At least no one has to put words in that race-baiting cunt's sloppy mouth.

My God, D-Cups. Shut the fuck up.

IncelsRUs™.

Your daily reminder that words matter.

Replacement and repopulate are not the same.

JOSEPHINE BAKER
[After seeing the Eiffel Tower for the first time]

It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty, the freedom to go where one chose if one was held back by one's color? No, I preferred the Eiffel Tower, which made no promises.

"Medicaid is not just for Black people in the ghetto, these are our voters."

The only brainwashing that was ever going on was people on the left tying themselves in knots trying to convince themselves that their friends and family were brainwashed.

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NATIVE SON
Pierre Chenal
Argentina-USA, 1951

Artist: storyboardartistnyc

Apparently the MAGAts violently bombed their Twitter with hate to the point that they deleted the entire account rather than give the racist, Trump-sucking cunts a platform to spew their personal death threats and calls for violence against Black Americans en masse.

yogisanonymous

Let’s just be super clear at this point.

If you vote for Trump/Vance then you are okay with women bleeding out in parking lots and dying from sepsis, even if the only thing they were trying to do is have a baby.

And you are okay with rampant racism, which is where we’re at. It’s not just the danger and mayhem they’ve caused in Springfield, it’s Rich Lowry using the N-word and going unchecked, it’s the candidate himself flying around and cozying up to a white nationalist, it’s Senator Kennedy telling Maya Berry that she should hide her head in a bag at a hearing that was about domestic hate crimes.

You’re okay with all of that, and not just okay with it, you support it.

If you’re going to vote for these people who hate women and hate BIPOC and hate the LGBTQ community and make it clear every day, then those are your values.

Just fucking own it.

You’re also okay with constant school shootings, climate crisis denial, and infrastructure inequities.

You cannot have it both ways.

Go ahead and vote for this kind of world if that’s what you want to see, but don’t tell yourself you aren’t supporting all that. You are. That’s who you’re deciding to be and that’s what you’re perpetuating.

At the very least, you should be able to say out loud: yes, I support women not having equal access to lifesaving healthcare even when they’re dying, and a forced birth society is what I want. I support politicians taking money from gun manufacturers because my 2nd Amendment rights are more important to me than kids being safe at school. I support racism and bigotry in all its forms. And I am in favor of plundering every last resource from this planet while I’m here.

That’s the platform of Trump/Vance: Mayhem, destruction, arrogance, violence, misogyny, racism, constant lying and gaslighting.

IBRAM X. KENDI

How to Be an Antiracist

Our world is suffering from metastatic cancer. Stage 4. Racism has spread to nearly every part of the body politic, intersecting with bigotry of all kinds, justifying all kinds of inequities by victim blaming; heightening exploitation and misplaced hate; spurring mass shootings, arms races, and demagogues who polarize nations, shutting down essential organs of democracy; and threatening the life of human society with nuclear war and climate change.

In the United States, the metastatic cancer has been spreading, contracting, and threatening to kill the American body as it nearly did before its birth, as it nearly did during its Civil War. But how many people stare inside the body of their nations' racial inequities, their neighborhoods' racial inequities, their occupations' racial inequities, their institutions' racial inequities, and flatly deny that their policies are racist? They flatly deny that racial inequity is a signpost of racist policy. They flatly deny the racist policy as they use racist ideas to justify the racial inequity. They flatly deny the cancer of racism as the cancer cells spread and literally threaten their own lives and the lives of the people and spaces and places they hold dear.

The popular conception of denial - like the popular strategy of suasion - is suicidal.

James 2:1-4
How can you claim to have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ if you favor some people over others? … If you give special attention and a good seat to the rich person, but you say to the poor one, ‘You can stand over there, or else sit on the floor’—well, doesn’t this discrimination show that your judgments are guided by evil motives?

Matthew 25:41-45
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

Zechariah 7:9-10
Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another; do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.

Leviticus 19:34
The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 27:19
‘Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.’ Then all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

Nothing to see here. Just a real man responding to the white evangelicals calling his wife "curry cunt."

Daily Painting

Michael D'Antuono
A TALE OF TWO HOODIES (2012)

NINA SIMONE
"Four Women"

My skin is black
My arms are long
My hair is woolly
My back is strong
Strong enough to take the pain
inflicted again and again
What do they call me
My name is AUNT SARAH
My name is Aunt Sarah

My skin is yellow
My hair is long
Between two worlds
I do belong
My father was rich and white
He forced my mother late one night
What do they call me
My name is SAFFRONIA
My name is Saffronia

My skin is tan
My hair is fine
My hips invite you
my mouth like wine
Whose little girl am I?
Anyone who has money to buy
What do they call me
My name is SWEET THING
My name is Sweet Thing

My skin is brown
my manner is tough
I'll kill the first mother I see
my life has been too rough
I'm awfully bitter these days
because my parents were slaves
What do they call me
My name is PEACHES

Daily Painting

Norman Rockwell
THE PROBLEM WE ALL LIVE WITH (1963)

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From The Kennedy Center website:

This is what actually happened to Ruby Bridges on her first day at William Franz Elementary School in New Orleans on November 14, 1960. Ruby was the first African American child to attend the school after a federal court ordered the New Orleans school system to integrate. The public outcry was so great that white parents withdrew their children from school so they would not have to sit with a Black girl. Ruby spent an entire year in a classroom by herself.

Artist and magazine illustrator Norman Rockwell is known for his idyllic images of American life in the twentieth century. But his work had a new sense of purpose in 1960s when he was hired by LOOK magazine. There, he produced his famous painting The Problem We All Live With, a visual commentary on segregation and the problem of racism in America. The painting depicts Ruby’s courageous walk to school on that November day. She dutifully follows faceless men—the yellow armbands reveal them to be federal marshals—past a wall smeared with racist graffiti and the juice of a thrown tomato. The canvas is arranged so that the viewer is at Ruby’s height, seeing the scene from her perspective.

Rockwell’s painting, created a few years after Ruby made her fateful entrance at school, was produced at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. It is now considered a symbol of that struggle. Bridges never met Rockwell, but as an adult, she came to admire his decision to tell her story: “Here was a man that had been doing lots of work, painting family images, and all of a sudden decided this is what I’m going to do…it’s wrong, and I’m going to say that it’s wrong…the mere fact that [Norman Rockwell] had enough courage to step up to the plate and say I’m going to make a statement, and he did it in a very powerful way…even though I had not had an opportunity to meet him, I commend him for that.”

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How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives - And How We Break Free
Tricia Rose

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Alma Thompson
MARCH ON WASHINGTON (1964)

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WANDA SYKES

Until a drag queen walks into an elementary school and beats 19 children to death with a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird, I think y'all are focusing on the wrong white sheets.