FlorenceMar 15, 2024
mekka okereke 

No I'm not surprised that the Ruth Bader Ginsburg award was given to Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch. I said what I said about RBG.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109906634290176231

She was an ineffective advocate for women's rights, because she was willfully blind to issues of racism. Your reproductive rights are at risk today, because of this.

You want it to be true that you can advocate for women's rights without advocating for Black people's rights. But you can't. Racist men don't care about your reproductive rights.

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a champion of white women's rights. But she knew so little about white US history, that she said Kaepernick's protest was "dumb and disrespectful." Then she made it worse in her apology by saying she was "barely aware of the incident or its purpose" and that she should have "declined to respond." A Supreme Court Justice of the United States. Unaware of how every Black person in the US experiences the police, and the most important civil rights protest of her generation.

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Mar 15, 2024 at 1:44amWeb
Show threadOrca šŸŒ» | šŸŽ€ | šŸŖ | šŸ“šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļøMar 15, 2024
@mekkaokereke Thank you, I did not know that. šŸ§
Show threadwasabi brainMar 15, 2024
@mekkaokereke itā€™s like when white people vote to make their own lives harder because they hate the idea of an undeserving minority getting benefits so much. We set up huge expensive processes to screen out fraud that cost more than their purported benefit, make it much much harder for ā€œdeservingā€ people to get the help they need, all because they canā€™t stand idea of a single lazy person, usually represented in their mind as a minority, getting benefits
Show threadRobert Jan SchuttenMar 15, 2024
@mekkaokereke I had to look it up. What a strange thing to be giving awards with her name on it to these two men in particular. What is this foundation that is giving out these awards in her name? Not saying you are wrong about RBG w.r.t. not caring about black women. But even the RBG that you describe that only cares about white women would not be giving awards to these two guys. So what is going on here?
Show threadRobert Jan SchuttenMar 15, 2024
@mekkaokereke Did some simple online searching. The foundation (Dwight D Opperman Foundation) is the legacy of a dead rich guy. Mostly sounds like a way for rich people to give other rich people a participation award for being rich. Donā€™t see a real link to RBG, other than that some of the original women recipients were on a list that RBG created before her death. This all still seems like a very strange award to me.
Show thread2xfoMar 15, 2024
@rjschutten @mekkaokereke
I didn't try too hard to understand the article i read but I think a Republican donor has taken control of the committee that grants this award and her family wants them to change or stop using her name. They specifically were upset about Elon and another i forgot, but all of the winners seemed pretty scummy to me.
Show threadRobert Jan SchuttenMar 15, 2024
@RnDanger @mekkaokereke That would explain some of this madness. Unfortunately this is not even by far the biggest problem is this country right now. With all the complaining about meaningless participation trophies, they (Republicans) sure like to give them to themselves.
Show threadDavid BramianMar 15, 2024
@mekkaokereke you tug at one "ism" and the whole premise of our empire starts to unravel, and they can't have that
Show threadklausfiend has movedMar 15, 2024

@mekkaokereke Wow, this list of recipients reads like something from feminist bizarro world.

And almost half are convicted felons!

Show threadShadSterlingMar 15, 2024
@mekkaokereke Isn't it called the "Woman of Leadership Award"? I guess they could argue some twisted idea of "leadership", but I doubt either Musk or Murdoch want to be thought of as women.
Show threadShadSterlingMar 15, 2024
@mekkaokereke The first person I thought of when I heard about this was my high school acting teacher, who now runs the Denzel Washington School of the Arts. She's not famous, or rich, or doing anything with widespread impact, but she sure is making a difference to her students. It's not the wording I'd use, but "Woman of Leadership" fits her a lot better than it fits them
Show threadRynUfeMar 15, 2024

@mekkaokereke How about that time she used the Doctrine of Discovery to rule against the Oneida tribal land case. #Indigenous

https://blogs.cornell.edu/cornelluniversityindigenousdispossession/2021/01/04/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-notoriety-in-indian-country-and-cornells-campus-landscape/

https://m.thewire.in/article/world/ruth-bader-ginsburg-sherrill-v-oneida

Ruth Bader Ginsburgā€™s notoriety in Indian country and Cornellā€™s campus landscape ā€“ Cornell University and Indigenous Dispossession Project