Posted on 11/20/2018 11:33:12 AM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
Toxic ideologies often start around family dinner tables. It's not just an uncle saying a racist joke, or a grandmother determining her xenophobic ideas as “a part of her time.” These comments seep into how we make decisions in voting booths, how judges rule in their chambers, how teachers guide students in school classrooms, how employment decisions are made, and how police react in high-stakes situations.
After a year of relentless atrocities that don’t always make for easy conversation at the dinner table, it's important to make Thanksgiving preparations beyond the tablescape and the menu. This year, I want you to prepare for something a little more nuanced than stuffing or cranberry sauce: I want you to prepare to rock the family boat, with important discussions that stretch beyond the surface of “How's the weather?” and “Who are you dating these days?” So, I'm coming to you with a guide that should push you beyond apathy, and instead, teach you how to be a part of the solution. As Angela Davis reminds us, it is not enough to not be racist. You have to be anti-racist, and if you are not actively being part of the solution, then you are a part of the problem. So here is some language to help you navigate Thanksgiving day dinner.
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Beside, Angela Davis, who is a terrorist and a murderess, is not morally qualified, to tell others what they must think or do.
We don’t discuss race....we discuss cultural differences..
Using Angela Davis as the example of racist or Anti-racist is like asking OJ to open a string of women’s shelters.
too many here at FR are not old enough to know about Angela Davis.
How about:
I didn’t own any cotton plantations.
My ancestors didn’t own any cotton plantations.
YOU didn’t ever pick any cotton.
Your immediate family didn’t pick any cotton.
Unlikely that ANY of your ancestors EVER picked cotton.
SO SHUT UP.
1-4 will inevitably lead to how Liberals ruined them.
Rachel will be ordering Chinese and eating by herself. But she’ll win every argument!
Harper’s Bizarre?
And if someone else at our Thanksgiving dinner started that crap at the dinner table, they would be asked to leave.
Thanksgiving is a time for family, not to fix this woman's racial hang-ups.
>We make the liberals in my family sit at the kiddie table.
Keep them AWAY from the children!
“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.” -Mattis
Okay, I’m ready for dinner.
We’ve had THE talk.
How about not discussing race, politics, or sexual orientation at all on Thanksgiving?
There is a reason we don’t associate with lefties. They don’t even have a clue how to have a family gathering. The truth probably is being a large family of Trump supporting conservatives any lefties that were associating with us no longer do. We are all good with that.
Mention not every flipping black person in America was a slave 600000 people died trying to free the rest
Quoting Angela Davis is not a good way to “open dialogue” with anyone outside of the Black Panthers.
Cat lady.
Shows how single-minded-racist-obsessed they are...who in the hell considers how to discuss racism at any dinner table?
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