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have wanted has a rise tier. Now, you and I both know that when you heard that this fucking piece of shit terrorist was taken alive, you knew he was white, and you knew it was a man, right, because we know that women don't create acts of mass shootings. Right, We haven't seen that in the United States as of yet. We know that most likely when you hear of reports by the media that a shooter was taken alive, you know good and goddamn well that that person is going

to be white. Right. I watched on CNN as this motherfucker got a fucking medical examination, right, is getting the best treatment and care by our healthcare system that denies black and brown people the type of care and coverage that this motherfucker is getting that we live in a country where you can't go to the grocery store if you are black. You can't go to church, you can't

go to a fast food restaurant. You can't sleep in your own bed, you can't be in your own apartment, you can't go to a brick and mortar store, you can't walk home, you can't play on a playground without the threat of violence by either the state, right by state sanctioned violence perpetrators known as the police, or by white vigilantes like Peyton Gendron and Kyle Rittenhouse and Dylan Roof. And the list of white terrorists runs along what is

painting me today. The oldest person killed in Buffalo eighty six years old, a father fifty three years old, headed to the grocery store in order to get cupcakes for his son's third birthday, never to fucking return. People out, Black people out, just trying to live in a country that has been killing us, has been killing us since the beginning of time, since we were brought here. I am so fucking exhausted by this country. There are days when I don't even know how black people make it

through a day. How after this type of brazen act of white supremacist violence, that we're all just supposed to pick up and carry on with our goddamn weeks, as if each and every one of us, by virtue of the skin that we inhabit, the melanin that we have, that we are safe nowhere at no time. You know, white women right now are up in arms right about abortion and the right to choose. And I see people with signs on, you know, taking us back to you know,

the eighteen hundred, nineteen fifties. And I have said these things over and over again. And what I'm constantly reminded, thankfully by black people, academics, doctors, politicos, is that the fucking Gilead right that is often referenced from the Handmaid's Tale, has been the experience of black women and Indigenous women and women of color in this country since forever. Our bodies have been used as wet nurses for white babies, while our babies ghost starving. Our bodies have been used

and weaponized through rape. You want to talk about forced labor for the breeding of masses workers, that has been the experience and the existence of black women. Look no further than how Henrietta lacks. The black woman's DNA that was taken without her fucking consent is the basis for many many of vaccine, many of study into cancer and how it operates. Was she given credit the billions of dollars made off of her stolen cells? Was her family

supported economically by advancing medical science? No, no, and many people still don't even know who Henrietta Lacks is. This country is so fucking sick, And what's worse is that the patient is unaware of the fact that they are unwell because you see, White America has been fed a steady diet of their exceptionalism, their virtue, their nobility, and

it's all a fucking lie. This country was founded on racism and replacement theory, except how it worked was white folks came here with their small pox and their fucking disease. They massacred the indigenous population that offered them kindness, and when those that weren't killed right, those were then tried to be enslaved. And then when we couldn't enslave, when we just kidnapped their children to try and institutionalize them into hating themselves and wanting to be as close to

whiteness as possible. What we are only learning about now with mass graves being discovered at residential schools where we kidnapped and placed Native American children after stealing land from their families and placing them on little patches of reservations. But you don't hear those stories. That's not taught. Oh you may hear about the trail of tears, but you know that's so long ago. You know, that's the convenient thing about America in history is that we love to

couch it in the fact that it was so long ago. Oh, racists, they're just gonna die out. You know those people that you remember from your history books that were pointing at black bodies hanging from trees or overturning food on the heads of black patrons trying to order at a lunch counter in the South. You know, those men, those white men and women that are seeing in those videos in those pictures are about sixty five and seventy years old

right now, maybe in their eighties. You're looking at teenagers in those pictures, like the eighteen year old that just murdered ten people. This was a regular occurrence fifty years ago, but they would like you to believe that it was so long ago. No imagine that if you were fifteen, a white fifteen year old at that time, fifty years ago, you're looking at what sixty five seventy. But we like

us to believe that this was centuries ago. The violence, the littering of black bodies, black lives cut short in the street by white violence. We just recently learned about how the federal government dropped a bomb in nineteen eighty six unsuspected terrorists just happened to be black revolutionaries. That's within modern times. The eighties, you know, when they were rolling tanks through black communities talking about the war on drugs when it was really the war on black people.

Because you see, you have a government that feeds crack cocaine into underserved and marginalized communities, do not give them any social safety nets, grocery stores, good schooling, anything, and then you turn the police on those groups and lock them up in your for profit prisons. Like folks, this isn't conspiracy theories. This is called connect the motherfucking dots.

