7/26/20
Something I looked up and said to R tonight: “Talvez tenha sido o melão que está nos fazendo peidar.” (Maybe it was the cantaloupe that’s making us fart.)
and he laughed lol
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Interesting idea I heard, part of a long post:
“NV [non-violence] can only work for privileged people, who have a status protected by violence as the perps and beneficiaries of a violent hierarchy” – fatsextherapist on Insta
7/31/20
“How can we be angry or hostile towards others when they are merely the instruments of our own mind?”
– Dr. Joseph Murphy
A thought I woke up with this morning, before getting out of bed:
even tho it’s on the books and we’ve officially renounced “separate but equal,” I feel like it still exists in the heart and mind of America.
Because…if the idea of “separate but equal” REALLY didn’t exist, we wouldn’t have blacks disproportionately in jails, blacks disproportionately living in the worst poorest areas. We wouldn’t NEED Black Entertainment Television, because everyone would be integrated and Black not separated from everyone else. But in this country, the understanding, support, and good will towards POC, especially Black…is so lacking/nonexistent, that the Asians HAVE to band together to not be washed away—the Blacks HAVE to band together to not be washed away by the thoughtlessness/indifference/even spite of their own country.
Like until support for POC in this country is so high that we naturally stop separating ourselves (in physical proximity, in how we think, in how we feel) from Black, and naturally stop separating Black from ourselves– until we don’t need the support from same-race ppl anymore because POC support from everyone in America is so deep-rooted and steady and high and in no danger of crumbling—it’s like we STILL believe in separate but equal. Like nothing has changed since separate but equal, until we can collectively make this leap.
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