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though you may think you are “keeping the peace,” you are teaching them what you will tolerate.

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in the classroom - in the boardroom - in corporate

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there is no such thing as peace for Black people who are being micromanaged, policed, surveilled, abused and killed by white people in the day to day.

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the only logical response is to meet them white folks with the level of force and brutality that they wish to inflict onto you.

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that is the only way we have ever gotten free.

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that is the only way that we will get free.

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not by “keeping the peace.”

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not by “sitting this one out.”

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it’s by fighting.

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we must take back the humanity that they continuously steal from us.

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it’s the only way.

I learned in legal writing that you cite to case authority as an analog; that this case sounds / is differentiated from my case because of this, that, (oxford comma imperaitve) and the third reasons.

But how are judges not reading or listening to what I am saying when it comes to personal jurisdiction?

I can’t seem to say it much more simply than:

If a company selling counterfeit american girls dolls via an online form,

And there is a line in the javascript code in the form that makes the form accessible in the state of New York,

the company states we did not purposefully avail ourselves of New York even though our form was accessible online there,

And the judge says that the defendant company waived personal jurisdiction because the form was accessible in New York.

How - on God’s green earth - is WashU not subject to personal jurisdiction after torturing with me and threatening my livelihood for four years straight?

Say you don’t like the Southern District of New York American Girl LLC case - no problem - I’ll do you one better.

UMG Records v. Kurbanov. 2019. Same circuit - 4th circuit. This is the most recent case on the subject. Two years before the Supreme Court’s brand new interpretation of the due process clause - now interpreting “arise out of OR RELATE TO” as a crucial part of the personal jurisdiction analysis.

Russian website owner made money off advertising a music ripping service to Virginia. Guy does absolutely no business inside of the United States; only from the advertising revenue of a third party on his site.

The Russian citizen’s contacts with Virginia established that he purposefully availed himself of the privilege of conducting business in Virginia.

Even though the Russian citizen HAD NEVER EVEN COME INSIDE THE COUNTRY OR EVEN TARGETED VIRGINIA HIMSELF.

DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH MAIL I RECEIVED AT MY MARYLAND HOME FROM WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS?????? The fact WashU lied to the Maryland bar? The fact they constructively evicted me from my apartment because they said I was banned from all on campus and off campus property - which included my apartment on the campus police map as off campus property? The fact that my mom told them multiple times from the state of Maryland to stop messing with me? The fact they told my Mom to stop emailing them? I could go on but I said this in my filings…

I feel like this is so simple - yet no one is able to understand what I’m saying. How does my argument not make sense?

im so tired

but seriously - who the fuck would want to live when you can’t even afford to?

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one of my mother’s white passing “Black” friends from Harvard told me that I’m wasting my time appealing to the Supreme Court and arguing that the 4th circuit, among other circuits, has strayed from the Supreme Court’s ruling in Ford v. Montana (2021).

Instead, this white passing woman says that my mother should have swallowed the fact that WashU revoked my scholarship for no reason.

This white passing woman says my mother should have sent money that washu stole from me.

This white passing woman says we should drop it and move on.

That bad shit happens sometimes.

That white people will be white people.

That you have to move on.

And while some of that in there may be true - I don’t agree with her.

How could I?

Niggas aint get free thinking that way.

In what world does the nigga attempt to repay the enslaver?

Cause I knowwwwww you fuckin lying.

Man I hate people who were raised by people who hate Black people.

It is not terribly difficult to understand:

There is a calling that God puts on some of our lives-

and for some of us - that calling is to fight evil white folks and demand for our collective societies to be rid of anti-Blackness and treated as human beings.

some of us pick up pens.

and,

some of us pick up torches.

and I can always guarantee- that if you refuse to pick up a pen,

or open a book,

or read a thread,

or question why is everything so fucking expensive,

or see why they hate niggas so much,

and write about how you understand the world they have created, over saturated with their lies and grandiosity -

The likelihood that you will ever be able to understand why someone would ever pick up a cocktail

Is slim to none.

I do not expect a white passing individual to ever understand me or what I believe to be my purpose.

But God does. And at the end of the day,

that’s all that really matters.

You watch multiple women undergo abusive relationships with a man -

a man who brings literally nothing to the table

and yet you choose to proclaim that you don’t think he’s that bad?

That you can fix him?

That you’re the solution?

Why do yall act like dumbasses and then act confused when people call you a dumbass?

Why do yall use mental illness as an excuse to further fight for patriarchial violence?

YOU NOT SPECIAL!!!!

