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He/him Black sociologist trying to learn more. Inching even closer to being an Unc (39 currently)

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E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · Aug 12

“But what on earth is whiteness that one should so desire it?” Then always, somehow, some way, silently but clearly, I am given to understand that whiteness is the ownership of the earth forever and ever, Amen!

-W.E.B. Du Bois

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3h

Olivia Rejngold and and Amanda Marcotte are having the same triangulated melt down from different points on the ( white) political spectrum

And it’s based in the idea that white people can never be terrible enough to non white people that other white people can organically not fuck with them

E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 4h

Sorry that show hit some irritation points for me. Can also talk about the white savior sitcoms Webster and Diff'rent Strokes.

E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 4h

Sounds like you did nothing in the face of injustice and now want to throw your hands up in shock saying "how could we have known?" again. Like really ya'll? Really?

Not sure ya'll thought those responses through very well.

E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 4h

Might this be an actual conversation about white complacency, complicity, and active agency in the reproduction of this problem up until now? Because what you're actually telling me is you let things get worse, and instead of listening to those affected, you ignored us.

E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 4h

What has been interesting for me with the release of all those messages from the young republicans has been white responses of it not being this bad in the past. You know what, I'll bite. If it wasn't that bad, then what has changed?

E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 4h

I think I am getting the vapors again.

E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 4h

Fuckin ewwwwwwww

E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 5h

Makes you really wonder what they were able to ignore, don't it?🤔🤔🤔

E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 5h

Had the nerve to have a police brutality joke in the first season then (on the heels of the Jon Burge ish, btw)and a racial profiling episode later that missed the entire point.

E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 8h

Madam, I was looking at Family Matters for part of it🤣🤣🤣.

We need to talk about Steve and also how thst show handled racism and racial profiling

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Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 8h

Oh, I stopped eating this week, so whatever. 😭😭😭😭😭

Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 10d

Good morning, y'all. Running on 3 hours sleep, feel like i just got hit by a car and headed to my sister's house to sit with her great aunt and daughter while she does whatever she needs to do, like SLEEP, hopefully. Or EAT.

Still at:

$0/$1200 💕💸

#disabledashell

cash.app/$bellad0nna

E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 8h

While not relegated to just MTV, this was part of my Master's thesis conversation. There was a lot of colorblindness and false racial progress presented in sitcoms from the 90s and definitely in the 2000s also.

E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 8h

Look now. You can't be out here having these amazing ass ideas. Damn, that is a good one.

Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · 12h

Gonna do an essay about how MTV made white Gen X-ers think racism evaporated in the 90s.

E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 8h

Thank you, and say it louder for those in the back.🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 13h

So tired of them. Thank you.

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E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 13h

Which, as we have both talked about, is just them. Telling ya, they would rather be white than be human.

E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 13h

I ain't either, to be honest. Not gonna do it, but damn them.

E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 13h

They really need to learn to just

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E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 13h

They really can't (or more don't want to) stop themselves.

E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 13h

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 13h

Part of me is considering finding this later.

E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 13h

This is the same....muthafuckin....conversation....on.....reset......a-fuckin-gin

E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 13h

Madam, yes 😭😭😭😭😭

E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 14h

Almost like this developed from generations of white inaction into the present.

Nah, I am just crazy 😒😒😒

*screaming into the abyss*

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 15h

Talk about indoctrination…

E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 14h

Gonna borrow from @dre-withwithout.blacksky.app in reference to what Dan is saying:

Are you being sarcastic or just being white?