Amber retweeted
I need to make a very PUBLIC announcement on behalf of younger GenXers and older Millennials.
If you see someone in their 40s or 50s who seems a little boring now, I need you to understand something...
We already got it in.
Like...GOT. IT. IN.
We are not sitting home on a Friday night because we never knew how to have fun.
We are sitting home on a Friday night because we have seen enough.
We went to parties in houses that should have been condemned and were almost certainly owned by the local drug dealer.
We saw police lights and RAN and not across a nice, flat field.
INTO THE WOODS.
Do you understand the athleticism required to hurdle uprooted tree roots in platform shoes while simultaneously trying to keep your low-rise jeans from sliding completely off your ass?
And somehow...we never spilled the Zima. We never spilled the Boone’s Farm.
That was TALENT.
We slept on floors in strange houses because the designated driver either never showed up or, in a shocking turn of events, was drunker than everybody else.
There was no Uber, Life360 or Find My Friends.
There was just somebody named Mike saying, “I know a shortcut.”
And we FOLLOWED MIKE.
We closed down bars and then decided the night was still young, so we drove to Atlantic City, where we somehow managed to get drunk, sober up, get drunk again, sober up again and then get drunk a THIRD TIME before breakfast.
And according to our parents? We were at Michelle’s house.
Eating pizza and watching movies.
Michelle’s mother unknowingly covered for approximately 17 people every weekend. If there even was a Michelle.
We drank things called Purple Passion, Mad Dog 20/20 and whatever somebody mixed inside a giant plastic garbage can. Nobody asked what was in it. You grabbed a red Solo cup and trusted the process.
We went to clubs until the lights came on. Do you know the psychological damage of seeing a nightclub with the LIGHTS ON? Nothing good happens after those lights come on.
We danced for four straight hours in shoes that permanently altered the structure of our feet.
We made entire plans without cell phones...no texts, dropped pins or group chats...just an extremely questionable sense of direction.
We rode in cars with 11 people when the vehicle legally seated five. Someone was always sitting on someone. Someone was always in the hatchback.
And there was always one friend yelling, “DUCK!” when we passed a cop.
So yes...now we like being home.
We like sweatpants.
We like cancelling plans.
We like saying, “That sounds fun!” with absolutely no intention of attending.
We like restaurants at 5:30 because we can get a good table.
We like being home by 8:17.
And if someone texts at 9:30 PM and says, “What are you doing?”
Sleeping...we are sleeping.
Because this is not boring my friends...this is retirement.
We already played, partied and danced on the bar.
We already ran from the cops through a wooded area dressed like a Spice Girl.
We have stories that cannot be posted because there are still people with careers, marriages and reputations to protect. And thank GOD there were no camera phones.
So kids, when you look at your Gen X and older Millennial parents sitting peacefully on the couch watching Dateline at 8 PM and think:
“God, you guys are boring.”
Sweetheart...oh sweetheart.
You are looking at retired legends.
Put some respect on our names. We're probably the reason Life360 was invented.
xoxoxo (posted from someone else on FakeBook) 🤣 #genx #oldandtired
Amber retweeted
Good women are generally very lowkey and not that socially visible. The reason you think they don't exist is because they are protecting themselves and trying to avoid unwanted attention. The trash is loud and plentiful, but there are more beautiful feminine souls than you think.
Amber retweeted
I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, "Never play fair in a game where others cheat." It doesn't mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they'll throw dirt. Sometimes wisdom is not revenge. Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.
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Amber retweeted
The black community is a strange place. We won't cancel a person for being a drug dealer, a bad mother, a bad father, twerking in the streets, or killing people, but we will cancel somebody for not being a Democrat. That's really hilarious.
Amber retweeted
A powerful Black woman just shut down these hypocritical anti-ICE agitators who screamed the N-word at a Black ICE agent—calling him a "house n***er" while pretending to fight racism!
She reminds EVERY Black American: The real racists are these white liberals who weaponize us, use us as shields, then drop slurs the second we don't obey their script.
They're not allies—they're the same plantation owners in new packaging. Wake up, community! Stop letting them divide us while they hate our borders, our jobs, and our dignity.
ICE is doing their job. Respect it. Protect it. 🇺🇸
#BlackVoicesMatter #ExposeTheHypocrites #WhiteLiberalRacism #SupportICE #AmericaFirst
Amber retweeted
Black American History Month isn't about:
- Africa or Africans
- Carribeans
- the African Diaspora
- all Afro-Descendants
- marginalized, oppressed people
- illegal/legal immigrants
- White America
- women
- LGBTQIA
- Native Americans
Black History celebrates BLACK AMERICANS
Amber retweeted
I hate Black History Month.
Not because I'm racist, but because of how it's framed.
Instead of celebrating Black people who displayed exceptional excellence, courage, and honor, Black History Month is presented through a victimhood lens.
George Floyd, Michael Brown, and many others killed by police while committing crimes are household names.
But almost no one knows Medal of Honor recipient Alwyn Cashe or Dr. Ronald McNair.
Both died in service to our country, yet their names are rarely mentioned in mainstream discourse.
Sergeant First Class Alwyn Cashe succumbed to his injuries after saving fellow soldiers, braving flames and mortal wounds to rescue as many as he could. He suffered second- and third-degree burns over 72% of his body while saving six of his brothers.
Dr. Ronald McNair, a brilliant physicist who earned his PhD from MIT before DEI and affirmative action, became nationally recognized for his work in laser physics. He was also an avid martial artist, earning a fifth-degree black belt in karate and winning many regional championships. He tragically died when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded.
So many other Black individuals have demonstrated exceptional merit, talent, and honor, yet most people have never heard of them.
Instead, we are constantly bombarded with the names of George Floyd and other career criminals... as if we should honor drug addicts who pointed guns at pregnant women.... while ignoring Black people who sacrificed themselves for the greater good.
This is why I hate Black History Month.
It doesn't celebrate excellence; it perpetuates a victimhood mentality that keeps so many trapped in a "crab in a pot" mindset.
We don't celebrate others like Thomas Sowell, an economist and author who rose from Harlem poverty to challenge dependency narratives, arguing self-reliance over government intervention drives progress,
or Clarence Thomas, who came from rural Georgia segregation to Supreme Court Justice, embodying merit through sheer grit.
Others like Bass Reeves,
one of the first Black U.S. deputy marshals in the 1800s, who captured over 3,000 outlaws in the Wild West with legendary marksmanship and disguise skills,
or Katherine Johnson, a NASA mathematician whose calculations were crucial for the Apollo missions, proving intellectual prowess in a segregated field.
Then all the liberal white people love to self-flagellate and prostrate themselves in the face of the history of slavery. It's more virtue-signaling that reinforces dependency narratives rather than celebrating Black agency and excellence. It's the "oppression Olympics" that keeps everyone trapped in resentment instead of moving toward a better tomorrow.
Amber retweeted
This is why I say Hudson isn't as good as singer as she thinks. Her belts and hollers hide her weaknesses. Like her lack of range and control. She equates bigness for greatness when it's really emotion, pacing, and momentum. Not every verse needs to be so intense. Less is more.
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