Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started

Yes, which is why he was succeeded by Donald Trump.

Obama quite literally put together the agreement that would prevent exactly this premise from being used to attack Iran!

It’s one of the catch-22 of his presidency that if he didn’t believe in the power of racial redemption, he wouldn’t have gotten elected president, but once he got elected it was the exact belief that hampered his presidency

Furthermore, I have often noted that Obama’s inability to recognize who his enemies were and to act accordingly was precisely because he was raised by white people who were able to love him beyond his Blackness, and by doing so, taught him the wrong lesson about whiteness.

First, he himself is Black, and I specified non-Black politicians. Second, he explicitly spent his youth organizing in Black communities and attending Black churches. He married a Black woman from the South Side of Chicago. Black political support was not his problem. Delivering Black politics was.

Street mural of Harriet Tubman reaching toward the viewer with a helping hand. A little girl facing the mural is in the foreground for scale. Artist: Michael Rosato. The mural, painted in 2019, is located behind 424 Race Street in Cambridge, MD on the exterior wall of the Harriet Tubman Museum and Education Center.

Did you know that tomorrow, March 10th marks the National Day of Rest for Black Women, a day created to center rest, reflection, and renewal? It's also the anniversary of Harriet Tubman’s passing, honoring her powerful legacy of courage, resistance, and liberation.

Not Trump weaning us off of car dependency by creating an entirely unnecessary crisis via war crime

Ironically there are two on the corners near my old place in Brooklyn and absolutely zero in range of my apartment in Queens

I am only an exception to this because living in the best mass transit city in the country, I have never learned how to drive a car and spend only a few times in one in a year. I remain aware of the panic and emotion around it through cultural osmosis and friends complaining about it.

Man, international women’s day this year? 😮‍💨

The unnecessarily convoluted premise for their fight, instigated by Luthor, was also completely absurd! Same for Supes escalating things by moving forward instead of just communicating and being defensive…something that a well-written Superman would do!

I must have them muted because I am not seeing all dat

Not only does it have historical precedent, it has precedent *in the United States* as the obsession of the Slave Power led to a first national suicide by secession and a second postwar suicide by collapsing Reconstruction, leaving the country much weaker than it could have been for a century.

Precisely! This has been in evidence since 2008!

Hillary 2008 had the Black vote until Obama proved he was viable with white voters in Iowa. At which point the Black vote switched to him because he was the best chance at a Black president.

Yes, and many Black commentators said as much in 2016 after South Carolina, and we were shouted down and told about things he’d done 50 years previously while Hillary was meeting with the Mothers of the Movement and doing outreach with every Black community relationship she’d built in decades.

Truly god’s work

Newsom has some distinct talents, but convincing a group of civil rights era southern Black voters that he will protect them and serve their interests as Democratic nominee is not one of them! Especially if he has to enter the space with distrust already established.

😂😂😂😭

If you want to stop Newsom, build up his negatives with Black voters *now.* Emphasize how he keeps hanging out with racists and inviting them to talk on his show. Ask how Black people have fared in his California and how he’s responded to racism against us. What was he doing in 2014? 2016? 2020?

What I can say definitively, even without having seen him in person, is that Gavin Newsom does not have it. He’s about as authentic as a Louis Vuitton from Canal Street

The ones who can enter Black-majority spaces on their own terms, without having their hands held or their space guarded by the Black person they’ve hired for that purpose…they don’t need help courting Black voters. The Clintons had it (esp. Hillary); Biden had it; Mamdani has it.

The thread this is attached to demonstrates what my dad calls the “Black aide” problem, which is: Does this non-Black politician enter Black-majority spaces on their own terms or with their one (always one!) Black aide as a buffer/interpreter? Most politicians are the latter kind.

I’m actually glad that he can’t because it means he is focused on the job in front of him and not the One Ring

Not for me, a person who hated Dickens when I read him in school, but the context of my dislike is present upthread 🤷🏾‍♀️

One of the things that distinguishes both AOC and Mamdani are that they are fine in these spaces because they grew up in or around Black communities (AOC in New York and Mamdani in Uganda)

That makes it worse!

If it were possible to separate out Diana at the party as its own thing unrelated to the movie or narrative, I could accept that. But virtually nothing from that movie can be salvaged in context.

I also believe this, but I am also very grateful that Team With Racist Name didn’t win

And now that I’ve read through more responses, I also hate Great Expectations and it’s entirely because I loathe how Dickens wrote when paid by the word. (On the other hand, my favorite book is the unabridged translation of The Count of Monte Cristo)