White Fragility Why It Is So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism By Robin DiAngelo

White Fragility Why it is so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

“As a culture, we don’t claim that gender roles and gender conditioning disappear the moment we love someone of the “opposite” gender. I identify as a woman and am married to someone who identifies as a man, yet I would never say, “Because I am married to a man, I have a gender-free life.” We understand that gender is a very deep social construct, that we have different experiences depending on our gender roles, assignments, and expressions, and that we will wrestle with these differences throughout the life of our relationship. Yet when the topic is race, we claim that it is completely inoperative if there is any level of fond regard. In an even more ludicrous form of reality, we even go as far as to claim that racial conditioning disappears if we can calmly walk by people of color on the streets of large cities.”

Kentucky bill makes it a crime to insult a police officer

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kentucky-bill-insult-police-officer-crime/

https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/21RS/sb211/orig_bill.pdf

A lack of access to elite sports, and issues with racism, are some of the hurdles facing Indigenous athletes when they chase their Olympic dreams. Previous Olympians are working to help remove those barriers. Correction: The locator at 0:04 in this story should read Siksika First Nation, Alberta.

Yall know that “toxic masculinity” refers to expressions of masculinity that are toxic, right? it doesn’t imply that all masculinity is toxic- it’s used to talk about like, how people will repress their emotions aside from anger in order to seem “manly”, and how they might act in violent or self-destructive ways because that is what society expects of men.

masculinity is not inherently toxic. it hasn’t been poisoned or corrupted. it is a neutral concept, a kind of gender presentation, and it doesn’t make you a bad, unhealthy, or toxic person to be masculine.

masculinity does not need to be “soft” to be acceptable, it can just be neutral. because it is not toxic, just sometimes expressed in toxic ways or for toxic reasons.

https://peoplesparty.org/maine-first-state-register-peoples-party/

The People's Party

Maine Becomes First State To Officially Register The #PeoplesParty

"Americans are fed up with the status quo. They want a major new party that puts the people before Wall Street and we are building it," said

Real talk time.

Colonialism still exists. The effects of original colonization still exist.

Native Hawaiians cannot afford to live on our own land. Everyday tourism kills us.

We are fined for using our water. We are screamed at by tourists. We are stacked in concrete apartments the size of shoe boxes. Waiting lists for apartments are decades long. The government never provides aid. The money that belongs to us is wasted on half finished monorails and hotels. Tourist take pictures of us like we’re an attraction.

In 2018, the UN acknowledged the present day occupation of Hawai’i. And they did nothing.

“The Living Wage Calculator from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) says that one adult in Honolulu needs to make $16.59 per hour for a living wage. If that is a couple with 2 children, each adult needs to make $17.70 per hour.”

-RealHawaii.Co

My culture, my people, are sexualized, ignored and stepped on.

We cannot live. And everyday more of us die.

And no one even notices. So notice. Notice. Notice.