Not the Only One

As a reminder, there _are_ good reasons for some people to remain active on X. Maybe not for liberal white guys, but plenty of people from minority groups or from outside of Europe and North America stay there because that's where all their peers are, and almost no one of these groups are present in significant numbers on #Mastodon and the #Fediverse . Thus, instead of condemning them for this, we should work harder to make the Fediverse a more welcoming and inclusive space for them.

At the Hubert Humphrey Building dedication, Nov. 1, 1977, in Washington, D.C., former vice president Humphrey spoke about the treatment of the weakest members of society as a reflection of a government: “The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.”

There is something deeply wrong with black people being in leadership or key positions in white spaces, if you are of a certain mindset. Why is it considered by some to be fundamentally wrong for black people to be in such leadership/key positions? 👉🏾 The default position is that black people are not supposed to lead white people. Plain and simple. We all need not to lose sight of this fundamental tenet of White pre-eminence and supremacy.

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After two years of searching for the right site to put housing pods for Kalamazoo’s homeless population, Housing Resources Inc. has identified a location.

‘We cannot keep churning kids through the system, doing more of the same and expecting a different outcome’, warns our CEO Jonathon Hunyor in an opinion piece in the Newcastle Herald. Jonathon says the NSW Government must ‘get real’ about the failure of law-and-order approaches to community safety. Now, he says, it’s time for new ideas. ‘This means properly coordinated investments in services supporting kids to stay engaged at school; youth services mentoring young people to get them back o...

Australia is not one country. It’s two. We are split along racial lines as surely as South Africa was during the era of apartheid. It may sound like hyperbole but it is a fact. @GeorgeNewhouse What will it take to eradicate deaths in custody? https://t.co/WGVQA6rsLz via @NITV

First Nations children account for 84% of Queensland youth detainees put in solitary confinement https://t.co/1pZ8YVRlJv