Genuinely responding, I think you should consider why Millie Bobbie Brown would be in Drake's community more than say Caleb McLaughlin, the only Black boy actor on Stranger Things.
If they actually are just friends & nothing sexual was going on why would it be wrong or weird for them to be texting ?
Like I genuinely want to know that . Again I ask y’all, what kind of village members do y’all wanna be ?
Actually yes, they do. It is illegal to be a communist and a public school teacher in California, it's illegal for a communist & work for the US federal government, and trade union leadership cannot be communists & have a case heard by the NLRB.
California is burning again. Good time to remind everyone that:
1) These fires are a direct consequence of colonialism & capitalism - the settlers do not know how to steward the land.
2) Imprisoned people shouldn't be forced to fight these fires for absurdly low wages.
It actually would make sense for Drake to have reached out to Caleb, from one Black former teen actor on a predominantly white show to another. But what advice could Drake offer to Millie, solo, that he couldn't have also been giving to her boy castmates as well?
For the people that care: Dolezal stole the term transracial & bent it to fit her. The term was coined in the 1960s by BLACK & INDIGENOUS adoptees who experienced erasure from being adopted by white people who didn't care about their adopted kids' heritage & culture.
@divasingermom
They didn't ask to be brought in this world. Food, clothing, housing are basic rights that parents know they have to provide before a kid opens it's eyes. You can teach lessons without telling kids they have no rights, cuz that shit always comes back to bite.
Walmart did this in Oakland and used the same excuse. Spoiler, it's not about the shoplifting, that's covered thru their insurance. It's the cost of leasing or buying real estate in cities, but they're not gonna blame fellow wealthy people publicly.
That's not getting into the ways that private employers will harass and intentionally try to provoke employees who they know are left-wing till they quit. Middle management from retail to finance is full of bootlickers for this very reason.
Sooooooooo fashion nova decided to cut some of my time off my performance and raise other people times up which is very unfair to me so I came to a conclusion I don’t want to perform at the fashion nova party but I thank cardi for the opportunity 😘
@waymoflydenuu
The last time a Black person came on social media bragging about screwing over workers, they lost their job. It's too late to delete but not too late to realize your allegiance to the business owners and millionaires is one-sided and you have more in common with your reports.
@jaaydaamariee
Someone on here said the whole snakes on her head was probably that she had dreads/locs and what's been passed down was just the insults her enemies made and I haven't forgotten it since.
bell hooks being a landlord means that you can't read her texts expecting to find the solution to ending capitalism. You can read her for her other reasons, she does have useful takeaways on Black gender, sexuality and social relations, but she didn't care about ending capitalism
Is it not insulting to Coretta Scott King to reduce her liberation work to "she held a man down thru tough times"? Folks complain about white folks using MLK's memory as a cudgel to keep Black folks in line, how is this not the same but specific to cis women?
White media digging up Nathan Phillips' underage drinking like they didn't inform us last year that underage drinking is the norm for all white prep boys.
I see Drake's twitter bots have found this, and AI is too limited to understand the difference between a young actor coming up to someone they look up to at an event, and an adult entering the DMs of some teen they saw on TV or IG. That's why y'all been blocked/replies hidden btw
Within days of Megan Thee Stallion being shot, bloggers and hip hop podcasts began trafficking in the narrative that she lied. Now, as Tory Lanez is on trial for the shooting,
@CiCiAdams_
and I investigated how their misogynoir has influenced the case. 🧵
HK protestors were slinging racial slurs and high-fiving known Nazi groups like don't ever compare them to anyone protesting institutional racism and police brutality in the US.
HK protesters have repeatedly allied with the Trumps, Pompeos, Rubios, and Pelosis of the world—the architects & enforcers of the US regime of anti-Black death. These sweeping comparisons based on superficial visual references are an insult to the struggle for Black liberation.
@tenaciouscorpse
This feels like it's blaming kids for adults over-sexualizing fictional characters that were designed with kids as the target audience in the first place.
It legit makes me mad that Dolezal columbus'd the term "transracial", because indigenous people were stolen from their families, adopted out to whites & raised as white as a deliberate genocidal tactic.
These white people up here say they care about the forests but can't name the tribe that lives in that area. Even & especially when their county/town is literally named after the tribe.
Give back the land to the people who know it best, and follow their guidance.
"Transracial" was always about describing the experience of knowing that you're different but being raised in a family/community that was doing it's darnedest to assimilate non-white kids into whiteness.
@Qu33nbyDay
@ljpne
@HitmanHolla
If the custodial parent doesn't have a house, neither does the child. If the custodial parent doesn't have electricity, neither does the child. If the custodial parent gets fired from a job, that loss of income also affects the child.
If you do a search "transracial adoptees" you'll find:
1) A lot of recent & not recent articles confirming this isn't a new term;
and
2) Not one transracial adoptee ever took it to mean you "pick your race."
