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Topic subjectsince Biden won, my burnout is over..I exhaled I guess
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13432253, since Biden won, my burnout is over..I exhaled I guess
Posted by rdhull, Fri May-07-21 09:31 PM
Thats not to say that Im good with everything now and feel we still dont have atrocities to deal with but getting rid of that rb has calmed me.




>I'm done.
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>I'm done with being shocked about these white people or what
>Tucker Carlson said...because I know these people will not
>change.
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>I'm done with hot takes on Twitter.
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>I'm done with excellent breakdowns of socical/historic
>inequality.
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>I'm done with "The Problem with America is...." books written
>by our beloved contemporary intellects.
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>I'm done with giving a shit about the shocking thing these
>black grifters have said today, or yesterday.
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>I'm done with trying hard to give a shit about racial
>sensitivity training at places of work.
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>I'm done with corporate acknowledgement of racism and a
>promise to "do better, we promise you guys"
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>I'm done with the endless headlines of "police fataly shoot
>black..."
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>I'm done with the endless headlines of "person harrases black
>people for existing"
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>I'm done with "the problem with you negroes"negroes
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>I'm done with thinking "how can anyone on earth really
>believe...." after reading the millionth ignorant anti-black
>statement
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>I'm done with the culture war.
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>I'm done with discussions of "black people, what WE NEED TO BE
>DOING RIGHT NOW IS...."
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>I'm done with the depressing statistics of medical treatment,
>mental health, suicide, poverty, incarceration, debt
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>I'm done with a history of kneecapped attempts of
>self-reliance and agency. Tulsa, Soul City, Willmington
>Insurrection, Freedman's savings bank, etc
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>I'm done with zero sum thinking - "we can't just go giving
>black people something, that would mean I WOULDNT have
>anything"
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>I'm done with these black people who experience racism but
>then say "America! not a racist place"
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>I'm done with the black story in cinema, television, books,
>art, having to coexist with or be defined by racism and white
>supremacy.
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>I'm done with the modern trick of racism where it's fucking
>EVER-EE-WHERE and it smells like pig shit but the second you
>walk into place and state "hey ya'll, why it smell like pig
>shit in here" everyone around will say "Well of course it
>does, if you're only looking for things that smell like pig
>shit, you're gonna smell pig shit. It doesn't smell like
>anything to me brother". JUST FUCKING SAY THAT SHIT.
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>I'm done with people having absolute meltdowns for being
>called racist. Grow the fuck up and learn how to do better. A
>child can learn to get it the fuck together when you call them
>selfish, why can't they?
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>I want most of America to have a fucking seat.
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>On one side, I'm just depressed at how hard people cling to
>this shit. And for what? I said to my wife a few weeks ago,
>that I get how amazing racism is if you benefit from it
>(however small and nearly invisible). It's like the perfect
>weapon that destroys everything including the person using it.
>The colonized and the colonizer suffer. MOTHERFUCKERS ARE
>WILLING TO DIE FOR WHITENESS. What does any of that get you?
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>On the other side....I don't want to hear a goddamn thing
>about how we can change the world until we're truly talking
>about seizing power in the name of true agency and true self
>reliance.
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>All moves to change things, to improve this world are to only
>introduce incremental change. We haven't asked for anything
>yet that has made people say "whoa whoa whoa....hold on now,
>we can't do that, but we can hire a few of ya'll to make it
>look like something is happening".
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