I am grateful for ppl like Merlin and others who did threads in my absence. For these last days of August I would like to put forward a #BlackAugust reparations thread geared toward supporting Black folks who use this platform. You may know in the current authoritarian presidential administration in the US, Black people and especially Black women have borne the brunt of job loss and job insecurity. It is, as our elders have said, a condition of being "the last hired and the first fired." (2/3)