"I know the oligarchs have been screwing us out of home, health, and basic human needs while accumulating wealth at an absurd rate for the past 40 years, but what if we gave them MORE power?"
-white people everywhere, for some goddamn reason.
Pachyderms, we've just been asked to assist someone escaping an unsafe situation and we are not really prepared to host someone for four days. We need a little extra food, another fan and I'm still at 342/464 for June's shit anyway.
Please, it's been above 90 for ten days and the humidity is high, we really need another fan at a minimum. I have one on my #Throne#wishlist and the #crowdfund option is on, bcuz I know it's expensive. Just tryna hold on til I can donate plasma again. Fan: 70, food: 50, extra towards the higher electric 50: 50/170 (50 donated to fan!)
Well hello #mastodon. I deactivated my #bluesky account b/c of reply guy sea lioning and antagonism toward Black women experts there. Very bummed about it b/c I invested a lot in growing my followers there, made some great connections, and believe it’s exponentially better than the site formally known as #Twitter. I might go back, I don’t know but the #moderation tools weren’t addressing my needs. Guess I’ll try again to learn this place 👋🏽
In honor of Juneteenth, the team at @EatingWell has curated this @Flipboard Storyboard of recipes, all of which have special significance for the holiday. The collection contains dishes created by South Carolina cook and activist Mabel Owens Clark and Jessica B. Harris, the culinary historian and living legend, and includes recipes made with traditional prosperity ingredients such as collards, rice, beans and corn.
Teaching about slavery in schools and doing it well isn’t just about teaching the harshness of slavery. And educators can make #Juneteenth about so much more than the end of slavery.
Happy Juneteenth to all #mastodon, much love and shared resolve to my African American brothers and sisters out there. Shoutout to the diaspora as well #Juneteenth#BlackMastodon
@alice one valid interpretation of listening to black folks is listening to their music, so I present you the wonderful Brazilian Black diva Elza Soares and her mind blowing song A Carne (the meat / flesh).
The song basically repeats that "a carne mais barata do mercado é a carne negra", which can be translated as "the cheapest meat / flesh in the market is the black one".
(1/)Juneteenth? That’s a great excuse to help me out! I paid my phone bill before my loan payment come out. I MEANT to take the money out again and use it for my phone. It’s a lot, about $160 so anything is welcome. anything more is needed for food 🙏🏾🥹
#BlackMastodon#BlackTwitter#Juneteenth 😆 The number of Juneteenth posts today could make you think we actually have a big Black population here. 😆 Not a slam on allies. Thanks for thinking of us.
Juneteenth is a celebration of liberation as we remember the African Americans who were freed by Union troops across Texas on this day in 1865.
If you want to learn more, particularly if you’re outside the US, we’ve found that the National Museum of African American History & Culture has a great resource here: https://nmaahc.si.edu/juneteenth
We also encourage you to check out our Black Voices Community to learn about the struggles people of colour face in the modern day.
It’s Juneteenth and I know some of yall got today fucking off and shit. If you ain’t giving to any Black folks fundraisers then you should be taking those BLM hashtags off your profiles and stop pretending you care about Black
Folks, period
Help out a Black disabled queer person who def needs money to get food when I get back home. Can’t find work and I’m still in a shit abusive household that refuses to respect me and my dad continues to steal from me
If you can’t, that’s cool, I understand,boosting helps, but if you are well off, you got no excuses, you can chuck $50 at me and mines and be on your way
I'd like to see the fediverse celebrate this year's #juneteenth by lifting up Black voices, and making Black people feel more welcome here.
To people who feel really strongly about quote boosts, putting content warnings on people's lived experience, and denying all the evidence of racism being prevalent here, maybe take a break for just one day.