#floriduh

"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is

He should be in jail. They violate the law by hiring undocumented workers, pay them slave wages, demand deportation of migrants, and then cry on camera they don’t have enough workers to run a business.

This is recent history. Ruby Bridges is 68yrs old and she is still alive.

Emily Conklin is thee definition of a racist Karen, and she is trying to whitewash the history white children learn by erasing a rated PG Disney movie that has already been shown for years in Pinellas County schools, usually as a part of Black History Month.

Two immediate thoughts that come to mind are:

“The people who threw rocks at Ruby Bridges for trying to go to school in 1960 now are upset their grandchildren might learn about them throwing rocks at Ruby Bridges for trying to go to school.”

and

“IF BLACK CHILDREN ARE OLD ENOUGH TO EXPERIENCE RACISM, WHITE CHILDREN ARE OLD ENOUGH TO LEARN ABOUT IT”

Look, Ruby Bridges was six years old when racist white parents (men and women) threw rocks and hissy fits because she was trying to get an education. A full year younger than most of the white children who are now being “protected” from learning the truth about what their grandparents did.

I guess these delicate snowflakes are so triggered by the racism of their elders that they need to get the Republican governor to whitewash away the truth.

I’m almost 40yrs old and I used to wonder how it was that in college, white kids my age genuinely believed that Martin Luther King, Jr. died of old age. But somehow, every single Black person my age knew the truth. How does that happen?? This is how it happens. This is a prime example of precisely how that happened and still happens—because to “protect” them from the truth, white kids weren’t taught that he was assassinated. It’s literally no different than raising generations of white kids to believe that 2+2=5. There’s going to be serious problems when they hit the real world. But what can I say? Conservatives like ‘em dumb and ignorant.

Anyway, this is how you get generations of fully grown white adults who truly honestly believe foolishness like “racism is over,” or “Martin Luther King basically ended racism,” or, “we don’t need affirmative action because there is no more racism; if anything it’s white people who are more discriminated against now.” (The majority of white people polled said the same thing in the 1960s too, btw).

Keeping as many white people as possible ignorant of the truth does not happen by accident. It’s very intentional. And that’s not to say that ALL white people are ignorant of the truth. Some of them, like Emily Conklin, know the truth, but just do not care.

And make no mistake: The same white people who want to keep their white children “pure” and “innocent” have ZERO problems criminalizing and sending young Black children directly to jail for even the slightest misbehavior in a classroom.

GUESS WHAT, Y'ALL?

tl;dr: wtf uh. i need to somehow magically raise like 2k min by april preferably

without borrowing more from elderly relatives.

plz help. buy stuff if you like.

it's been a fuckin ride. so much happening. meds cost literally hundreds to refill, out a bit yesterday on getting a lyft back from another *county* because my typically reliable car died on the bridge!!1 the engine needs to be replaced and probably parts of the coolant system bc that's what likely caused a head gasket to go?? k also lease is up and rent is up and i didn't manage to get a house last year when the interest rates were half of now bc i ended up doing things like spending several grand in just two months on medical issues because thanks to my shit country funding bombs instead of healthcare, various issues went untreated until i'm too disabled to ever do stuff again with my life like. walk a quarter mile. or do five minutes of jumping rope without fainting. y'know, stuff.

fucking hell

anyways.

i have lots of things on ebay, mostly kimono items. these aren't desperation sells, these are listed regardless, so i'm not at some emotionally crippling loss from parting with them. i've always supplemented my non-income with ebay or something. it helps me pay for things like anti-seizure meds and heart medications. i renew unsold things once or twice a week.

I should probably list more. Most items are on FB Marketplace.