I lost a friend in HS because I told him I wasn't fasting. He didn't know that if I didn't eat the food at school there was nothing for me to eat at home. He never asked. Just stopped talking to me.
I'm glad nowadays people are more understanding.
when i meet muslims that don't fast ramadan i understand that everyone has their own shit going on and don't feel entitled to understand why they don't fast, much less project my own "fear" onto their decisions.
This is why white people struggle so mightily with class analysis. No Black person "needs" to read Marx to understand oppression. But for white folks oppression is an abstract theoretical framework to question themselves about how they'd respond to being oppressed.
I strongly suggest creating backup files of the images of the Palestinian holocaust because there will be and is already a concerted effort to erase these images and videos from the internet.
The reason Aaron Bushnell's martyrdom strikes directly at the imperial core is because here is a white man who chose to burn himself alive rather than being complicit in doing so to others.
They do not want anyone thinking too long about what that implies.
Right so what you need to know about the uprisings in LA is that when you walk into a department store, a pharmacy, or a grocery store anywhere from 30-70% of the merchandise is behind lock and key. An Uber to work can cost anywhere from $40-70 one way.
Fred Hampton was killed at 21 years old because he organized blacks and whites of all ages and backgrounds to stand up to the government on behalf of the working class while also leading mutual aid efforts so make the working class less reliant on the government.
And yall think
I finished "a dying of colonialism" last night and it makes me think that several things are happening right now and we are closer to the end of America than most people realize.
I've been largely ignoring Luigi gate but it should bother everyone that Daniel Penny murdered Jordan Neely on camera and walked free with help from the state because now the state is testing if they can manufacture guilt as easily as it manufactures innocence.