If you feel helpless in these times...

Jun 7, 2020 2:54 AM

KatrinaLatina

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It took me a lot of reflection to get here. Maybe it can save some others a bit of time.

I bear the guilt of waiting until now to fight for my brothers of another color. Neutrality in the face of injustice supports the oppressor.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

One should talk about what needs to be discussed, silence isn't golden.

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

If a jobs worth doing, it's worth doing badly. Give it a go, if you can't do it all. That's okay. A little is better than none.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

if you're below average you're dragging everybody down.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The second sentence is really flying over a lot of people right now

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No. It's not. You just get taken advantage of and left behind.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 5

You you?

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But if you can get out there on the front line and protest, you should totally do that.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thank you for sharing this, @OP. I needed to hear it.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Needed this thank u

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

People with greater responsibility are expected to do more. It's in the job description.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

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6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"if you have done nothing wrong" this is true of essentially no one. Recognize your faults, and know that it's okay, no one is perfect.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Never cared about one person's skin color, everyone looks pretty human to me. I think it's nothing wrong really

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Jokes on everyone...this a qoute from a cop

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There are some very shrill voices that will disagree most vociferously with this. You are stained with the sins of your ancestors to them.

6 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Or percieved ancestors. My family immigrated in 1907, we didn't participate in the whole slavery thing.

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Thank you. I needed this. I'm trying to be introspective and change what I can change and stand up where I can.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thank you, I needed this.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

After today, this is what I needed. Thank you.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

This is good

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

To be clear: if you are a cop who stays silent in the face of a total lack of accountability, you are not a good person.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Yes, some will do more but don't excuse the ignorant/complacent to think it's enough to just be "good" which is subjective to self bias.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I'm none of these things, but I try to be rational and logical.

6 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

Being Human is more than being rational and logical

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That usually works out, add it to the list of enough.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I will not be guilttripped into feeling sorry for something I did not do, nor will I allow someone to be blamed for nothing.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Bear your shame and turn it into humbleness. For being humble isnt a weakness, it is a show of strength and wisdom.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

"It's not a marathon, but a sprint". but I prefer WALKING!

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well, that's easy to say if you aren't one of the groups of people being profiled, abused, and murdered. The "someone else will fox it" -

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

- mentality quit working 5/25. Soz no, it's not enough. Do something. Anything.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

Treat everyone the way you'd want to be treated if you were in their place. It ain't brain science & rocket surgery. Be a decent person who

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

isn't filled with hate. Stop hating. Well, except for hating The Cheeto and macho cops who beat people just protesting. They've earned it.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Hate is only unhealthy if it never leaves. Small pockets of well aimed hate can accomplish some good things.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No it isn't, according to the vast majority of toxic social media. If you are not with them in a socially signalled way, you are against 1/

6 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 6

them. They go to rallies and say that your silence = violence. War is peace. Up is down.

6 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 6

That's how the Sith think....

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Good is not the absence of bad. It is the presence of good."

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Take care of yourself. Because nobody else will.

6 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

sadly not true.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Take care of yourself and others you feel like to. Just don't expect the same. Expectation is cruel.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Check your voter registration at vote.org

6 years ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 1

maybe if people spent more time doing this instead of reeee and "protesting" things would change.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 9

Reeeeeeeee

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I agree that it sucks that people haven't historically turned up to vote for the things they said they believe in. But these protests are /1

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Helping us shine a light on the injustice and show us that we can and should all be better. Not trying to fight you, just trying to say

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That this is important. And I have hope that times will change for the better

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I can name literally thousands of people that would be angry and say doing this isn’t enough

6 years ago | Likes 242 Dislikes 15

The entirety of christendom? Being good isn’t enough, and not having guilt is a sin in itself.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

Impressive, I can give you random names but at some point they'll just become incoherent noises.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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6 years ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 0

Nothing can be enough, and it's about doing what we can. There's certainly people operating below capacity. It is what it is.

6 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

And if those thousands of people could look farther than their mirrors and follow this, the world might be a better place.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You know a lot of ppl.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It is entirely possible to both fight the good fight AND be an asshole.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And those people as a general rule will be doing nothing but unproductive bitching and whining about their feels. Fuck em.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

AKA Twitter.

6 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

Yo fuck twitter

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I don't even know a thousand people :(

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He meant twitter

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh~

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That’s impressive. I can’t literally name a thousand people for anything.

6 years ago | Likes 134 Dislikes 0

I can read the extended edition lotr fan club credits. Does that count?

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I can name a thousand Johns.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It helps to have Snoop Dog’s Instagram follower list

6 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 3

Charger's fans?

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I don’t even know 10 people.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I don’t know that I could come up with 1000 of anything, except maybe movie titles. And even that would take hours

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I could probably give 1000 reasons I'm not enough

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I can't literally name a thousand people period.

6 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Thats why googz is there.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sure you can! Just call them all Period.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

That is how we got in this mess.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I can't name 30. Once I forgot my own name. Not the best way to start an university oral exam, if you're curious.

6 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

did you know the answers to the other 2 questions at least?

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Luckily yes, I did know the answers to everything else, so the teacher just rolled his eyes and let me pass

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Like what is your favourite colour? And what is the unladen velocity of a swallow?

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0