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I drink a lot of coffee.
It’s a daily habit, actually. I am seriously Nancy Botwin out here; I always have an iced coffee — even during cold weather. Iced coffee is life.
I have incorporated my Starbucks addiction into my monthly budget, and that includes my daily espresso injection as well as a generous tip for the baristas at my favorite Starbucks drive-thru because they are the absolute best.
Anyway, my love for coffee is so strong that I have at least 20 different graphic T-shirts that proclaim my love for this morning liquid gold.
One of my favorites is a shirt that has a picture of the Grim Reaper on it, holding what looks like a Starbucks cup in one hand and a scythe in the other.
Written in bold letters over the top of the graphic is the phrase “You will pry my coffee from my cold dead hands.”
I think it’s hilarious because it’s true. But that’s just coffee.
There are (some) white people who feel that way about power. It applies to any type of power, but it is glaringly obvious when we look at political power.
Dianne Feinstein was one of California’s first two female U.S. senators and the first female mayor of San Francisco. She served in the Senate from 1992 until her death Friday at the age of 90.
Thoughts and prayers and all of that, but can we have a conversation about the way white people in power refuse to relinquish that power even when it’s more than obvious they need to?
Feinstein’s death put California Governor Gavin Newsom in the position of having to appoint someone to…
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