The argument that reparations can’t be paid to descendants of American chattel slavery b/c it happened long ago and everyone involved is long dead just got kicked in the teeth
Oklahoma supreme court dismisses lawsuit of Tulsa massacre survivors and basically used the “I’m-white-and-I-say-so” common law. These types of unjust rulings further should how deeply systemic anti-Black racism is imbedded in all institutions in our society.
https://t.co/iPDIUGP3zM
That’s her grandparents who are South Asian. She has expressed on many occasions in interviews that she is multiracial (or “coloured” in the South African racial classification)
being able to sleep 8 hours straight is also wasted on children. for what? what do you have to do tomorrow? if i don't get enough sleep tonight, i might get fired
Today the Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down the case of the Tulsa Race Massacre survivors who had filed for reparations. This is what one of the survivors told me just before they made this final appeal.