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Giveaway time for The Sims 4 Nifty Knitting!

Thanks to the EA Game Changer program I have one PC/MAC game code to give away for the newest stuff pack The Sims 4 Nifty Knitting. All you need to do to enter is to reblog and/or like this post. If you do both you double your chances! Good luck knitters! 😘

I understand that I’ll never understand. However, I stand. 

This week, this month, has been especially hard, and this is a very important discussion. Don’t shut your eyes to all that’s happening, and don’t stay neutral. 

Here are some handy links on the matter:

This important post on the subject by @savvysweet, and if you’re in the US, check out this post of hers as well on ways to help.

If you are in Canada, this great post by @okruee lists some of the ways you can help.

If you want to know what the situation is like in Brazil, I made a personal post of my own perspective (heads up I’m white) that you can check here.

Last but not least, here is the website of Vidas Negras Importam, the brazilian equivalent of Black Lives Matter. Unfortunately from what I can tell, you can’t change the language of the website (it’s in portuguese), but there’s info there on how to donate to projects in both USA and Brazil, info about brazilian protests, links to petitions and links on how to educate yourself.

Never

Solved

Anything

Except for: independence, voting rights, LGBT rights, and civil rights.

if you think that the riots are too much, unfollow me.

if you don’t think that change needs to happen now, unfollow me.

if you refuse to recognize your privileges, unfollow me.

I find it very interesting that whenever a group of white people come together it’s called a protest but the minute black people in this country rightfully speak up on issues together it’s called a riot.

There is a clear double standard that happens. I am so tired of the hypocrisy. I am tired of feeling inadequate. I am so tired of this. I am tired of the blatant racism. I am an American, but I am a BLACK American! I deserve all the rights that any American citizen has. I should not have to fear for my life if I get pulled over or if I am in a police officer’s presence.

Our lives have VALUE! Our lives have a PURPOSE! Our lives are worth LIVING!

I wish America loved Black people as much as you love our culture. You love our hair, You love our clothes, You love our slang, You love our dances, You love our music, but you don’t love US! You would rather jump in our skin but never WALK in our shoes!