I saw some dude going on about how wise it was to only allow landowers to vote…
Bunch of fascists.
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You get one vote for every thousand acres you own.
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Good old feudal democracy: your Count votes!
Sorry about joking but the replies there were really hard to comprehend for me. That said every rich white country needs to have a long hard look at itself to find out how it profited from the enslavement of people, and then to work out what they need to do to try and make up for that.
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I think it’s a Roman idea that it makes sense to keep political power to people with property, because they have a vested interest in the state, where some peasant with nothing can always go somewhere else and be no worse off. I don’t agree but I do understand.
But things would be the opposite today – poor people have a vested interest in their country surviving, rich people can easily take off with their yachts and foreign holdings. So if that was wise then, think he’d be up for banning them from politics now?
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Yeah. It is classist crap, of course. It’s more about keeping certain people in power.
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Speaking as a landowner, I’d say it’s worth a shot!
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I like how she tells me without having to talk to her that she’s a raging asshole that I would never want to associate with. It’s her version of “good deed for the day.”
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https://www.theroot.com/emmett-tills-accuser-wrote-a-secret-memoir-1849181392
Donham adds that she “always felt like a victim as well as Emmett” and “paid dearly with an altered life” for what happened to him.
Also…
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Holy hell socks. “I am the victim of my own terrible choices, just like the teenager I falsely accused and whose painful, horrific, unjust death was a victim of them.”
The poor, poor woman. 
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Obligs:
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Hear me out…
It is true that a white woman in a southern state at the time would have been a victim of the patriarchy. She could have been scared, sure.
But when did she repent? When did she leave her community and husband to move somewhere where she could start to publicly renounce the whole ugliness, including her part in it? When did she start working toward a solution? When was she marching arm-in-arm in the front rows of #BLM protests? When did she use her notoriety to get on the talk shows to spread the message?
Oh, you say we never heard from her again until – oops! – that pesky warrant resurfaced?
Yeah.
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I will read her eventual obituary with much relish; hope whatever gets her is painful and slow.
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Some ideas on flipping the script by Dulcé Sloan and Michael Harriot:
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The set on that last part in the ritzy store reminds me of “Victoria’s Secret Karen”.
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I’ve never understood the separator hatred. It’s just a simple, courteous way to make sure your stuff doesn’t get mixed in with someone else’s stuff. What’s the big deal?
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Kind of somewhat related: I recently saw a white lady go through the self checkout line and get really mad that someone else’s deli meat was in with her groceries. Which she had scanned. 
Back on point, I also am a fan of the separator bar. One of the small things I have control over to retain order in this chaotic, unjust world!
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