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The time for silence is over, white people. You are either with the black community or you are not.⁣ No longer can you claim to be an ally while spending your days hiding in the shadows of your privilege (or behind the safety of a screen).

To be an true ally, you must be anti-racist. To be anti-racist, you MUST:

Join the choir of voices demanding justice (no matter how small you think of your audience, no matter who you might upset).

Open your wallets & support the people on the ground fighting for justice/liberation (Minneapolis Freedom Fund is a great place to start as it helps pay bail/bond for the protestors).⁣

Put your life on the line when you witness racism, police brutality - get your white body in the way. The state is more likely to protect white bodies (proof of this is how the police responded to white protestors last week & black protestors this week).

Shut up, sit down, & listen to the black community: their struggles, their pain, their cries for justice. Your voice in this fight is needed, but it can never outshine or undermine the voices of the black community. Be the fence between them and their oppressors, not a megaphone drowning out their cries.⁣

Follow more black creators, activists, politicians, etc. You can’t learn/grow and do the work if you aren’t actively in the community, surrounding yourself with people who look different than you. ⁣

Learn from the black community, but do not burden them. If you have a question, google it. Still have questions, ask a white person first. The black community does not have the time nor the energy to cater to you. ⁣

Be willing to be uncomfortable, be willing to be ashamed because doing the work as an anti-racist is not easy work, but it is work that must never stop. Our white discomfort that we will feel is nothing compared to the actual pain and terror felt by the black community. If you feel guilty, upset, embarrassed, hurt, frustrated, sad, devastated by what’s going on - you are feeling only 1% of what the black community feels daily. You will survive your discomfort, they may not.

These are just some ways you can show up for the black community, today and every day moving forward. This fight doesn’t stop when the news cycle moves on & it shouldn’t leave your lips (or your thoughts) either.⁣

So, I ask all of my white followers - will you make the effort to do the work with me? Will you betray your own race to uplift and amplify the black community with me? Will you actively do everything you can to destroy and dismantle white supremacy (& seek justice) with me?⁣

If not, please unfollow me right now (& don’t message me and tell me why, I already know).

The time for white silence and complacency is over.

(& I don’t want you here if you aren’t willing to step up and start doing the work, period)

guerrillatech

dovewithscales

I was ready to be mad at the first line. This is a hell of a thought.

hapalopus

It's already like this in Denmark! You get roughly $800 a month (after taxes) for as long as you're studying, up to 6 years, which is the average length for a bachelor's degree (3 years) and a candidate degree (2 years), plus an extra year in case you fall behind.

It's a very complicated system where you can get extra months if you get sick or pregnant, and where you have to pass certain requirements to qualify (chiefly, passing a certain number of exams every year), but it works, it's enough to survive on, and you don't finish university already in debt. The idea is that you'll eventually pay it back anyways by contributing to the economy.

theseriouscynic

That’s how it’s supposed to be. It’s so fucking disrespectful to thank people who are studying to contribute to society with debt.

muppethole-deactivated20240312

clockwork-hobbit

It's a fantastic point, but John Boyega's net worth also puts him at $6 million. When he says eat the rich, he isn't safe either...

neon-classical

There’s a pretty big fucking difference between six million and one trillion lmao

Not to mention the way the money was made

An actor being paid for a role / doing some advertising is a world away form a man setting up a cooperate money machine that horrendously exploits workers

dr-dendritic-trees

This is something I hate SO MUCH about how tumblr talks about money.

Like, I get that famous actors have large amounts of money, some of them are even probably overpaid (I have complicated thoughts about how actors are paid because of the nature of acting as a career), but they are exchanging labor for money, and their salaries are an expense involved in making a movie.

But like... an actor is paid for a job. They’re a worker like the rest of us. Bezos isn’t paid for a job, he’s paid for being the person who owns Amazon and despite being obscenely wealthy, he does all sorts of shitty things and to underpay and exploit his workers, and avoid paying taxes, so that more of the money Amazon generates will be profit (worker’s salaries are not profit, they’re a business expense).

These two mechanisms of acquiring money are fundamentally very different.

The reason why billionaires are evil aren’t because having money is bad, its because to get a billion dollars you have to cheat. You have to take it from someone else. If Bezos paid all his workers and suppliers fairly and treated them well, and paid his fair amount of taxes, and etc, then it literally wouldn’t matter how much money he earned, because he wouldn’t be doing anyone any harm. But its not actually possible to amass a billion dollars (a full order of magnitude bigger than a million) while behaving in an ethical manner.

thunderboltsortofapenny

mysharona1987

bellfry

Rich people are always telling the rest of us that if we are short of money, we should stop eating out or going out to movies or clubs or concerts. And now that we have, the economy is collapsing and they want us to eat out and spend on diversions again as soon as possible.

profeminist

left-reminders

liartownusa

Cotton Fingers package

hellotailor

36 ladytime objects

chickensimp

i refuse to call me period anything other than moonsickness now

whataremonsters-deactivated2015

We are in fact werewolves

crowleyslittleminion

Fun fact: Native Americans used to call it “moontime”. (And I’ve been calling it that ever since I learned the phrase, because it sounds so much better.)

Tribes had ‘Moon Lodges’ and a woman would go into and stay in the lodge until her moon time has passed. During her time in the moon lodge, the elder women would teach her medicine, herbs, ceremonies, rites, prayers and on. Teachings were handed down to her.

The women, at this time, were expected to rest and not perform any chores and she was taken care of by the elder women of the tribe. No cooking, cleaning or lifting. This was a time for the woman to learn and nurture herself and to also embrace her womanhood.

A woman’s moon time was never looked down upon; there was no negativity put on it. The men respected and revered her. The men also cooked and took care of the children at this time, which was a wonderful time of bonding between a father and their children. It was a time of love and respect.

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ravenqueenofskulls-deactivated2

Reblogging for the history lesson! Damn!

I FOUND IT AGAIN

Dormant Predators

This is why I have this. Even if they can get the lock opened they can’t push the door open. Got it at Lowes for $20.

ocean-again

reblog for that last bit to save a life

smiling-grouch-deactivated20241

If you’re like me and have a large gap under your front door (someone could take a stick and just poke the leaning stick style door jam out), I recommend the Addalock. It’s small, perfect for traveling, and this lock is CRAZY. It’s so simple but the door does not move.

You can’t see it from the other side, either. It also cost about $20, and I can’t recommend it enough. Easy to travel with, too! Great for Air BnBs!

deminat-20

That’s why I have these on my doors. They get drilled into the side and once its flipped over the door nothing is getting it open. Not the door being unlocked nothing, I’ve unlocked the door and pulled and pushed as hard as I could and it didn’t budge. When I go on a trip this is what I use and when I’m home I leave it on too. No one is getting in here.

letsgetoutofspace

Okay I know that it is necessary for many but what do you do if you need medical attention and you’re not able to open the door from the inside? Can the fire department get through these at least?

morgrimmoon

Yes. The fire department can and will break down your door if necessary, it’s one of the reasons they have axes; it’s entirely possible for door frames to melt/expand/seize or otherwise become unopenable during a house fire but the door itself can be hacked down. Or the window. In rare cases, the wall. Firefighters don’t fuck around with collateral damage when lives are at stake.