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Anti-Racism/Anti-Oppression(ARAO) Educator/Analyst; Poet/Spoken Word Artist; Certified Cat Family “Coach” (REALLY!); Social Observer. AdarAyiraViews
#AllAnyoneNeedsToKnow — if one is a “patriot.”😶👇🏽
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
#AllAnyoneNeedsToKnow — if one is a “patriot.”😶👇🏽
For the “not all white people” crowd who will inject that phrase in every discussion about #FACT that white people were THE. ONLY. racial group WHOSE MAJORITY of voters who voted, voted FOR him: this quote provides context that hopefully—HOPEFULLY🤞🏽—will enlighten & encourage them not to do that:
November 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
For the “not all white people” crowd who will inject that phrase in every discussion about #FACT that white people were THE. ONLY. racial group WHOSE MAJORITY of voters who voted, voted FOR him: this quote provides context that hopefully—HOPEFULLY🤞🏽—will enlighten & encourage them not to do that:
Re the “not all white people” spin…😶:
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Re the “not all white people” spin…😶:
America is a gun.😶
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
America is a gun.😶
More accurately—according to 2024 votes—Black & non-Black women of color will “save this country.”
White women? Not so much; they helped vote him in:
White women? Not so much; they helped vote him in:
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
More accurately—according to 2024 votes—Black & non-Black women of color will “save this country.”
White women? Not so much; they helped vote him in:
White women? Not so much; they helped vote him in:
For some of us, especially Black and Native American people, YES, THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN AMERICA.😶
November 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
For some of us, especially Black and Native American people, YES, THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN AMERICA.😶
For some groups in the U.S., it has looked that way waaaayyyy before this happened. And white ppl were consistently cheering it on.😶
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
For some groups in the U.S., it has looked that way waaaayyyy before this happened. And white ppl were consistently cheering it on.😶
When I see white ppl posting pics of WW soldier relatives, obliviously touting them as “anti-fascist,” while ignoring #FACT they served in racially segregated military tht treated German prisoners better thn Black soldiers, AND retreated in2 whiteness while Black soldiers fought “Double V” campaign👀
November 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
When I see white ppl posting pics of WW soldier relatives, obliviously touting them as “anti-fascist,” while ignoring #FACT they served in racially segregated military tht treated German prisoners better thn Black soldiers, AND retreated in2 whiteness while Black soldiers fought “Double V” campaign👀
Every. time. I see ppl compare wht is happening NOW in U.S. to wht happened IN OTHR COUNTRIES, as if 400. YRS. of racial pogroms, police terrorsm, racialized laws & customs, imprisoned innocents, & mountains of dead bodies HERE do not exist. As if wht is happening NOW is “new”🙄—& THIS frm “ALLIES.”😒
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Every. time. I see ppl compare wht is happening NOW in U.S. to wht happened IN OTHR COUNTRIES, as if 400. YRS. of racial pogroms, police terrorsm, racialized laws & customs, imprisoned innocents, & mountains of dead bodies HERE do not exist. As if wht is happening NOW is “new”🙄—& THIS frm “ALLIES.”😒
U.S. history re Native Americans does not support your last sentence.😶
12 yrs of Nazi Germany.
246 yrs of U.S. enslvmnt, another 100+ yrs of U.S. “for whites only” policies/laws; this is majority of AMERICAN history.
This U.S. “for whites only” model is what Hegseth & Trump are re-instituting.
12 yrs of Nazi Germany.
246 yrs of U.S. enslvmnt, another 100+ yrs of U.S. “for whites only” policies/laws; this is majority of AMERICAN history.
This U.S. “for whites only” model is what Hegseth & Trump are re-instituting.
November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
U.S. history re Native Americans does not support your last sentence.😶
12 yrs of Nazi Germany.
246 yrs of U.S. enslvmnt, another 100+ yrs of U.S. “for whites only” policies/laws; this is majority of AMERICAN history.
This U.S. “for whites only” model is what Hegseth & Trump are re-instituting.
12 yrs of Nazi Germany.
246 yrs of U.S. enslvmnt, another 100+ yrs of U.S. “for whites only” policies/laws; this is majority of AMERICAN history.
This U.S. “for whites only” model is what Hegseth & Trump are re-instituting.
