We keep pointing to the "other" White people, the southerners or uneducated or racist rural relative.
They don't exist. The "other" is a myth we created to keep from facing responsibility. Do better White people.
(friends & family link)
http://tinyurl.com/tda6589...
They don't exist. The "other" is a myth we created to keep from facing responsibility. Do better White people.
(friends & family link)
http://tinyurl.com/tda6589...
susanlarsonwrites.medium.com
09:56 AM - Jan 12, 2024
The older I get the more I am astonished by what we’ve allowed ourselves to be conditioned to accept as normal, as ok, the way things work, the price to be paid for living
Give up your life to work, to make other people wealthy beyond measure, so you won’t be homeless, hungry & sick & abandoned
Give up your life to work, to make other people wealthy beyond measure, so you won’t be homeless, hungry & sick & abandoned
05:01 PM - May 13, 2024
5 Threaded Spouts
Some day...
...Some day we will look back at this time in history and wonder why we allowed those with money and power to force us to toil to have our basic human needs met when the resources on earth are so wonderfully abundant
...Some day we will look back and wonder why we allowed ourselves to
...Some day we will look back at this time in history and wonder why we allowed those with money and power to force us to toil to have our basic human needs met when the resources on earth are so wonderfully abundant
...Some day we will look back and wonder why we allowed ourselves to
08:35 AM - May 13, 2024
The story of the USA has never actually changed, it’s just more evident than ever. #voteBidenHarris2024 #votelikeourdemocracydependsonit
Elle Ralston @ElleRalston12:10 PM - May 12, 2024
12:22 PM - May 12, 2024
🧵 wow
AprilG Xn+2 = Xn+1 + Xn @fibonaccigirlIt's a shit app but Jess is a reason I keep popping in over there.03:50 PM - May 11, 2024
Men: list one tangible action that you will take to end rape culture.
11:03 AM - May 12, 2024
10 Threaded Spouts
📷️ Native New Yorker #CorkyLee documented the life of #AsianAmericans for over 50 years. He is self-described as the #Undisputed #Unofficial #AsianAmerican #Photographer #Laureate
10:29 AM - May 12, 2024
10 Threaded Spouts
On May 13, 2024, #PBS will debut #PhotographicJustice #CorkyLee , the documentary on his life.
🪷 In the U.S., May is #AsianAmerican #NativeHawaiian and #PacificIslander Heritage Month.
🪷 In the U.S., May is #AsianAmerican #NativeHawaiian and #PacificIslander Heritage Month.
10:29 AM - May 12, 2024
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To all the people who don't have mothers, who had negligent & abusive mothers, who have had to remove themselves from their mothers' lives, who are taking care of themselves. I see you. I believe you. You are good. You are loved. You deserved a better mother. #mothersday
09:22 AM - May 12, 2024
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The privilege of whiteness is you get to live
Natalie Hill @NattyJ07:34 PM - May 11, 2024
08:39 PM - May 11, 2024
some people are just more equal than others
Peggy Stuart #FirstWave @PeggyStuartWashington State Republicans are saying the quiet part out loud for all to hear. They mean what they say, and we must protect our right to vote as if it was our last election, because it very well could be. #BlueWaveRising #DemCast #DemocracyIsFreedom11:30 AM - May 11, 2024
11:40 AM - May 11, 2024
Male privilege includes doing sex work and not being arrested or stalked and murdered, it includes a rolling stone article about how cool you are. Name any woman this has happened for. I have all day. 🙄
10:45 AM - May 11, 2024
yup
"finger painting on the constitution"
"finger painting on the constitution"
Betsy @SoulJourneyBw01:26 AM - May 11, 2024
09:42 AM - May 11, 2024
4_FSake @4F_Sake"(MOMS) Act. The bill would create a registry of pregnant women, who would then be steered to support services that include "crisis pregnancy centers" — usually faith-based groups designed to shame or trick women seeking abortions into keeping their pregnancies anyway."08:08 PM - May 10, 2024Katie Britt shredded for 'Handmaid's Tale'-type proposal to 'register' pregnant women - Raw Story
U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) is being ridiculed on social media for a new piece of proposed legislation that, while billed as a child support bill for new moms, is being panned as yet another dystopian intrusion into women's pregnancies. Britt, who came to the forefront of the political conversa..
10:36 PM - May 10, 2024
the well-oiled, carefully calibrated, fine-tuned, powerful white supremacy machine in action
it's no mistake mediocre, hateful, white folks have been able to stay in control for so long. we've got each other's backs in every possible, horrible way, at every turn
it is sickening
it's no mistake mediocre, hateful, white folks have been able to stay in control for so long. we've got each other's backs in every possible, horrible way, at every turn
it is sickening
Christopher Bouzy @cbouzyI warned people about what we are currently witnessing back in October.07:03 AM - May 10, 2024
08:21 AM - May 10, 2024
For those of you wondering about the history of HOAs, it's pretty dang simple. HOA's were initially invented to redline, and keep all minorities out.
