Derain Collier

Derain Collier

@deraincollier.blacksky.app

I am Derain Collier. Architect, Author, and all around car fanatic obsessed with engines. Write what you know, right🏳️‍🌈? Bi+, Polyam, Demi&Enby🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them

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Get your hands off my people's history. The only reason these acts actually moved foward was because the alternative was mass destruction and unrest. The civil rights bill wasn't a SWEEPING win. It was incremental change. It established the illegality of Jim Crow voting laws & segregation

hamuelsanwich.bsky.social@hamuelsanwich.bsky.social

This isn’t true. It took sweeping legislation along with activist. It wasn’t a little bit here and a little bit there. It was the voting rights act or the civil rights act. Incrementalism has had 60 years to integrate cities and they’re still segregated.

You know another incremental change? Brown v Board of Education barring segregation in schools... INCREMENTAL CHANGE. These are not fucking sweeping wins they're hard fought pieces of legislation that white people erased in 2024 bc they're racist and misogynistic.

I think hoteps have found a new hustle lol. They're leveraging their anti-queer rhetoric inside of a movement designed for Black pride. Unfortunate bc they're ass backward no matter what they sit up under.

Danica Patrick... She was obvious but it's still very disappointing. Like come on..how they tell Black athletes? "Shut up and dribble?" Danica, press the gas and shut your ass.

There's something perverse about the giggle I'm getting about Trump praising Nicki Minaj's ass. Like, I can't put my finger on it but it's so egregious a tapdance that it's actually hilarious.

People like to forget this part because it makes the story less "Kumbaya"... I try to tell y'all get your thangies. One thing i always say, "No border or boundary exists without violence"

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You can't hold personal boundaries with people without resistance. If you hold a boundary, you're pushing back on someone even if that is just cutting them off, you create "harm" to them a form of violence. You dont punish them, u protect urself Same with holding a geopolitical Border... (Ukraine)

That was cruel, but to be honest, if you fell for it, you silly... WHO would be giving away Knicks Championship rings to venue employees??? I'd have reported that shit for Phishing IMMEJITLEH

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Bitch yall built it for them 💀💀💀💀

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Same ole tired playbook. We knew what they wanted. They wanted the narrative that Black people are violent, and we're destructive. Instead we sat back and let the truth hit people hard. The policies affecting us, also affects you too. Oh and I voted yesterday. And have increased buying Black.

It's wild to me that the effects of segregation in the south still lasted well into the 80s. I was born in the south. My bloodline has this thing where the male children are born with impossibly light skin. So, the hospital kept putting me in the unofficial "white" side of the nursery.

My mom, dad, and grand mother kept losing me bc they'd ask to move me back over and they hospital put me back on the "white" side again. That this was a thing is fucking BONKERS to me.

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Minority Men like Vivek see compassion through the lens of White Male Dominance, but don't understand that they will never be allowed inside their Fraternity. So, he'll never be able to understand how fucking dumb he is.

Whaaaaaaaaat?!?!?!?! This is highkey the Soviet Union model of sexuality. What the hell is this? Folks, y'all GOTTA watch that documentary "Sex In The Soviet Union" the Lefties have a plan, it's all laid out there.

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The way I felt this moving somewhere else. Sheeeeeit I don't wanna go byke!

Humble_One@humbleone.bsky.social

It is interesting how some people can go to other cities or regions and become conventionally attractive where they weren’t in their hometown.

Being kinder to myself and believing in myself. I truly don't value many things I've done or accomplished, bc "anyone could do it." But honestly, no. It's not that simple. That's ableist and inconsiderate anf minimizes the struggle and perseverance it took to get where I am.

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This is why I think Delineation is overall good. It's helping everyone find their footing and will make everyone powerful enough to ACTUALLY help us and not eat off us while trying to placate whiteness.

Good to see people are being more vocal about understanding the system. You can't sit it out. You WILL cede ALL ground to your opp if you sit out or sabotage in the general election. Sitting out will not change anything. It never will change anything bc yppl will not do anything to change it.

A very vocal subset of leftists has argued, in every election since 2016, that people who want more progressive policy should withhold their votes from Democrats. Such people do not have your best interests at heart. Or even their own. Vote blue and ignore anyone who tells you not to.

Just talked to my mom and she said this lines up with the family tree and chart and makes some stuff make more sense. 🤣 You won't catch me wearing a Chief war bonnet, but this kinda solidified my belief in ethnic Black American identity as very unique to the Americas. Foundational to the USA

Derain Collier@deraincollier.blacksky.app

Not me just now learning about the Yamasee people how they were snatched up then shuffled north after a military defeat and then erased and called Cherokee. Not me looking them up and my mom's unique nose finally making sense 🫪 I never claimed Cherokee bc they acted like I wasn't close enough

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Oregon was originally the white supremacists little crown jewel and Washington and Oregon both are fulla sundown towns. While ‘nother kinda racism that exists out here but it’s here and it’s everywhere and it’s unavoidable.

Run Ray Run 🏃🏾‍♂️@ray-nard.bsky.social

Every time people fix their lips to even infer racism is a “Southern thing” I have to remind them that the KKK had several resort and camp locations in freaking New Jersey…so let’s stop the charades.

Idaho and the Pacific Northwest too. Like hell, there were dozens of sundown towns in New Mexico Missouri and California. Like let's stop the fuck shit.

Run Ray Run 🏃🏾‍♂️@ray-nard.bsky.social

Every time people fix their lips to even infer racism is a “Southern thing” I have to remind them that the KKK had several resort and camp locations in freaking New Jersey…so let’s stop the charades.

Until they proved they could be sufficiently anti-Black. Just like Irish immigrants. They've proven it and now they're white bc they proved they could be relied upon to be virulently racist for the white hegemony. Next question.

AlanSmithee@alansmithee1956.bsky.social

Italian immigrants weren’t considered “white”.