Jakebe T. Drake-Lope @jakebe@awoo.space
A digital jackalope living in a black man's body. Pronouns: he/him/his. I love my blackness, and yours.
Joined Sep 2017
And I don't want to dunk on @/foxmusk; I don't know him, and I'm willing to take his comments at face value.
But..."liking" your Southern history is a flag to me. Southern history is one of racist terror, subjugation, dehumanization, willful, violent, malicious bigotry.
This has big "I'm not a Nazi, I just like the uniforms OK????" energy.
Not to Godwin this whole thing or anything, but...part of growing as a person is learning to let go of the problematic shit you identified with in ignorance
RT @foxmusk@twitter.com
I like my southern history and I like the flag. I recognize that’s complicated for people who weren’t raised around it. A lot of us were, and that importance won’t change. We can talk about it or we can not, but I’m not sorry and I’m still not the closet racist people think I am.
In addition to everything else yesterday, last night I found out they've done a reboot of "All Creatures Great and Small". Seriously excited to completely BLISS OUT with the adventures of a charming country veterinarian and his quirky clientele this weekend
RT @gwensnyderPHL@twitter.com
We have to learn to let go of ego and let ourselves be held accountable intersectional liberatory values by each other, and we have to learn to pace ourselves so that we don't burn out and also so that our movements are accessible to people operating at different capacities.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1352297727795867648
RT @gwensnyderPHL@twitter.com
The watchwords for left organizing now need to be "sustainable" & "accountable."
The antifascist left has been in emergency mode for so long, we need to re-learn how to live when only *some* things are on fire.
And the rest of the left... really needs to learn accountability.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1352296587805024261
But I still think about the people who've been swept up in this fascist insanity, all of our family and friends and neighbors. I hope there's eventually a way to repair those relationships, or forge new ones, when those people own up to all of their horrific words and deeds.
I know I can't bring myself to really think about it still. I'm still so angry and so sad about what's happening. The most empathetic response I can muster is giving them a wide berth. I hope they figure their shit out, but I'm not interested in helping them do it.
Nervous about posting this, because people confuse empathy with forgiveness or unity. But it's not.
It's imagining yourself in their position, dangling from a cliff with no one to blame but yourself, and thinking how you would want to be treated in that situation.
I think the best we can do for those people is leave them to their own process. Yes, there should be consequences for all the horrible shit they've done and endorsed.
But they're still people, bound to the same emotional illogic all of us are. Empathy is needed.
More than anything, I want the people who have been sucked into the orbit of the far-right to take a huge step back and figure out how they got there.
That kind of self-reflection can't exist, though, if the ego is still actively engaged in defending itself.
RT @ezralevin@twitter.com
Ok, what's next? This is what's next. https://indivisible.org/democracy-guide
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ezralevin/status/1351952907369918466
RT @rubycramer@twitter.com
Bernie’s mittens are made by Jen Ellis, a teacher from Essex Junction, Vt. She gave them to him 2+ years ago and was surprised when he began wearing them on the campaign trail. They are made from repurposed wool sweaters and lined with fleece made from recycled plastic bottles.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/rubycramer/status/1351915535647330306
RT @scalzi@twitter.com
Anyway, NOW it's 2021.
RT @DrIbram@twitter.com
He's gone. And now, it is up to us to drive out what he represents. He is lies and bigotry and injustice and tyranny embodied--and the work is only beginning to drive him out of our body politic.
Joy, today.
Resolve, tomorrow.
RT @wellreadblkgirl@twitter.com
While democracy can be periodically delayed,
It can never be permanently defeated.
In this truth, in this faith we trust.
For while we have our eyes on the future,
History has its eyes on us.
~ @TheAmandaGorman@twitter.com
#wellreadblackgirl
#InaugurationDay
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/wellreadblkgirl/status/1351946544887468032
RT @jerichobrown@twitter.com
“If only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.”
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jerichobrown/status/1351943885010960388
RT @mrmedina@twitter.com
"We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it,
Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy.
And this effort very nearly succeeded.
But while democracy can be periodically delayed,
It can never be permanently defeated."
— Amanda Gorman
RT @jesmimi@twitter.com
“Even as we grieved, we grew.” Amanda Gorman is speaking a word. Look at her shine. 💜
A digital jackalope living in a black man's body. Pronouns: he/him/his. I love my blackness, and yours.
Joined Sep 2017
