They know good and GD well why they failed. They lacked the will to do their job. 1/

A White man allegedly shot his Black neighbor in Minneapolis. Why police waited days before making an arrest
cnn.com/2024/11/02/us/… 2/
The fact that fear of his known gun ownership was a factor in them doing the job they signed up to do, is bullshit, but also highlights the reason how rampant gun ownership negatively impacts society.

I learned early in life, growing up Black in a very predominantly white suburb, that white girls are socialized differently. It really crystallized Senior year of HS and hasn’t t changed much in the decades since. 🧵 2/
Why I’ve not been surprised since 2016 nor have I had any faith that DEMOGRAPHICALLY, much, if anything, would change. I always had a very limited and small number of friends after experiencing things I’m not wired for in elementary and middle school. The fake

Oh let's do talk about this. I'm including Aaron's clip here because it needs to be seen, heard, absorbed, and understood. 🧵1/

First, this is not 1950, regardless of Trump being in a time warp. This has been used as a pejorative against women as if there is no male participant.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1833705366556664146

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It's a phrase once uttered by arrested development immature boys who giggle at words like boobs.

Its misogyny is obvious, especially in the current context of the GOP's views on women; being led by the nose by evangelicals...they of the obsession with their

Let's dissect. 1/

"She has three beautiful kids and always felt like she was having to balance being a good mom with being the kind of litigator that she wanted to be," he asserted. "I just want women to have more choices."
rawstory.com/vance-cat-ladi… 2/
"She has three beautiful kids..."

Not my wife and I. Not we. "She" #Weird Are they not his? Donor sperm? Or confirmation that he has nothing to do with him because kids are "wimmin's work"?

Joe Biden became the nominee in 2020 because Black voters understand that the white Dem electorate is weak and runs scared. We understood that because of YOU, it would take an older white man to go up against Trump again. That's a you issue. You needed that and you got it. Deal. The entirety of Black voting has always been a calculus of risk mitigation and harm reduction. We have informed ourselves on policies that hurt us and other marginalized communities the least. Some white women and #LGBTQ people get this. Far too many white people don't.

White, Christian, colonizer behavior lives. This is...I have no words. 1/

They took part in Apache ceremonies. Their schools expelled them for satanic activities
theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int… 2/
So many of cultures have had coming of age ceremonies altered or erased. So many at the hands of Christianity. This is the continuation of what was official American policy "Kill the Indian to save the man".

"hOw dO yOu kNoW iT's rAcIsM?"

My family's lived experiences with housing discrimination. 1/

Dad's parents...similar to "A Raisin in the Sun"...second Black family to integrate a neighborhood. Residents tried but failed to stop it because the son of their next door 2/
neihbors to be who was a respected veteran, stood up and put a stop to it. His mom and sister ended up being my and my cousins adopted grandma and aunt.

Parents. Made and had an offer accepted on a house in a then lily white Seattle suburb. The neighborhood had been

Let me address the "they pay taxes". Yes, they do. They also made a choice. Choices have consequences.

But beyond that, plenty of people pay taxes to support schools and future generations without having children in school. Childless people pay taxes. 1/

https://twitter.com/PortiaMcGonagal/status/1795117359348224481

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Empty nesters and seniors pay taxes. In his dissenting opinion (Compañía General de Tabacos de Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue) Justice Holmes said:

"Taxes are what we pay for civilized society"

Roads, parks, schools are all part of the commons

Marjorie Taylor Greene came to Congress specifically to be the antagonistic obstructionist she is. She marched her CrossFit Lego Brick body into the halls of a once venerated institution and has openly harassed and attacked every prominent Democrat. But her fellow 1/ 2/
pack of howler monkeys will now screech about decorum because this is America and she, as a white woman, will be cast as the victim, despite being an arsonist running around with gasoline and matches. A Black woman will be cast as the villain for doing what

"But after taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found — and didn’t find." 1/

A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrinating kids. Then she read the curriculum.
texastribune.org/2024/05/15/tex… 2/
This lays bare the reality of this "movement". She ran on eradicating things she insisted were there but didn't bother to actually read the real, not projected, curriculum. Why deal in facts when you have "beliefs"?

