• Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    Y’know what radicalized me? Watching cops skate the prosecution damned near every time they lynched a Black man, woman, or child. That’s how I learned Jim Crow is still alive and well. That’s how I learned this is no democracy, it’s a fascist oligarchy that sacrifices its subjects-of-empire to the false gods of the Market.

    This is why half the time, my posts end off with ‘death to Amerika’-- because there is no way to reform a slavemaster.

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      This is why half the time, my posts end off with ‘death to Amerika’

      What I hear is half the time you offer more grace and patience than this guilty nation deserves

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        You’re really not wrong; but I come from a people that prioritize grace and patience-- or at least, our elders claim to. Some of what I was taught erodes slower than other subjects ig