11:56 PM - May 06, 2024
08:31 AM - May 09, 2024
We could have chosen anything
And this is what we chose
And this is what we chose
The Harlander ✅ @HdwIt should’ve all ended right here 8 years ago. That it didn’t says all you need to know about us.07:18 AM - May 08, 2024
08:22 AM - May 08, 2024
just another example
billionaires buy politicians who focus on pitting us against each other at every turn, while they strip our freedoms, rob us blind, poison & steal our natural resources & make us work for them to get our basic human needs met.
and we just keep going along with it all
billionaires buy politicians who focus on pitting us against each other at every turn, while they strip our freedoms, rob us blind, poison & steal our natural resources & make us work for them to get our basic human needs met.
and we just keep going along with it all
Lola Gayle @LolaGayleCNBC - Florida’s 6-week abortion ban could set up clash with shield law states
The law prohibits telehealth appointments for abortion, but some groups are already using out-of-state physicians to prescribe the necessary medications.07:42 AM - May 08, 2024Florida’s 6-week abortion ban could set up clash with shield law states
With Florida’s six-week abortion ban now in place, telehealth appointments with out-of-state physicians and mail-order abortion pills could play increasingly important roles in allowing women there to safely end their pregnancies.
08:05 AM - May 08, 2024
10:07 PM - May 07, 2024
we could have literally chosen anything
and this is what we chose
with our votes
with our apathy
with our silence
with our churches
with our whiteness
with our love of money and guns and lies and our refusal to live in reality because it might hurt our tiny grown adult feelings
and this is what we chose
with our votes
with our apathy
with our silence
with our churches
with our whiteness
with our love of money and guns and lies and our refusal to live in reality because it might hurt our tiny grown adult feelings
Vicki with an eye @catmomdoThis is a heartbreaking read. Kids and gen Z are carrying more trauma than we can possibly understand. I don't think cowering under desks as a kid in fear of Russian nukes compares to this constant fear of mass horror, allowed by all for the obscene preservation of the 2A.💔07:52 AM - May 07, 2024
08:45 AM - May 07, 2024
White people, here's another one for us.
Don't look away.
Please.
Find acceptance.
Live in reality.
Don't look away.
Please.
Find acceptance.
Live in reality.
Licia @LiciaYesterday, while in route to Granny's house, I read a post about a guy whose wife was treating him the way men have treated their wives for centuries. Towards the end he mentioned someone accusing Spoutible of being white centered (the accuracy of it all) and how white people were toxic.09:50 PM - May 05, 2024
08:52 AM - May 06, 2024
We could have chosen anything
We’ve chosen to build a society where our neighbors shamelessly shoot at children with real guns and real bullets when they accidentally pull into their driveways while trying to deliver our pizza while working at their after school minimum wage job
We’ve chosen to build a society where our neighbors shamelessly shoot at children with real guns and real bullets when they accidentally pull into their driveways while trying to deliver our pizza while working at their after school minimum wage job
Mybuddysully @mybuddysullyTeen pizza delivery driver shot at 7 times after parking in wrong driveway, police say11:20 AM - May 05, 2024
01:43 PM - May 05, 2024
What’s in store for DOI is an excellent reminder of the dire consequences for this country if Biden loses this election
Yvette MT @yvet406DOI Secretary Deb Haaland has partnered w the DOJ & Congress to address the horrific crimes of MMIP.11:36 AM - May 05, 2024
Yes, I want 4 more years of Justice, equity, and accountability.
#4MoreYears #BidenHarrisTeam2024
We are not just electing a President & VP but an administration that can do good or evil.
12:41 PM - May 05, 2024
Love this guy.
This is it right here.
Gonna cause some white lady tears.
Please, nice white cis ladies, step back, stand behind Black, Indigenous, Migrant, Disabled, Trans, Gay women. Support them, listen, quietly help them lead. We'll be amazed where we can go from here.
This is it right here.
Gonna cause some white lady tears.
Please, nice white cis ladies, step back, stand behind Black, Indigenous, Migrant, Disabled, Trans, Gay women. Support them, listen, quietly help them lead. We'll be amazed where we can go from here.
Timara (she/her) @timaraI'm loving how the bear conversation is evolving and getting people to think outside of their predefined box. Watch this.07:18 PM - May 03, 2024
12:09 PM - May 04, 2024
Verified Twitter used to be
where folks showed their identity
We knew who-was-who in that old space
where ppl had to show their face
Now it's a place where trolls can hide
anonymously "verified"
Spreading hate & lies & rumor
they'll pay $8 bucks
to call you 'groomer'.
where folks showed their identity
We knew who-was-who in that old space
where ppl had to show their face
Now it's a place where trolls can hide
anonymously "verified"
Spreading hate & lies & rumor
they'll pay $8 bucks
to call you 'groomer'.
10:13 AM - Apr 20, 2023
Nixon called student protesters “bums” CA Gov. Reagan said "if it takes bloodbath" to deal w/campus demonstrators "let's get it over with.” Ohio Gov. Rhodes called them “the worst type of people that we harbor in America."
"We were too young & naïve to know the danger of those inflammatory words."
"We were too young & naïve to know the danger of those inflammatory words."
08:26 AM - May 04, 2024
We could have chosen anything.
And we've chosen to pick a fight over who is going to pick our elderly folks up off the floor when they fall down because we don't want to fucking pay for it, are afraid of getting sued, and just can't goddam be bothered.
The world we live in.
https://wapo.st/4bgQbpi
And we've chosen to pick a fight over who is going to pick our elderly folks up off the floor when they fall down because we don't want to fucking pay for it, are afraid of getting sued, and just can't goddam be bothered.
The world we live in.
https://wapo.st/4bgQbpi
09:53 AM - May 03, 2024