Quick reminder that the govt closed almost 800 public libraries from 2010.
These complaints that removing statues erases our history would have been useful when they literally were getting rid of our access to history books.
Rt’ing this because I feel like black people that die of police brutality are becoming nothing more than hashtags and I feel like we need reminders that these are real humans with real families and real emotions.
pandemics are real whether or not you know someone who is sick. racism is real even if you aren’t a racist. white privilege is real even if you can’t feel it. police brutality is real even if the cop you know is kind and just. your world isn’t THE world. everything is not about U
If you’re from Michigan and never left your small town, you can’t claim the confederate flag or the confederacy as your heritage. You’re not a “southerner at heart” or a “rebel”, you’re just an asshole.
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I’ve been getting a lot of questions from my non-Black friends about how to be a better ally to Black people. I suggest unlearning and relearning through literature as just one good jumping off point, and have broken up my anti-racist reading list into sections: