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@MsPackyetti
parked account for now. find me active on instagram, threads or TT under MsPackyetti✌🏾
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Sep 28, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I hope you know that @SpeakerMcCarthy is perfectly willing to let over 6 million mothers and infants IMMEDIATELY lose access to WIC & be turned away at grocery stores to feed their children.

The party of family values is willing to let an estimated 39% of all infants go hungry. I want us to understand that @SpeakerMcCarthy is scared to lose HIS job so he’ll happily let 2 millions federal workers be forced to go without theirs.

He’ll collect a check and maintain his party perch while people go without during record high inflation.
Aug 27, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
A white gunman just killed 3 Black grocery shoppers in a state that won’t let children learn why.

#Jacksonville And I say this, knowing ALSO:

That the #Buffalo gunman terrorized Black people in a state with a Democratic governor, and Jordan Neely was choked to death by a white man in a city run by a Black man.
Aug 13, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
I know you’re not asking this question in good faith, but I’m gonna answer for the sake of those who think this way:

There is no America, as you know it or as we wish it were, without the stolen and voluntary contributions and brilliance of Black Americans. I remember my AfAm class in 12th grade, a guest speaker came in and we merged w the Am History class.

A girl commented “I thought history was just about learning about the people in power.”

Yes, she was.

And she reflects a v common, unquestioned belief.
Jul 8, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The entitlement that white supremacy culture teaches works two ways:

It is here to both tell white people that they deserve what does not belong to them—and that Black people do not deserve what *does* belong to us.

Our birthrights be damned. Every time some fixes their mouth to say that Black people do not need anything to level the playing field, remind them that *living survivors and direct descendents* of racist domestic terrorism were *not even given their day in court* to prove their case for repair.
Apr 4, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
My black (and excellent) doctor checked THREE times for me because I really didn’t want a c-section. In the end, my 24 week old baby was simply not going to survive any other way.

It was major surgery that I’m still recovering from and I don’t regret it one bit. *Black
Mar 31, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Stolen money. Threats of extortion. 20 year old studio gossip. S*x tales.

This is the wildest press tour for a *gospel* album I have ever seen. And after all that the single don’t even hit 🤧 A lotta old runs and no oil 😭😭😭.

Perhaps that’s because it was supposed to be both sister’s deal 🥴
Mar 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
All this AI stuff don’t scare y’all???? Image The computers finna take over so what y’all laughing at????? Image
Mar 20, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Bring back hairdressers.

Wash included, scratch-ya-scalp, marcels and pressing combs, got the growing hand HAIRDRESSERS.

The kind who can do Sis. Gladys’s hair AND yours. The kind you see before Easter Sunday & every 2 weeks.

Who don’t have 5 pages of rules and need deposits. THE KIND WHO HAVE THESE AT THE FRONT. ImageImage
Mar 17, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
This is abjectly false BUT I want y’all to see what is being done purposefully:

“Woke” is being recast as an *outright threat,* which makes it-and us-far easier to attack. They’ve even added an “-ism” to make it sound sinful-like racism im or sexism.

This is intentional. When “woke” means “liberal” principles or “political correctness, casting it as “wokeism” makes it easy to attack those principles through, say, the banning of books.

When “woke” v simply means Black people, “wokeism” makes it easier to, say, suppress our votes & protest.
Mar 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
ZENDAYA’S BOYFRIEND IS BRITISH?!? I promise y’all I didn’t know lmaoooooo
Mar 12, 2023 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
ANGELA BASSETT IN THIS WHIPPED ROYAL PURPLE GIVING ME MODERN DOROTHY DANDRIDGE THIS IS HOW YOU DO QUEEN TINGS 😭😭😭😭😭 #Oscars Tems said DONT WORRY YOU WILL SEE ME! #oscars

🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 Image
Mar 10, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
“Sweetheart.” “Sit down.” “Lady director.” This is some extremely nasty work and is *eerily similar* to the piece ahead of the Grammys & the Beyoncé hate.

