Prof Christopher JacksonAnother super reason to be white rather than Black:
Black people seven times more likely to die after police restraint in Britain, figures show.
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Sindarina, Edge Case DetectiveOK, so, since I got several questions about #DontPayTheGuardian yesterday, and the first post on that hashtag is apparently not enough for people who haven't been paying attention for the many years in which The Guardian has been providing a platform for TERF rhetoric. So let's give them a few examples, shall we?
1) Julie Bindel, who was a TERF before Twitter was a thing, still has a home there. Here's one of her screeds, from 2004;
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jan/31/gender.weekend7
First post;
Gernot Wagner3.4 million(!) Americans -- 1.4% of the adult population of the richest country on Earth -- displaced by weather disasters last year!
https://www.eenews.net/articles/census-disasters-displaced-more-than-3m-americans-in-2022/
#climate #sustainability
https://www.eenews.net/articles/census-disasters-displaced-more-than-3m-americans-in-2022/
#climate #sustainability
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People that got "As" in AP history, that didn't know this, are running to their favorite search engine right now to try and fact check this. Let's wait for them... ⏳
Why do US people not know their own history?
Before folks ask, "Why was I not taught this in school?!" Look at what DeSantis is doing to AP history in Florida. You know exactly why you weren't taught this in school. Because it's easier to get you to accept mistreatment of Black people, if you don't know white American history.
An abolitionist designed the statue. A group of abolitionists paid for the statue. There's a plaque at the feet telling everyone what it's for. They named it the Statue of Liberty. It's arguably the largest anti-racism monument in the US, and the most recognizable anti-racism monument in the world...
Except people don't even know it's an anti-racism monument. They think it celebrates the huge influx of white immigrants from Europe that came to the US.
Hint 1: It's called the statue of *liberty*. Not the statue of immigration or statue of independence.
Hint 2: Broken chains on the feet.
Hint 3: Idea for the statue started in 1865. What else happened in 1865?
Hint 4: What the sculptor said it's for? OK that's not really a hint!
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
You know the drill by now. I don't like talking about Black history. Americans know Black history. I want to talk about white American history. In other words, racism, and the erasure of both positive achievements of, and injustices suffered by, non-white people. That's what people don't know.
Try this: Ask your white US friends what the statue of liberty celebrates.
Now ask your Black friends. Or French folk of any color.
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Joy-Ann ReidWe at The ReidOut are unbanning history. So every day this #blackhistorymonth Ja’Han will feature a different banned author or subject on the ReidOutBlog. Read the first post and daily updates at:
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/black-history-uncensored-bell-hooks-rcna68695
Is there some kind of sportsball event tonight? all the neighborhood bars are mobbed…
It worked! Got it unstuck. Pump hadn’t been run since ~2007 so it was rusted stuck. One pump was working so I’ve been doing lower flow conditions for a couple years. Finally decided we needed to have that second pump working and had a short gap between experiments to do it. Glad it came loose relatively easily. We’ll see on Monday or Tuesday if it runs smooth!