Stray Thoughts From Twitter
Facts, I’ve been homeless before, had two jobs but couldn’t afford any place to stay or the cheapest was unavailable. Life isn’t a walk in the park for some of us even when we work the hardest we can. https://t.co/g2djqn5j6W
— Dazeee ? (@afro_lindasxx) July 7, 2018
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As a society, we have to treat the homeless better.
Why? The selfish fact that many of us are one or two slips away from being there. The last forty years has been an assault on the public safety net.I hope that my generation starts to bring some of those things back, so we get away from the sink or swim economy that we do have. All that said, until it changes, we can afford to be more kind to each other.
So profound here. https://t.co/As3BYnpPZr
— Adam Thomas (@TheHonorableAT) July 6, 2018
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America is in love with punishment.
For much of my life, I was too. I love how @prisonculture classifies it as a religion, because my faith, like America’s as a whole, was completely invested in it.
Our need to deal retribution often ends with us cutting our nose to spite our face, and as a community, worse off. Look at the community to prison pipeline and all the families that destroyed.
I am trying, every day, to get better at not leaning on “retribution” as a first reply, and it’s hard. It is a fight worth fighting though.
I can’t believe that it’s 2018 and we still have to clarify on a regular basis to people that when Republicans say Chicago (or Detroit) they mean Black people and when they say New York they mean Jews. And they never mean either complimentarily. https://t.co/AizYObVCyp
— Mx. Amadi (@amaditalks) July 5, 2018
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This world is full of dog whistles for white supremacy, and as a black man that has to navigate a few worlds, I’ve had to learn them.
If you don’t have to pay attention, I implore you to start, and recognize how the world around us is shaped to support injustice.
Then use your privilege to fight it.
The @MoviePass copy is horrible for peak pricing…stop explaining it like its some sort of deal for the customer. You are charging now, so be adults and talk about it that way instead of hedging.
— Adam Thomas (@TheHonorableAT) July 6, 2018
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The email I got from Moviepass customer service team this week didn’t treat me as an informed customer; it treated me to doublespeak.
The copy kept talking about “empowering my movie choices” while telling me it needed to charge me. It didn’t tell me why, only more fluff about how it will empower me to take more money out of my account.
Speak to your customers like adults, and they will reciprocate in kind. The company lost an opportunity to define themselves for the sake of being safe.
Funny how everything *realistic* seems to align with and serve the interests of the wealthy and powerful.
— #Prisonculture (@prisonculture) July 2, 2018
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Power structures exist. They affect everything from how we walk to how we talk, and everything in between. That is why I try to take notice when there is a push to the center.
Why the center? Well, by making everything “the same,” those with power remain in power and those without stay the same. This trickery is why I watch words like “reality” closely. Often, the word is a tool to dampen expectation and keep things the same.
Change can’t happen when things are the same.
From the desk of Adam Thomas 