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Part VI

Loving my honey reading this series to me.

Oral sex *IS* sex!

"In the eyes of white people, Black criminality was broadly defined. Anything Black people did to challenge the racial hierarchy could be seen as a crime, punished either by the law or by lawless lynchings, which were epidemic in the South but also took place in the West and the North."

"Th Thirteenth Amendment is credited with ending slaver, but it stopped short of that. It made an exception for those convicted of crimes .... And it could not abolish the tru evil of American slavery, which as the belief that Black people are less evolved, less human, less capable, less deserving, less trustworthy than white people."

"It took only a few decades after the arrival of enslaved Africans in Virginia before white settlers demanded a new world defined by racial caste."

“The United States has the highest rate of incarceration of any nation on earth: this country contains 4 percent of the planet’s population but 20 percent of its prisoners.”

“Men cause all unwanted pregnancies.”

“[W]omen enjoying sex does not cause unwanted pregnancies and abortion. What causes unwanted pregnancies and abortion? *Men* enjoying sex and having irresponsible ejaculations.”

“A woman experiencing pleasure and orgasm has never caused a pregnancy.”

“As far as researchers know, women’s orgasms exist for pleasure only.”

“In first-time hookups with other women, they orgasm 64 percent of the time. But in first-time hookups with men, they orgasm only 7 percent of the time. So we know that when we ignore the experience of women’s pleasure during sex, the problem isn’t the women’s ability to orgasm.”

“When men choose to have condom-less sex, they are putting a woman’s body, health, social status, job, economic status, relationships, and even her life at risk in order to experience a few minutes of *slightly* more pleasure. … Would men really choose a few moments of slightly more pleasure over risking a woman’s whole life?”

“According to conventional portrayals of the sex act, it’s not over until the man ejaculates, and once he ejaculates, it’s over. We’re focused on the man’s experience, not the woman’s.”

“The pleasure men experience during sex—arousal and orgasm—are just presented as part of the basic mechanics of sex” while the clitoris isn’t even mentioned at all.

“Society teaches that the man’s pleasure is the purpose and priority of sex.”

Toasted Kale and Spinach Salad

Rosemary-Lemon Dutch Oven Bread

Beer Cheese

Saffron Yogurt Cheese

Sprouted Tahini Paste

Savory Walnut-Thyme Butter

Sprouted Chickpea Hummus

"Behind the cases of [white people who killed Black people] is a legacy of laws originally created to make it easer for white people to defend themselves against the Black people they enslaved, who were defined as "dangerous" because they wanted desperately to be free."

"White people continue to use self-defense laws to protect themselves from perceived harm from African Americans; Black people often cannot use self-defense to protect themselves from actual harm by white people."

“[W]hen interracial violence does occur, these [self-defense] laws can end up protecting white people—but leaving Black people vulnerable to white violence.”

Part 2

Vinegar Candy

Vinegar Pie

My Onion Soup