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Watching John Oliver w/ NOW Columbus, GA
At NOW Columbus, GA. Watched Last Week Tonight with John Oliver‘s sex-ed segment. We all CLAPPED. SO. HARD. when Jonathan Banks denounced his own teenage sex-ed “bowling” video.
On Being A Regular Nigga in Blerd Spaces
I don’t use the n-word, but this piece makes sense concerning #empathy. #blerd
So, yay for the Internet. In the past few years I’ve found big groups of Black and brown people online with whom to discuss cool stories and get recommendations for even better ones. When I make jokes in these spaces, they don’t flop because people actually understand the cultural references (Dear White People of Reddit…). I don’t have to convince them that having one of the only brown human characters in Dragon Age 1 and 2 be a randy pirate woman is problematic. It’s been nice.
It has also been a little disorienting. Even though I share interests and some race-based cultural knowledge with many of these people, it doesn’t seem that I have shared experiences when it comes to how my interests affected my perception of my racial self and my community membership.
When the conversation starts about how none of us ever really fit in with the other…
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On the lies of “black genocide”
Christian anti-abortion folks who harp about a “black genocide” are some of the most uncaring, hard-hearted, shame-projecting liars.
* As if any of them care one bit about AfAm women’s lives, equities or freedoms as much as their uteri.
* As if any of them care that the fetuses which develop into infants will grow up into less-than-desirable AfAm women and men.
* As if specifically *our lives* matter to the anti-abortion activists.
* As if any of these activists think of AfAm women outside of the “welfare queen” “poppin’ out babies” stereotype.
* As if any of these activists consider that birth control, condoms and other tools of hygiene should receive more investment and less demonization.
* As if any of them are not the ick-attracted authoritarian jackasses who never offer solutions beyond “ban abortion” and “make sex sacred”.
* As if you care much about the growth of the AfAm population for as long as abortion has been legal in this country, but that’s an inconvenient truth which disrupts your feigned “black genocide” martyrdom.
Seriously, I wonder why the Southern Baptists ever allied with you lying jackasses after their racist hissy-fit over integration. But you lie about a lot of things to get your ban in place, especially about AfAm women, their bodies and the women and men who love both. You are as fake as the Exodus, Willie Lynch, the “War on Christmas” and American exceptionalism.
We won’t live by your savior narrative. Look at yourself, and say no to #misogynoir.
#BlackLivesMatter
On the #BlackLivesMatter Disruption of Sanders’ rally in Seattle
(x-post from my Facebook)
Look at it from the perspective of the protesters. The proper placement of protest tactics and targets are mattering less and less as #YetWeAreStillDyingInTheStreets. We’ve used a variety of tactics before, only to get little product from it.
In Christianese, people like Bernie, Martin and Hillary are barely reachable, so they get these pearls, while all the GOP candidates are the proverbial swine. Yet, Bernie speaks at safer grassroots areas like Iowa, Colorado and Washington State, where he can expect a large turnout from his message’s resonance.
To date, AFAIK, he has not spoken in campaign mode in Chicago, or Atlanta, or New Orleans, or Baltimore, or St. Louis, or Houston, or Birmingham, or Jacksonville. Meanwhile, we can get Sen. Ted [#GrandpaMunster] Cruz coming to a church here in COLUMBUS, GEORGIA with the help of State Sen. Josh #RFRA McKoon.
But yet, it’s in these areas where PoC are heavy, and their issues intersect largely with “urban” crises.
This is why #nn15 and #Seattle happened. Bernie, Hillary, Martin and the pitiful number of Dems running this season (and their pitiful number of debates) are going where it’s safe, not where their ears and eyes are needed. They’re not going where their vulnerability can be lent, without the expectation of a large crowd, but with the expectation that they will find recourse for our greatest domestic concerns.
Like Usher said: “Where are you now, when I need you around?”
Be here now. Don’t have us come to you.
The weather isn’t burning as much today.
I wish I had met Pres. Carter when he was in better health. I’m glad to have see him in person when he was in Columbus stumping for Sen. Jason Carter.
I just couldn’t get through the Secret Service to shake his hand afterward!
My thoughts and support go to Jimmy, Rosalyn, Jason, Kate, and their family. Here’s to a longer life.
- 1776-1865: Generational chattel slavery, violently-enforced restrictions on freedoms of African American bodies by color/ancestry/expression, wanton asymmetrical terroristic violence against African-American individuals and communities by color/ancestry/expression, arbitrary penal abuse/imprisonment/forced-labor by color/ancestry/expression. [No economic mobility]
- 1865-1968: violently-enforced restrictions on freedoms of African American bodies by color/ancestry/expression, wanton asymmetrical terroristic violence against African-American individuals and communities by color/ancestry/expression, arbitrary penal abuse/imprisonment/forced-labor by color/ancestry/expression. [No economic mobility]
- 1968-present: arbitrary penal abuse/imprisonment/forced-labor by color/expression. [Little economic mobility, domestic and community violence]
- ???
- Profit?
What is the next-lower threat level of our insecurity? Maybe we can get it down to Level 5 before things start to swing upward.
