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May 19, 2023 14 tweets 4 min read
This will make some of you uncomfortable. I’ve decided to post it anyway because I’ve spent my whole life uncomfortable in this country. You’ll survive.

Don’t hit me w/a #NotAll, either. Use that energy to work on the white women in your life this 100% applies to. YOU know them. If you are upset or offended by this thread ask yourself: Where the lie resides about white women as collective?

If you don’t like the tone or language, ask yourself: What’s more indecent…the turn of phrase or the voting statistics that caused the original poster to say it all?
May 18, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
It’s sad to see that the @TedLasso fandom is full of some of the same toxic-kind of fans found in #OUAT and #TWD.

Trust and know, this is NOT my first rodeo with you beasts and I will block with abandon to clear the field like I’ve done before.

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What this brand of “fan” always fails to realize it that how YOU see the world and YOUR agenda is not truth or fact.

It’s YOUR opinion.

You do NOT get to infer then decide something based on YOUR opinion and declare that it is the truth and then attack others over it.

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May 17, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
What this disgusting piece of 💩 is too dumb, greedy, complicit or hateful to realize is that people using these BENEFITS are UNABLE to work or DO but don’t make enough to survive. 6M of OUR tax dollars went to their latest 🗑️ investigation. I’d rather it go to those in need.

1/ Further, raising the debt ceiling is about ensuring that our country pays the debts it has ALREADY accrued. Tying the @GOP goal of making sure no one who needs help gets it — besides billionaires & corporations — to the debt limit is evil. But that’s what they all are. #Evil.

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May 15, 2023 10 tweets 3 min read
If you want to see a PERFECT example of a Karen attempting to weaponize her tears to get what she wants even if it ultimately causes bodily harm to a Black person, watch this.

As you watch, I want you to notice a few things…

*This will be a thread because I’m now annoyed*

1/ 1) She thought that if she yelled for help & cried she would immediately get her way.

Why? Because historically that has always worked for them. That’s why they do it.

They don’t care if someone gets hurt. When inconvenienced — or God forbid, DENIED — yell for help & cry.

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May 13, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
There you go again. Who said you couldn’t say woke? You can and SHOULD.

Just not pejoratively.

Racists, homophobes and xenophobes have weaponized the word to stand in for anyone and anything they hate like Black folks, books and a woman’s right to choose.

Don’t be like them. I don’t have beef with you @mxw616 but you attributed a thought to me I didn’t have or express, while mischaracterizing a word Black people use to signal that something important to our very existence needs to be paid attention to.

I won’t educate you further because I’m tired.
May 13, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
I said I thought it was an overcorrection, which I can speak on as a Black person because we, alone, get to decide how we feel personally about something that could be racist or offensive.

I did NOT say anything about “being woke” being an issue or a problem EVER. What y’all NOT gon’ do is infer that I believe — or EVER said — that being cognizant of the hate and racism and micro-aggressions in this white-supremacy-fueled nation is a bad thing.

An #OverCorrection means folks CARED about not being hateful

#BeingWOKE is the GOAL.
May 9, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
No to rape. Yes to sexual abuse. Was she harmed? Yes. Was his statement defamatory? Yes. Did @ejeancarroll prove Trump lied? Yes. Was there malice from Trump? Yes. Did she prove he harmed her? Yes.

She’s getting MILLIONS… they’re still listing charges and damages… She’s been awarded FIVE MILLION dollars.
Apr 6, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
Hey @kelly_cadigan, the internet doesn’t think you’re racist, we now KNOW you are. But I’m grateful for this video because it also perfectly illuminates what I’ve been saying about how detrimental the myth of white supremacy is.

1/ Because you have been ingrained from BIRTH to believe that you are inherently superior, you had NO problem waxing poetically about something you admittedly knew NOTHING about & couldn’t be bothered to research before giving your “expert” opinion with your WHOLE chest. 🥴

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Apr 3, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Lemme help y’all because my block finger is itchy.

Do NOT pop in my replies to admonish me for celebrating that unrepentant criminal FINALLY getting his comeuppance.

That imp called for the execution of the #Exonerated5, has assaulted women & is a flaming RACIST.

#GTHOHWTBS If you think I’m better than this, I’m not.

He is poison. A malignant tumor on our Democracy and the rule of law.

He has lied, stolen, cheated AND incited a insurrection where people DIED! And don’t get me started on the MILLIONS his handling of covid harmed and killed!
Mar 28, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
One thing I’ve learned on the @ring neighborhood app is that white folks steal so casually. They’re brazen in how chill they are about committing crime.

Is it because they can do it so often and easily in life with little or no consequence?

Real question.
I’m truly amazed. A few years ago there was a # where white folks were honest about how easily they can get away with stuff in life.

Stuff = criminal activity that would get other folks long prison sentences or on a very bad day quickly shot & killed by police.

I think of that watching @ring.
Mar 26, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
I got #lasik about six months ago. Decided to do it because of the pandemic. With everything happening in the world, I didn’t want to ever wake up and need to see and not be able to because of broken glasses or the inability to get contacts — apocalyptic stuff, I know.

