Aaron Parecki

Understand that the call to abolish police is also a call to allocate adequate funds and resources to mental health services, livable wages, food security and all other societal factors which facilitate the ‘crimes’ you believe we need police protection from.

I worked with people with mental illness and violent offenders as a therapist for years. I was trained in de-escalation and in the proper way to physically restrain clients who were endangering themselves or others. I carried no weapons. And I was just a fucking therapist.

There will be a wave of financial settlements that local governments will need to pay due to widespread police brutality & misconduct over the last few weeks.

Taxpayers should not be footing the bill. Responsibility needs to lie with those perpetrating these harms.

I was arrested on June 2nd, 2020 with around 100 other protesters in Los Angeles. While I was ziptied and facing the wall, two male officers joked behind me about my gender presentation: "Do you think it's a female? Are you sure?"

Queer eye but it’s 5 black women who come in and tell police forces how to undo systemic racism in the justice system. Also they get paid double whatever the fab 5 gets paid. #BlackLivesMatter

have y’all ever heard anyone say it’s “just one bad doctor”???? naw. they lose their licenses, they get sued, they get thrown in JAIL for medical malpractice. why? bc there’s no room for mistakes or error in a profession that you swear to protect and help the people, PERIOD

The pipeline problem does NOT exist. 10 yrs ago I was a CS undergrad getting told I wasn’t smart enough, while that same bitch ass school was hanging fliers for “girls in STEM” scholarships. Kiss my entire black ass if you think it’s not your own fault you can’t find black talent

Dear corporations and venture capital firms making supportive posts and vowing to be part of the solution,

I am available to join your board.

#RepresentationMatters

Hi if you have white privilege you can't renounce or ditch it.

Entire systems and structures have been set up to give you unearned advantages. Many of the conditions of yr life, education, career, health, home, etc have unearned advantages.

Face this, AND do antiracist work.

Black Lives Matter.

That's an objective truth. It baffles me that it is considered a controversial/political statement in an industry that prides itself on logic and facts.

#TechTwitter, we need to do better.

As @danielpunkass described, this is a solid move. You literally can’t do anything else in For You, Browse, or Radio except listen to this Beats1 station. Love this from @AppleMusic

And for the complainers, you can still search and access your library. Calm down.

Apple Music just fucking snapped. Blocked all the stations and you can only hear Black music

People are saying that whitelist/blacklist are etymologically not discriminatory and have nothing to do with races. You're probably correct, but there are modern connotations, so the etymology doesn't matter.

Everyone in the tech industry has come across the terms "whitelist"(desirable) and "blacklist"(undesirable). We should start deprecating this terms for less racially charged language, like "safelist", "blocklist". Tech can be less exclusionary @venikunche @EmmaBostian @ugonna_t

While I don’t pretend to have all the answers, I’m encouraging creators to create and post their content for the people who need it and rely on them.

But to respectfully not push or promote in conversation platforms.
Respect that.

I feel it’s an appropriate balance.

Everyone Shut up.

I don't normally share my thoughts on important topics because I hate confrontation, but y'all have irritated me to the point of vocality.

Want to amplify black voices? Then listen to me. You better fucking share this.

This is going to be a long ass thread

Here are a bunch of Portland Black-Owned Businesses you can choose to shop at this week. https://mercatuspdx.com/directory/black-owned-businesses/

Podcasters! You have America's ear. Develop talking points as a group and get these into your shows every damn day from now until the election. You have more power than you think. @romanmars @jatomic @iraglass @marcmaron @fakedansavage @JadAbumrad

Shouts out to this Woman for nearly busting this mans head for pushing protesters. We not letting this slide no more