These are facts that the RHN descentences of the world do not want you to learn because it will make as he said, white people feel uncomfortable, and you know what, I believe white people could use some more discomfort. They could use some comfort, some unsettling notions about their lineage. Oh, racism is gonna die off. This motherfucker is eighteen years old. Dylan Roof that's shot up Mother Emmanuel in South Carolina

was also a teenager. The folks that were marching in Charlottesville, Virginia in twenty seventeen were also teenagers and white men in their twenties. This ship does not die off. They're like fucking gremlins. They just multiply. It goes through their bloodline. But we don't want to talk about that. We want to talk about these people as if they're lone wolves. Oh, they're all mentally ill. Yeah, Racism to me is a fucking mental illness when you've created an entire theory based

on lies and the fragility of your own existence. I have a piece that is going to be running in the Daily Beast that makes the connection between what has transpired in Buffalo and what is happening around the country with regard to abortion. At the center of it replacement theory. What does a replacement theory tell us, oh, well, it

talks about low birthrates for white people. It talks about the need for there to be more white babies because if there are not, that white people are going to be replaced by people of color because they have higher birthrates. This was part of Peyton's one hundred and eighty page manifesto. It's also part of pretty much every fucking segment on

Fox News. Chaco Carlson, while we all wanted to laugh a couple of weeks ago with his fucking documentary and I put that in air, quotes about the end of men, right, the end of men, and how apparently men need to tan their testicles and drink raw eggs and wrestle with one another to preserve the species. Now, we wanted to laugh at that, But what we missed right with the jokes and the and the twitter burns that were happening, is the fact that again, toxic masculinity is tied up

in patriarchy, which is tied up in white supremacy. Let men be men, meaning let them own their women, their women's uteruses, take away their choice, take away their ability to work. Because if you dig into replacement, they're also against feminism and believe that that is the cause, you know, women actualizing their own futures, earning their own money, going

to school. Stop me if this sounds more like what is happening in Afghanistan that we love to lambats but don't see the connection between the theories that are articulated throughout the Republican Party and Fox News. You see, we want to set up, set up these other countries right in these far off places, as if they are the

ones that are doing the wrongdoing. Oh, they're against women and they want to own them and all of these things because oh, they want to see it through the lens of clothing all they forced them to wear a job.

Will you tell me, or burka, you tell me the difference between the rhetoric that has always been posed against the radicalized part of Islam and the radicalized part of Christianity, because they seem to be at the root about controlling women so that men can be men, because apparently men don't know how to be men if they do not have their foot on a woman's back. Folks, all of this shit, it's so obvious and so goddamn clear, and

it drives me literally insane, literally insane. When I look at mainstream media looking for any other reason to make an excuse for the rise in white supremacist terror in this country. Oh, it's got to be the Internet. No, it's Fox News. Oh it's it's gotta be you know, it's gotta be just Donald Trump. No, it's Rhonda Santance, it's um you know, Scott Perry, It's Marjorie Taylor Green, it's Elise Stephanic, it's Lauren Bobert. It is all of them.

There are no good Republicans left. This is not your grandfather's Republican Party. And this is what has me want to scream at Democrats. They literally from the insurrection and before have given you all of the fucking ads that

you need to run. Run. These people, in their voices do a split screen between Scott Perry talking last year at a Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in the House of Representatives about immigrants replacing white people, and split screen that shit with the shooting at the Buffalo grocery store, run ads of Tucker Carlson talking about the end of men, and split screen that with the leite fucking decision of

Justice Alito to overturn Rob Wade. Where do you think that these fucking ideas are coming from They're not coming from out of space, contrary to what Marjorie Taylor Green believes. I you know, folks, I am running out of my ability to even be sad because I'm just so fucking angry. I'm so angry because we all know where this is headed.

But again, mainstream media wants you to believe that we're entering into a normal political cycle where you know, those that are in power always lose power and they'll get another by the apple in two years. This is a violent, extremist, radicalized Republican Party. We are not up against the usual fucking suspects. This isn't John McCain and Mitt Romney. These people are literally locked and loaded. They are telling these very fragile, very weak white men to take their country

back by any means necessary. But do you see any of these federal judges. Do you see the Department of Justice holding the architects of the insurrection and this continued white supremist, slow moving coup that is not that slow? Do you see them doing anything to stop this? Why did Peyton think that he was going to walk into this store? Fucking post video on twitch as it's happening, and then head out to another store. He knew he

wasn't gonna die, because why would he. He's just a white man in America with a fucking R fifteen slung over his shoulder, So who would stop him? Who do you think that Donald Trump was talking to when he told folks to stand back and stand by? Who do you think that he is lifting up when all of them are talking about these good people? How do you say I'm a racist without saying you're a racist? I don't know, because Republicans have been saying the quiet part

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outdone by the state of this country. I don't give a fuck that Joe Biden and the First Lady are going to Buffalo today. I could care less. I don't want them in Buffalo. I want them standing at a podium in the fucking White House denouncing the Republican Party and warning America of voting for white supremist extremists come midterms, and that what we have witnessed and collectively screeched in the last few days will be the norm. You know.

I had said to folks, and I've said it on here so many times, that I believe that this is going to get bloodier before it gets better. And someone said to me, you know, Danielle, I really hope that that is not the case, because we're the ones without the guns. We don't have the guns, so the violence is going to be rained down on us, the same way it was at tops grocery, the same way it

was at the fucking Presbyterian church in California. I mean, what does it say about a country where people can't go to the grocery store on a Saturday morning, where you can't go into a fucking house of worship. We're hailing these people for hog tying and assailant as heroes.