@mayaventura_
I wore tampons for years till I realized I was in more pain the first 1-2 days of my period when I was using tampons than when I only used pads. Sometimes you have to listen to your body & not the commercials.
I really want y'all to get a job that puts you in contact with wealthy white people. So you can stop posting this nonsense and become a socialist already.
I'm always laughing at the audacious hypocrisy of white people in the northern/rural parts of this state preventing housing development under the guise of "protecting the environment."
@CJforShort
@Lamiasdottir
You try to kill me as a baby just to try to get with my mom, you're my opp for life. I ain't naming my offspring after you wtf.
@IWriteAllDay_
The funny part to me is that most school shooters are white. So if the Brits want to come collect their settler cousins, that'd be alright with me.
@angryblkhoemo
One of em told us last year she was APPALLED when someone had the AUDACITY to call her out irl for walking out the bathroom without even looking at the sink.
@samwhiteout
White allies truly committed to increasing representation MAKE SPACE for those groups to be represented in their OWN communities. They don't take the position, they work to find someone else from the community.
@aiukliAfrika
When I found out that some people were telling me they were broke like me when they had 5 figures+ in savings or other investment accounts, I stg I had a breakdown.
This is why I’ve felt a need to speak out against the fringe left communists that only want to burn everything down. They are hijacking our movement.
After Biden, the Democratic Party will be searching for a new identity. I want it to be one rooted in economic patriotism for
I know people trying to search & unseal adoption records to find their real, non-white family. People who've been othered because some whites could tell they weren't fully white. It's not funny that we let Dolezal get away with stealing the term & making it about Black face.
@samwhiteout
White ppl taking positions of expertise in POC communities was already normalized by colonialism & imperialism.
I know white ppl irl who've passed on positions when they realized the selection process was skewed against Black & Indigenous ppl. THAT'S what we need to normalize.
Not to mention how much work transracial activists have done. If you ever read anything about the problems of Western adoption agencies in Asia and/or Africa, or white fetishization of adopting kids from the Global South, I guarantee it was thanks to a transracial adoptee.
It's real disgusting how the pro-Covid lobby is rewriting the school closure period of the pandemic. People who actually care about poor and abused kids were trying to get services and support to these kids, while all the wealthy cared about was getting away from their own kids.
I was in Greeley, CO today interviewing a 16 year old for a documentary film about the impact of school closures.
At 13, she was left to care for 2 younger siblings.
She was stuck at home with an abuser.
She stopped attending classes.
At 15, she dropped out of high school.
Diane Yap, aka @/RealDianeYap, is a staff member of the Manhattan Institute, which is a think tank that was founded by former CIA director William Casey. She is very literally being paid to sow discord and prevent solidarity that would harm the ruling class.
No. Black San Franciscans owe the rest of us reparations for all the crime.
They’re not all criminals?
Well, we’re not all responsible for redlining, their poor educational outcomes, low incomes, high incarceration rates and whatever else they’re demanding payment for…
I'm convinced that those "tipping landlord" posts are all plants, always. It's a thinly veiled attempt at establishing a norm that is essentially an illegal rent increase, that's it.
3. If you settlers actually learned your own history, you'd know that your ancestors used a lot of underhanded tactics that only scumbags would be truly proud of. There's nothing glorious or brave about stabbing gracious hosts in the back, nor kidnapping women & children.
@BlacSploitation
You volunteering services, or just giving armchair advice without any intention of doing anything yourself?
Cuz if your first reaction is to tell women what to do instead of putting in your own effort, then u dont sincerely want to solve the real issue: men assaulting ppl.
2. All you anti-indigenous racists spouting off those stereotypes like those weren't lies created by your own ancestors to justify their atrocities after the fact. We can see these same lies used in the US invasions of other countries, so we can see the pattern.
It's occurring to me that some of you think being conservative is synonymous with having a family and no, that's the psyop thinking. Conservative means *conserving* the status quo, and sq is imperialist capitalism organized by a multi-racial coalition of white supremacists.
Because these "examples" have been wielded against me so often, I actually enjoy breaking down all the ways this doesn't apply to everyone, particularly poor people.
I clicked the article so you don't have to - a thread
1. Seeing things in dreams before they happen is real and happens more often that we talk about
2. The US was founded on malevolent blood magic, the pledge of allegiance is a prayer that keeps the spell intact, and the power of the spell is waning
@CJforShort
@Lamiasdottir
Snape was a fascist who only stopped being team fascist when his un-pure, unrequited crush was offed. And even then he still committed torture and murder for the fascists as a double agent. He even bargained for Lily to be spared but Harry to be killed lol.
