semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Absofuckinglutely.

a woman in a black hoodie is drinking through a green straw ALT: a woman in a black hoodie is drinking through a green straw

I absolutely judge people when they say they haven’t read a book since school.

Oooooo, chile…this shit was MESSY!! #orgies #cocaine #theyhadatimelastnight #Blacksky#Blackbooksky

Just a reminder that ICE didn't exist until 2002. It's not some longstanding institution that must be maintained. It was created as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11, and it could be gotten rid of as easily as it was created.

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

Current read. #Blackbooksky #Blacksky #86ed

My Christmas Cactus and my African Violet both decided to give me flowers this week.

I don't know why we still call them ICE and treat them as a legitimate organization. They are an armed Militia and should be designated as a terrorist group. No other legal force in America wears masks and strips people of due process. They are a terrorist organization

“I don’t give homeless ppl money bc they’re gonna buy drugs”

I have a job, a roof over my head, food in my fridge, healthcare etc. and after a long day of dealing with the world I need a drink/weed.

You think I care if the ppl society treats like garbage uses my funky ass $5 to buy drugs?

Apparently ICE is trying to rebrand as “HSI” (Homeland Security Investigations), so if you see HSI on a police officer’s uniform, they’re with ICE.

Yup.

I think about this often.

I fell asleep early AND slept in! My tracker says I slept 10 hours; quite a jump from my usual 6.

📣📣📣

The niche of my law practice is representing women, minorities and whistleblowers in vindicating their civil rights in employment.

Having done this work for years now, I have come to understand something that I feel like sharing this morning:

White people and Black people have a VERY different

you are no longer allowed to have imposter syndrome.

not after this bari omgwtf weiss situation.

you're literally not allowed to feel imposter syndrome ANYMORE

Cutie patooties!!

Today’s library haul. #librarykidforlife #getyoualibrarycard #Blacksky #Blackbooksky

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.

• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin

Middle name: Crusty

More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.

Just remembered a moment from years ago: had a man I knew tell me “A woman isn’t really a woman until she gives birth.”

I legit grimaced. Ew.

More evidence today (my opinion)...

People who feel like they have religion on their side are that much more likely to behave irrationally.

Their dogma makes them feel like they operate on a higher plane...and a "get out of jail free" card.

My opinion: the US Constitution IS the higher plane.

That’s what’s up!!

I have this conversation on the regular. Ain’t no way they don’t have their own generational curses. I think it helps manifest that willful obtuseness, among other things, they got rockin.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

I hope your Saturday is just as relaxing and filling!

"An intersectional approach to feminism requires understanding that too often mainstream feminism ignores that Black women and other women of color are the proverbial canaries in the coal mine of hate."

~ Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot 🌸🌸

#BookSky