I take regular hour walks. They can help, but please still take your medication if you’re on anything. And don’t feel bad if it doesn’t change your life. Sometimes you just walk to clear your head, and that’s still okay.

Can’t afford it myself, and I don’t know any country lacking insurance adjusters 😅

I bought a cheap TCL TV last year. If you can, turn off the wifi (I literally just wanted the TV, not the “smart” part). I play everything either through a hard drive, laptop or my PS and that works for me. You can also change the settings to open up to the last channel instead of the landing page. I can still connect my TV to Bluetooth. When I turn it on, I see the TCL logo, but after that, nothing.

Oh, me, me! I’m based in the US, but here are a few 🤗

• It’s harder for us to get loans for businesses. Most financial services are either harder or more expensive (Ex: You live in the hood and want to start a business, the area you’re in is “coded” a certain way, and you get higher loan rates because they assume you to be more risky by default)
• A lot of POC are behind in generational wealth/security because they were barred from communities and businesses that could have been passed down
• We are paid less
• Neighborhoods with high POC population usually get less funding
• Less political power because of how the counties were purposely broken up, so our voices aren’t heard as loudly
• Racial profiling
• We are more likely to get arrested, and serve harsher sentences
• Until recently (and still in some places), natural kinky hair had to be “fixed.”
• Colorism
• People with heavy accents (not limited to Hispanics of course) can have a harder time at jobs, especially if they’re phone base as people can be mad disrespectful
• In our current political environment, Latin Americans are the target of a lot of vitriol, illegal or not
• I can’t speak for Latin Americans, but when traveling, Black people have to worry about different things like: Are they racist? If so, how much? Will they let me in businesses? If I’m going for work, will they let me? If I’m not rich, will I still be treated well? We can’t just go back packing, because many countries will not be hospitable, either due to race, skin color, or both
• Being spoken too in slang because they assume that’s how you talk
• For hobbies, cosplay. POC are routinely dragged for not being the right color or what have you
• For kids, they are seen as older and more dangerous than other non-POC their age and therefore are treated harsher
• “Don’t send no Mexicans to my house” - Actual customer
• Even if you get a job, you may be taken off a job because of your skin (there are plenty of stories of people who refuse POC doctors, nurses, etc. I personally was not able to teach a child when abroad because of my skin color, even though I was the only one with a degree).
• Having your name, apperence, hair style mocked, until it’s been absorbed by white culture and becomes “cool.”
• Having your accolades covered up or ignored (A modern example would be that Renegade dance. The creator was a black girl, but a white girl took off with it. They even had her teaching a dance she didn’t create)
• If a show or movie has a POC in it, you have to brace yourself for cries of “wokeness,” even before the movie is out
• Being assumed as a diversity hire, regardless of your cardentials
• Something a bit more basic, but make up, hair products, etc. A lot of viral trends are shown on pale skin only, and some popular products don’t make darker colors at all, or very few shades. It wasn’t until I was in high school that I could find my regular hair products outside of a beauty supply shop.
• POC women and girls are hyper sexualized and are often see as the cause for physical and sexual abuse instead of the victim
• “You speak so well.”
• “Are you the first person in your family to finish highschool/college?”
• Being the only black kid on the class when they start the slavery lessons.
• “Don’t you speak English!?”
• For black women, we are routinely mocked not just outside our race, but inside. Many black men don’t fuck with black women because they drank the kool-aid
• Having to regulate your feelings because you don’t want to be the “angry” black person
• “Oh, I didn’t meant you. You’re one of the good ones.”

Of course, these have different levels of severity, some of these are not just applicable to POC, but this was a sampler of you will. Hope that helps!

Easier, not easy.

I love all these comments like this woman is asking, cares, or is even interested. “I totally probably would.” Okay, but would she??? Why do they think this woman wants to be someone’s last call when she could be someone’s first choice? If I looked at a picture of a regular guy and my fat ass was like, “Hmm, I mean, if I was drunk, and I had no options, I guess I’d take him home” I’d be dragged, and rightfully so. 😂

Cool shot!

Me next!

Hard to narrow it down to just one. I’d say it’s a toss up between my eating habits and weed.

• Not looking at the road.
• Speeding, even more egregious during bad weather
• Eating something that isn’t hand food or is messy. Also drinking from bottles that require a twist off. Straw is fine.
• Doing anything on the phone. I don’t care if it’s just to skip a song. Tell me and I’ll do it. I’ll even read texts to you. Just keep your eyes on the road.
• Agreesive drivers. Like, people who wanna try and race others, etc.
• No insurance of any kind

I had a lady who kept going on about how they were trying for kids, like, all the time. And if it wasn’t that, it was her bad knees. Started calling her “No-Knees McFucksalot.” I private of course. But like, we get it. Ya’ll are fucking.

I feel bad saying this, but I already assumed as much. Whenever stuff like this happens, assault becomes a pastime for them. It’s disgusting, but not surprising.

No brother! I have seen this before. I have observed many things. From the roaring beasts that the tall skinny figures crawl inside of to travel far beyond the horizon, to how the figure weeped when the other had fallen into a deep sleep. And from my experiences I have learned that they will give extra oats to one of us before taking them into… the shed of no return.

Depressed.

I haven’t gone on walks for a bit because I just cannot stand seeing those fucking signs. My mom and grandma are in a tizzy, and my mom is just as forlorn. She doesn’t even want to vote anymore.

And I’m so, so, so angry. I’m not saying Harris would be the second coming, but that anyone would pick a fascist over anyone is infuriating. The area I live in is not bougie, these signs were sometimes outside houses that have seen better days. And they doomed us all for at least the next four years. I’m so distrustful of my neighbors not that we were close to begin with. I want to ask them why, I want to scream at them, I want to question them.

I feel helpless. All my life I believed that there was some thread of decency that connected us, a thread of common sense. But there’s none. And that’s really upsetting.