Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, and Jellybean Jars Were Also “Colorblind” – Why Some May 4th Celebrations Might Be Muted on Parlez Vous Monday And All the Other Days

 

Tell Your Story - First Week of the New Year Saturday Night OT

 

More Antitrust and Hopefully Less Fascism As A Result - #WheresTiffany - Saturday Night OT

 

Dismantling Disinformation Day After April Fools – Saturday Night OT

 

"See It Be It" Is the Social Experiment for Good or for Ill – Saturday Night Jam & OT

 

The Book Banners We Have To Deal With Right Now Don't Act Like They Read Fahrenheit 451 Before They Burned It

Even on Summer Weekends WannaBe Fascists Masquerading As Republicans Keep Doing Literally All They Can To Take Our Rights

 

 
My sun-activated stress hives are ruining both my hands, y’all
 

 

Of course Kavanaugh waits till Congress leaves town.  Of course he and Kemp and DeSantis and Abbott take people’s rights away literally in the dead of night.  (Latest SCOTUS ruling in comments.)

What bothers me the most is that WE SHOULD KNOW who paid off his tens of millions of dollars worth of debts just before his SCOTUS confirmation hearing – because generally candidates who hold that level of debt are not considered for a seat on the high court because of the extent of the possibility that candidate could easily be compromised – and who paid the several million dollars worth of mortgage on his house.

 

 

 

Here’s what I think I know – it doesn’t take the Nap Ministry to repeatedly assert it for even the semi-conscious and –conscientious among us to know that rest and living wage and healthcare and housing are penumbral rights every American should be able to enjoy.

 

If we don’t remain vigilant even when we rest, however, we have to know there are people who are hungry and eager to take those things from us and hoard all this society’s benefits for themselves who have been enabled to do it because they were empowered by mechanisms decades in the making that were activated and propelled while we were too busy, too tired, too underpaid, or too uninformed to be looking.

 

 

The House Is On Fire: Cause & Effect 101 and OT

 

People who would prefer not to have Gaetz & Crenshaw in charge – I won’t quote them, because I don’t believe in spreading propaganda deliberately designed to incite violence -  need to listen to Maya Contreras & Elie Mystal

The people – the creatures- who’d have American citizens mostly in poverty and under tyranny, beholden to their patronage for sufferance, are the same ones who do NOT want us to connect the dots. 

That’s a well-known fascist’s trick – for anybody who’s bothered to venture beyond their own state lines or curious enough to go to a library and ask actual questions about things that happen in other peoples’ lives.

None of that ^^  is what I thought I was going to write the day before Roland Garros starts with Naomi Osaka making a statement with her declared absence from ridiculous, repetitive press conferences (willing to be fined for it, and rich enough to afford it) that most of her White colleagues are either not sufficiently well-versed in history or just suffused with DoNotWannaKnow –ness have shown in their remarks that they were all too willing to let her point fly right through their heads …

… but the crazy thing is it’s really pretty much all the exact same point

1) The #TulsaMassacre happened in Lessie’s life. An aspect of Critical Race Theory is discussing resource disparity (White men hegemony over most resources in the US). When Black people create resources for ourselves many in power have historically tried to take them away.

 2) Voting Rights is an example of that. They’re a way for us to access power, to access representatives that work w/us, & to access resources. This is why Republicans are trying to block our path to the ballot box, they want to control power and resources.

3) The GOP are trying to block #CriticalRaceTheory and #1619Project because when the public begins to analyze racial disparities and connect it how law and policy operate in the United States then people understand accountability is needed. Republicans want nothing to do w/that.

4) I admire what James Talarico did here, but American history has been whitewashed since it’s violent inception.  As I told @PepePierce, while I learned about The Trail of Tears and Slavery in 6th grade, you’d think that’s was the beginning and end of Native and Black History.

5) I didn’t learn about Rosewood (1923) or the Tulsa massacre (1921) until I was in college. That wasn’t in class, it’s when accidentally stumbled upon a book about Black run newspapers in America. I didn’t learn about Seneca Village until I move to NYC.

6) We need to continue to fight for a complete History of this Country; to support projects that tell and add to community histories of LGBTQ, Black, Latinx, Native, AAPI, Disability, Jewish, Muslim, etc and how each overlaps & intersects. To see the full complexity of US. 

7) Our stories are important. They’re worth telling. They’re worth preserving. They’re worth archiving. Remember that. Be an archiver of your family stories, your community stories. It’s so important. If we don’t tell our stories somebody else will & they have been for centuries. 

from this thread

https://twitter.com/mayatcontreras/status/1398663314981494789

 

 

Coco Gauff, Frothy Santorum, Colin Kaepernick, Nicole Hannah Jones, Chris Cornell, TaNehisi Coates, Charles Grodin, and Paul Mooney - OT

 Two pieces of unvarnished good news:  Coco Gauff won the single-double in Parma and CNN has fired Rick Santorum (even though it took a month).

 

I’m celebrating that President Biden signed the first anti-hate crime legislation into law in 12 years at the same time I am painfully aware that a Congress half-full of Republicans has NEVER managed to pass a federal anti-lynching law at the same time state legislatures and state university boards of trustees controlled by those same Republicans does not want K-12 or university or graduate or professional school students to learn the truth about, as MacArthur Genius Grant winner TaNehisi Coates put it today, “the American experiment’s origins in the laboratory of slavery”.