• @[email protected]
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      Eventually anybody would get tired of screaming into the void about equality. At some point you have to priorities your own mental health and protect yourself. It’s completely normal to feel this way.

      • @[email protected]
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        Peaceful protest is effectively ignored by our corporate controlled media, and there are so many idiots in this country that we call them looters when they do what you are supposed to do when peaceful protests are ignored.

        America wants protesters to shut up and die

    • @[email protected]OP
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      I totally understand your sentiment, but I also fully understand this sentiment:

      I have no goals to be a martyr for a nation that cares nothing about me

      • NaibofTabr
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        510 hours ago

        Yes, it matters.

        Even if for no other reason than to make the nature of the oppression clear. Not talking about it normalizes it, gives tacit permission for it.

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          Who says they’re not going to talk about it? They’re just going to stop doing community driven get-out-the-vote campaigns. This article is literally about how black women are a major block in the Democratic party that handles that kind of community organizing in getting people registered to vote and getting them all the info they need to vote. How’s stepping back from that “not talking about it?”

          This article is literally about how they help others get their voices heard, but it’s black women who “aren’t talking about it?” Please.

      • @droporain
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        Maybe then you make them listen, seems like somebody in history might have given a speech about this.

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      But, as indivuals, do they owe us the effort of helping our voices be heard? Because that’s what this is actually about: that traditionally, black women have been some of the strongest organizers within the Democratic party. The work they do helps others get their voices heard through their votes. This year they basically got told that nobody cared, including from black men. When this is about black women helping others get their voice heard, it’s pretty clear that right now nobody cares about the work they’ve put in to do that.

      I don’t blame anyone for putting in decades of hard work and feeling like it’s no longer their responsibility to get others organized and get their voices heard, when the majority has made perfectly clear that they don’t give one hot damn about all that hard work. Why should that job be left to some of the most vulnerable amongst us culturally, anyway?