Rest in Power Shafiqah Hudson.
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Shafiqah, known online as SassyCrass, was a brilliant teacher, writer, and Black feminist that we owe so much to.
We talk a lot about how online disinfo campaigns from Gamergate to the Alt-right to Moscow's Internet Research Agency, target the Black community. But the Black community doesn't fall for it. "Famous security researchers" often pretend that they first found these disinfo networks, but they didn't.
mekka okereke
in reply to mekka okereke • • •[A Black adult shows Black kids a photo of Elmo and Cookie monster. Elmo is happily eating a cookie, as Cookie monster looks on helpless and in despair]
Black adult: On Sesame Street, Who be eating cookies?
Black kids: Cookie Monster!
Black adult: And who is eating cookies?
Black kids: Elmo!
If you think Black people are smart, and you're not racist, and you see this convo, you understand that there are *grammar rules* governing what Black kids say and understand.
slate.com/human-interest/2015/…
Why We Be Loving the “Habitual Be”
Katy Waldman (Slate)Joyce Lionarons
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Barney Dellar (he/him)
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Allan
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Jackie 🍉🏳️⚧️☭
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This is so blatantly unfair and outrageous.
Artemis
in reply to mekka okereke • • •I didn't know she had died. What a loss. I used to follow her on Twitter, and I certainly learned a lot from her.
Black women online have done so much to educate people like me, & I am so grateful. I would not be the person I am & would not be nearly so able to stand in solidarity with other oppressed folks without the work they have done. Rest in Power, Shafiqah.
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Anja
in reply to Artemis • • •Noah
Unknown parent • • •Code switching always came naturally because it's something I've done my whole life. I was born in New York but grew up in Virginia and so I have a New York accent that mimics my larger family, a neutral accent that mimics my close family, and a southern drawl that mimics my adopted family. Each comes out depending on who I'm with and what we're talking about.
As a kid I never questioned it with my Black friends because in my head they were doing the same thing I was doing, it was just about adopting the same accent of the person to which you're speaking.
It made me so sad and angry the first time one of my friends explained to me that they weren't doing it for the same reasons I did, that it was about white people getting angry at them or accusing them of being unable to "speak right."
Fran O'Reilly
Unknown parent • • •Carl Muckenhoupt
Unknown parent • • •And if anyone reading this thread needs to hear a white dude saying it to believe it, this video is for you: youtube.com/watch?v=JDAj9OVooy…
(It's also for anyone who would find it amusing to hear a white academic linguist using AAVE forms correctly)
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