OK, this is my wheelhouse. Not a 🧵but a STFU rant I wasn't planning on going on today. 1/

First of all, if you're going to flex, proofread. Been there. Or learn to spell.

Now, as a Black woman who's been married to a white man for over 3 decades, HA!

https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1779207927875994093

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I've heard this projection many, MANY, times. Exactly how do they think this privilege works? It didn't work when we've sold houses and every realtor advised we should take down our pictures. It doesn't work when people assume we aren't a couple. Like at

They are constantly preaching how morally superior they are...1/

'Stay out of all Walmarts': Kentucky GOP house candidate arrested on strangulation charge
rawstory.com/stay-out-of-al… 2/

Let's dissect. Paul McCartney not only wrote the song, but has been explicit, for years, about its inspiration and tribute. I'll guarantee you with 99.9% certainty that this person is white. A whitesplainer has come to correct him. Sir. Paul. McCartney. 1/

https://twitter.com/christaylor_nyc/status/1776187036455579862

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In his own words:

Thoughts on this. Consistent with how way too many white people view racism, it is something that non-white and specifically Black people are expected to endure, not something white people are expected to stop doing. I find that telling. 1/

https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1762653296353837560

His message basically boils down to what I and I am very sure many many other Black people have heard forever: "toughen up". The burden is never on those who are engaging in racism to learn, grow, and heaven forfend...STOP. It's on us to become "immune" to it. 2/

The Jezebelization of Fani Willis 🧵

Because that's what yesterday was. People advocating for a man and his co-defendants...a man who has been found legally liable for sexual assault and who has another trial for covering up his payment to a porn star...can't 1/ fight based on facts or innocence so they turn, easily, to one of the oldest tropes available. The Jezebelization of Fani Willis. What was not at issue yesterday, were any of the facts that led a citizen group of grand jurors to indict them. But in Trumpworld, 2/

In re: Mormonism and the Trad Wife movement...I didn't want to hijack someone else's post so here are my thoughts based on growing up with LDS girls and spending many years in the crafting world. 1/ 2/
Honestly, I think the LDS portion of this is being overstated and two distinct things have been conflated. LDS girls have always been raised to be homekeepers and wives. So cooking, homekeeping, childrearing, has always been in the mix. If you know anything about

The Daily Sealion
If not every single day, then all too frequently, a Black person or other person of color relates a lived experience or comments on one shared by others.

Inevitably, we get sea-lioned by someone who has not, nor cannot possibly, have lived 1/ that experience.

What is Sealioning? 2/

I didn't have time yesterday. I have time today. I'll use this as a jumping off point about touching Black people's hair. 1/ In re: this comment...guess what? We don't all have the same hair. Oversimplified, but our hair is typically classified in four types. Reality is "Infinite combinations, infinite diversity". So no, any one Black person's hair is not necessarily like another's and that's that. 2/

Dear white people who do this thinking it's a flex or a gotcha. It isn't and we know. It's not new news. It's not revelatory. Well, maybe about you if you think you discovered something heretofore unknown. 1/ Now, what I find hilarious is, that the same people who love to do this, never want to talk about how the REPUBLICAN party beat feet to abandon Reconstruction and enable the Southern Dems to implement Jim Crow and terrorize citizens you want credit for freeing. 2/

I don't like writing things like this because I always fear sounding patronizing or self-aggrandizing or something icky. But now more than ever, I feel like not saying something is the same "silence is complicity" that happens when anti-Blackness is discussed. #antisemitism 1/ I have never not known nor not had Jewish people in my life. From people my dad grew up with to the woman who became an adopted Bubbe, who took my mom under her wing in her job, to friends I've had throughout my life. It was reinforced to me at home that beyond 2/

Reagan led the backlash against the gains of the Civil Rights movement. He announced his campaign in Neshoba county, with a state's rights message. The county where Chaney, Schwerner, and Goodman were murdered. His racism was palpable. He validated white fear. 1/

https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1705892378958033271

He easily and willingly used racist tropes like his mythical "Welfare Queens" to reinforce extant beliefs among white people that Black people were living large. He failed to act to stem the rise of AIDS because "ick, gay men" while Nancy betrayed her gay friends. 2/