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   fulanigirl@blacktwitter.io's status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 03:24:17 JST fulanigirl

   #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Election2024 #politics
   This post is for the Black and Brown people who post on Mastodon. Other people can read it but this thread is to open a dialogue with our community specifically. I was traveling in Chicago for most of this week and I had an opportunity to talk to quite a few working class folks during my stay. When traveling I usually try and take the temperature on what is happening in Black communities locally so politics comes up often. 1/5

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     carl marks (tillshadeisgone@blackqueer.life)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 03:25:45 JST carl marks

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     @fulanigirl thank you for sharing, I wish those perspectives were centered more often. And I also wish more effort went into civic education, or hell actual education at all instead of the system we have in place now.

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     carl marks (tillshadeisgone@blackqueer.life)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 03:34:48 JST carl marks

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     @fulanigirl as another educator, I 100% agree. I was running a queer middle school student group yesterday and they were asking about a lot of bills that are being proposed in states across the country, and I had to keep reminding them of the difference in bills getting proposed and passed, and how these things can or cannot actually be enforced. And also trying to answer the questions of my trans students about what that means for their safety.

     It's hard because they keep getting pieces of information from the news but don't always get the full picture due to the nature of news media and also issues with media literacy. A lot of misconceptions combined with very legitimate concerns, which is similar to what was happening with the folks you spoke to.

     We've got a lot of work to do.

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     fulanigirl@blacktwitter.io's status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 03:34:49 JST fulanigirl

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     @tillshadeisgone Agreed but we all have to take responsibility. I started assigning SCHOOL HOUSE ROCKS to my law students because they didn't know how a bill got passed! They were almost all white. I couldn't let them leave me without correcting that....its everyone's responsibility to help close that knowledge gap.