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“I'm begging the American people to pay attention to what is going on. Because if you want to have a democracy intact for your. children, and your children's children, and generations yet unborn we've got to guard this moment...this is our watch.”- Elijah E. Cummings🗳️
@blackmastodon@histodons I hope this author has written somewhere else more convincing evidence that white women appropriating the mechanisms of Patriarchy somehow constitutes “feminism”. 🙄
@ScottGrimmett@blackmastodon@histodons The author specifically uses the phrase “White feminism”. What you just said, re: the patriarchy, is a core component of it. An article from someone else calls it “white supremacy in heels”.
Prince's "Purple Rain" is 40. Here's a story from @ThisIsDig about the making of His Royal Badness's breakthrough album, film and tour. “There was no precedent for this,” Alan Leeds, Prince’s then tour manager, later recalled. “Rock’n’roll stars with a couple of hit albums did not make major movies. Let alone someone from the Black community having the gumption to do it in the mainstream.”