For the Love of Pain

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“Story I learned last night: I started Girl Scouts in first grade and was an active scout until I was 17 (12th grade) - did ALL the GS stuff and loved my scouting experience. I was a GS national delegate. My troop, 1001, was in Detroit and almost all black.

Our leaders were Black women and they genuinely loved us. Because they loved us, we did ALL the GS things: we sold cookies, and earned badges, and did community service, and went camping.

Real camping - out in the ‘forest.’ Cabins and s’mores and trails and knapsacks and walking sticks and campfires and songs and lakes and ALL THE THINGS.

LOVED IT.

I was young when I started camping, maybe 4th or 5th grade, don’t remember exactly. But I do remember getting in our cars, with our paper lunches and sleeping bags and flashlights and books of badges to earn outside and being so excited.

We would drive a VERY LONG TIME (at least to a 9 year old) and end up at the campgrounds. And then we’d learn the camp rules and review the Girl Scout requirements: leave a space better than you found it, clean your trash, be kind, have fun. And we did all those things.

My memories of camping are [100 emoji] wonderful and positive and I’m getting warm fuzzies.

Last night I talked to my best friend, who’s mom was one of our leaders and camp chaperones. We were talking about camp, and her mom mentioned staying up with two other moms all night, taking stations at each door and window of our cabin and having night watch.

‘Night watch?’ I asked, genuinely confused. ‘What kind of bears did y’all think were going to open the door of our cabin and eat us?’ [laugh cry emoji] I asked, jokingly.

She got quiet. ‘Not bears,’ she said, ‘the Klan.’

Silence. ‘What?’

‘The Klan.’

Yesterday I learned that one of our GS camps was in Howell, Michigan. This Howell: [attached is an article titled “Why is Howell considered the KKK capital of Michigan?”]

Howell is about an hour outside of Detroit, halfway to Lansing. To me, a kid somewhere between 8-12, camping was fun. To our mother and leaders, camping was potentially dangerous.

But, they wanted us to experience ALL the experiences Girl Scouts have. They just had night watch so we could. So they stood watch - all night. In the 90s.

This is NOT a post to debate the rational of us camping in Howell. That’s not the fair conversation to have.

This is a post to illuminate how deeply unfair it is to live in a state of terrorized, racial fear. How that fear creates a space for ongoing trauma.

How Black mothers have to exist in a dual space: providing all social and cultural experiences that you believe your daughters need and being constantly aware of the dangers that exist in non black spaces where those experiences often are.”

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3.24.21. Los Angeles

So when we say defund the mother fucking police, think about this moment when possibly tens of thousands of LA's tax dollars went to this pointless show of power instead of to the unhoused community the demonstration was in support of 😡

They are fine! They got their guns, they have their weapons, they have the justice system on their side, they have government protection and billions of dollars in funding.

They really don’t need you defending them, like at all.

We the people, are the helpless ones, we have none of those things.

I just wish people could see how fucking stupid they look sticking up for police. Baby they don’t need your help. At all. They’re good.

"He was just emotional......Haven't you said things in anger....Freedom of speech.....what he said was wrong but you shouldn't be fired over an opinion......Hes a great teacher."

He's a damn criminal justice professor! How is any minority supposed to feel safe going into his class?

Disabled Person: YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER FOOL!

The United States Government:

In order for disabled people to receive any sort of financial assistant for their housing, food, bills, medical supplies, etc., they cannot ever have more than $2,000 of resources to their name. Ever.

It doesn’t matter what it’s for.

You’re saving up for a new wheelchair?

For college?

To put a downpayment on a house?

Hell man, you just happen to budget for once in your life so that you can have some extra money in case something bad happens?

Your benefits immediately get cut off if you’re a cent over $2,000.

And, even worse, you usually end up having to pay back every dollar the government gave you that month.

So say you get $400. If they find out you’re twenty dollars over the resource limit, you have to give them all $400 back and you undergo an investigation of your funds to see if you will continue getting money.

“What if I spend the money that day?”

Doesn’t matter. In fact, from what I can tell, people who do this are actually put under investigation for fraud.

before the movie came out, Marvel gave him an exclusive preview screening. SOme people were upset because they felt if Marvel was really wanted to thank mantlo, they should have donated money to Mantlo’s family.

Sometimes, at the end of the month, he has no idea what to do with his money because the whole month went by and he still has 400-ish bucks in his account, and he fucking panics because he doesn’t want to get anywhere near 2,000.

And here’s the funnest part of the story!

One day he did a huge commission on Second Life and wound up earning 1500 bucks off of it, and he told the guy to donate it 500 bucks at a time over 3 months. The guy didn’t want to, and just donated all 1500, which put my brother at 2,036 bucks.

The state IMMEDIATELY (I’m talking less than an hour) called him up to tell him over the phone that they were canceling his SSI, because they noticed he had gone over the 2,000 buck threshold. He had to tell them that someone had made a charitable donation to him and that this was not a common occurrence in any way shape or form, and upon not believing him, my mother had to call to talk to them as his legal caretaker and say basically the same thing until they called off the cancellation of his SSI money.

He also had to cancel his renter’s assistance because it put him to 1,062 a month, so if he went 30 days without spending any money they’d cancel his SSI altogether. Like, none of us in the family have any fucking clue why that regulation is in place and it’s the stupidest shit in human history.

For you and your internet friends! 💙

@d-falt

@fortheloveofpain

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