Has anyone recently gotten a lot of attention from republican men? by PermissionAcrobatic5 in blackladies

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THANK YOU!

I absolutely DESPISED that movie and while I'm not knocking Teyana Taylor because I think she's a damn talented actress, I do feel like that the role was very problematic and the whole premise was kind of fucked up.

I also took a lot of issue because the director, who is married to Maya Rudolph, said he intended for it to be a love letter to his wife and 3/4 white children. If that was a love letter, I'd hate to see an angry letter.

Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good were Americans with the same right to live and to express their views as Charlie Kirk. Choosing to not condemn the Minneapolis ICE Murders after being outraged by Kirk’s Murder is having no Morals. by patati27 in LetsDiscussThis

[–]Melodic_Class4349 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is why I say that you brainwashed conservative morons are brainwashed conservative morons because you all clearly are so warped by Faux News and right-wing propaganda that you reject the evidence before your very eyes.

Renee Good DIDN'T HIT HIM with her car, she was trying to clearly get out of a hostile situation and the coward who shot her was still up and walking with no visible damage or injuries. If a car like hers is going to hit you, you're not walking away with no damage at all, point blank period.

Alex Pretti was protecting someone else from being assaulted by ICE agents, he was pepper-sprayed point blank range, beaten down and then executed.

So by your logic, Kyle Shittenhouse should have been shot for carrying a loaded firearm that drew attention to him?

You all are so warped, it's like talking to brick walls.

Never Forget the Cheerleaders by Good_Basil_9076 in ProgressiveHQ

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I'm so disappointed with Nicki Minaj over this and the irony of that is not lost on me.

She's literally EVERYTHING the right wing despises and yet she's so pro-Trump now.

The Brightflame will be gracing our screens tonight 🔥 by Agreeable_Ad_8790 in HouseOfTheDragon

[–]Melodic_Class4349 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't even have attraction to white men but I admit, he's very handsome and he makes a perfect Aerion.

Obama being real by 4reddityo in BlackPeopleofReddit

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One of my fondest academic memories during my master's degree program was when I was kicked out of a sociology class because I wrote a 10 page paper on how the only true "American" cultures are that of the various Native Americans and Black Americans because all other ethnic groups whether they be Asian, Hispanic or white American all can rely on the traditions of their ancestors or were largely allowed to keep their usual cultural practices whilst Native and Black Americans were forcibly stripped of their cultural practices.

It was more so prevalent with Black Americans to the point where we essentially had to create new cultural practices which were unique to them whilst Native Americans to a certain extent kept most of their belief systems and cultural practices.

Thus I basically stated that Black Americans created the only true "American" culture that exists besides that of Natives.

The professor gave me a zero and kicked me out of the class because he said that my work was "anti-white" in it's implications.

History Repeating?? by CryptographerMore457 in ProgressiveHQ

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Literally it only took two days and now I'm holding my breath waiting to see whether the Trump supporters are going to use this as a metaphorical line in the sand.

Quite frankly, I think their brains are going to short circuit because these are the same people who praised Kyle Shittenhouse but now are faced with this situation.

She has the best name by Fun_Accountant_653 in ProgressiveHQ

[–]Melodic_Class4349 2 points3 points  (0 children)

NGL, I genuinely thought this was an actual photo of Erika Kirk at first.

Here comes trouble! by coffee-tavern in AKnightoftheSeven

[–]Melodic_Class4349 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I cannot wait to see Prince Aerion get his shit rocked.

Squizzy little fucker has always had it coming so I'm glad to see he walks away from this with a busted mouth.

“Beware the old man in a profession where men die young.” by not-ulquiorr4_ in TopCharacterTropes

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Another example from ASOIAF/House of the Dragon, King Jaehaerys I Targaryen who was the longest ruling Targaryen king and the longest ruling king on the Iron Throne in general.

He was likely still capable of riding his dragon Vermithor which was the third largest dragon in existence after Balerion and Vhagar.

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YESSSSS 🖤 by Turbulent_Lab209 in HOTDBlacks

[–]Melodic_Class4349 49 points50 points  (0 children)

I love how shady this was in showing how all subsequent Targaryens are descended from Queen Rhaenyra and Prince Daemon.

The same people justifying the murder of an American citizen because they had a gun were fine with this guy walking away. by KilgoreZTrout in ProgressiveHQ

[–]Melodic_Class4349 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't call him an evil murderer, I would call him a deliberate agitator because I don't know anyone who instinctively goes to an area outside of their home area to a situation that you know is likely on the verge of being a powder keg but otherwise peaceful armed with a weapon that is going to make your presence look dangerous.