1/ I did my research. Vetted my doctor — he’s one of the top two in the country — and watched every YouTube video known to man, the good & the horrific.

I made the best choice for me.

There are horror stories and there are chances that you may be in the % with complications.

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Feb 3, 2023 15 tweets 4 min read
I will say this succinctly:

This imp is dangerous but unlike 2016, this thing is not alone. This hate & renewed racism under the guise of “parental choice” is a cancer that has infiltrated the ENTIRE Republican Party. It LOUDLY exists at every level of government now.

1/ And don’t be deceived, what it just said IS outrageous. It’s racist, xenophobic, homophobic & authoritarian. But you thinking that ANY of that will stop people from voting this thing or more importantly its plans is the trick. A hair over 74 MILLION lost souls voted for this.
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Oct 13, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
The cost of gas & other products being high is not because of @potus. It’s the lingering effects of a global pandemic — that Tang called a hoax leading to his minions ignoring it which allowed it to fester & torpedo our economy.

That said, Biden is working to fix it… When you vote based on how things look TODAY you ensure that once @potus and the Democratic-led Congress fix things, you will have elected the kind of Republicans who CAUSED the initial problems — who will then take a victory lap for the things they did NOT do.
Oct 12, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read
Did @RickCarusoLA just…

Cringe. #AllTheCringe!

PLEASE don’t elect this man, Los Angeles.

#Vote @KarenBassLA.
Jun 25, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
All these folks back-pedaling away from their anti @HillaryClinton stance in 2016 is beyond infuriating.

Calling for grace & “kumbayah”singing.

Where’s the self-righteous bluster?!

You whined about Bernie🥀, screamed “Stay home!” & voted for #JillStein w/your chest in ‘16. Call them all out!

Remind them that just like elections have consequences, encouraging folks to vote against their best interests or not at all has consequences, too.

I care about their feelings & comfort about as much as the Supreme Court & the Republicans care about women.
Jun 24, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
I hope the 53% of white women who just couldn’t stomach voting for @HillaryClinton are happy that they’ve just ensured that their daughters grow up in #Gilead.

A woman’s right to choose is a HEALTH decision.

A PERSONAL health decision.

I’m a Christian and know that. Further, I hope people finally get that VOTING MATTERS!

A corrupt, racist, money AND power hungry imp got to put THREE Supreme Court justices on the bench.

Those three said they would protect precedent KNOWING their goal was to overturn every right they deemed inappropriate.
Mar 10, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
From THIS Christian, please know that you ARE enough for Christ who loves you.

Period. The end.

w/that knowledge go forth & continue to strive to be better for the kingdom & to love God, yourself & others as you love yourself because THAT is what Christ boiled it all down to. LOVE is who He is. LOVE is what He left with us. LOVE is what He called us to be. LOVE is what He called us to do.

Judgment & condemnation was NEVER supposed to be on our list of duties because WE are ill-equipped to do it.

Scripture tells us so.
Mar 9, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
She told ZERO lies.

Anyone who’s honest & paying ANY attention to the wall-to-wall coverage this particular war is getting will agree.

The comments from the folks covering it also tell the tale — THESE people being refugees is a tragedy.

For THEM there’s profound empathy. Every human being on this planet deserves safety, food & shelter.

War is hell. To fear for your life is hell. To be displaced is hell.

Where is the compassion for the Black and Brown people who have faced what the Ukrainian people are sadly now facing? ❤️

Joy told the truth.
Jan 20, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
Please. This.

I know we are tired. I sure am. I feel like I’ve been fighting for what’s right 24/7 since that orange snake slithered down that gilded escalator. His evil has encouraged the evil in others.

It’s always on us to fix it. But the alternative for us is death. Yes, we will have to organize AGAIN.

Yes, we will have to register (and in some states RE-register due to their suppression tactics) to vote AGAIN.

Yes, we will have to donate to Democratic candidates even in states we may not live in AGAIN.
Oct 28, 2021 13 tweets 4 min read
Know what’s wack?

Every time a Democrat is elected President, it comes after some Republican yahoo has ran up the deficit, started a war or FULLY spearheaded the rebirth of racism & white supremacy via a four letter cult.

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The Democratic President gets in & gets right to work. They get as many laws passed—the kind that actually help people!—that disgruntled Republicans allow & work to fix the economy.

They are judged, ridiculed & doubted every step of the way — even by some fellow Democrats.

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Oct 27, 2021 7 tweets 4 min read
“You have to be 3x better & work 3x harder just to get HALF of what they are freely given.”

Imagine Obama doing ANYTHING TFG did.

Sadly, I can’t compare @SenatorSinema’ antics to the excellence of a Black woman in the Senate because:

🗣 THERE AREN’T ANY BW IN THE SENATE‼️ All the care and flair she puts into her curated appearance every single day yet when scheduled to preside over the Senate of the United States of America @SenatorSinema chooses to wear this?!

It’s not about fashion or taste, it’s about the solemnity of the moment. #Sheesh!