Breanna McClarey > Recent Status Updates

Well it’s definitely showing the good, bad, and the ugly of mass tort/class action litigation … kinda interesting to read about it from a fictional standpoint. Everything’s been too good for too long for Clay, waiting for shit to hit the fan.

My dad gave me this book to read over break … if I haven’t read enough law stuff! But it’s mildly interesting so far and cool that I know the legal jargon now.

Pls this is giving me the first week of the pandemic flashbacks

1) The fact that I’m on pg 890 and still only 81% through …

2) EEEK Adolin is like a good Tamlin but Kaladin is going to be Shallan’s Rhysand 😩🙏🏼 (IYKYK🫶🏼)

3) Pls Sanderson I beg for more smut but I know it won’t happen it’s okay I’m just fiending for A DROP

YOOOOO shits about to go DOWN let’s gooooo Shallan and Kaladinearning about eachother and now she summons her Shardblade

“I say that there is no role for women - there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself.”

Omg with Amaram leading the reformed Knights Radiant that gets interesting…. I bet there might be some reconciliation between him and Kaladin when they inevitably need to work together. But very interesting development. Also Shallan and Adolin are cute but I’m still hoping for a love triangle.

I know Sanderson doesn’t do romance but inreallyyy want there to be a love triangle between Shallan, Adolin, and Kaladin 😭🙏🏼

Holy CRAPPP chapters 33 and 34 were two of the best chapters of any book I’ve read that was epic.

Okay placing my bets on the assassin as an inside job, maybe one of the brothers??
And wait I loved the chapter told from Sadeas’ point of view, love his cold, calculated, and villainous character.

Really gonna force myself to get back into reading during all my summer travels!! Especially during long drives & flights - I should read instead of sleep!
Anyways, poor Jasnah got murdered … that’s tough.

Ngl Shallan that was kind of a dumbass plan to soul cast the ship??
Also I’m still trying to understand soul casting & the shadesmar realm & all that stuff.

It’s now or never (let’s hope this doesn’t take me MONTHS to finish)

Of fucking course it was ONLY the U.S. and the UK who vetoed sanctions against South Africa in response to apartheid.

Damn the torture Peter Jones endured (and what we can assume ended up killing Biko) is awful I hate humanity so much sometimes how can people do that

“It is my belief that there are no national boundaries when the welfare of the family of humanity is grossly assaulted.”

Wow history really does repeat itself … the Afrikaner Nationalists winning a narrow victory by exploiting white fear and persuading enough white ppl that their identity could only be protected by applying apartheid. Then, once in power, they manipulated laws, enlarged the Senate unconstitutionally, passed bills removing anti-apartheid parliament reps, redrew voting districts, appointed their own judges, etc.

“To prevent people from being able to earn enough to pay high taxes, then to deny them rights because they don’t pay high taxes, is the height of cynicism.”

He’s popping off!!!

“The argument that whites built up South Africa and devil it into its present preeminence as a modern industrial state is also invalid, for not one single building or factory was ever built without black labor - and cheap black labor, at that, in most cases.”
STAND ON BUSINESS YEPPP

“Their version of Christianity, which justifies apartheid, is rejected by leaders and theologians of all the major Christian sects - and the Afrikaner Nationalists know it.”

“They [apartheid laws] are the result of polite caucus discussions by hundreds of delegates in sober suits, after full debate in party congress. They are passed after three solemn readings in a parliament that opens every day’s proceedings with a prayer to Jesus Christ. There is special horror in that fact.”

Mr. Kentridge has some crazy clap backs during the inquest oml

Fuck I’m not ready to start this section about Steve’s detention, torture, and death 😭😭

Jeez there are SO many parallels between Trump’s admin & the Afrikaners Nationalist Party - the party upholding apartheid.

“Our rulers think their enemy is words, and that if they prevent certain words being uttered by certain people they have won. But their enemy is thoughts more than words. Words, after all, are merely the reflection of thoughts. The thoughts are what matter, and you cannot legislate against thoughts.”

“Democracy is really only a success if the people who have the right to vote can intelligently and honestly apply a vote.”

Yeppppp

Honestly this is super interesting that Biko had such strong concepts of Black Consciousness given that he had never even left South Africa and had grown up under apartheid.

Damn him mentioning how he looked up at the U.S. “with its guarantees of individual liberty and its checks and balances that had produced the glorious chapter of Watergate, in terms of which even the highest officer in the State could be toppled from power for misdemeanors.”

Oh how far we’ve fallen,

“The first step therefore is to make the black man come to himself; to pump back like into his empty shell; to infuse him with pride and dignity, to remind him of his complicity in the crime of allowing himself to be misused and therefore letting evil reign supreme in the country of his birth. This is what we mean by an inward-looking process. This is the definition of ‘Black Consciousness.’”