This ship shouldn't be happening, you have. I was driving back the other day from Maryland and I'm looking at the billboards on the highway and there were several that were written by Jewish organizations saying, do you have to have armed guards at your churches or your mosque, because we sure as fuck have to have them at our synagogues. No one is safe not if you are not white, straight, ciss mail and Christian. It is open fucking season. That

is what the shooting in Buffalo showed us. You know, I was watching another news report where they were talking about the fact that white supremacist violence was on a dip until the summer of twenty twenty, because then all of these people were activated by the Derek Chauvin's of the world, because black people had the audacity, in a pandemic that was killing us at larger numbers, to come out and march and try and fight for our lives.

And white Americans are like, no, you should just take the relentless murder that we rained down on you in the terror and just take it. You don't have a right to advocate for your life. That makes you anti white.

I honestly, it is getting to the point each and every day, each and every week where it is becoming incredibly emotionally harmful to weigh in on things that I do not see a solution to fix without a political party that has no backbone, without a political party that doesn't even name their enemies, that is so fucking chicken shit afraid to tell the goddamn truth, and to point

the finger where the finger needs to be pointed. We would rather be a country that teaches kids how to fucking army crawl across a floor than to label the Republican Party as a gun tote in white supremacist, fucking grooming breeding ground. Oh, because it's not all Republicans. Shut the fuck up. If you are referring to yourself as a Republican in this day and time, you are a white supremist. That's it. There is no economic conservatives, there

is no you know, compassionate conservative. This is who the fuck you are, So own it. I would love at some point for Democrats to stop running from the truth. They think that inflation is the most important issue. How about, Oh, I don't know, white supremist extremist violence that is being funded by American oligarchs like the fucking Kushner's, the Murdochs, the Cookes, and the Trumps. How about that maybe if they had Russian accents, then Merritt Garland would be more

inclined to do something about them. You want to talk about Russian State TV and how Tucker Carlson is a puppet for Putin, How about the fact that he is a mouthpiece for a rising violent white movement. Anybody want to look into this before places like Buffalo, places like Pittsburgh, El Paso, Charleston, South Carolina, Sacramento all become the norm.

You see how many fucking places I just listed, and I know that I'm missing many, but those have been the recent places for extremist violence against communities of color, whether they be Black, Asian, Latin X. But we keep wanting to look at these things as if they are

isolated incidents. Why the fuck else would somebody go in to an area that is largely Latin X tell you that they are doing it because they have been radicalized because Fox News tells them every day that they're going to be replaced by these people at the quote unquote border. So what are you gonna do? Not be a man? As fucking Donald Trump has been pounding his chest saying like we need to let men be men. Tucker calls in the end of men. How do you show your

power through violence? That's how, through violent restrictive policies that will only go to cause harm. So why don't we just tell the goddamn truth. Why don't we, just as a democratic party just point this reality out? Hey, if you're into economic you know the economy and in conservative of yesteryear, this is not your party anymore. Do you believe that women should have the right to work? Do you believe that people in this country should have the

right to vote. I'm just at a place today where I feel like we are doomed, and so I apologize because I try really hard, folks, to both lay out my opinion but tell you all the truth that I believe is missing from commentary and mainstream and I got to tell you that. I just today, I just feel overwhelmed. I feel like I just want to hide. I'm exhausted, I'm scared, I'm worried, I feel under attack. How are we supposed to function like this? Honestly? How is this

considered normal? How have we allowed it to be normal that you have one political party whose entire agenda is about rolling back rights for a majority of Americans, and the party that we're all a part of doesn't call that shit out, doesn't use their own fucking language against them.

What do you think that Fox News is doing? They are grooming and planting seeds for white supremacis, and then they want to throw up their hands after mass shootings, or close their fucking mounts, or stick their heads in the sand, and we allow them to do so. Oh you know, he wrote in his manifest store, I wonder if you voted for Trump. I wonder if he listens

to Fox News. Oh do do? Do do in every direction in this country, whether you're looking at inflation, climate change, racism, white supremacy, misogyny, patriarchy, We're running in the wrong direction. We're moving in the entirely wrong direction. I almost think it's comical how bad things have gotten. I can't blame people for Biden's approval ratings. I blame Biden. I blame him for not taking action, for believing that because he was somebody's, you know, forty year senator, that he was

going to be able to compromise and collaborate with these terrorists. Honestly, folks, I am out of words today, and so what I will offer is, if you need to take a day off, if you have the ability to take a day off because you feel so overwhelmed, so outdone, do that. Do something for yourself. You know, you want to do something

for the community in Buffalo. Send money, send supplies, send well wishes, do that, but it's more important to do something in your own community because this pervasiveness of white supremacy, it is pervasive, it is everywhere. So if we are not actively working on a daily basis to dismantle white supremacy in this country everywhere that it shows its head, from our institutions, to our public school system, to our agencies,

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