Life
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“Don’t judge each other. We all have our own sh*t. Keep your eyes on yours and your nose out of everyone else’s unless you’re invited in. And when you get the invitation, help, don’t judge.”
— Kim Holden
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What if you could create an environment where you are grateful for many other aspects of your life? Sometimes, it’s merely thanking someone for doing something that you have always taken for granted. Share your gratitude in the comments.
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“People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming.”
— Kathleen Winter
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“Everything you want is coming. Relax and let the universe pick up the timing and the way. You just need to trust that what you want is coming, and watch how fast it comes.”
— Abraham Hicks
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Blacks are not likely to number themselves among the forty-six million Americans today who can trace the origins of their family wealth to the Homestead Act of 1863, because almost all of that land was allocated to whites through restrictions expressly designed to deny access to blacks.’ They cannot include themselves among the major beneficiaries of the trillions of dollars of wealth accumulated through the appreciation of housing assets secured by federally insured loans between 1932 and 1962 because 98 percent of FHA loans made during that era went to whites via the openly racist categories utilized in the agency’s official manuals for appraisers.’ Most blacks know that past discrimination continues to influence contemporary struggles to accumulate assets because wealth is inherited and passed down across generations.
In recent years, moreover, changes in the tax code have further skewed opportunities and life chances along racial lines by giving favored treatment to those forms of income most likely to represent the fruits of past and present discrimination like inheritance income and capital gains, while lessening the value of income gained through work. The living legacy of past discrimination combines with the impact of contemporary discriminatory practices in mortgage lending, real estate sales, automobile credit financing, and employment to impose artificial impediments against asset accumulation among African Americans.
— George Lipsitz
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npr:
Democrat Stacey Abrams isn’t backing down from her fight against what she calls voter suppression tactics and election mismanagement after losing the Georgia governor’s race. In fact, Abrams said she’s experienced the problems in her state first hand — after being nearly denied a ballot herself during early voting.
In an interview with Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee said that when she went to vote last month, a poll worker initially told her she had requested an absentee ballot and couldn’t cast an in-person vote. Abrams replied that she’s never filed for an absentee ballot, and after a conversation with the site’s manager, the matter was quickly resolved.
“I did it quietly. I didn’t turn it into a major conversation because, for me, it was about getting through the process,” Abrams said. Followed by cameras to the polls, she said kept the snafu under wraps, because “I was not trying to embarrass anyone, but I did want it fixed.”
“But it was also emblematic to me of the privilege that I have,” Abrams, who holds a degree from Yale Law School, went on. “I know the law. There are thousands, millions in Georgia do not know what their rights are and therefore do not know that they shouldn’t have to wait in four-hour lines in the rain with their children. They shouldn’t have to worry about whether they will lose their jobs in order to exercise their democratic right to vote for their leaders.”
Stacey Abrams Says She Was Almost Blocked From Voting In Georgia Election
Photo: Jessica McGowan/Getty Images
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“It’s my fucking highway.” - Dr. Judy Melinek, Forensic pathologist
i hate this bullshit suggestion that emotion somehow invalidates truth. often times anger and pain are what’s needed to drive home how important something is and it can inspire action in folks who previously didn’t understand. not to mention what normal empathetic person wouldn’t have strong feelings about innocent people being murdered?!?!?! what in the actual fuck? acting like an emotionless robot on twitter doesn’t make you an intellectual brandon, it just means you’re an insensitive little shit.
