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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1h

Soo early morning thought…..

Folks see how having the desire and fulfillment of a never disagreeing servant is destroying empathy and cognition

WHEN IT IS A COMPUTER

but don’t thing slavery could be the foundation dynamic that’s destroying America ?

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1h

Soo everytime America swears that something has never happened before

It has happened and usually to a Black person

History may not fully repeat but it rhymes with

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 16h

In 1857, Thomas Howland became Providence, RI's first Black elected official.

Later that year, he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife & daughter after the Dred Scott case denied Black people protections of U.S. citizenship. He was denied a passport.

Thomas Howland, 1856
John Blanchard

Portrait of a distringuished Black man from the 19th centrure wearing fine clothes, including high collar and tie of the day.
Museum Text:
Thomas Howland, the subject of this unusually expressive portrait, was a dock worker in Providence, Rhode lsland, In 1857 he became the city's first Black elected oficial when he was amed warden of its Third Ward. However, that same year he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wite and daughter, perhaps in response to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case that denied African Americans the protections of U.S. citizenship. Because of this decision, Howland's application for a passport was denied, despite his status as a free man with the right to vote in his home state (he did eventually make it to Liberia). Howland's confident posture echoes that of the earlier Portrait of a Gentleman shown nearby, the fashionable attire of both sitters serving to reinforce thelir self-possession.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 11h

And I hate it being termed a culture war because like do you actually see Dems putting up a fight?

Or do you see the people being attacked putting up a fight

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 11h

RIGHT and like if we’re “fighting fascism”

By sacrificing the people the Nazis came for

Uh let me tell you something you ain’t doing what you think you is

Zazecki @zazecki.bsky.social · 11h

Dems, unironically: "Those guys everyone calls nazis and we freely call threats to our democracy might have a point about trans people"

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

We are 8 months into the term and almost 18 onto the ba and Dems are more willing to give millions and time to assholes whose main message is

“Screw trans people and erase Black folks”

Than

HOLY HELL WE WILL BE REBUILDING THIS ALL AND TAKW CARE OF YOU

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 11h

I really wish I didn’t know so much about policy, racism, and abuse

But yeah I started BLOGGING. ( waves @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social and @burnlittlelight.bsky.social

immigration and anti Blackness was building a movement

TWENTY YEARS AGO

because it ripped my family

I ain’t lying now

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 11h

Dig a landlord used ICE to clean out a Black building and nobody but one paper covered it and none of the “Allie’s” are making those folks lives hell

Yall play if you want to

But when I say we have no real open people first strategy?

THIS WHY I THINK THAT

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

They have racists MILLIONS for abusing Blakc folks on camera

“Libs” are arguing about Palestinians going to SCHOOL

And I still haven’t finished a go fund me I CLEARED as part of a newsletter last year

It’s the racism and no one is doing anything material about it

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

Do I think this HAS to be this bleak

NOPE
It’s why I’m mad

Because remember when we cared about diversity for like twenty seconds

WE GOT THEM OUT

Had better comms and whole plans

but I am believing what is being DONE and said

not having rhetorical spins

The racism is okay with Dems

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

We are 8 months into the term and almost 18 onto the ba and Dems are more willing to give millions and time to assholes whose main message is

“Screw trans people and erase Black folks”

Than

HOLY HELL WE WILL BE REBUILDING THIS ALL AND TAKW CARE OF YOU

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

Everyone talks about studying narcissism, humiliation and the history of genocidal/ fascism

But there’s very little to indicate that they use those studies to care about people

Which Republicans know

And folks won’t even answer Black questions

You think if we win this changes

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

I saved enough for a YEAR off and retirement

It’s GONE

I’m not even special

And demographically ? Nobody gives a fuck and Republicans know it

And nothing is being done to stop it and it BROKE THE COUNTRY

why would they ever give this up when “libs” and “radicals” publicly aid them

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

Using racism to work their base

And using their “opponents” racism to outmaneuver them

Just_CJ @cjwizgeek.blacksky.app · 12h

Smarter about racial dynamics in what way?

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

It’s exhausting and especially for me because people openly don’t employ em and then from their well paid positions to observe me

And bluntly me doing public education and volunteering

Is more fruitful than sending resumes which means I tweeting for my Go Fund Me

nina eleanor alter @ninavizz.bsky.social · 12h

This is also the worst job market I've personally seen, in over 25yrs. I had to submit hundreds of resumes, before landing my current job a year ago—and in the past, I only ever submitted maybe a dozen. Yes, I work in tech, but I've heard the same sentiment from folks in other markets as well.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

Democrats only started yelling in Mike Johnson’s face on camera not because one of their own is being racially profiled ( they should have done that for Crockett)

Or even because getting her confirmed would be the easiest win

But because their approval ratings suck and their being challenged

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

The Republicans aren’t stupid about social dynamics and they are much smarter about racial dynamics than Dems

And the fact that STILL no one gets that Dems let this go not for some strategy reason but because

They AGREE THAT THOSE POPULATIONS NEED TO BE “managed” isn’t a “take”

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

Chris Rufo gets covers for talking about how he wanted to financially decimate Black women

And the same magazine didn’t even do an interview when I pointed out how academia was treating Black women and online. Research aided him

The white experts still only talk to white people

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

Like dawg yall are salivating over someone who has a podcast with fascists , and makes a production of throwing out people’s stuff

Because his Latina speechwriter write some tweets

And that’s the center libs

The left is honestly disgusting but we can’t say that so

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

The Dems haven’t even updated the fucking palm but are handing out consults to white men who failed

And I have too much personal experience with how yall enable abuse to pretend that unless we have real FINANCIAL repair

LIKE FDR

this won’t get addressed

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

You have multi million dollar foundations arguing that we need to protect foreign students not because they are HUMANS

But because they spend money at universities

And it’s going mega viral

The “anti billionaires” suspended a volunteering Black autistic lawyer and yall did WW tears FOR her

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

Folks worry about fascism

I’ve been job hunting for a year

In terrified that white folks, non Black , and “hustle culture” are gonna shrug off the utter decimation of the prime earning years of an already compromised populace

And do no work or planning beyond

“BUT TRUMP”

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

Folks listened to Ezra Klein and TNC and had their lil jokes

But TO ME

a horrifying discourse about folks thinking the most important part o was dunking on Klein and not that folks are well paid to agree that almost three generation of POC are practice dummies and it’s to hard to repair

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

We’ve had multiple major stories on the loss of jobs of BW directly to WM….

Have you heard a single plan to correct that loss for THIS year let alone the next four ?

They are already prepping for Project Eve and even white women ain’t making the connection

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

I may be conveying this wrong or not firmly but I’m not being facetious .. especially after seeing “Third Way” and Durban and the compliance

The expectation of labour to fight

Folks are trying to reset the general norm to de jure a GENERATION of inequality

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 13h

They don’t want it to snap back to normal. They want this to be the normal and no one is stopping them .

They are hoping they can keep a racial hierarchy and unevenness for at least the rest of our lives

And no one is actively saying they will stop them

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 13h

The fact that still folks don’t get that the debasement of non whites is their fallback is making me aggy

Left of center folks think the Republicans commitment to racism is as flimsy as their commitment to racial justice

And it’s not

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