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TheePoetryGod

@theepoetrygod

22 | IL | BLM | He/Him | 🩷💜💙

a lot of y’all saying Black Lives Matter for one situation just doesn’t sit right with me, it goes beyond police brutality!!!

it’s Black women dying at a higher rate during childbirth. it’s Black people being exposed to COVID-19 at a higher rate. it's about Black people like Henrietta Lacks being taken advantage of in thee medical field, but are still being denied healthcare. it's Black people being denied job opportunities due to the name on their applications. it's Black people being denied into higher institutions despite having the same qualifications as their non-Black counterparts. it's Black people having their creations and ideas stolen without being given credit simply because a good percentage of society still believes in 2023, mind you, that Black people are not creative enough or smart enough or skilled enough. it's the decrease of federal funding for schools in predominantly Black neighborhoods due to gerrymandering and redlining. it's Black people being denied housing due to laws in NUMEROUS STATES that inform realtors to refrain from selling black people those homes. it's the kidnapping and murders of Black people that don't make it on the news. it's Black trans women having a life expectancy of 23 YEARS OLD. it's Black people, especially Black trans people, being incarcerated at disproportionately high rates. it's Black people with criminal records who can't find jobs to turn their lives around because they're stuck in one spot after being released from the incarceration system. it's every single Black life that has been lost to racially motivated killings, whether it be the police or by citizen.

It's about knowing that even though there is still a lot of work to do as a nation, electing someone who values the lives of people over the lives of bank accounts is a step in the right direction.

Black Lives Matter is not just about protesting against police brutality. this is deeper than that.

All Black Lives Matter. Not just the ones you specifically are a fan of. Not just in death, but in life as well.

BLACK LIVES MATTER.

24/7, 365. Not just during February.

BLACK. LIVES. MATTER.

Wait I realized this Twitter rate limiting thing happened literally the same day as the Reddit 3rd party app shut downs. Wonder how many of those users have come here today to this Luigi Wins By Doing Nothing Ass website

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My friend takes this one step further and refers completely accurately to his girlfriend Danielle as "My partner, Dan"

Also i hate to say it but for some people, boyfriend/girlfriend feels a bit juvenile, say, if youre over 30, or perhaps youve been with someone for a very long time and are committed life partners but not married for whatever reason. Maybe husband/wife feels a little watered down to you and you want to establish the equal nature of your relationship.

Partner is a wonderful word and it should be normalized.

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i also like the air of mystery it lends.

“this is my partner.”

in what? romance? business? art? rock-climbing? crime? all at once? who knows! gotta keep people guessing.

barbara post-fire: how can i trust myself? what if i had put the entire school—the children we’re supposed to care for—at risk? how could i have been so reckless? so careless? i deserve the worst. i deserve nothing at all.

melissa post-fire: make fire truck go beep beep

do i get a prize or

white people go like “is anyone going to redesign this nonhuman evil character as a poc?” and not wait for an answer

white people go “is anyone going to redesign this nonhuman good character as a white person?” and not wait for an answer

white people can rb but please do not clown

white people really cant give a shit abt anyone but themselves unless held at gunpoint or smth huh?

“what about the poor little white kids just trying to have fun?” what about the poor little kids of color made to feel unsafe and unwelcome in a space that was supposed to be fun?

“why can’t poc just make their own redesigns and we can keep these ones” why cant you realize that your actions have consequences and that you should maybe try to not enforce racist stereotypes??

like ofc its ideal to have VARIETY among both villains AND protagonists, its when your characters look like this

that the issue arises

scratch “can”, white people are encouraged to reblog

I didn’t really realize it was like this before my little sister came along, which shows how privileged I had been even with an anti-racist family. When my dad got remarried to a black woman and my little sister was born I started realizing how much things were catered towards us white people when she could only find white protagonists to relate herself to in movies and TV shows. I wanted her to feel represented and not excluded more than she already would feel amongst a mostly white family, so a searched for any kind of media that she would enjoy that was also inclusive enough to give her a reality where she existed as someone other than a bad guy. It was so difficult. Most of the shows I came up with were either still white-centric or were too complex for her to understand at 3 years old. It pisses me off knowing that millions of people grew up like that.