StirredNotShaken (This/That/A Third)

If yall had started protesting on Inauguration Day things wouldn’t have gotten this far. You’ve shown no real resistance because you’re waiting for someone else to do it.

That very much translates into “I know I’ll be ok for longer than THEY will”.

And I’m talking to ALL OF YOU.

Same with my mine. Dad's enemies stalked our house & schoolyard when I was in kindergarten. The image is seared in my brain.

During the Detroit riot NG trained weapons on my mother walking from a bus stop on her way home from work. I don't play with white folk playing like they're revolutionary.

For a lot of them it's like attending a folk festival. They gather up on weekends to scream, be seen, post selfies of themselves being "revolutionary", & go back to work on Monday. Talking about starting "good trouble" knowing ghatdamn well the cops won'teven showing up to fuck with em.

Black people have a ton to say about I.C.E., just not to y’all.

So again, that’s the difference here. Black people don’t have to guess about Rep. Bennie Thompson’s thoughts on these I.C.E. abuses, for example, because he’s made his thoughts clear to the Black community and to me personally.

Again, Black people are simply not lending Our voices to white people.

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They've done this shit in DC. During week 1 of the occupation, a neighbor reported that while her Central American relative was walking in Georgetown, they were stopped by agents who said "you don't look like you're from here." She was prepared with her passport and other ID.
Damn sundown town.

Word.

And would Uber massa around the Underground Railroad.
"Dere dey is massa!!"

Winsome Earle-Sears readily comes to mind.

Putting in all that work to be racist-adjacent and still can't sit at the table.

Tonite in DC, while navigating a detour around federal police barriers near Constitution Ave., traffic was at an annoying standstill. However, I was stuck next to a car with a dog head hanging over a partially open window. 🐶

Dogs are chill AF😎 & I love seeing them ride like that. Changed my mood.🖤

Leadership demanding that people accept and find merit in disrespect being inflicted on them, is an entirely different level of cruelty. This is where the country has landed.

She's always been a real one. Quietly does impactful work without trying too hard to make people see her as "relatable".

Her pivot isn't a crisis of conscience, or concern for her constituency, but a reaction to a potential personal adverse outcome. However, a garbage pail kid fight and mutiny in this administration might reset its course.

And, it is LEGAL for real police officers to lie.

They 2 groups roll in the mud together and individually to fuck with innocent folk.

This is so true, particularly of abusive and cruel folk who are highly visible in religious and socially elite circles.

Word.
Don't be the DC mayor, playing in everyone's faces. Hiding behind the risk of home rule whilst getting caught lying about the MPD being embedded with ICE. From what I've observed, NG has been a hands-off, security optic.

But we're 2 months in & ICE is fucking folk up and she stays LYING.

Except "immigration crackdown" is a pretext for 21st night riding.

Imagine living in so much fear that brown people scare you, trans people horrify you, and you tense up around gay folks. Black people make you so uneasy that you tremble and call the police the moment you see us—white bigotry and their phobias at their finest.

LMAO "hoppin mad".🤣🤣🤣I'm unfamiliar with many contemporary artists,so I'd never paid him any attention. No shade; it's a generation thing. BUT, I LOVE that he's got MAGA folk fucked ALL THE WAY UP. ❤️❤️ I've boycotted watching NFL games since 2016, but I'll watch this halftime show -- on YouTube.

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My DC neighbors are doing "noise protests." They're banging pots and pans.
How revolutionary.😬

I know many of the sane who'd call police on our Black assses if we play the "wrong" genre music too loudly in the park.

www.weny.com/story/530165...

White woman in my community seeking victim-adjaceny said "they aren't just profiling POC" because she claimed ICE came to her door asking about a neighbor. Based on her account, she was "profiled".
No Margie this aint it. They didn't fuck with you,yours, or kick in a door.

I distrust al(LIES).

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Thanks for saying that. I'm gonna remember it every time I smdh at political ads for VA lt-governor Winsome Earle Sears. I got nothing for ANY black elected who declares MAGA and/or governs to the detriment of Black people. Being MAGA is a gravity-defying free fall from civility and intelligence.

White Americans can stop this at any time.

They won't unless they are sufficiently entertained or sufficiently hurt.

I'm courteous & collegial, but my supervisor thinks I'm not "personable" because I don't ingratiate myself to people.

Nah. I have decades (predating his birth) of experience in reading rooms. In short order I can determine who is either welcoming, tolerant, or unwelcoming & I adjust accordingly.

I presume he's enjoying the alternative.

I wish the worst for anyone who delivered this shit, by not voting for Harris or not voting at all. The clear & present danger of this administration was in everyone's faces LONG before the election & LOUDLY declared in the release of Project 2025.

That's what I was thinking. I play flute & EWI and of my many musician friends who play sax, the ones who do circular breathing are few in number, but their stamina is wild!!
She's amazing 👏

Agree. There's also an elitist subculture within that Black demographic. They might boast performative humility about being a Black "this or that", but have a more vested interest in white adjacent than they do supporting their own people.

Or found a fire hydrant & lifted her leg.

Modern slavery - naked children separated from parents in the middle of the night in Chicago. We need just as many voices for this as with Kimmel.