Posted on 08/18/2018 5:45:27 AM PDT by C19fan
When I heard about the tragic murder of 18-year-old Nia Wilson, who was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack in Oakland last month, I could feel my heart begin to bleed. My community of black women were grieving yet again. As we grappled with the realities of Nias death, I began to use Instagram to facilitate a discussion and flesh out questions like: How many more black women and girls must die before mainstream media considers it a worthy story to cover? How could they possibly take away her white male murderer so gently in handcuffs, while black men are thrown to the ground during traffic stops? Why arent the recorded wails of her mother and the tears of her father enough for the whole world to be demanding justice right now? And where are the voices of all my white feminist friends when a black woman had been tragically murdered?
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The Nineteenth Amendment was a gross mistake.
“Virtue signaling” is the modern day version of “holier than thou” - it’s a sarcastic put down.
At least the latter has a Biblical origin (Isaiah 65:5). I can only see scare quotes around the word “virtue” in the former phrase.
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