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Derain Collier
Derain Collier
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I am Derain Collier. Architect, Author, and all around car fanatic obsessed with engines. Write what you know, right🏳️🌈? Bi+, Polyam, Demi&Enby🏳️⚧️ They/Them
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Get your hands off my people's history. The only reason these acts actually moved foward was because the alternative was mass destruction and unrest. The civil rights bill wasn't a SWEEPING win. It was incremental change. It established the illegality of Jim Crow voting laws & segregation
This isn’t true. It took sweeping legislation along with activist. It wasn’t a little bit here and a little bit there. It was the voting rights act or the civil rights act. Incrementalism has had 60 years to integrate cities and they’re still segregated.
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Replying to @gunnyjkj.bsky.social
Same ole tired playbook. We knew what they wanted. They wanted the narrative that Black people are violent, and we're destructive. Instead we sat back and let the truth hit people hard. The policies affecting us, also affects you too. Oh and I voted yesterday. And have increased buying Black.
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This is the world white Americans absolutely longed for. The leadership they said represents them to the ultimate degree. I don't disagree with them. Duplicitous, conniving, violent, and selfish is the white American legacy. www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...
Being kinder to myself and believing in myself. I truly don't value many things I've done or accomplished, bc "anyone could do it." But honestly, no. It's not that simple. That's ableist and inconsiderate anf minimizes the struggle and perseverance it took to get where I am.
That whole Delineation movement really got people having serious questions about who they are and what they're doing. It's actually fascinating to hear the conversation about the projection of Black American success as an avatar, but not having any everyday examples there.
Good to see people are being more vocal about understanding the system. You can't sit it out. You WILL cede ALL ground to your opp if you sit out or sabotage in the general election. Sitting out will not change anything. It never will change anything bc yppl will not do anything to change it.
A very vocal subset of leftists has argued, in every election since 2016, that people who want more progressive policy should withhold their votes from Democrats. Such people do not have your best interests at heart. Or even their own. Vote blue and ignore anyone who tells you not to.
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Just talked to my mom and she said this lines up with the family tree and chart and makes some stuff make more sense. 🤣 You won't catch me wearing a Chief war bonnet, but this kinda solidified my belief in ethnic Black American identity as very unique to the Americas. Foundational to the USA
Not me just now learning about the Yamasee people how they were snatched up then shuffled north after a military defeat and then erased and called Cherokee. Not me looking them up and my mom's unique nose finally making sense I never claimed Cherokee bc they acted like I wasn't close enough
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Oregon was originally the white supremacists little crown jewel and Washington and Oregon both are fulla sundown towns. While ‘nother kinda racism that exists out here but it’s here and it’s everywhere and it’s unavoidable.
Every time people fix their lips to even infer racism is a “Southern thing” I have to remind them that the KKK had several resort and camp locations in freaking New Jersey…so let’s stop the charades.
Idaho and the Pacific Northwest too. Like hell, there were dozens of sundown towns in New Mexico Missouri and California. Like let's stop the fuck shit.
Every time people fix their lips to even infer racism is a “Southern thing” I have to remind them that the KKK had several resort and camp locations in freaking New Jersey…so let’s stop the charades.
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1/? Vivek Ramaswamy's ad against Amy Acton highlights yet another reason why POC conservatives are so dangerous. Deep down they KNOW they are not accepted by white supremacists, so they feel the need to be viler and more disgusting in their attacks. That's what Vivek did. But he likely miscalculated