#blackmastodon#blackfediverse#blackfriday I understand the pro Palestine movement,and I support them,but you white folks need to reconcile and repair the damage you did and done to your black United States citizens.we always on the back burner.
Just figured I'd let you know that I (and by extension the rest of the Tech Talk Thursday crew) have been nominated for a BIPOC Streamer Award in the Chatterbox category!
please help moo with his monthly food and bills! he's disabled & has been unable to find a job for years. he's stuck in a housing situation where people steal his food. anything helps!
I'm trying to arrange a $93 loan for myself to be paid off Wednesday. It would need to be etransfer so if any Canadians can, help a home out and shoot me a dm!
Just figured I'd let you know that I (and by extension the rest of the Tech Talk Thursday crew) have been nominated for a BIPOC Streamer Award in the Chatterbox category!
Senior #Toronto cop, Supt. Stacy Clarke, says she helped Black officers cheat to fight structural #racism#police#Canada
In her explanatory letter to professional standards, she wrote: “I’ve had to prove myself over and over to all the naysayers and doubters who believe my ascent through the ranks is solely due to the colour of my skin. I’ve had to jump through hoops that were created just for me.” #RacialInequity#BlackMastodon#BlackFedi
#abolition#BlackMastodon#BlackTwiiter#NonProfits#Capitalism
Yesterday @majorlinux made an observation after years of raising money for charities through gaming: "The fact that charities exist because Capitalists horde all the wealth leaving the working class to pick up the slack by begging one another to donate while simultaneously providing the Capitalists to make themselves look good isn't great." Today I will talk about the nonprofit industrial compelx (NPIC). 1/8
#abolition#BlackMastodon#BlackTwiiter#NonProfits#Capitalism Usually abolition work is focusing on dismantling the prison industrial complex (PIC). But as groups start trying to rethink how to create safety, the question always comes up as to how to fund the work. In the US the thinking is you have to create a 501(c)(3) in order to raise money and then apply for grant funding. But capitalists create foundations (the source of grant funding) to shield their wealth from taxation. 2/ 8
#abolition#BlackMastodon#BlackTwiiter#NonProfits#Capitalism So rather than pay taxes so that communities can be properly supported by their own local governments, foundations put the money into charitable entities, thereby shielding it and then get a tax credit for giving it away! The question becomes if a grassroots group is really trying to radically change how their communities will be treated, will foundations be willing to fund such ideas? 3/8
#abolition#BlackMastodon#BlackTwiiter#NonProfits#Capitalism In a book that’s been out for a while, but I’m just getting to : THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE FUNDED, edited by INCITE! A collection of grassroots organizers wrote about how foundations co-opt and otherwise use their grants as a way to restrict the real work grassroots organizations do. The organizational leaders discussed how they ended up wasting time and resources “professionalizing” their work as demanded by the foundations. 4/8
#abolition#BlackMastodon#BlackTwiiter#NonProfits#Capitalism Examples: asking them to get office space and permanent staff they didn’t need. The “professionalization” push of the corporate foundations has created a category of nonprofit workers who are “professional managers.” Their whole effort revolves around keeping a high paying CEO or ED job in the sector as opposed to actually focusing on delivering services. I’ve seen good programs destroyed by nonprofit professionals EDs. 5/8
#family#legacy#ancestralroots #grandfather#blackmastodon
My grandfather Papa Joe before he came to this
country,this is his picture when he was just 27years old Cape Verdian brother,and me.He passed away in 1977 when graduated from High School and started my freshman year in college
He always had a full head of hair and always wore it in the same style ,same,but it was full white when I use to visit him in Massachusetts.Good fond memories of him,he taught us a lot,never forget your history,
🤣🤣 istg whatever city my Momma moves to she searches out the loudest ass preacher she can find to slot her into the loudest ass gospel choir 🤣
Is this just a black mom thing or just my Momma?
She a fine ass singer tho .got to admit dat 😄 #blackmastodon
As a lil kid sitting on my grampa porch in tupelo mississippi he telling me ' jaden you got work twice as hard as a these white kids to make it. Make sure you read , study and go college '.
Don't end yall life like me and your gramma serving these mfs.
Shit I didn't understand a word he said at the time I do now !! #blackmastodon
Y'all follow what Y'all pastor tell yall to do ?
If dat man tell me not to suck dick I don suck dick and give dat ngga a dollar to control my life ???? Gmfu istg 😤 #blackmastodon#BlackFedi
“There's so much white mediocrity that gets celebrated, and Black people, we have to be absolutely flawless to get half of [that]. We're trained to be like, 'If I'm not exceptional, I won't be loved! Certainly, I think that was my thing. So, yeah, I think I'm just learning now like, 'Oh, you are allowed to be loved! You don't have to be excellent or aspire to that term, 'Black excellence. What the hell?"