Not the Only One

@BlackAzizAnansi Found that horrifying quote @Hedgewizard called out: "Last week, the chair of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) group, Guyana’s president, Mohamed Irfaan Ali, said its leaders were determined to help their Haitian counterparts find a political solution. “The fact that more people have died in Haiti in the early part of this year than in Ukraine must give everyone in Haiti and in the international community serious pause,” Ali said.

I won't take up too much space, so here's an article with voices from Black Pacific Islanders who talk about anti-blackness in our own communities. https://www.allure.com/story/melanesian-women-on-colorism

I'm so glad Tawana Petty was here but I'm sure it wasn't fun at all. "And so, there are many examples of existing harms that it would have been really great to have these voices of mostly white men who are in the tech industry, who did not pay attention to the voices of all those women who were lifting up these issues many years ago. And they’re talking about these futuristic possible risks, when we have so many risks that are happening today." https://www.democracynow.org/2023/6/1/ai_bengi...

I came to realize there is a “critical mass” of repetition necessary to shift a belief/understanding. For me, the lie about cops serving and protecting was weakened for a while… and then suddenly, between one video resulting in zero consequences for the murderers in blue, and the next, I hit critical mass and my entire perspective was shifted. Wasn’t long after that that ACAB became part of my awareness. I don’t know what the magic number is, how many names added to the litany of “say their...

This is quite a scandal + a lesson. Norway 10 years worth of school tests have been completely misinterpreted due to the use of "cheap American data analysis software" bought by unqualified staff https://uddannelse.social/@jeppe/111809574996996875 HT @jeppe ”Jeg kan ikke sætte ord på, hvor forfærdeligt det er at se på” Norske nationale test har målt forkert i ti år, viser en ny rapport. Dansk forsker kalder det for en skandale, som vi kan lære noget af i Danmark. #skolechat https://www.fo...

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