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#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Election2024 #politics
This post is for the Black and Brown people who post on Mastodon. Other people can read it but this thread is to open a dialogue with our community specifically. I was traveling in Chicago for most of this week and I had an opportunity to talk to quite a few working class folks during my stay. When traveling I usually try and take the temperature on what is happening in Black communities locally so politics comes up often. 1/5

@fulanigirl thank you for sharing, I wish those perspectives were centered more often. And I also wish more effort went into civic education, or hell actual education at all instead of the system we have in place now.

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@tillshadeisgone Agreed but we all have to take responsibility. I started assigning SCHOOL HOUSE ROCKS to my law students because they didn't know how a bill got passed! They were almost all white. I couldn't let them leave me without correcting that....its everyone's responsibility to help close that knowledge gap.

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@tillshadeisgone Exactly this. Even my grandson...who has ME for a grandparent was confused on a legislative process so my daughter had to sit him down and explain. One of my cab drivers was all mixed up on how the pieces all fit together. For a hot minute our discussion was so intense I thought he might have a car accident 😆 At the end we shook hands and I encouraged him to look up the things I mentioned. He said he would but who knows?!