You look like a new person- hi there! Thanks for reading. This site is where I vent about having an invisible disability as well as cancer. Please consider sharing this post because it’s really helpful in my shift to a writing career. Welcome back! Please tell share this post or consider buying me a cup of coffee because it will help me continue to pay bills while I shift to a part time writing career.I was on a site that I normally find otherwise fantastic. It’s a site that focuses on good men- as a feminist I think it’s important to recognize and celebrate men as well as women. Especially when they organize to be better, as we all should. So I’ll link to the site, but not the article, in another post. But it was one of those guest posts that proclaims that if black people just voted more, maybe things like Ferguson wouldn’t happen to us. I find this woefully naive. (Not to mention factually untrue and incredibly invalid for two reasons I’ll get to sooner or later. But please indulge me because it’s important that you follow the logic and data instead of just believing me if you want to make this argument to someone on your own.) It’s naive not just about black people but about all people of color who have a majority population in poverty. And I say that as a person who actively maintains a certain naivete concerning some matters- it’s handy when

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