this is nice

The shadow work is so annoying

Not to keep bragging about my masculine vibes, but another very pleasant dementia patient today called me nice young man. Assigned gender by Gladys.

#i always think about how beautiful it was for ryan coogler to cast buddy guy as older sammie #i often think about how people like to espouse the idea that we are "so far removed" from jim crow and segregation when creatives like buddy are still alive #a lot of the activists and figures are still alive! #idk the fact that he's living proof of the continued effects of chattel slavery on black americans is so bittersweet because he remembers such atrocities but he's also able to bestow wisdom and history for art pieces like sinners

Ryan Coogler said in an interview, btw, that part of why he thought of Buddy Guy was because his uncle loved seeing him – he'd get dressed up and go see him play live when he got the chance.

relevant

US standard of life is plummeting to prop up billionaires.

Of course the dirty secret here is that the reason we don't have this in the U.S. is that the mostly rich white men who have secured this system for themselves use the racism and sexism to scare everyone else into accepting things as they are. They want it to matter very much who your parents are because that will keep everyone in their "place."