I'm 59. When I was born, segregation existed, interracial marriage was illegal and women were not allowed to have credit cards in their own names until I was 11 years old. CIVIL RIGHTS ARE A NEW THING.
@StillIRise1963 I am old enough to remember being on a school trip bus to the old Honolulu Zoo, and seeing a touristy couple holding hands walking down Kalaukaua Avenue. A white girl from the American South who transferred in, loudly announced to our busload of non-white mixed race local kids that a Black man and a white woman together was an abomination against God's law and the laws of man. Miscegenation was wrong, she said. When we all protested in an uproar, she retreated to "I'm only concerned about their kids. Mongrel kids. I feel sorry for their kids."
This was before Loving.
The evil side wants to undo Loving.
We won't go back. We won't go back.
Vote. Vote. Vote.
@StillIRise1963 I’m 65. Domestic violence was considered a family matter. No one was prosecuted for it, women were told by their various churches to do better and endure.
Rape was impossible to prosecute. There was no Miranda Law. No fault divorce did not exist. My mother had to get written permission from her father to go to college.
Abortion was illegal at every stage. Segregation was the norm. Civil rights did not exist.
They want us to go back to that time.
Joe Biden's age has not negatively affected his job performance, and the alternative is FASCISM. So, just quit the nonsense and get it together. DO NOT HELP FASCISTS.
@StarkRG@StillIRise1963 Meanwhile, Dick Van Dyke is 97 and still tack sharp and tap dancing. Age is a number. Biden is fine. The back up is Harris. Third parties don't have their ducks in a row and are nationally irrelevant at this time. The alternative is hell.
What is this bullshit I just read about Trump perhaps being under home confinement instead of in prison. FUCK THAT. Stop trying to gaslight people by introducing bullshit to lessen the penalties for this asshole. I don't give one fuck that it hasn't been done before. I don't care what you have to do because of that. JUST DO IT.
For perspective, Trump put Reality Winner in prison for five years for releasing a single document that showed Russians interfered with the 2016 elections in his favor.
@StillIRise1963 That was our experience last week at oncology & ultrasound clinics.
I ended up confronting staff & stood at front desks until they put masks on. I made a scene in waiting areas too. I have no regrets about this.
Yes, I take it personally when you say you won't vote, or vote for the Dem. Why? Because among other things, the fascists tried to commit a Black GENOCIDE during the pandemic. Your actions or inaction will give them the power to do it again in some other way. My survival depends on them NOT gaining power. So does yours.
I'm going to demystify Black hair for those who don't understand. Hair is hair. The amount of curl is the only difference. Straight hair is oily because natural scalp oil can slide down it. Curly hair is dry because the scalp oil gets trapped in the curl.
@StillIRise1963 excellent evolutionary move to help keep the head cool:
'The researchers found that all hair reduced solar radiation to the scalp, but tightly curled hair provided the best protection from the sun’s radiative heat while minimizing the need to sweat to stay cool. '
@StillIRise1963 Yep, that's what my hair stylist said. And she's right. Just good old water makes my hair curl. Ocean water makes it curl the best. 😅 Styling products just lock my curl in place until next wash day.
"Students at Florida public schools will now learn that Black people benefitted from slavery because it taught them skills. This change is part of the African American history standards the State Board of Education approved at a Wednesday meeting."
*Obviously, I copied the text from the article. Now, the article has changed, so I deleted the second paragraph. It said "...violence perpetrated BY African Americans, it now says "on."
@StillIRise1963 I literally told my high schoolers that I will reward them if a teacher says that and they stand up and say, "Now that's some fucking bull shit right there."
If they get suspended I'll be proud and have standing for telling the principal to his face (both schools have male principals) and joining a lawsuit.
@philip_cardella@StillIRise1963 Any #Florida high school student who stands up to racism in public schools and gets punished, should ABSOLUTELY INCLUDE THE INCIDENT IN THEIR COLLEGE ESSAYS.
They will be admitted to better colleges.
Bravery, everywhere, by everyone who stands up to racism is gonna be hot, hot, hot, I predict. #punchanazi
@StillIRise1963 He will destroy the world to save himself. He will destroy the world as revenge for punishing him. There is no limit on his cruelty & lust to annihilate.
Rey JC comes in and out of Spain but hasn't lived there. he's Count of Barcelona and tried going there and was shown the door. remember: one of his own daughters and his sister were embezzling money too.
Huge failing of the Justice Dept to not even attempt to oppose rollup mergers of US and EU based frame and lens manufacturers. Glasses prices dropped all through the 90s as computer controlled manufacturing reduced the cost of making lenses 90%, but monopoly rollouts have since re-raised the prices and more. Thanks Chicago School.
@courtcan@StillIRise1963 This is an article you reminded me of: "Wondering why your glasses are so pricey? One company controls almost everything about them
One single company owns a huge part of the industry: from lenses to frames to retailers"
@StillIRise1963 on a base level, there's a deep-seated fear of acknowledging that your entire worldview was built on lies told to justify atrocities. I went through having to test and rebuild my base assumptions and it isn't a pleasant process. I don't blame people for finding it scary, but when the stakes are this high, using your discomfort as an excuse to not change is pure cowardice and that doesn't deserve respect imo.
Not surprised, I guess, but WTF is the matter with people? I'm always amazed that people will claim the privilege to hate for religious reasons, but never seem to claim the privilege to love.
@StillIRise1963 I don't know what worst, them saying if you are using any other pronouns that isn't he/him or she/her that they perfer to "Hey you!" or the last copule sentence about the recent airport
We are not bound to any oaths as realtors are regarding discrimination. My Recent airport experince vaildates this.
Like I am curious of what the hell happened during the "airport experience" and that's is so sadist of them to make light about it.. christ
Let me repeat myself ONE MORE TIME. I'm a 59 year old BLACK WOMAN. You have a lot of fucking nerve attempting to tell me about the impure Dems. I've been voting ALL MY LIFE for the lesser of TWO evils. This time, you are voting for your OWN FUCKING SURVIVAL. If you don't get that by now, don't talk to me anymore. I'm tired of your privilege to even say SHIT like that out loud.
I swear, the "but Dems are also evil so why vote" apologists are white peeps who don't fear for their lives on a constant basis AND fail to understand that mathemetically, no matter what, this country is a 2-party system.
@StillIRise1963 I have also seen a lot of “oh we are equally oppressed whether it’s Democrats or Republicans in charge” and meanwhile a formerly homeless person I organize with says “which party controls the government determines how much SNAP and Medicaid and housing assistance people get or if they get it at all,” it’s a huge disconnect.
Apparently, if I say "shut your mouth" to someone who said something insensitive as it applies to racism and they report that, my post will be removed. "Shut your mouth?" REALLY??? I'm offended.
I don't think we should let any of the people who brought this climate catastrophe upon us off the hook. If you can't be held accountable for destroying the planet, wtf can you be held accountable for.
@StillIRise1963 individuals need to stop bearing the brunt of the guilt about climate chaos. Companies knew- the oil companies knew in the 70s that increasing our oils use would put us in danger - and they didn’t just ignore it- they buried it. @stewartvm
1979 @Danetteb@stewartvm@StillIRise1963 there would have been solar panels in every house in Puerto Rico had Carter had a 2nd term. my father was part of a group of urban developers trying to get them manufactured and sold in the island. Reagan not only killed the program and rolled back the subsidies but killed every single project that could have made the island energy independent.
my hope is to go back home and research my hometown’s archives on that project. it enrages me this happened.