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intheflow's JournalWow. This manages to broadbrush smear the entire Kennedy family
while also being sexist.
"Marrying for looks" ? "dumb children." Because - and hear me out on this - women can be beautiful AND smart.
Also, Old Joe was a well-known anti-Semite who thought we should negotiate with Hitler. So hardly a "really smart" man.
Fair enough.
Thanks for the perspective. I can see how you might think that and maybe I might have been doing that subconsciously in my attempt to be diplomatic. I still think Nina Turner's anger is legit, and her passion and voice is needed to continue moving the Democratic party further left (after decades of moving center/right). I don't agree with her that there's no difference between Trump and Biden, and I can guarandamntee it that she didn't vote for Trump either time. She's a Black woman with opinions to the left of AOC, and so many Democrats are just dying to trash her. Trash Candice Owens' politics all you want, but when I see rabid threads about Turner, it feels like the Clinton/Sanders wars never ended, when to me, they were pointless to begin with since Clinton and Sanders voted the same way something like 98% of the time, and also kinda racist.
I did not hear her say she wanted Trump re-elected.
She said the voters were given two corporatist candidates by the party, which is true. Business IS happier with Biden rather than Sanders, as they were with Clinton in 2016. You may not like Turner, you may not like how she says things, but that’s no reason to willfully misrepresent what she actually said. That’s what the right does.
Very cool! There's a picture book biography of her, too!
I'm a children's librarian and we have your aunt's biography. It's wonderful and I've read it to many children in storytimes over the years. 
She loved baseball: the Effa Manley story
by Audrey Vernick
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7889493-she-loved-baseball?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=iX1pbKlFLg&rank=1
I recently read Stamped From the Beginning in an interfaith book club.
One of the rabbis was horrified to learn about "the curse of Ham." She's a woman in her 50s with multiple advanced degrees in religion and literature and was really upset to hear that Genesis is interpreted this way by some Christians, as the "Old Testament" is the Jewish Torah. This is what happens when freedom of religion is used to weaponize religion.
She probably figured no cop would shoot a white woman.
Or, she may have thought they'd only shoot to injure. I will never understand how breaking and entering, and destruction of property, was seen as okay by these "law and order" assholes because it's "our House." Oh really? You're cool with having hundreds of your friends come who destroy your actual home, take dumps and piss in corners, and stealing your computer? What the actual fuck is wrong with these people?
Fuck. This is the frontlines of disinformation campaigns.
I'm 58 and have witnessed the cultural shift, lo these 50-ish years since Roe v. Wade. The ignorance about rates of abortion past the first trimester, as well as the trope of women (implicitly "whores" ) getting abortions as birth control as if that wouldn't happen if birth control was freely available apart from insurance.
On the other hand, I might support a law that limits men to fathering two children and then requires them to get a vasectomy.
Stop the frame at the 1:57 mark.
I also assumed she was white, and as she's blurred out to protect her identity, it's hard to tell. But there's a moment, at 1:57, where the film transitions from a closeup of his star-spangled pen writing the citation to him handing her the ticket where her hand is not blurred. It does look like Black skin.
This makes sense why she'd start off out of the gate with, "You want to murder me." And also with her going on with "You'll never be white," as that is a fairly common critique of cops of color, that they're trying to assimilate to white culture but will never be able to attain it because white culture will never accept them as true equals.
Yeah, not the Revolutionary War, but the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.
Although it's true that many Revolutionary War/Founding Fathers really just wanted freedom from Britain so they could create and unilaterally rule their own private fiefdoms, known as plantations. So I guess... sort of like refighting the Revolutionary War, but really, much more about dividing the existing Union to again allow power over literal life and death for their workers (enslaved or not). This is Civil War, Part II.
And that's the problem with America in a nutshell.
Instead of confronting our unequal, anti-BIPOC past, we change up the narrative and make the discussion not about the problem, but the people who bring the problem to light. People who bring up a problem are not the problem.
You point is a kind of quid pro quo: Woke people agree to shut up and be gaslit so you can get a more liberal government. Seriously, what the fuck? How about more robust defense of Black people 100% legit grievances. Maybe if the chorus was shouting that, it would drown out the lies that would lead to your supposition of losing seats, AND empower more people of color to GOTV. That would be a quid pro quo I could get behind.
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