Amen! We have to use our voices. Like it or not, they hear white better. I’m an old white lady who spent a lot of today reminding people it should’ve been George Floyd’s 52nd birthday.
Both were also the source of political fighting. I remember when those lovely right Christians said AIDS was sent by God to kill gay people. And demonized Ryan White.
Today should have been George Floyd’s 52nd birthday. And the scourge of overpolicing and militarization of law enforcement has been allowed to continue unabated. Which is one more piece of why we are where we are. But yeah, talk nice with the MAGA terrorists.
Being a person in the US these days is like being an utterly exhausted parent driving around your neighborhood at 3am trying not to wake your finally asleep baby. Because the baby will scream, cry, and throw a tantrum. And then your pissed off neighbor will have a go at you too
If this was a normal worker in the US, we’d be fired for ‘job abandonment.’ Or at the very least, reclassified to “part time” non-benefits eligible. Or if we took PTO, to keep all of our benefits, we would have to pay both the employer and employer portion.
Here’s the deal, Mike Johnson, you worked 9 days since July, make $200K, and get best free healthcare we pay for, while shutting down ours.
Want it fair? Start with your paychecks. No work, no pay and no damn free healthcare for any of you. Let Congress feel the pain they dump on the rest of us.
Law enforcement tactics, by all levels of police, have grown increasingly violent and militarized gradually as most Americans turned a blind eye despite being told by black/brown people and the poor.
This has been ramping up since the creation of law enforcement. Don’t act like this is new.
So basically what he is saying (besides the obvious whataboutism) is, ‘I’m such a weenie, such a weak minded fool, I let other people dictate my actions.’
I remember when the GOP was supposedly the party of personal responsibility. Guess that’s not a thing.
#OTD in 1964, my father was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He reminded the world that nonviolence is not weakness; it is moral strength, transforming hate into hope and despair into progress.