It didn’t “borrow from.” It replicated. As are Trump & Hegseth.👇🏽
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
It didn’t “borrow from.” It replicated. As are Trump & Hegseth.👇🏽
For some groups, fascism has ALWAYS been here.😶
Oh — you were talking about FOR WHITE PEOPLE.😶
Oh — you were talking about FOR WHITE PEOPLE.😶
November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
For some groups, fascism has ALWAYS been here.😶
Oh — you were talking about FOR WHITE PEOPLE.😶
Oh — you were talking about FOR WHITE PEOPLE.😶
As long as maj of white ppl are more invested in maintaining their racial privilege—so invested they were willing 2 trade democracy 4 autocracy & dictatorship—USA will continue 2 find itself in different degrees of this same place, just as it has b4
As Black ppl keep pointing out, this IS NOT new👇🏽
As Black ppl keep pointing out, this IS NOT new👇🏽
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
As long as maj of white ppl are more invested in maintaining their racial privilege—so invested they were willing 2 trade democracy 4 autocracy & dictatorship—USA will continue 2 find itself in different degrees of this same place, just as it has b4
As Black ppl keep pointing out, this IS NOT new👇🏽
As Black ppl keep pointing out, this IS NOT new👇🏽
My Evening Listen:
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
My Evening Listen:
There have been MANY evil Americans.
Ask Native Americans.😶
Ask Black people.😶
This take is all about how this is impacting WHITE Americans.
For the rest of us, this IS. NOT. new.🤨👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Ask Native Americans.😶
Ask Black people.😶
This take is all about how this is impacting WHITE Americans.
For the rest of us, this IS. NOT. new.🤨👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
November 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
There have been MANY evil Americans.
Ask Native Americans.😶
Ask Black people.😶
This take is all about how this is impacting WHITE Americans.
For the rest of us, this IS. NOT. new.🤨👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Ask Native Americans.😶
Ask Black people.😶
This take is all about how this is impacting WHITE Americans.
For the rest of us, this IS. NOT. new.🤨👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Fascism wasn’t only on “the right.” It was on “the left,” too, as systematic racial discrimination agnst Black ppl created barriers to their accessing those programs in ways & #s white ppl did.😶
Not acknwldgng this history is perpetuating the racial propaganda about it.
As Langston Hughes said:
Not acknwldgng this history is perpetuating the racial propaganda about it.
As Langston Hughes said:
November 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Fascism wasn’t only on “the right.” It was on “the left,” too, as systematic racial discrimination agnst Black ppl created barriers to their accessing those programs in ways & #s white ppl did.😶
Not acknwldgng this history is perpetuating the racial propaganda about it.
As Langston Hughes said:
Not acknwldgng this history is perpetuating the racial propaganda about it.
As Langston Hughes said:
LOVE this shirt Van Lathan wore for an appearance on CNN, which says “Slavery Is White History; How We Survived It Is Black History”:
November 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM
LOVE this shirt Van Lathan wore for an appearance on CNN, which says “Slavery Is White History; How We Survived It Is Black History”:
“The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.”
🤨YUP. And LONG BEFORE 2025. But I guess whether one sees it or not depends on which side of the “color line” they are on.😶👆🏽👇🏽
🤨YUP. And LONG BEFORE 2025. But I guess whether one sees it or not depends on which side of the “color line” they are on.😶👆🏽👇🏽
November 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
“The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.”
🤨YUP. And LONG BEFORE 2025. But I guess whether one sees it or not depends on which side of the “color line” they are on.😶👆🏽👇🏽
🤨YUP. And LONG BEFORE 2025. But I guess whether one sees it or not depends on which side of the “color line” they are on.😶👆🏽👇🏽
You can pretty much always tell the side of the “color line” one is on by the historical memory they choose to acknowledge.😶👇🏽
November 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
You can pretty much always tell the side of the “color line” one is on by the historical memory they choose to acknowledge.😶👇🏽
@splcenter.org SENDING RACHEL CARROLL RIVAS MUCH APPRECIATION re NPR interview this morn! She & @milleridriss.bsky.social were AWESOME!
I appreciate tht Rachel acknwldgd the U.S. authoritarian-like rule some marginalized grps have been living under FOR GENS.
As Langston Hughes said back in 1936:
I appreciate tht Rachel acknwldgd the U.S. authoritarian-like rule some marginalized grps have been living under FOR GENS.
As Langston Hughes said back in 1936:
October 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
@splcenter.org SENDING RACHEL CARROLL RIVAS MUCH APPRECIATION re NPR interview this morn! She & @milleridriss.bsky.social were AWESOME!
I appreciate tht Rachel acknwldgd the U.S. authoritarian-like rule some marginalized grps have been living under FOR GENS.
As Langston Hughes said back in 1936:
I appreciate tht Rachel acknwldgd the U.S. authoritarian-like rule some marginalized grps have been living under FOR GENS.
As Langston Hughes said back in 1936: