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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 1m

I call this "Cafeteria Theory."

Often, the White kids do not want the Black kids sitting with/near them in the cafeteria. So the Black kids go sit at their own table and have fun at their own table.

The White kids will see the Black kids having fun at their own table and get angry about it.

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 1m

I mean seriously! After Reconstruction, Black Americans were told "You can't sit with us, go stay over there!"

Black Americans said "Ok" and formed their societies with businesses, schools etc.

White Americans did not like that and burned their towns/sides of town down. Make that make sense.

Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 7m

But that's the thing: most Black people are NOT looking for revenge, no matter how well deserved.

Most Black people just want to be left alone and mind our own business:

A doer of deeds @loozcoilz.bsky.social · 2h

It scares them because they KNOW they have treated us horribly (and that’s a kind word for it) and they know revenge is waiting for their asses.

White people know they have an ass whipping coming and that’s if they aren’t strung up from trees, whipped, and placed on postcards first.

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 4m

I'd be excited to see that too and I know her sister will be back up in the mix in some capacity. That was one of the conditions of her joining the Biden team: her sister and her team had to go. I wonder if she regrets that decision because Biden needed her more than she needed him.

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 7m

But that's the thing: most Black people are NOT looking for revenge, no matter how well deserved.

Most Black people just want to be left alone and mind our own business:

A doer of deeds @loozcoilz.bsky.social · 2h

It scares them because they KNOW they have treated us horribly (and that’s a kind word for it) and they know revenge is waiting for their asses.

White people know they have an ass whipping coming and that’s if they aren’t strung up from trees, whipped, and placed on postcards first.

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Endless Aggrevation @lsolano.bsky.social · 3h

The response has always been violence; Toussaint L'Ouverture, Reconstruction, Tulsa, etc.

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 9m

The funny thing is, Black people are minding their own business 99.99% of the time. They're not thinking about White people or harming White people or doing any of the things to White people (or any people).

Black people just want to be left alone and mind our own business:

Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 3h

I think true unity among Black people scares White people. They worry what we’ll do with our power because of the way they’ve abused theirs.

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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 3h

I think true unity among Black people scares White people. They worry what we’ll do with our power because of the way they’ve abused theirs.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15m

The Nobel Peace Prize committee says they've awarded this year's honor to María Machado of Venezuela. But an AI video posted on the MAGA MOMS 4 LIBERTY Facebook page clearly shows that the prize was awarded to Donald Trump. For busy MAGA moms for liberty, it can be hard to know who to trust.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14m

I have never been a supporter of Donald Trump, but if Democrats cannot stop him from taking away my healthcare subsidies, I will have no choice but to continue voting for him and/or his anointed offspring in all future elections.

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 13m

He looks like a good egg. If MVP doesn't run, he's my choice.

Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 14m

I might have to do that! I promised I wouldn't read SPARE until I read Matthew Perry's autobiography but then he died and I couldn't bring myself to read it (like when Amy Winehouse died I couldn't bear to listen to her CDs).

So I'll just have to read them in reverse order! 107 Days, Spare, MP

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 16m

Remember when they ran up on Michelle Obama when she was giving a speech and Michelle Obama was like AHT AHT -- It's either them or me, make your choice --- and Code Pink got chased out the building?

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 17m

I don't want her to run again either. it is clear and apparent to me the majority of this country (regardless of race) wants a strong White Daddy in the home and if that's how it has to be, I'd prefer Pritzker because he's a billionaire and thus not intimidated by other people's money.

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 19m

Or, Vought/Miller/Vance/Musk/Thiel/Bezos/Zuckerberg/Altman/Incels etc all think we're all in Sims 2025 and they don't like the NPCs not being able to be controlled.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 23m

I think 2Raw2Real said on one of his reels that it was Code Pink. This was the reel showing the people yelling at Kamala Harris and her clapping back with "Are yall the ones who told people not to vote? How's that working for you?" 😲🤣

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TIME TO FIGHT BACK @timetofixit.bsky.social · 1d

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 13h

The brown people aren't stealing your jobs.
The orange man is stealing your future.

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 1h

Pushing "peace" in other places... while starting war at home.

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 39m

Too bad Biden wasn't president on January 6:

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2h

This has real -- I intended to dm "Pam" -- energy.

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 41m

Today marks the anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard. After being lured out to the country he was beaten and tied to a fence and left for dead. For being gay.

I have a story about how his death impacted me, and it starts back in 1997, when I first moved from my birth city to Texas...
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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 41m

And the thing is, natural born American citizens who happen to be Black were rounded up and detained by ICE last week and all those people were born in the US so what do you think ICE is going to do to naturalized citizens?

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 44m

The developers were supposed to exume each individual grave, put them in a new casket, move the headstones and propely record who was in each grave. The developers decided that would take too much time and money so they scooped everyone up and tossed them into a mass grave in another state.

Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 45m

I heard it was Code Pink who shouted at Kamala Harris in DC.

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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 53m

If you don’t know, through the history of America, who the most violent Americans are, you are most certainly a sheep.

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 46m

I would highly suggest the #RHOP look into getting an immigration lawyer as well as criminal defense lawyers because their high profile, criticism of the current office holder and their Black skin make them prime targets.

All this for Gucci wallets, Dior shirts, designer clothes and fake lives.

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