MFW talking to anyone in my red state

It’s about representation

They basically think it’s being oppressive.

The one time cops tried to search my phone (local police not border patrol) I wouldn’t give my pin. They eventually gave it back but they wiped my phone.

Brother you don’t know what we’re all doing in our private lives. We get on here to discuss. What the fuck is anybody supposed to be able to do on Lemmy? We are here to avoid the craziness out there and have a space for ourselves. I am involved in activism. I am involved in a couple programs locally. People are getting organized man. You are mad because you’re at home doing nothing but insulting people.

You only insulted people and encouraged raiding a hospital.

You’re precisely right. I’m assuming you’re not American.

I grew up in rural America. Teachers told us things like the middle east hated us because we are free. It wasn’t until I was already in high school when schools complied and acknowledged the bad shit Christopher Columbus did but certainly not to the full extent. They would tell us about how bad all these other countries are and how great we are. We were taught about slavery but it was taught like racism was just over and there were definitely no lingering stink from that. They taught us the civil rights movement like it already happened and now we are the perfect country and minorities are well protected now :) even though once a bunch of Mexican kids, including me, got pulled into a room in 5th grade just for a teacher to tell us how we all looked like trouble makers. We were literally just sitting the commons waiting for classes to start. We weren’t even all grouped together. They rounded us together. I didn’t understand what I did wrong. Why was I being scolded for what I looked like? It wasn’t until years later I realized we were all Mexican in that room. I was too young to even consider that at the time.

We have to have these discussions and do our own research to see through it all.

Sorry for the unsolicited trauma dump btw but I figure it’s probably good to have that reality of America put out. I should say I grew up in extremely small towns. Like smaller towns than most country singers sing about lol

They really tried to cover that up

Immortal Technique heavily impacted my beliefs in middle school so I’m happy to hear.

On Mexican OT though. I’m from Texas originally. People will have a hard time trying to get him to stop saying it lol that’s obvious already but as a chicano that did live in texas I’m telling you lol

The history of the word gets disconnected. Like they know but to them that’s another time and the word isn’t used the same anymore. To them it’s just a casual and informal word. Friendly even. It’s certainly not out of racism at least. I personally have always protested it. I didn’t really grow up in Texas though so my position is a little different.

Haven’t kept up with him for over a decade. What happened? I remember back then he was pretty respected.