IS IT OVER? ARE WE WRITING?

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yes, yes he is. and a misogynist, transmisogynist, transmisandrist, xenophobe, homophobe, ableist, liar, i could go on. dude literally has posted pictures of himself standing unassisted the SAME DAY as he makes inflammatory comments about being quadriplegic (fully paralyzed) and/or paraplegic (partially paralyzed) on top of mocking zhenya for having cerebral palsy and surviving medical experimentation which. as someone whose most beloved cousin has been in a wheelchair since she was six, in the same accident that killed her baby brother at the time, who constantly has to endure both the atrophy, embolism risk, and infections that come with being permanently wheelchair bound which has led to a LOT of deeply negative medical experiences (i wonder why a disabled black woman in the deep south would have such a big issue finding doctors that treat her like a human being 🤔). i have a lot of anger about that i am restraining for his sake.

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.