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My Flying Car 2020
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When Black and other marginalized people say something is wrong in the US, don't assume we're playing spoiler for the GOP against Dems or have been brainwashed by propaganda. It's possible our lived experience informs conclusions we come to on their own. American experiences vary.
11:41 AM - Jul 28, 2023
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My Flying Car 2020
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We can't get our needs met without speaking truth to power. We can't wait for other people to notice our problems and volunteer solutions. That doesn't mean we won't vote in our best interests, given available choices. But we cannot be expected to be silent about the things that ail us.
11:44 AM - Jul 28, 2023
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My Flying Car 2020
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If this leads to us speaking inconvenient truths, we will collectively need to work through the resulting discomfort. Comes with the territory of trying to solve problems in a landscape with systemic inequality based on race. It's not either you're all in on Dem messaging or you're with the GOP.
11:49 AM - Jul 28, 2023
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My Flying Car 2020
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One day, perhaps, we won't have to deal with truths like, the hood stays the hood, no matter who wins these elections. But until that changes and all marginalized people are safe, hearing and stating inconvenient truths will remain part of the work, on message or not. Election year or not.
11:54 AM - Jul 28, 2023
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Ground Control
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Totally fair...you can be sincere and still come to vastly different conclusions as everybody else. There is a bit of a gross desire to rule that informs a lot of the charges of "ops", not to mention crippling paranoia. Sorry, the opposition is RARELY that good.
01:55 PM - Jul 28, 2023
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"PROTECT BLACK WOMEN!" - yeah right
@Original_Phoenix_Rising
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I find the whole thing quite, I dunno. What if the op actually was bashing the dems, is that not "allowed" here? (disinformation aside). As you said, Black people should vote in their best interests but the reality is we continue to suffer the affects of systemic racism regardless of who's in power.
12:16 PM - Jul 28, 2023
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My Flying Car 2020
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In response to "PROTECT BLACK WOMEN!" - yeah right.
I'm so sure that if she was bashing the Dems she'd get attacked on all sides. The service would allow it, but the "It's us or them! Be practical! Lesser of two evils" Dem voters would isht a brick. I vote like that, too. But I know lots of hood folks don't vote bc they don't perceive a benefit.
12:22 PM - Jul 28, 2023
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My Flying Car 2020
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In response to "PROTECT BLACK WOMEN!" - yeah right.
And the only people pointing that out the lack of benefit are opportunists like Ice Cube, cynical GOP who only want to peel off Dem voters without serving them, and socialists/progressives who have no realistically viable apparatus to power outside the Dem party but wish they could take it over.
12:25 PM - Jul 28, 2023
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