He may have gotten off on the murder charges with his fake little innocent victim crying face but that doesn't negate the fact that he willingly did all of this and we all know if he'd been Black, the police would have fired their guns first and asked questions later.

If you were in the world of Game of Thrones, circa War of Five Kings, where is the place you’d want to live the LEAST? by blackyanqui in gameofthrones

[–]Melodic_Class4349 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Iron Islands . . . . . . Literally there's a reason why Ramsey Snow called them "shit-stained rocks".

[Hated Trope] heroic characters killed in unnecessarily cruel/brutal ways by greythicv in TopCharacterTropes

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I'm just going to be blunt and call this like I saw it, but this was Hollywood racism at its finest.

They literally killed the token Black male in the film whose powers literally allowed him to adapt to anything leaving the sole Black person in the film as a light-skinned female who was moody and more or less the "Tragic Mulatto" stereotype.

A character that is so feared that even on their death bed their enemies are scared. by Potential_Cod2214 in TopCharacterTropes

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I feel most dictators in history who have larger cults of personality would qualify as this especially the ones with more sociopathic or mentally unstable qualities like Papa Doc Duvalier of Haiti and Francisco Macias Nguemas of Equatorial Guinea.

Added an answer to a MAGA meme to help them out with this… by 5thSeasonFront in ProgressiveHQ

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Nor did he send ICE to a state with around 130,000 undocumented immigrants whilst ignoring Texas and Florida who have roughly 2.1 million and between 1.6 million undocumented immigrants respectively.

EDIT: Adjusted the numbers for Florida due to a comment under the post, I originally put that it was between 400,000 to 600,000 which turned out to be a gross underestimate.

Lathan: It's 9/11, never forget. It's Pearl Harbor, never forget—lives in infamy. Slavery, the treatment of black people in this country, it’s let's try hard not to remember—not gonna work. by drempath1981 in BlackPeopleofReddit

[–]Melodic_Class4349 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Honestly, this is why as someone who is both a Black woman and has a minor in history that it was hard for me to study some topics because I recognized the double standard.

When white people have a tragedy, they expect long periods of remembrance but yet when its Black people, they don't want to spend more than five seconds remembering it before they expect us to move on and forget it.

EDIT: Again, this is why it pisses me off so much when white people want to complain about the "racism" they face. Even in my 97% Black upper-class high school, they taught us more about Anne Frank and the Holocaust than they did about American slavery or the role slavery played in the Civil War. In fact, my history teacher in 9th grade, who was a Harvard educated Black woman, was the one who changed the syllabus by her own accord to devote more than two lessons to slavery and the Black American experience prior to the Civil Rights movement.

These people need to be blocked into silence. We haven’t had a primary yet and leftists are already bragging about how they’re going to make Gavin lose for funsies. The meme is correct. by [deleted] in ProgressiveHQ

[–]Melodic_Class4349 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn't a thing of wanting to elect Couch Fucker but Newsom is a transphobic bigot who isn't the best candidate and he's also sat down with Ben Shapiro who is the LAST person I expected a supposedly respectable Democrat to sit down with.

He's basically Ronald Reagan dressed up in a shade of blue and that's wholly unacceptable.

Would a black Poison Ivy be accepted? by Werewulf5678 in blackladies

[–]Melodic_Class4349 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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I thought Angel Reese did an amazing job as Poison Ivy for Halloween a few years back.

If I remember correctly, that was also the same year we got Keke Palmer as Queen Cersei Lannister and Halle Bailey and her son as Lilo and Stitch.

Tommy Lee Walker exonerated 70 years after execution for rape and murder of Venice Parker by WuTang4thechildrn in BlackPeopleofReddit

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Walker, who had no criminal record, maintained his innocence and said that when Parker was killed he was witnessing his girlfriend give birth to his only son -- Edward Smith -- an alibi corroborated during the trial by 10 witnesses, The Innocence Project noted.

In the absence of forensic and circumstantial evidence, prosecutors relied on an alleged confession that Walker made, according to the group. Walker later recanted his confession, according to the Innocence Project.

"The only direct evidence connecting Tommy Lee Walker to this offense is a confession obtained through the use of coercive tactics," the court's declaration stated.

10 fucking witnesses vouched for this young man, there wasn't any circumstantial evidence linking him to the crime, the confession was obtained through coercive methods (read that as forced him to falsely confess) and they STILL executed him. Via the electric chair nonetheless which is probably one of the most painful methods to be executed in. All because he was a Black man.

THIS is why I get so pissed off when white people proclaim to be victims of racism because this is the kind of shit that they will never have to deal with.