Max is an Angry Well.

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.

Her death was announced Tuesday by the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation. Ashley D. Roseboro of the organization confirmed she died in Texas.

Colvin was arrested months before Rosa Parks gained international fame before refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus.

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.

it’s the same thing as what’s going on right now with people equating drag to some sort of child exploitation. “but the children!!” they wail, and people listen because oh, if drag is harming children, then drag MUST be BAD, so we HAVE TO BAN DRAG.

Do you they're going to like vote themselves out of jail? Vote to make murder legal? What exactly are you afraid of.

Realistically they'll just... vote just like anyone else. They'll help elect city councilmembers they think will better their hometowns, and presidents they think will best serve the country. They might even vote in their own interests! To reform prisons, fund rehabilitation programs, and outlaw predatory practices by telecoms. Are you saying you don't want any of those things?

And even if there were one of those super-duper-unambiguously-evil totally misanthropic death-row convicts, who's scheduled to be execute the very next day and just wants to sow chaos and watch the outside world burn however they can... what's the worst they could do, vote republican?

hi everyone.

still on hiatus from posting but i wanted to make a post here clarifying some information.

1. i wanted to thank everyone who reached out to me via ask or dm over the past few days. it has been a huge influx of support not only in agreement to my opinion, but in support of my blog. i see each of you and i thank you.

2. i am still getting influxes of hate in my ask box. i do not want to close my ask box or turn off anon. i respect the anonymity of those sending lovely messages. the hate in my ask box is being deleted as soon as it comes in.

3. after some research and time to really look at the situation. i have come to my personal conclusion on who i think was sending me hate. i sent them a message this morning. HOWEVER. they are STILL talking about me on their side blog AND made an extremely untasteful 1500 word post about me in her main blog that she very quickly took down. i still saw it. and it’s funny how your writing style matched the majority of hateful comments i was receiving. that person is @ask-philgraves or @niresenrab . the rp community and especially @franabz needs to check their own IMMEDIATELY. as this person is going around acting like they are a savior to the rp community, when in reality they are the ones perpetuating the hate. she will claim it’s not true, but i wholeheartedly believe it is cassie.

4. i am unsure about returning officially. i am unsure when. i am unsure of how often i will post. i am still juggling with deactivating since i am still getting hate, the most recent being from last night.

5. i have blocked all of the rp accounts, as well as the majority of their main accounts. since i seem to be a hot topic in their community still, i am not allowing them to have access to me at all.

6. to those who shared the same opinion i did, and WOW it’s the majority of ppl in this fandom it seems, my best advice is to block the rp accounts you come across. any criticism you have towards them, they take as a personal attack towards them. to me if screams immature and childish, and so does sending hate to ppl who differ in opinion. it’s best to steer clear of any accounts who share the sentiment that they are the victims while they are actually the ones spreading hate.

I don't know who runs nor operates the account you linked, but saying that it is my main blog and the only reason you have being that I use proper English grammar and the oxford comma is quite frankly an insane leap.

No, I have not talked about you on my side blog, but twice. Clearing up what happened from my perspective while leaving most of your distasteful comments out of it. See below.

I admitted to being in your inbox and asking you to use less coarse language as it sounded like you didn't want us there. Your original post that started all of this is below. Where NONE of us interacted with you beyond this and your ask box. I have asked EVERYONE if they sent you an ask, and apparently, I was the only one who did. The reason being? Shortly after your posts both on your blog, a minor who was running an ask blog, and put on their blog that they ARE a minor, got death and rape threats. I was doing so to cool the flames, or at least get you to talk rationally to me and see if we could come to some sort of inclusion or change the wording in your message so we don't continue to get hate asks. However, you immediately went to Fran's page and began sending us hate, blaming us for the decline in your mental health and squashing your piece of the fandom, while also answering asks and phrasing it as if it was our people doing this. We immediately checked our community and found out that no RP blogs sent this. I apologized to YOU on this account, and you instead of talking to me like an adult, sent the DM to me below, and immediately blocked me before I got the opportunity to ask you what you were going on about.

So not only did you just accuse me for something I NEVER did (and the reason I sent you that anonymous apology and tagged my philgraves account was that this blog is dead and something I only use to look at activism and post my RA Simon Riley content) but not ONCE have you attempted to try and talk to any of us about this.

Not only that, but you linked Fran's MAIN BLOG to which they asked that people forget exists so they can still have a place on Tumblr that isn't fully around COD and the RP community.

So, in short, you blame us for ruining your community space, then ruin Fran's and someone else's, and also mine by half-truths and outright lies, never once come to us for confirmation and immediately act like we're toxic and hateful.

Got it.

I rescind my apology because if you treat us like this you are truly on a high horse that I want no part of, whatsoever. You claim that you're spreading love and acceptance but your actions go directly against that. By the way, I use Grammarly, so that's why our "tone and way we type" is so similar. Because we both fucking use Grammarly.

Take the apology, and shove it up your ass. I have gotten death threats flooding my ask box because you have decided to act like a child instead of the grown adult you are supposed to be at 23.

Do you want a tornado fact? :)

Kind of gorey, so if you don't wanna read further than this, understandable.