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I don’t have time to do all of the grocery shopping, find new recipes, sue my law school, find new lingerie, do my makeup so I don’t look like a raccoon, workout 4-5x a week, run my editing business, keep up with therapy/psychiatry, and work my full time job.

But if I only had a 32 hour work week - I know I would be more successful.

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many public interest attorneys who work for the public defenders office or legal aid are unable to take clients who are individual plaintiffs (a.k.a. regular, everyday people) because it poses a conflict of interest to the people that they represent and advise everyday on their civil rights and liberties.

I mean - it makes sense. Would you want your legal aid attorney to randomly tell you that they will be charging $500 an hour to continue working on your case?

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there is no such thing as an upworthy police officer. no decent agent of the ownership class…. yadda yadda ya the owners of the means of production and guardians of the bourgeoisie are accountable to no one except shareholders and business interests.

and for that reason - I don’t see why I have to pretend as if people who wield ungodly amounts of power towards the oppression, subjugation and incarceration of others based on their race and zip code -

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fuck y’all.

ALL of you knew what happened to me.

and yet - you have the audacity - the GUMPTION - to want to be mad at me for posting a picture of your fuckass gala to demonstrate the RAPIDLY decreasing amounts of diversity at washu.

as y’all grin with the same white people who robbed me of over $500,000.

fuck every last one of you.

AND STILL - this biracial girl in the photo wants me to give a fuck and take the photo with the PAUCITY of BLACK PEOPLE at the BLACK PEOPLE IN LAW DINNER because people in my comments are calling her white.

why am I supposed to care about yall when yall dont care about me

genuinely

the kindness and care yall me to exercise towards yall was never exercised towards me.

BLSA is, and was, complicit in WashU’s robbery of me.

In fact - the former President of BLSA - Cara Hunt - facilitated it.

Your silence is violence.

And as long as I remain hungry for what washu (and blsa) stole from me - you should never feel as though I will be quiet about what that institution and its organizations did to me.

Fuck y’all. with my WHOLE chest.

You niggas need help.

You niggas - you bitches - all y’all mfs need help.

Because what the actual fuck is going on?

I don’t even write this article as some sort of “I know better than everyone else” or “therapy sucks” - I write it as a confirmation to myself that after being in therapy on and off for YEARS, I am at a place where I feel like I can critique CBT - and the fact that I just found out from my fiance that my ex is getting married to a therapist -

A lot of therapists have no fucking clue what they’re doing.

And a lot of therapists that are counseling you - make very, very bad decisions in their personal lives.

I have been blessed to say that I can conclude that I don’t think any of the therapists that I had caused me too much damage.

But sometimes I think about the dumbass mfs who listen to their therapist like they’re listening to the gospel and unadulterated word of God.

“My therapist said -”

Well have we considered that maybe your therapist is a fucking idiot?

Let’s be so fr right now.

I encourage people - who may just need a good laugh with some friends to set put them in a better headspace - to do just that.

Maybe it’s time to withdraw from your therapist. You might save some money.

You might go insane - sure - but hey. Maybe your therapist doesn’t know everything.

I know -she- surely does not.

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We don’t have a fucking chance in hell to if yall keep cuddling up to people who cosign genocide with a smile.

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Ugh. This isn’t complicated. It’s not even that deep, or difficult.

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May all of yall who clamor near him…

May yall find some moral clarity around these times.

Because clamoring to people who insist on the occupation of Palestine. Who insist on the genocide. Who are fans of carceral solutions … the brutalization and marginalization of those who voice dissent…

Who shame their primary challengers out of races so they can

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Yall have to do better.

my family is 5 generations out from being enslaved in the United States.

and this is intensely important to the story I intend to tell with this publication…

because for the past 3 and 4 generations -

my family has still been n******. to them. to everyone, truly! lol

WE - my family - always knew we were special.

But we are treated like them. taxed like them. othered like them. hated like them.

we didn’t become white - in all 3 and 4 generations of becoming doctors and lawyers.

we have never been white. we never got to be white.

and I - as a lawyer - am still Black. 3 and 4 generations later.

Still a n*****.

Nothing has changed - except my - individual - approach and attitude about being part and from these elite -negros- and how that separation is ultimately meaningless if we aren’t ALL considered free and whole people…

I digress.