People were agitating for a living wage, free housing, a full rent and mortgage moratorium, free medical care and y'all were like "when will my fave restaurant reopen" "my passive income as a landlord/Airbnb host is suffering" and "stimulus checks are encouraging unemployment"
Y'all can take the high road but I for one am not afraid to say I asked for this for Leana Wen. She was the chief doctor in the US telling everyone in mainstream media to get Covid and get their kids infected too, Long COVID is the least she deserves.
It’s official — Leana Wen has
#LongCovid
“In July, I wrote about the unsettling experience of being.. very ill & hospitalized. Many readers have kindly written to ask whether I’ve fully recovered.”
“I wish I could say yes — The truth is far from that.”
This is exactly the take that WB wants y'all to have btw -- Ezra Miller was running a cult in like Vermont or thereabouts, kidnapped and groomed preteens, assaulted kids and adults who stood up to him, but they gonna say it was just a bunch of mistakes to get your $$$.
#TheFlash
is fantastic. I know Ezra Miller has made a lot of mistakes but they are soooooo good in this movie. Loved Keaton, the action, humor and emotion. Andy Muschietti has crafted something special. Thumbs way up.
WB didn’t show the after the credits scenes.
1. Y'all don't know the history you were never taught and never sought to learn, so go learn before you say there's nothing to be done about all the fires.
Lots of settlers showing their anti-indigenous asses here. Y'all are getting straight to blocked. So what I'm going to say is for the people who want to listen.
Btw, I'm too old to know who Zach Bia is, but his parents not having hyperlinks on the Wikipedia is a mistake. Philippe Bialobos was a fashion photographer
White German pulls out some tired Black stereotypes and then he asks what GERMAN stereotypes we think of????????? Boy you wish beer and lederhosen is what I thought of first.
I hate that folks confuse being corny with being an operative, intentional or unintentional, for US capitalism and imperialism. Puns are corny, producing a musical where Black & Latine people act as slavers and use hip-hop to legitimize the US is a de-radicalization program.
@SamGrady3000
Boy I do not know who you are, but you are absolutely, 1000%, in the wrong lane here.
No white person gets to talk about the problems of the "religious" (I know you mean Christian) Black community, because that was *FORCED* upon us, by Europeans & their descendants.
@TheBeardedDre
A BLACK woman named Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term in 1989. It is a strategy for understanding & fighting our oppression.
Take fact that it took 19 years for it to gain traction as evidence of how white supremacy systemically hides Black activist work from us.
@redditships
My fave part is how the bf agrees with her that hiding money is wrong and then explains how it's only wrong when a woman does it to protect herself.
It's either she's bourgeoisie and she can withstand the temporary vitriol of the Zionists (most will forgive/forget like they did for Formation) or she's a tool of the bourgeoisie and both her and her husband are highly paid employees/mouthpieces with little real power.
Y’all are so .. so now you’re telling me that one of the most powerful women on this planet doesn’t have the power to say she no longer wants her film played in a country invested in apartheid/genocide ? Please be serious.
There's also the fact that many cities still have affordable alternatives to Walmart. When I lived in rural Cali, the Walmart was the only place to buy kitchen or bathroom stuff, but in the Bay I can go to the Asian stores or the flea market for many of the same items.
@queersocialism
Do people not realize that if he's taking pics of a woman w/o her consent & sending it to his friends, then he's probably letting men accused of stalking, harassment, revenge porn, etc, slide? Like...
@CNN
Look at your language here.
- you can't solicit sex from a minor;
- it's not soliciting if the person is being forced into it, as Cyntoia Brown was.
She's a victim of sex trafficking, not a sex worker who voluntarily got into this work.
You mother fuckers are calling "do you support a Zionist genocide of Palestinians" as a purity test, you are the Christofascist government. We're here in the Christian fascist theocracy, right now, fulfilling the Pentacostal/evangelical interpretation of Revelations.
If "the left" sits out the 2024 election because they are mad that Biden isn't pure enough, they will help elect a Christo Fascist government that will waste no time turning this country into a Christian theocracy. So breathtakingly stupid, my teeth hurt.
@StillJ93
Several tribes in West Africa didn't assign kids a gender till age 5 or even puberty. Gender was seen by our ancestors as something that came from within, not determined by your genitals. That concept - genitals=gender - came with the white people.
I think unfortunately she's the blueprint for the "anti-capitalist" anti-racist activist who uncritically believes anti-communist propaganda. And ppl are more uncomfortable with it as they realize that anti-communism leads to strange bedfellows, regardless of your other politics.
At least open white supremacists own up to their ancestors' dirty tactics, because they recycle them. A lot of y'all don't even have that much courage and are just regurgitating what all us USians learned in 1st grade.
Europeans, of nearly all tribes, nations and ethnic groups. Catholics, every flavor of Protestant, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Danish, Swede, English and Ashkenazim too. Elon Musk ain't Jewish how'd his family get to own emerald mines in S Africa?