Dear White People, (please reblog and keep the message going)
When there is a post made that is clearly uplifting the black woman or black man (ESPECIALLY THE BLACK WOMAN), do not come on there reblogging it with your “all women” or “all men” agenda.
“Why?” you ask? Alrighty, sit back, relax, and Ill tell you why.
Throughout time black men and women have been treated as less than animals. We have been stolen, stolen from, forced tk work a land that wasnt ours nor the people who forced us to work it, beaten, raped, our children stolen from our arms, physically, verbally, emotionally, mentally, and psychologically abused, abd basically broken down. One would think after slavery and segregation that things would have changed and yet they haven’t. In fact, the put down of the black race is even worse, especially since the age of social media has come along.
However, social media has also done some good in the department of uplifting the black community. We have platforms where we can get our message out in a quick and efficient manor, we can create things and get them out there for the world to see at once, we can be positive to each other. It’s good to have people on Tumblr posting something that is encouraging to the black man and woman. Especially the black woman, seeing as we seem to be put down twice as hard by not only SOME (gotta say some so yall as a whole won’t be like “SHES CALLING ALL WHITE PEOPLE OUT!!”) members of the white race, but also members of our own race. Black women are so disrespected. So when there is something positive like a post or the program Black Girls Rock, it is totally and completely disrespectful when people try to come on there and make it seem like celebrating the beauty and power that is us is wrong and that we should celebrate EVERYBODY.
Can we just have a moment? Can we please have a moment?
Can we have the chance to have a post be entirely about the uplifting of the black woman or man? We get shot at and killed for no reason almost every other day, our hair and culture is either put down or appropriated constantly, and we barely get to get our message out there. Let us speak!! Let us empower our own!! Let us live!!
You wanna uplift everybody? Go ahead, make your own post and do it. But dont come on our pro black posts and try to derail them with “but what about everybody else” bull. It’s getting effing old.
fuck every democrat who says the issue of trans rights is a “distraction.” fuck every single liberal who say that the threat of stripping every trans person of legal recognition is a red herring or a losing issue and if we focus on it too long we’ll throw the election. we’re talking about human rights, access to medical care, sex education, discrimination, citizenship, and a whole lot else, for millions of people.
trans people aren’t a “distraction.” we’re human beings. the fact that so many liberals turn their backs on trans people is fucking despicable.
Okay…but this, right here? This is exactly what the Republican party wants. Young voters turning against the Democratic party and either not voting at all, or voting in favor of some third party candidate that has literally zero chance of pulling in enough votes to win. They want division among the ranks. They want to split our vote.
In political terms, calling something a ‘distraction’ means it’s a distraction tactic, not that the issue itself isn’t important. The Republican party has a very longstanding history of dropping hints of major policy changes right before big elections in the hopes of getting the “hot-headed liberals” all fired up about it so we start bickering among ourselves. They deliberately drop issues that they know are hot-button topics because these are the topics that have the potential to be the most divisive.
They’re awful but they’re not dumb. They know trans rights is an issue that could potentially split the democratic vote. It’s an issue that’s very heavily weighted toward the younger side of the party, which again, was a deliberate move on their part. If they can convinced you that the “big bad Democrats don’t care about you little trans and nonbinary kids so why bother,” then they’ve effectively won the election in a walk because the democrats went in divided–again.
Look, the democratic party isn’t perfect. Not by a long shot. But it’s literally the only party that has a snowball’s chance in hell at overtaking the republican majority right now. If we as trans and nonbinary individuals ever want our identities respected and protected, it’s the only party that’s going to be able to get us there, because it’s the party going in the direction we need to go. If you want to vote in favor of our rights, then vote Democrat. No number of videos with pennies is going to change the fact that right now, in this political climate, third party candidates are not going to have enough power to effect the changes we want.
Warning against something being a distraction doesn’t mean “don’t look at it or worry about it,” it means, “hey, I know this is majorly upsetting, and absolutely something needs to be done, but don’t let it divide us.” It’s literally because the issue is so important that democrats are warning against it as a distraction tactic–if we want to prevent that kind of change from happening under republican rule, we have to keep our heads and not let them keep us from voting as a unified party.
Please don’t let the political rhetoric make you think that the democratic party isn’t going to be fighting for us and our rights. That’s kind of exactly what the Republican party wants you to think. It’s a division tactic. Don’t fall for it.
The Republican party has a very longstanding history of dropping hints of major policy changes right before big elections in the hopes of getting the “hot-headed liberals” all fired up about it so we start bickering among ourselves.
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS
I’ve been voting since 1998. This is what they do every single election.
Please read and understand this. This is what the GOP (republicans) does, is it awful, yes? But don’t fight about it, vote against it!
Ron: What? [taking off jacket] I told you to bring more layers but of course you didn’t listen and now [piling scarves on Hermione] now look, I’ve got to make sure you don’t FREEZE to death and [taking Harry’s hat] how long have you been cold? You should’ve said something sooner.
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