@breadandcircuses

System change always has been a matter of survival for Black, mixed, and brown people in #PlantationNation. And so far, we have been and remain largely collateral damage for the #UnwarrantedDefault.

Your point is an important onem just noting that we have been ignored for centuries when we insisted that you all were doomed if system change didn't happen. See, thanks to the system and being forced onto the front line in the 1600s, we're been doomed from conception...

This is true all over #PlantationNation. This is how Black/mixed/brown/othered/etc people have had to negotiate the #UnwarrantedDefault since... EVER. And newsflash, we still tend to be treated inhumanely in instances large and small: #Black Californians report adjusting their appearance and speech, changing behavior, minimizing questions, and signaling to #health providers that they are educated to reduce chance of #discrimination in hospitals and doctors' offices. https://thegrio.com/2023/03/16/black-patients-modify-speech-dress-up-to-reduce-medical-bias-survey-shows/

Cos that's what the #UnwarrantedDefault DOES. Get scared, go rightward.

#WhiteModerate #MLK #CentristsAreTheRealDanger

@ryanschwartz thanks for watching so i didn't have to endure chris rock.

will smith was wrong, but rock was more wrong. if anyone deserves slapping, and no one does, it would be Mr Good Hair.

We now can see in full view how myopic, selfish, small, and petty chris rock is. And all while he rakes in plenty of #unwarranteddefault cash, making the first-classers guffaw at the bad rich negroes. Rock knows his place, and I guess the joke is that Will's tanking cos he didn't remember his.

Why #Centrism Is Morally Indefensible: #TimUrban’s new book, endorsed by the stinking birdsite billionaire, shows how #centrists care more about civility (#MLK's negative #peace) than #justice (positive peace), and hate ‘#socialjustice fundamentalism’ more than #plutocracy.

#CentristsAreTheRealDanger

#WhiteModerate #KKKaren #WhiteSupremacy #Equality #Antiracism #StatusQuo #UnwarrantedDefault #Whitegaze #SystemicRacism #TerribleWayToLiveIfYoureNotConsideredWhite

https://www.currentaffairs.org

Some uncomfortable truth about the horrors and humiliations that come with having to deal with the US #UnwarrantedDefault, as always, on THEIR turf. Tough read, but I think it's necessary.

https://kolektiva.social/@millerpeace/109900271970210457

One-Sided Friendship, AmeriKKKan Style

Dilemma: How do I reach a self-described "progressive" who speaks, votes, & bullies the "uppity" like MLK's #whitemoderate?

How do I ask them why USians who quote #MLK and do service for his birthday become ENRAGED when a #POC, as #DrKing did from a Birmingham jail in1963, talks about the obstructive reality that well-meaning whites (or so they say) have been to us for more than 400 years?

SICK of bowing and scraping to protect the feelings of those who simply don't think or truly care about the real-life reality of daily suffering endured by the working-poor service class, particularly if those unlucky Have-Nots are Black or brown. Do they care about their inferior, less privileged friend? If so, only conditionally. "Be smooth and whitelike, er, CLEAN like Obama, so you fit in, but know you'll never be accepted or equal. Yes, existence is hell, the daily microaggressions will push you to an early grave. But don't show them that. They won't like it and and they only care that YOU care about THEM. Just smile and serve them and look like you're enthusiastic. Make sure THEY get what they need and say how great THEY are."

Yuck. Hard as hell to be melanated in a white country.

Now, there are nice people among the Unwarranted Default and some want nice things for the lessers. Some have really good intentions to make things peaceful (negative peace), in the "Negroes and mulattoes, don't you make waves, now" sense. "We need change, but not too much or too fast, we can't handle that, and you'll be ok... We'll tell you what's good for you. Now, just keep praising us, being grateful that you're enslaved here, er, a citizen, and voting Democratic! And get to work, I need a latte!"

Karen and Ken's alleged good intentions are nice, and thanks for them, but if you're telling people who don't consider you an ally that you are whether or not they agree, if you're telling them to vote for and praise the very entity hurting them, their family, and their community the same way it has done historically... the very entity promising no one's standard of living will change (as if that is a good thing), I question your intentions and your friendship and decency. Is there any other option?

Update: Replied to the outrage from a "friend" with a ridiculously measured, polite, respectful, reasonable, almost deferential -- omg, that was difficult and humiliating -- response and rebuttal. They responded with "eff off." This is a friend?

Look, fellow POC: If you make a member of the #UnwarrantedDefault nervous, if you don't play your role as they expect and demand, with RARE exception, they will not listen to you, they will not care (or perhaps they will treat you badly because they know deep down that the system is wrong and the question and their complicity with evil will be too overwhelming for them to bear). In most cases, they will insult you or dump you. One way or another, ultimately, they will hurt you. That's how this country WORKS. Happens in one-sided friendships where the societally inferior person doesn't always grok the power dynamic. Happens in MARRIAGES; talk to me about mine. Woe to those who don't submit to the Unwarranted Default. Those you thought were friends will remind you of the pecking order SUPER quickly, even as they are SHOCKED, SHOCKED that you would DARE think such a pecking order exists in the Greatest Imperfect Union on Earth. They mean well, or think/say they do. But they do harm and they will cause pain in order to keep the AmeriKKKan reality that plagues you far away from them. Likely for their own sanity. So protect yourself. Never silence yourself or play Stepin Fetchit. But know that if you do share your honest concerns, a real friend, even if they disagree, won't attack, they will try to understand. They will listen. They will have your back even if they don't agree. And these real friends are EXCEEDINGLY RARE. Proceed with all caution.

Most "friends" will disappoint you in the end cos doing otherwise is too big a lift for them to manage. My parents warned me 50 years ago. Turns out they were correct.

#MLK #navigatingwhitesupremacyforthenonwhite #conformordie #dontmakethemnervous #mindyourplace #illtellyouwhatsbestforyou #nolongeragoodone #plantationnation #CentristsAreTheRealDanger #ListenToPhilOchs #PhilOchs #AreFriendsFriends #CharlieBrownIsOverLucy #GreenPartyOnly #BlackLivesMatter #dilemma #needadvice

@CiaoBruno Don't kid yourself. In the US, #black lives most assuredly do NOT matter, as a matter of public policy and social custom. The sole value of Black and mixed people is the combination of the wealth, service, and praise (feigned usually, but the enablers must be reassured that THEY are good continually, kinda like the biblical god) that the permanent servant class have little choice but to provide each and every day to the #UnwarrantedDefault. #whitesupremacy

USA... so not a fan.

From SF Bay Examiner, 2018: What do white people really see when they look at #Black people?

https://sfbayview.com/2018/07/what-do-white-people-really-see-when-they-look-at-black-people/

#UnwarrantedDefault #centrist #mainstream #whitesupremacy #whitegaze #whitesupremacist #systemicracism #karen #ken #whitemoderate #democrats #republicans #gop #liberal #philochs #berkeley #CentristsAreTheRealDanger #whitegazekills

I have a message for Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who doesn't want #white people to feel bad but is A-OK with keeping #Black people in misery: Go to Hell. Go directly to Hell. Do not pass GO, do not collect $200.

https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/109655271008919934

#whitesupremacist #texas #danpatrick #criticalracetheory #highereducation #CRT #antiracist #universityoftexas #race #whitesupremacy #systemicracism #unwarranteddefault #statusquo #generationaltrauma