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Part of the exhausted 92% and I am not one of your little friends and ain’t nobody got time to care about your lil feelings. I see your fragility ✊🏿 I see your little brother syndrome too 🇺🇸

Nice Racism Robin DiAngelo White progressives may be more able to acknowledge the reality of structural inequality because they tend to be people who experience other forms of oppression or have marginalized people close in their lives. People on the left side of the political spectrum are more likely to be racialized, queer, nonbinary, and sometimes working class. Black, Latinx, and Asian American voters are overwhelmingly Democrats: 84 percent of African American voters, 65 percent of Asian American voters, and 63 percent of Latinx voters.? Ideally, we would use our own experiences with oppression and the experiences of our loved ones as a way in to an understanding of Page 157 of 213 73%
Was 9th most absent in votes compared to All Representatives Bush missed 18.9% of votes (235 of 1,241 votes) in the 118th Congress. View Bush's Profile » Compare to all Missouri Delegation (88th percentile); House Sophomores (98'h percentile); All Representatives (98th percentile). The Speaker of the House, per current House rules, is not required to vote in "ordinary legislative proceedings" and is never recorded as missing a vote, and may not be included in the comparison with other representatives if not voting. The delegates from the five island territories and the District of Columbia are not eligible to vote in most roll call votes and so may not appear here if not elligible for any vote during the time period of these statistics. Laws Enacted Bush introduced 0 bills that became law, including via incorporation into other measures, in the 118th Congress. Keep in • govtrack.us
The "calm" you saw is the kind of calm Black people have had to perform for generations It's the calm that says: • Don't react. • Don't escalate. • Don't give them a reason. • Just get through this moment alive. It's a calm that isn't peace - it's survival.
The train photo carries Baldwin's core ideas: • The vulnerability of Black people in public space • The casual boldness of white supremacist performance • The way America's racial contradictions erupt in everyday life • The loneliness of being the only Black person in a hostile environment
Whether to capitalize the terms "black" and "white" is also an unsettled political issue. On the one hand, capitalizing "Black" but not "white" interrupts the historical elevation of white above black. On the other hand, not capitalizing "white" minimizes its power as a racial category and reinforces white as the default. In explaining the Associated Press requirement of capitalizing "Black" but not "white," John Daniszewski, the AP's vice president for standards, wrote: "We agree that white people's skin color plays into systemic inequalities and injustices, and we want our journalism to robustly explore these problems... But capitalizing the term "white," as is done by white supremacists, risks subtly conveying legitimacy to such beliefs."4 The Columbia Journalism Review, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, NBC News, and the Chicago Tribune are among the organizations that have recently stated they will
Central to Farrakhan's speech was his conspiratorial accusation that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had advance knowledge of and even a hand in Hamas's October 7 terrorist attack on Israel. "[Netanyahu] already knew what Hamas was gonna do because he sanctioned it," Farrakhan alleged. As supposed evidence of this conspiracy, Farrakhan claimed that a photograph published by Israel's Government Press Office in April 2023 of Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant making a pre-Passover toast touting Israeli military unity was actually a photograph of them secretly "toasting sacrificial Jewish lambs" who were be "martyred" on October 7 with Neta ** approval. adl.org