Despite what white people of today want to believe, it was NOT that long ago. At all.
Like, my father who is absolutely still alive (he’s sleeping right now though cause it’s after midnight) vividly remembers being packed in a car with some of his siblings and my grandparents and going to hear MLK speak in DC
Rosa Parks only died in 2005
I can only trace my paternal lineage back to my great-great grandfather who was an escaped slave. Like, me myself is only three generations removed from chattel slavery
The daughter of a slave was in the opening ceremony of the National African American History Museum
This isn’t even touching on the ramifications of Jim Crow Laws. There are literally Sundown Towns (though not with the blatant signage they used to have at the height of Jim Crow) and redlining is still a thing that happens (Google them if you’re unfamiliar)
I really hate that when White people talk about slavery and segregation, they frequently act like it was so long ago because it wasn’t. And that green strip? We’re still going through systemic oppression and racist practices held over from the segregation era. It’s not like the US desegregated and everything was copacetic after
Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to go to a White school is only two months older than my dad
Please, if you’re White, really try to conceptualize how recent these events were and what’s still going on. Just because something is historical doesn’t necessarily mean it happened a long time ago or that its effects aren’t still felt
Also a reminder that slavery didn’t actually stop when slavery officially stopped. There were white people in out of the way places keeping black folks enslaved for decades after by just not telling them the law had changed.
ALSO A REMINDER THAT FORCED LABOR FOR NO WAGES IS STILL LEGAL IF YOU HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF A CRIME
We are not out of the shit yet and there is work to do.
Since last year, I’ve seen this headline around a lot as a description of our current political divide:
But it wasn’t until today that I found out there was a response article to it:
Seriously, this shit would be cartoonish and unbelievable in fiction, and yet someone actually wrote it.
Isn’t there a word about being compelled to do something against your will? Call me silly but I was under the impression that this is, you know, generally a bad thing.
I’m sorry that “saying you should care about people and not be a selfish asshole” is such an oppressive and awful thing to hear. Life must be a real struggle for you, having been attacked by things like Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street as a child.
im sure there’s a self-own in here somewhere but i’m gonna leave this one up to sarcastic teens on the internet
Fixed it
I’ll just leave this here
this is the stupidest fucking thing I have ever seen. Like. What’s your point, dude? That teenagers die anyway so we shouldn’t worry about them being murdered? That just because sometimes kids–kids who are at the most reckless, ‘I think I’m invincible!’ stage of their lives–do stupid things that get them killed, they deserve to be mocked for wanting to not get shot in school?
This is the worst kind of false equivalency and the most maliciously evil kind of argument. How fucking dare you mock the kids who made a mistake and got in a wreck just because they’re young and kids make mistakes? And how fucking dare you try to say that because some kids make mistakes, the rest of them deserve to be mocked for not wanting to be murdered in school?
The artist of this cartoon deserves to be punched in the balls immediately. Repeatedly. No fucking joke.
FUCKING ALSO–
When kids started dying because they were texting and driving, we fucking did something about it! Laws were passed. Education increased about the dangers of texting and driving. WE FUCKING TOOK STEPS SO KIDS WOULD STOP DYING.
THAT’S LITERALLY ALL THEY’RE ASKING US TO DO. TAKE STEPS TO HELP THEM NOT DIE. WE’RE THE FUCKING ADULTS HERE. KIDS ARE SCARED. HOW FUCKING DARE YOU MOCK THEM WITH SOMETHING ELSE THEY’RE SCARED OF.
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