There are hundreds of essays I need to write about the depth of the pain, and how it feels to not be respected as a lawyer in polite, collected society… even though for all intents and purposes your family has done all of the “right” things the “right” way for generations and yet -

and on both a generational and individual level -

even after you have passed all of the exams, jumped through all of the hoops, and graduated - never cheating, never violating any rules, never violating the conduct code, never violating anyone or anything …

even when you make them deep belly laugh in the interviews, while you’re expected to laugh at their jokes that aren’t even funny,

even when you swallow your discomfort for them to have space,

even when you brush off the comments about the size of your lips or ass,

even when you nurture the chemical burns on your scalp from straightening your hair,

even when your ear skin is rough from the pressing comb,

even when you practice enunciating words in a way that white folks love,

none of your efforts will be enough for you to be considered human.

because you are still just a n__ger in their eyes.

and you will always be a n__ger in their eyes.

there is nothing that you can do - to be human.

to them - many of them - your bosses, your wannabe bosses, and your co-counsel

in their core - they believe that you are unworthy scum that should be grateful that you are getting to pretend that you have the -opportunity- to be anything else.

in the eyes of the state board of law examiners

in the eyes of the

and in the eyes of the judge.

it doesn’t matter.

none of your -toil- matters.

you are still just a N***ER to them…

and

and we still - are just - n_______.

and it’s going to be a bit - until yall other Black lawyers realize

that respectability politics isn’t going to unmake you a n****r.

I want you to hold that for a moment…

imagine the sacrifices to slavery breaking

to selling a mule

just to send your son to go to medical school

so that you go from slavery to doctor in one generation

that’s my great grandfather Grandpa Brown’s story

google Brown’s Hospital - in Bluefield West Virginia

that was my father’s grandfather

https://www.wvva.com/2024/02/21/inside-bluefield-wvas-first-black-hospital/

and so - I was always taught -

what is my excuse to not be exceptional?

I don’t have one. I never had one.

But damn sometimes I just wish they’d treat me and mine like we are exceptional

because we are…

even though we shouldn’t have to be

to be treated like humans.

When I’m all alone, I really learn to love my butt. It is weird to fit into corporate clothing but it must be done.

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The Democrats - specifically- are intent on sweeping most elections across the country this year.

Without giving you a single thing!

No raised minimum wage. No prohibitions on ICE. No affordable housing. No labor protections.

Nothing. Just “blue” and empty assurances of “progress.”

Which is why - I need you to know that you have more power than you think.

You do not need to vote for the “lesser” of two evils.

Instead - I implore you to vote for the candidate - who hopefully - will be endorsed by the Democratic party - but actually plans to codify and enact change AS A PROMISE TO YOU in exchange for electing them.

Otherwise - why vote at all?

I have no intentions on lying to you, and selling you a dream about how electoral politics is going to prevent you from experiencing violence at the hands of ICE - rogue masked agents wreaking terror and havoc in the vein of slave catchers and unadultered evil. I’m not going to sell you a dream about how democrats are forceful advocates responsible for the safeguarding of our “democracy.”

They aren’t. By in large - the Democrats are a group of pussies and pansies who do not have the tenacity or grit to fight for what the American people need: empathy and courage.

They have let us down repeatedly with their empty promises and rhetoric. It is the responsibility of us regular everyday people to push our Democratic Party farther left - everyday. Or frankly, they don’t deserve our votes.

I will tell you that in any given state with Democratic legislators- those Democratic legislators are BETTING on you to vote for them.

The democratic leadership THINKS that you will turn up to the voting booth!

Just because they are democrats.

And you shouldn’t.

Not without a fight.

Now without them listening to what you need from them.

And certainly - not without them dedicating themselves to the needs of their constituency and the plight of the working class.

Support candidates who are intent on using your tax dollars for initiatives that you support. Support candidates who at least pretend to give a shit about the fact that you can barely afford groceries. Support candidates who have earned your vote with the plans they have articulated instead of their identity.

All skinfolk aren’t kinfolk.

And the democrats are intent on you forgetting that they - just like anyone else - need to earn your vote, your respect, and your support.

Support grassroots politicians who support you.

And accept nothing - I MEAN NOTHING - less.

And unless you have a prenup, you’re essentially signing something that sounds like this:

“User assumes all risk and liabilities arising from any and all actions taken after commencement of use of the product”

Marriage- being the product -

In my mind, there’s only one real difference in my mind between getting married and gambling bc both end in you losing a shit ton of money.

One of them is a solo activity vs the other is a partner activity.

I don’t think either make sense honestly.

Bc why would you want to lose money to someone else - someone else you had sex and/or children with…

It just seems so stupid and preventable.

Every man/person will embarrass you if you stick around them long enough.

So why not just gamble and bet on yourself?

Because of love and/or societal norms…

Do you, I guess.

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