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INDUSTRY SEASON 4 EPISODE 7

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Most people don’t even know her name. Alice Parker is her name. Back in 1919, she created and patented a gas powered heating system when most homes were still using fireplaces and coal stoves. She imagined heating an entire home safely, with different rooms warmed individually instead of relying on one fire source. Even though her system wasn’t fully used back then, her ideas are the reason modern central heating and zoning exist today. That’s Black history. That’s legacy.

Aretha Franklin celebrating her 35th birthday in 1977.

every day governments, councils and businesses make your life worse as a side effect of making vulnerable people's lives WAY worse. if you're ok with that you're a fucking idiot and if you're in favour of it you're a vindictive cunt cause again literally the ONLY payoff for your life getting worse is other people's lives getting worser.

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And of course, Taylor Lorenz's buddy, Matt Bernstein, would interview Ashley St Clair as well. Can you imagine if white leftists with platforms use those platforms to spread more awareness for community organisers and activists instead of platforming former rightwingers who have only begun their journey to deradicalisation?

Allies of the Free Palestine movement need to be more and stop putting non-Palestinian allies on a pedestal, and to look out for white saviors in the movement.

People also don't talk about how her dumbass Wired article also threw a bunch of smaller Black creators under the bus as well.

"The whole thing makes me wary to engage in leftist Internet spaces again" reeks of white "ally" who stops being an ally becos Black and Brown people were "mean" to her. Give it a year, she will become a rightwing crank with the Nazis she's nicer to.

"Pple make up a lot of weird lies about me bc they don't personally like me," except that you literally have a history of accusing Black and Brown content creators of untrue shit, opening them up to harassment. And then you have the audacity to turn around and claim persecution when these Black and Brown content creators call you out.

Tl;Dr: I think that while objectively, the production of Hamilton is well done, and the way it helped give Black stage actors a boost in musical theatre, the cultural outcome of it was almost not worth the musical itself. Because now we got people thinking that they can "race blind cast" roles that frankly, you should not be blind about casting. If you're gonna do a diverse cast, you have TO THINK about what story is now being told, but instead we got slave owner Jefferson as Black and all critical thinking thrown out the window.

So it's like... The intent was there (to an extent). The production was there. The cultural outcome... 😐 What are we supposed to do with this.

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Library Freedom Project has a lot of handouts about AI on their Resources page