Me, meaning: “You’re one of my closest and dearest friends. I don’t know what I’d do without you. I’m deeply grateful for your presence in my life.”

Me, saying: “Cool.”

I’ve had long conversations with my meatspace friends about this, and I do the same thing with them. I prefer subtle implication, to the point of near-invisibility, because it feels more ‘sincere’ than explicit statements. But such subtle implication is often missed even by people who’ve known me my entire adult life and are receiving my interactions in meatspace, where subtlety is more apparent.

IT JUST FEELS SO MUCH MORE NATURAL TO NOT SAY IT AND HOPE PEOPLE PICK UP ON IT ANYWAY

“hide of a wild beast” is unfortunately as specific the histories go.

The Black Panthers weren’t even formed until the greatest victories of the Civil Rights Movement had already been won, and for all of Malcolm X’s rhetoric before leaving the Nation of Islam, the threat of violence from Black Nationalists was not a core factor to the victories of the Civil Rights Movement.

MLK Jr. spent nearly a decade and a half building organizations and connections for nationwide resistance.

Delicious

Unfortunately, I’m entirely new to creating feeds, so I’m pretty limited in my ability to troubleshoot problems there.