I'm in my thirties. My mother was the last graduating class of segregated schools in her city. When she got her first job she had to look in the colored only section. My mother is not even 70. This shit was not that long ago. Some people talk about this almost like it was a movie but this is some real painful shit.

This is an aside, but the article brought up something I was wondering: Do people outside California know about the history of whites lynching hispanics in California? Do Californians? I thought it was well documented and widely taught, but a recent conversation makes me think otherwise.

It also seems to reinforce the idea that whites are the default humans. When they say people, they mean white ones.

It makes the oppression seem more passive. Something that just happened as opposed to something white people did to uphold white supremacy. That lets contemporary white people forget that we benefit from a system of white supremacy that hasn't completely gone away.

Words and symbols are important, people, maybe because we, as a civilization, use them as the main vessels of our ideas and history. A cross is always charged with religious symbology, the same way a color is relevant. Sure, whites were the ones oppressing the Black Community, but by not using the word you are erasing…

It isn't about it being obvious. It is about white people getting all bent out of shape for bringing up atrocities of the past. How we are constantly walking on our tip toes not to upset the white people. As if the whole world would crumble and fall apart if white people were reminded that some of their parents and…

Sometimes I don't share the boring as fuck thoughts I have because I feel like a lunatic responding every time with "I'm thinking about lipstick." All of my thoughts are about lipstick. (I feel like a lunatic even writing that). Should I be having deep thoughts? I should probably be having deep thoughts.