When Black women tell you we KNOW how we are talked about and treated, just hush and listen.

ew.com/awards/oscars/… ImageImageImage Especially when they’re ALL ok with personal favors being called in on behalf of the white women which, at the very least, tap danced on the rules.

Everybody in the article is like 🤷🏾‍♀️ about her but Danielle’s performance was “pandering.”

We can see you! thecut.com/2023/03/andrea…
Mar 9, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
There is a white woman on tik tok who's husband wrapped their toddler in saran wrap as a supposedly "funny punishment" for getting into things (which is developmentally appropriate). They put the video on TT & CPS came and got the child. There's got to be a growing field of study in psychology about growing in the internet age

B/c the children whose parents have used them for clicks & go out into a world with millions of parasocial relationships waiting on them that they did not consent to is a growing number.
Mar 8, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Sometimes I write down the hardest things I’ve ever done just to remind myself who I am. Today I reminded myself that I:
-gave birth at 24 weeks to a now thriving child
-ended an engagement
-left an emotionally abusive relationship
-was a fellow 3 times at a college I wasn’t accepted to
-fought postpartum anxiety & depression
-finished Tunde’s ride this morning 🫠
Mar 6, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
This apparently has some people in a tizzy and I want to repeat, with citations, that colorism is real & systemic.

Health, justice, labor and marital outcomes are literally WORSE the darker you are.

This does *not* exist in the reverse.

amacad.org/publication/co… Some might say “it’s not that deep,” but again, understanding that pop culture can be an open door to deeper understanding, this is an important conversation for us to get right

Individual hostility toward light skinned people =/= the perpetuation of systemic & cultural barriers
Feb 27, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Thinking this way is absolutely harmful.

Saying out loud is wild.

Saying it to white men and getting juiced up while they laugh in the key of Black stereotypes??? On this land??? DURING BLACK HISTORY MONTH?!?

That’s some *nasty* work, baby. Black families of all varieties entrust their children to folks like this. The legacy of Black educators and mentors-yes, that includes coaches-is one of commitment, radical love and protection in a hostile world.

This spits in the face of that legacy and our families.
Feb 8, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I know you’re being inundated too but from black brands (and I hope you are) and listening to Black voices (I pray you do) but how are each of you learning Black HISTORY this month?

Especially as it’s being systematically silenced.

I’m actually asking. From Carter G. Woodson’s Mis-Education of the Negro:

“This crusade is much more important than the anti-lynching movement,
because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.”

Timely, no?
Feb 8, 2023 • 27 tweets • 6 min read
Honestly? So far Biden is making common sense appeals to the folks at home and hammering home on the economy in a v plain way.

He’s making Republicans look like elitist snobs (which they are) and they’re falling into it. #SOTU “No billionaire should be paying a lower tax rate than a teacher or a fire fighter.” YUP.

Meanwhile the republicans are going to war with teachers and unions. And behaving childishly during a speech during which he has been overly kind to them. #SOTU.

Big yikes
Feb 6, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I’m still annoyed that some folks ain’t vote for Bey for AOTY because “there were 8,000 writers” on it but then I remember white supremacy culture sold y’all rugged individualism over community when the truth is the “individuals” only win bc of the community they erase so…
Feb 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
RENAISSANCE was such a complex, communal, affirming album and one thing I’ll never be over is how Beyoncé continually understands her impact on the lives and careers of others. Meticulously chosen lyrics, collaborators, even words in acceptance speeches. I’m upset about AOTY (because like what else she gotta do?!?) but I do love that this is the album with which she set a new record of Grammy wins.
Jan 27, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
What’s really clear about some of the reaction to the murder of #TyreNichols is that we’ve failed to fully understand race and it’s construction as a *systemic tool.*

The entire system of policing sees the Black body as a problem. No matter who pulls the trigger. Black bodies were America's first capitol. Bought, sold, priced with cattle: property. And property is controlled.

So our Black bodies are meant to be controlled by the American institutions that have roots in and replaced enslavement--*particularly* the criminal legal system.