccinated either. However the response to #COVID has been cocked up by governments of every level and now they’ve found scapegoats for their own malfeasance and ineffectiveness
These are the same people who chose big box stores over grandma and lost. They played with people’s lives and lost. And we all lost as a result. The same governments that cut health care at the beginning of this pandemic 😷
And they will use the unpopularity of the unvaccinated as a wedge issue for political gain because they know they cocked up this pandemic response so badly.
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2018: “The Board is confident that Uday reflects all of the necessary qualities to help lead one of the most respected police services in North America.”
2020: "I truly believe that the work this budget will support will bring at least some of the change we so urgently need," @dianedeans said.

This is in addition to promising a funding freeze in the 2021 budget to #ottcity residents which she then renegged on. #ottnews
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