Sunday Reads: Living in Oppressioni
Posted: April 14, 2019 Filed under: just because 13 Comments
Yesterday, I spent the day doing what I love…being surrounded by derby people. I was a Non-Skating Official at the Atlanta Roller Derby, and it was a liberating day hanging with people who are like minded…as far as being liberal, pro-civil rights and also…fuck tRump.
One of the officials I was working with told me how recently he and his wife took a trip to Montreal. He asked me if I had ever taken a plane out of an oppressed country…telling me that in high school he went to Russia as a student. Further explaining the relief he felt when the plane landed in Sweden or Norway ( I can’t remember the exact country, but you get the picture. ) He said he felt the same emotional reaction once his plane landed in Montreal. That sense that he could breathe freely again, after leaving an oppressive country.
This is just an example from the perspective of one person of color…living in one of the largest cities in the country.
The nightmare is real.
It is madness.
This is an open thread.
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ACLU ISSUES FLORIDA TRAVEL ADVISORY, WARNING IMMIGRANTS OF ‘POSSIBLE VIOLATION OF THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS’
BY DANIEL MORITZ-RABSON ON 4/8/19 AT 12:40 PM EDT
i saw this last week … seems to be an appropriate place to put this ….
https://www.newsweek.com/aclu-florida-travel-advisory-immigrants-1388896
Just to keep you up to date, you still have ads on your blog. This morning it’s something called “Wordads”. However, the new event is in the morning email notification; It arrived with the correct heading of “Oppression” and sender. However, when I opened it was from “Dancing Sky” via no-comment WordPress. It was nothing but a big fat ad. Since I see you have posted, I’m wondering if somehow you are hijacked. Or, could it be, that since I haven’t updated my blog site, I am.
I do notice that, in my email notification, the word oppression does not have the “I”. However, now the email is displaying the correct post. Weird.
I’ll call them tomorrow. I”m having that issue too.
No problem, my email post now won’t display the content, and instead reports that there is a problem.
Wanna bet this was a white man?
Changing a diaper while holding/wearing a gun? WTF?!
Read the story. It sounds like the gun was not in their possession. Someone else fired a gun. Why would anyone need a gun in a restaurant catering to children? I’m so glad my state has strict gun laws!
My sister just called to tell me about this. We’ve visited many times. Just gut-wrenching to see the history there destroyed.