Folks professed love and support for essential workers was always just about the workers’ willingness(coercion?) to self-sacrifice. But when we start talking about dignity, respect and fair compensation for these ‘heroes’ the invisible asterisks come out.
Lmao!!!! Why are we all like this?? It always tickles me that we really share a lot of cultural scripts. How do you explain this before social media? Cuz I’ve been hearing this since I was 5:
Its hard to have an honest convos around colorism, specifically dark Black girls being erased, without folks taking it as a personal attack of their own Blackness. Y’all gotta see beyond yourselves.
So lemme get this straight, the idea that there may be working class and/or Black folks withholding Dem support over student loans is reprehensible, but those who might not vote Dem over defund must be coddled and catered to, & those pushing defund blamed?
I’d also be taking my baby outta that school once i get there and see the cops were called. And then y’all wanna press federal charges???!? Glad the DA didn’t want to, but I wouldn’t trust my child around all those adults w/their carceral zeal and hurt egos.
Tired of this talking point that suggests student loan debt is something only a few care about, & are impacted by.
Millennials carry 32% of the loan debt.
We are now parents and caregivers. Many of us are our parent’s retirement plan. Our gen’s debt (which dwarfs many before)
Cop City isn’t just about Atlanta. It’s a testing ground for how police everywhere will wage war against Black people, against poor people, against anyone pushing back and organizing against State violence across the nation.
@LowellCohn
Slavery wasn’t his private life. It was a very public thing that impacted lot of enslaved Black people, you asshole. They were actual human beings, not his private hobby.
Words/phrases/things i want marked out on a big white board in every writers room:
Woke, cancelled, ‘for the cultur’ Beyoncé, all 101 level history/sociology lessons, ‘Black girl magic’, intersectional
@fienixtaranova
You act like you moving weight. Atleast drug dealers are offering a product- you’re just being the middle man to score a markup on shit people could get without you. And easier. And without paying a premium.
Well for starters, not having a bachelors degree doesn’t mean you don’t have student loan debt.
In fact, i wanna see the Venn diagram of students who didn’t finish school & students who were working class & took out loans.
The student loan issue, at the end of the day, is merely a loud kerfuffle on social media.
4 out of 5 Americans don't have a bachelor's degree, and this dispute means nothing to them.
‘Are you surprised?’
know what? I wasn’t, but was still having a gut reaction. Now that you’ve reminded me I shouldn’t be surprised by this traumatic event I suddenly feel better, and have tangible steps towards reacting in ways that don’t betray my cool, well read, exterior.
@fienixtaranova
all you’re doing is making products that much harder to reach for people without as much disposable income. You not grossed out by that? I am.
New York City Hall removed statue of Thomas Jefferson. Insanity. I know he owned slaves. Very bad. But he also wrote the Declaration of Independence. We celebrate him for that not for his private life. Taking down his statue is disgusting.
Name some food you tried because you read about it in a book or heard about it in a song. When I was a kid, Paddington made marmalade sound so good and then I tried it and was like yuk what the fuck is this shit? Don’t get me started on Men at Work and Vegemite.
coupled w/ stagnant wages & rising rent is keeping us locked out of stability. This reverberates out. Student loan debt isn’t just a problem for what folks try to paint as a privileged liberal few. We were told education was the way out, & now we’re tryna build on quicksand.
Dad of the year picked the daycare, vetted it, did the paperwork, got the bag together and dropped our lil butters off. I had literally 0 to do with it besides a signature.
This WW got ‘nigga’ all up and down her IG account. Nothing about her using AAVE (i don’t care where she from) to drag a young Black girl is amusing to me. I don’t understand why it’s being gassed so much.
May i offer the radical take that perhaps the teachers, while concerned for their own well being, are also voting in the best interests of their students?
My inner child is crying, joyfully, at the things I’m able to see and do that I didn’t think possible before– or even knew existed. One thing about growing up poor? Everything seems amazing to me now. Everything is new. Everything is a blessing. I’m really grateful. Here’s to 33.
My beliefs around abolition aren’t static. They are constantly shifting as I come across new info and continue to be in learning spaces. I’m grateful for this.
Idc, it didn’t require police or federal charges.
There’s be some accountability at home, and then my baby going to computer science camp cuz I see the potential!
Planning a several day backpacking trip w/another Capricorn. She sent me a planning google doc. Not to be out capped, I added a spreadsheet with an itinerary of potential mountain hut stays with the estimated hiking time between each.
@_BarringtonII
Many crimes are due to proximity. Black people aren’t killing each other at astronomically higher rates than white people are killing white people. This is a/b the conditions that propel people to commit crime. And yes those conditions have been set, & enforce, by White supremacy
Eh. I would’ve said/thought this a few years ago (that the convo started when BW were the subject) but i think it’s mostly b/c folks have tried to make accessing luxury as a BW some revolutionary act…and it’s not, & that’s what’s spawned much of the discourse.
tw: state violence
Another person died while being held hostage at Riker’s Island. Malcolm Boatwright was 28. That makes 15 people this year.
All deaths on the inside are State sanctioned murder.
As I keep saying it shows that EVERYONE thinks Dems are entitled to our votes. That we must, in service of some grander vision Dems don’t even work towards, continue to support them?
No such ask is made of moderates who fear scary scary defund agenda.