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Words of Wisdom with Alexis Rose

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folklore: the long pond studio sessions - Taylor about This Is Me Trying

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“You know, ‘I can’t breathe’ – that wasn’t just George Floyd. A lot of people have felt they couldn’t breathe.

Every day you’re waking up and getting these tweets and you just don’t know, and you’re going to the store, and people who have been afraid to show their racism are getting nastier and nastier to you.

You’re worried about your kids and your worried about your sister and ‘can she just go to Walmart and get back into her car without someone saying something to her.’ And you’re spending so much of your life energy just trying to hold it together.

This is a big deal for us just to be able to get some peace and have a chance for a reset and the character of the country matters and being a good man matters. I want my sons to look at this, you know… It’s easy to do it the cheat way and get away with stuff, but it comes back around.

It comes back around. This is a good day for this country.

I’m sorry for the people who lost, for them, it’s not a good day. But for a whole lot of people, it’s a good day.”

Van Jones on CNN Saturday, November 7th 2020

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‘Race and racism is a reality that so many of us grow up learning to just deal with. But if we ever hope to move past it, it can’t just be on people of color to deal with it. It’s up to all of us – Black, white, everyone – no matter how well-meaning we think we might be, to do the honest, uncomfortable work of rooting it out. It starts with self-examination and listening to those whose lives are different from our own. It ends with justice, compassion, and empathy that manifests in our lives and on our streets.’ — Michelle Obama

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ENOLA HOLMES (2020), dir. Harry Bradbeer

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#you have to make some noise if you want to be heard

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ENOLA HOLMES (2020)

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A lot of the women who have stepped forward - and I stand in solidarity with them - what they’re getting paid, which is half of what a man is getting paid, well we get probably a tenth of what a Caucasian woman gets. And I’m number one on the call sheet. And then I have to go in and I have to hustle for my worth.

Viola Davis on being told she’s the Black Meryl Streep

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to all my black friends, mutuals and followers on here:

cassie1022

In America - because I am a human who happens to have white skin, I can do all of these things without thinking twice:

I can go birding (#ChristianCooper)

I can go jogging (#AmaudArbery)

I can relax in the comfort of my own home (#BothemSean and #AtatianaJefferson)

I can ask for help after being in a car crash (#JonathanFerrell and #RenishaMcBride)

I can have a cellphone (#StephonClark)

I can leave a party to get to safety (#JordanEdwards)

I can play loud music (#JordanDavis)

I can sell CDs (#AltonSterling)

I can sleep (#AiyanaJones)

I can walk from the corner store (#MikeBrown)

I can play cops and robbers (#TamirRice)

I can go to church (#Charleston9)

I can walk home with Skittles (#TrayvonMartin)

I can hold a hair brush while leaving my own bachelor party (#SeanBell)

I can party on New Years (#OscarGrant)

I can get a normal traffic ticket (#SandraBland)

I can lawfully carry a weapon (#PhilandoCastile)

I can break down on a public road with car problems (#CoreyJones)

I can shop at Walmart (#JohnCrawford)

I can have a disabled vehicle (#TerrenceCrutcher)

I can read a book in my own car (#KeithScott)

I can be a 10yr old walking with our grandfather (#CliffordGlover)

I can decorate for a party (#ClaudeReese)

I can ask a cop a question (#RandyEvans)

I can cash a check in peace (#YvonneSmallwood)

I can take out my wallet (#AmadouDiallo)

I can run (#WalterScott)

I can breathe (#EricGarner)

I can live (#FreddieGray)

I CAN BE ARRESTED WITHOUT THE FEAR OF BEING MURDERED (#GeorgeFloyd)

White privilege is real. Take a minute to consider a Black person’s experience today.

southerndisneyprincess

Don’t forget that you can also sleep in your own apartment without fear of plain clothes cops busting down your door and shooting you eight times. (#BreonnaTaylor)