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I don’t care why you support a white supremacist if it still means you support a white supremacist.
“I don’t support racism-I just want the tax breaks!”
You mean the ones that come disproportionately at the expense of poor people of color?
You mean the ones that come disproportionately at the expense of poor people of color?
Thinking that supporting billionaire tax breaks is *not* intrinsically connected to white supremacy is the f*cking problem, homie.
Imagine thinking US Capitalism isn’t a direct function of white supremacy.
Our land got developed from forcibly removing people.
*Search queries: Homestead Act, Trail of Tears, Andrew Jackson, Sooners, Boomer Sooners...*
*Search queries: Homestead Act, Trail of Tears, Andrew Jackson, Sooners, Boomer Sooners...*
Our banks got built by selling people and the goods they manufactured for free.
*Read: https://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2017/05/03/the-clear-connection-between-slavery-and-american-capitalism/*
*Read: https://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2017/05/03/the-clear-connection-between-slavery-and-american-capitalism/*
The institutions that educated the elites owned and sold enslaved people to build the buildings y’all learned in.
*Listen, starting @ 19:47: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pod-save-the-people/id1230148653?i=1000446248220*
*Listen, starting @ 19:47: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pod-save-the-people/id1230148653?i=1000446248220*
The laws that built your wealth were denied to people of color.
*Read: https://www.history.com/.amp/news/gi-bill-black-wwii-veterans-benefits*
*Read: https://www.history.com/.amp/news/gi-bill-black-wwii-veterans-benefits*
The property you owned to pass on to your children was denied to the rest of us.
*Watch: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/04/11/601494521/video-housing-segregation-in-everything*
*Watch: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/04/11/601494521/video-housing-segregation-in-everything*
The list is literally too long for me to keep going.
The point is, “it’s just the tax breaks!” Is profoundly racist, and not the excuse y’all think it is.
Learn ya history.
The point is, “it’s just the tax breaks!” Is profoundly racist, and not the excuse y’all think it is.
Learn ya history.
I got a nasty headache and a serious case of insomnia so I had time to give y’all the receipts I guess 
Some might say that white supremacy is a function of capitalism. As in-racism was developed as a strategy for capitalists.
May be totally true. Chicken/egg.
The point? Capitalism and white supremacy go together like Bert & Ernie.
May be totally true. Chicken/egg.
The point? Capitalism and white supremacy go together like Bert & Ernie.
*Edit: White Supremacy & Capitalism go together like white people and raisin potato salad.
Bert & Ernie didn’t deserve to be dragged into this.
Bert & Ernie didn’t deserve to be dragged into this.
Oh I forgot:
They literally BURNED any wealth we started to develop.
*Read: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/black-wall-street-and-the-tulsa-race-massacre/amp*
They literally BURNED any wealth we started to develop.
*Read: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/black-wall-street-and-the-tulsa-race-massacre/amp*
Y’all are cashing in on the very industry that broke up Black communities for decades.
*Read: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yw4pkw/weed-industry-equity-black-business*
*Read: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yw4pkw/weed-industry-equity-black-business*
I have HAD it with the extent to which we lie to keep people comfortable. Been fed up for a WHILE.
The truth is there.
You just don’t want to look in the mirror to see it. And I don’t have the patience.
The truth is there.
You just don’t want to look in the mirror to see it. And I don’t have the patience.
I wrote this the day after the 2016 election & I still mean every word.
“A vote for Trump may merely have been a vote for change. But your change is our catastrophe. And your ability to ignore the catastrophe is evidence of privilege.” https://www.vox.com/first-person/2016/11/14/13626404/trump-election-protest
“A vote for Trump may merely have been a vote for change. But your change is our catastrophe. And your ability to ignore the catastrophe is evidence of privilege.” https://www.vox.com/first-person/2016/11/14/13626404/trump-election-protest
(Pls forgive the ableist language in the piece above-I’ve come a long way since then & am grateful to those who’ve taught me!)
In conclusion:
History rightfully looks as poorly at Nazi sympathizers, founders & supporters as it does actual Nazis.
This is no different. That is not up for debate. The sooner we stop arguing about that the faster we can save ourselves.
Goodnight.
History rightfully looks as poorly at Nazi sympathizers, founders & supporters as it does actual Nazis.
This is no different. That is not up for debate. The sooner we stop arguing about that the faster we can save ourselves.
Goodnight.
(The point of this thread is not “go throw away all tour material possessions” given that we all still gotta survive and try to thrive in this...
It’s “a billionaire saying tax breaks aren’t racist and that’s why I love trump” is goofy af.)
It’s “a billionaire saying tax breaks aren’t racist and that’s why I love trump” is goofy af.)
