“can’t shake the devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding” is the most concise and powerful dismissal of people who are “jokingly” racist and i can’t believe it’s from a They Might Be Giants song
Serena Williams caused a sensation with the black catsuit she wore at this year’s French Open tournament. But French tennis officials aren’t as fashion-forward.
From now on, players’ attire apparently will be subject to a dress code — and Williams’ sleek outfit is out.
“I feel like a warrior in it, a warrior princess … from Wakanda, maybe,” she told reporters in May, referring to the movie Black Panther. “I’ve always wanted to be a superhero, and it’s kind of my way of being a superhero.”
So like any good superhero costume, Williams’ black Nike catsuit was functional.
“I’ve had a lot of problems with my blood clots, God I don’t know how many I’ve had in the past 12 months,” she said at the May news conference. “I’ve been wearing pants in general a lot when I play so I can keep the blood circulation going.”
I love this ~innocent and innocuous idea~ that a short skirt is more appropriate for playing high-level sports than a full body suit. You can almost taste the dishonesty… =.=
My grandpa lives in clarksdale, Mississippi and HATES white people with a passion. I grew up listening to stories like this. His cousins had to flee to Chicago in the 60s for trying to fight a group of white landowners who wanted to hang them for trying to leave the land they worked on.
Slavery turned into “share cropping” if you kept your slaves ignorant and isolated then they didn’t know they had been freed. This went on well into the 60’s the fucking 60’s these people are still alive dealing with this type of shit in the deep south.
My friend said to “fact check” this and I’m like…black ppl are literally saying they were kept as slaves what is there to fact check. Anyway, sharecropping was still slavery as far as I’m concerned.
“Fact check this” in this specific context means, “Find some white academics who say it is true because we do not trust black folks living the experience.”
EVERYONE SHOULD TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY, members of the KKK may seem dumb and obnoxious but who the hell knows what they got planned. All KKK members need to be locked up forever. This isn’t about “freedom of speech” anymore, this is protecting minorities at the fullest extent.
this is why i don’t get how people say “both sides have problems” sorry hun, but last time I checked threatening to kill over 11 MILLION people was so much worse then asking to be treated like a human being.
Last week, a named white supremacist did an interview with a major news outlet and said killing Jews was one of the right’s top values. Now another alt-righter is threatening to do the same to Latinx immigrants.
THESE ARE NOT EMPTY THREATS. BELIEVE THESE MONSTERS WHEN THEY GO ON LIVE TV AND SAY THEY WANT TO MURDER MINORITIES.
THESE ARE NOT JUST WORDS, THESE ARE ACTS VIOLENCE
Yall say this “never again” shit abt the holocaust but the reason it happened was because people ignored hitler’s hate speech and blew it off as being all talk. FUCKING DO SOMETHING.
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