The author.
Posted on 08/22/2015 1:21:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
IT was snowing in Maine on Jan. 9. I’d been to the dentist’s the day before. The staff there were pleasant enough when I changed genders 12 years ago. “We’ll just change your forms,” the receptionist had said, cheerfully. “It’s no problem.”
That day, Papi Edwards, 20, a transgender woman of color, was shot to death outside a hotel in Louisville, Ky.
If you’d told me in 2000, as a transgender woman just coming out, that I was a person of privilege, I’d have angrily lectured you about exactly how heavy the burden I’d been carrying was. It had nearly done me in: the shame, the secrecy, the loneliness. It had not yet occurred to me that other burdens, carried by other women, could be weightier.
On Jan. 17, I moved into a new apartment on 106th and West End in Manhattan, in anticipation of the spring semester at Barnard College, where I teach English. My son Zach came down with me, helping to carry my luggage. He was heading back to college the next day. We had lunch at an Ethiopian restaurant called Awash, on Amsterdam. I pointed out the window at the building across the street, where I’d lived with the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman in the early 1980s. I wasn’t out as transgender then; I couldn’t imagine it. Yet here I was, 30 years later, a Barnard professor, having lunch with my son, who is a drama major at Vassar.
Lamia Beard, a 30-year-old black trans woman, was shot that day in Norfolk, Va. It was the weekend before the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Moonbat has come to seem like too nice a way to describe the level of insanity on the Left.
Because non-trans folks never get shot.
exactly how heavy the burden I’d been carrying was. ==
Would you be free from the burden of sin ...
There’s Power in The Blood, There’s Power in The Blood
Old Hymn. True.
What self-absorbed, self-pitying freaks of nature.
Seriously, would we be any worse off if they went away?
Lamia Beard, a 30-year-old black trans woman, was shot that day in Norfolk
Who and what were the perps? Or is that classified?
The author.
Great hymn. Here’s another:
1. A mighty fortress is our God,
a bulwark never failing;
our helper he amid the flood
of mortal ills prevailing.
For still our ancient foe
doth seek to work us woe;
his craft and power are great,
and armed with cruel hate,
on earth is not his equal.
2. Did we in our own strength confide,
our striving would be losing,
were not the right man on our side,
the man of God’s own choosing.
Dost ask who that may be?
Christ Jesus, it is he;
Lord Sabaoth, his name,
from age to age the same,
and he must win the battle.
3. And though this world, with devils filled,
should threaten to undo us,
we will not fear, for God hath willed
his truth to triumph through us.
The Prince of Darkness grim,
we tremble not for him;
his rage we can endure,
for lo, his doom is sure;
one little word shall fell him.
4. That word above all earthly powers,
no thanks to them, abideth;
the Spirit and the gifts are ours,
thru him who with us sideth.
Let goods and kindred go,
this mortal life also;
the body they may kill;
God’s truth abideth still;
his kingdom is forever.
Ick.
Here is the Papi Edwards suspect
I was working the day shift out of bunco. Cap'n Smith is the boss.
White privilege won't get you into Harvard, but it may get you a cab.
No one told him blacktranslivesmatter?
I wonder how many of these murders occurred after a “date” with a heterosexual black man who didn’t know that his lady friend was a dude?
I think they are just freaks. Nothing in nature makes them this way. 😂😎😃
I was working the day shift out of bunco. Cap'n Smith is the boss.
In the distance, a dog barked...
Incoherent ramblings of the mentally ill.
Cry me a river. And, murderers should ride the lightning.
If the problem is that trannies stand out as objects of crime, think how white people feel when they pass through a black neighborhood.
I don’t care about the author’s particulars.
Dang. #16 was to you. :-)
I stumbled on Greg Gutfeld’s new show a few weeks ago. They were discussing people who self identify as vampires. He made the following three points:
These days people get to “self-identify” (decide they’re a vampire or whatever).
Next they establish victimhood (the problem is that YOU think I’m crazy).
Then they demand sensitivity (it isn’t that I’M crazy, it’s that YOU are judgmental & should be kind to me).
Very funny & absolutely true. We should just tell them they’re crazy & for heaven’s sake find a psychiatrist!
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