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White Lies: the Cover for Weaponization

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         Just like clockwork, each time that a white person is called in or out for weaponizing their privilege, there is a barrage of lies to cloak them from accountability.  Before you become defensive and fight to convince yourself that I am reaching…I want you to CHOOSE to be honest with yourself about yourself for a moment.  Have you ever witnessed the blatant weaponization of privilege and had a knee jerk reaction to deny that it was occurring? Have you found yourself NOT correcting people who have embellished the situation in favor of the aggressor? Have you turned a “blind eye” to OBVIOUS lies concocted to project victimhood onto the [actual] perpetrator? Not so much of reach is it? It is more of a presentation of actuality…correct?      The disdain for marginalized communities when white lies take center stage is UNDENIABLE.  Attempting to overshadow the (illogical) untruths is confirmation of the  prevalent desire for...

Hiding Behind Party: How to Deny Truth & Facts

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            Republicans have quite the history of declaring that Democrats are lazy, jobless and relying on GOP tax dollars to survive in the US.  With this rhetoric, one may wonder if republicans only live near/next to fellow republicans.  We know that is false. Cities are a combination of GOP, Democrat, Independent and non-voting (or unable to vote) residents.  They tend to make their focal point on party affiliation as a method of ignoring sharing the struggles they vote themselves into. Why admit that you and Democrats in a particular area share a median income and plight when you can lie to make yourself and party obsession look better? Perception is everything, right? Even if the perception falls solely within the sight of person trying to sell it. 😏      Pretending, during the course of conversation, that ones entire surrounding area is composed of their political party is their cloak of [pseudo] sanity.  They...