https://www.exurbe.com/black-death-covid-and-why-we-keep-telling-the-myth-of-a-renaissance-golden-age-and-bad-middle-ages/

Pretty good start…

#readlater

https://twitter.com/BrentNYT/status/1382651286311567361?s=20

I just now realized this happened in *2006*. 15 years ago. Justice delayed.

Brent Staples (@BrentNYT) Tweeted: Black cop fired for preventing a fellow officer from choking a suspect wins pension, back pay https://t.co/flb1tjAzLi

https://twitter.com/realPatriot_7/status/1382630089716867075?s=20

Life lesson a few decades too late for me. :-\

CSM Nicholas M. Curry (@realPatriot_7) Tweeted: Don’t let someone get comfortable with disrespecting you…

https://twitter.com/ProfIRMF/status/1382130766516207619?s=20

Bang. Tiktok on Twitter, so who knows how long it’ll last, but I really liked this one.

Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst (@ProfIRMF) Tweeted: TFW students send TikToks because they are freaking amazing (the tiktok and students, duh) #rel30uvm #IslamRaceUVM https://t.co/uE0JX7wEKk

Ok, so… this is just ho… gwash. These news articles as if the 2020 election is a past event and it’s all over but the shouting.

2016 was Fort Sumter. This issue will continue for a generation. There is no “post mortem” because there is no mortem. The ascendancy of pure selfishness continues. We are only at the beginning. Maybe the mid-point? But I doubt it. The beginning.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/04/13/ever-given-seized-egypt/

Whoops. Maybe “world’s biggest ship” isn’t such a win, after all.

So. In spite of this moronicity, 50% of this country still votes for these clowns because “on the one hand, on the other”. Britain voted by a hefty majority in 2019 for Brexit to continue mostly because of a desire to ban immigrants and they were exhausted by paralysis. 50% of Poland RE-ELECTED the conservative government that is closing Polish museums b/c they don’t tell the right story. Hungarians have voted by a solid majority to fence off Hungary (and the rest of Europe) from refugees. 60% of Czech voters chose Euroscepticism and the current Prime Minister (from the majority party) is subverting the independence of the judiciary. 55% of voters supported Bolsonaro in Brazil, who’s basically a Brazilian Trump.

We are moving backwards and voters are doing it. I hope the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice, but it appears to be very, very long.

We can do better.

https://twitter.com/TastyKeish/status/1381931528683405312?s=20

Oof. I do NOT want to make that list. 😦

Keisha TK Dutes (@TastyKeish) Tweeted: We’re in a cycle of y’all recognizing Black people are actually people and “I’m sorry for..” Then I trick myself into protecting you from my real thoughts. I don’t want to be gracious. I want to say “Sorry for what exactly?” And then make you list it out like an itemized bill.

https://twitter.com/sarah_k_mock/status/1381933637701144579?s=20

“exploitation isn’t bucolic”

Sarah K Mock (@sarah_k_mock) Tweeted: This is such an important perspective about agriculture. Listen to it.

https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1381937730435829760?s=20

https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1381856071443222530?s=20

Hmmm.

Bree Newsome Bass (@BreeNewsome) Tweeted: Half of the political establishment continues to defend the actions of the 1/6 riot, arguing that the people who damaged property that day were justifiably outraged. The Boston Tea Party is also framed as a justified political act. It’s only Black ppl who must protest quietly.