Hey Reader,
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We are now down to the wire of this election and I don’t know about you but my tired is tired. 😩 We’ve aged and grayed a little bit, and the last few months have felt like years because Mango Mussolini won’t let us loose with his fckery and I’m over it. 🙅🏾‍♀️ PLEASE LET US GET HIM TF OUT THE PAINT COME NOVEMBER 5th.

SAINTS and AINTS, #LettucePray and fast because LET US BE DONE WITH HIM, FATHER GOD, come Tuesday!!! 🙏🏾
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Let's get into what's on my mind this week...

RANT

Stop making Black women the scapegoats for white men's mess
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​The way folks love to blame Black women for EVERYTHING is wild to me. Like... we're really out here trying to hold Oprah accountable for Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil being trash? In 2024? The math ain't mathing. 😒
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At the MAGA Nzi rally at Madison Square Garden, Dr. Phil got up there and fixed his face to say the country was built on hard work, not DEI when his sideways ass is only known because a Black woman gave him a platform. Like… YOUR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION CAME FROM A BLACK WOMAN, with your goofass.
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And I bet 20 years ago when Oprah introduced him, because he was actually talking sense, she would have never predicted he’d turn into this version of a spineless eel with backwards politics, supporting a fascist nightmare of a human being. Apparently, Dr. Phil is no better. 🤦🏾‍♀️

So when folks are on Al Gore’s internet talmbout this is O’s fault, I’m like “can y’all be for real?” Cuz yes, she is the reason we know Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil. BUT blaming her for the raggedy behavior of white men, 20 years after she introduced them, is absolutely wild. The ultimate manifestation of white supremacy is finding smoke for a Black woman when white men show they're racist trashbags. 🗑️
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Y'all got ALL THIS CHEST for Black women but simmer down real low for others. Make it make sense. 🥴 The way folks are CONSTANTLY looking for Black women to blame for the state of affairs is appalling. If you could find 1/10th of the amount of smoke that you have for us, for everyone else, maybe the world wouldn't be such a dumpster fire. 🌍🔥
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And this isn't just about Oprah. This is about how society loves to put Black women in impossible situations and then blame us when things go wrong. They want us to fix everything, save everyone, and clean up every mess. Meanwhile, mediocre white men stay failing upward, collecting checks, and spreading chaos. And what consequences do they face? Chile... 🙄

Let's be clear: yes, her choices in these men she platformed didn't pan out well. But blaming her for their choices two decades later is... exhausting. And the wildest part? While y'all are busy trying to blame Oprah, these same men are out here actively causing harm RIGHT NOW. But instead of addressing the actual problem, which is these men's CURRENT actions, folks want to time travel back 20 years to find a Black woman to blame. 😡
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At some point, we gotta ask ourselves why society is so comfortable holding Black women to impossible standards while giving everyone else infinite grace. Why is it that Black women have to be perfect, prescient, and perpetually responsible for everyone else's choices?

I'm over it. And you should be too.

REFLECTION

The world we want doesn't just happen. We have to design it and choose it.
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​When we look around at the world we live in and don’t like what we see, it’s because we’re seeing the results of days, months, years, decades, centuries, millennia where we’ve let too much happen that is unjust, unbecoming and unhinged. We look around and wonder how we got there. The answer to that is: slowly, but also rapidly. 🕐
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Like anything that breathes, life requires our maintenance. Life requires our care. And that requires our action.
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As we’re 4 days away from the most consequential election of our lives, I’m sitting with the fact that we are on the brink of a new, better world. We feel this sense of urgency to fix what is broken because now the shards of it are cutting us bit by bit. And what cracked before is now on the verge of shattering if we do not get things right. 👀

This ain’t it, y’all. WHEN (and I’m saying WHEN because God, the universe hears) Kamala Harris wins this election, the work TRULY begins to rebuild these broken systems that have led us here.
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The ways we have sat by in the small moments, so that when the big moments came we were not prepared and didn’t have the words. The ways we’ve been comfortable about how awful things were happening to other people, and we felt relief because it wasn’t us. NOW IT IS ALL OF US.
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When Kamala Devi Harris takes her oath on January 20, 2025, the work begins. We cannot ignore the abscess of society’s worst that has formed. We must then dig in to remember that the power we have, the privileges we have, the platforms we have, must be USED with intention, honoring who we say we are, and honoring our God, our ancestors and the most courageous versions of ourselves. 💪🏾

Right now, we are at a crossroads where what we do (or don't do) will echo for generations. That's not hyperbole. That's facts. The world we want? The one where justice prevails and humanity wins? That world needs us to show up for it.
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So the world we want to live in, though it feels far away, is within reach. If we CHOOSE to collectively go higher. The change we want to see doesn't just manifest out of thin air; we have to choose it. Every single day. With our actions. With our words. With our votes. ☑️
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​We can't just hope for better. We can't just pray for different. We have to BE the change. We have to DO the work. Every choice we make is either moving us closer to the world we want or further from it. There is no neutral ground here.

Sometimes the most radical thing we can do is refuse to accept the world as it is and actively work toward the world as it should be.
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For one last time in this particular space, I AM FIGHTING to see Kamala Harris become our 47th president. Not because I think she is a superhero to save us, but because she is a STARTING POINT for the fight we need to have. We can fight under her, for the rights of ALL PEOPLE, across ALL BORDERS. We can fight to restore our reproductive rights that were snatched away. We can fight, knowing that our rights to dissent are intact. 🙏🏾

Reader, what type of world are you choosing with your actions today? Because if we want different, we have to DO different. And that doing? It starts now. It starts with us. It starts with the choices we make today, tomorrow, and every day after that.

RECOMMENDATION

VOTE. VOTE EARLY. STAY CALM.
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​We are FOUR DAYS away from election day and we are TIRED 😩. We’re tired of continuously telling people we are out here trying to make sure Thanos doesn’t get that last infinity stone.
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We have talked ad nauseam about how high the stakes are, so it's time to take action.

✅ 🗳️VOTE EARLY
​We need as many people as possible to vote early, because we know there will be foolishness on November 5. Remember, November 5 is the LAST day to vote, not the day to vote.
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​✅ 🗳️ VOTE DOWN BALLOT
​We need you to vote down the ballot. Not just for the President. We need you to vote for the whole House of Representatives, the Senate, your local officials. All of it matters.
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​✅ ❤️ STAY CALM
​Recognize that they've already predicted there will be foolishness after November 5. WHEN Kamala wins, they're going to try to act like she didn't. We must stay calm and hold steady. We must not let them convince us that what we see is not what we see. We must not panic.
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The democracy we say we want requires our participation to exist. So let's participate. Let's show up. Let's do our part to create the world we want to see.🗳️💙

Before you go, have you voted yet? If yes, what's your plan to help others vote? If not, what's stopping you? Hit reply and let me know.
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Talk soon,

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