It's important to remember that these are the great-grandchildren of people who died mad from being mocked for saying “I don't have a problem with the nigra chirren per se; it's the untoward influence of outside agitators on them that are the root cause of our problems with the nigra today”
We're far more closely related to this chill orang than any monkey, and given that we've successfully adapted to every climate on Earth we're not scared, ignorant, and superstitious by default. The problem goes by many names, capitalism being one
Damn, Lindsay Graham is dead. I'm all broke up 'n' shit
Was self-emancipation and demanding rifles from the Union Army a mistake? Stale's just asking questions
We learn from the past. Reconstruction failed, and the fascism we have now followed. “The people have been deceived and diverted from their vital interests by means of spectacular and meaningless duels between the two bourgeois parties.” www.marxists.org/archive/leni...
I've spent a lifetime building bonds of empathy with people around the globe. I grew up seeing the damage wrought by the men marching under the banner of the man who had John Brown captured and led to the gallows. I see those carrying that banner today threatening all that I love in this world
I hate Robert E. Lee with a passion; that hatred, far from making of me a slaver, inspires me to see Reconstruction begun anew, informed by the century of global struggle since its illegal ending
“Because the cops don't need you And, man, they expect the same”
Musk's long been an asshole, but his transphobia popped out in 2020, the year Wilson came out, and by 2022, when Wilson emancipated herself from him, he was spouting conspiracy theories about why that happened. He went from touting Tesla's Pride Month pinkwashing to this in 2022
Bipartisanship is bad, but only the Senate can take you from testifying “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” to whistling Dixie in Foggy Bottom as the bodies stacked in Afghanistan and torturers broke people on Guantanamo Bay
Nothing is more reassuring than this shit, truly, Mr. Unity-and-Harmony in the flesh
“if someone offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you do not ask which seat, you just get on”
“Have you ever stood and stared at it? Marveled at its beauty, its genius? Billions of people just living out their lives, oblivious”
Remember 30 years ago when fights largely held over listservs led to this image being put on a book cover