Posted on 06/11/2016 9:37:58 PM PDT by Zakeet
Ashleigh Shackelford says she's owed everything from housing to free Beyoncé tickets.
According to a piece on an "intersectional feminist media" website, "fat, black" women are owed reparations due to the "trauma" that comes with being one.
"The case for reparations for fat Black b****** is: f*** you, pay us," self-described "queer, agender Black fat femme writer, artist, and cultural producer" Ashleigh Shackelford writes in a piece for Wear Your Voice.
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What kind of reparations? She makes sure to clarify that, too:
Let me be clear, though: when I say, "F*** you, pay me," I mean, "F*** YOU. PAY ME." Pay me a check, pay me consistently, provide me safe housing, offer me a job with benefits, run me those Beyonce tickets, finance my clothes and wigs and aesthetics, cultivate accessibility to spaces and provide seats that fit me, see and validate my humanity.
Shackelford insists that these reparations are well-deserved, because "[t]he intellectual, emotional and actual physical labor fat Black b****** provide is actually invaluable to the entire world."
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Another malignant narcissist. There’s an epidemic.
When the backlash comes, and come it will, there won’t be much laughter.
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“Don’t wanna bump no mo with no big fat woman”
Joe Tex
That outfit had to require at least 2 California King sized sheets to produce!!!
“..’Fat, Black’ Women,....”
Wow... that’s like, like, like all Fatist, “rayyyyyycist (!!!)” AND sexist all in one!!!
A TRIPLE Victim Status Whammy!!!
Oooh, you gonna be in BIG trouble, mister!!!! :^)
Trouble is cool !
“Cool” is a white T-shirt, Levi jeans, and black Airborne boots, a pack of Marlboros rolled up in your sleeve, a bit o’ Brylcreem in the hair to slick it back, while leaning against a ‘69 drop-top Malibu SS 396... with your best girl on your arm, and Junior Walker and the All Stars playing “What Does It Take” on the radio, watching the sunset over the Delaware River on a summer evening...
That was cool... and a long time ago... and an America that I very dearly miss.
““Cool” is a white T-shirt, Levi jeans, and black Airborne boots, a pack of Marlboros rolled up in your sleeve, a bit o’ Brylcreem in the hair to slick it back, while leaning against a ‘69 drop-top Malibu SS 396... with your best girl on your arm, and Junior Walker and the All Stars playing “What Does It Take” on the radio, watching the sunset over the Delaware River on a summer evening...”
I’m 62......that was ME ! (I had a 68 GTO, and then a 442 convert)
Much much better times in America.
It was me too, just a few years after you!!! Haha!
I LOVED the flatback GTOs 65-67. The Chevelle/Malibu series went to the roundback like the GTOs in ‘68 as well.
My ‘69 was a beast... brought her back from the dead with my own two greasy hands over and over again. I think I tore that motor apart three times in the years I owned it.
Had a lot of muscile cars over the years... those were the days you could buy them cheap and beat for 350 bucks and street race them till they died... then rebuild them.
Gapping points with a matchbook... .017 inches... heheh... OLD SCHOOL, brother...
In 1970, my next door neighbor bought a Hemi Cuda new under $4,000. Superbirds were 4800-5200 : )
Great memories.
Note: Everyone I knew well said my 68 GTO was a freak. It was WAY faster than other 68 goats. We never learned why either.
You probably had the 400HO in it. That was a beast of an engine, put out some crazy horsepower, like damn near 370 hp - almost one HP per cubic inch.
My (future) brother-in-law had a 67 Goat with a 428/4bbl/4-speed. It was, as he put it, a “raped ape”. I remember it well, dark brown with a convertible top.
Pontiac made MONSTER muscle cars. I miss them. I’ve had two Bonnevilles over the years - beautiful machines.
Pontiac - Another piece of Americana that got ruined.
Plymouth’s gone, too. Who can forget the Road Runner with a 383 or 426 Hemi? Geez... absolute beastly.
At least Dodge is still around, keeping the muscle car legacy alive, and Chevy went retro with the Camaro, and Ford with the retro Mustang.
“You probably had the 400HO in it”
Correct. It was pure power!
I think the 70-71 GTO Judge had the 455 in it, like some of the Trans Ams.
Just.. amazing Balls on those...
Yep. The only colors you could get was yellow or orange....two colors I detest in cars : )
They all had a Hurst shift. Some called them a Hurst GTO, or a Hurst Olds (442)
By 1972, the muscle cars were gone. Watered down to nothingness. The insurance companies were the direct cause of this.
Actually, it was federally mandated emission controls that did in muscle cars.
Thanks for that info. Figures, doesn’t it ?
Cuz they are, after all, in the business of conserving....NOTHING.
Unlimited CPVs for all FBWs.
Muscle cars would have made a comeback, but soon after pollution regs for motor vehicles came OPEC oil price extortion and high inflation that made cars beyond the basic too expensive.
Fast cars have made a comeback. There are many quick cars that start at not much more than the $30k average car price, and most of them are faster than all but the rare vintage muscle car, not to mention much better mpg.
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