Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis.
Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention.
So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption.
1/ Here it is - in one🧵
GOOD MORNING 🌞✊🏾
Black people, now more than ever, we need each other. We need to support each other, protect each other, and invest in each other. Too often we’re told to forget our history while the world profits from our culture, copies our style, studies our influence, and benefits from the very things we create.
Never forget who you are. We come from people who survived the unimaginable and still found ways to create, build, lead, inspire, and thrive. That’s resilience. That’s power.
If we were truly everything they claim we are, they wouldn’t be so quick to imitate us, consume our culture, and seek our influence. The truth is our impact is felt in every corner of the world.
So stop looking for validation from people who refuse to see your value. Support Black businesses. Support Black creators. Support Black families. Support Black communities. Celebrate Black excellence.
At the end of the day…nobody is coming to save us. We are all we got, and when we move together, there’s nothing more powerful than that.
Remember who you are. Remember where you come from. And never let anyone make you forget your worth.
✨HAVE A BLESSED AND POWERFUL DAY ON PURPOSE✨
Mike Brown was barely 18
Trayvon was 17
Cyrus was 14
Tamir was 12
They kill our children and then call it “self defense”. They lynch them and call it “suicide”. They punished Karmelo for not dying.
@queenie4rmnola@LurieFavors This is across the board. Nearly 60% of those the Innocence Project has helped to free or exonerate since 1992 are Black.
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A good time to remind you that Black people are 7.5 x more likely to be wrongfully convicted of murder than whites, and that this risk is higher when the victim is white.
Black people are the only race of people I know that are hated by everyone.
Every other race on Earth seems to hate African American people.
What that lets me know is that we possess something that is so intimidating, so threatening, that people want to harm us, belittle us, humiliate us, and try to strip away our joy, our lives, and our very being.
So I want every Black person to know how special you are.
Because no one can be hated this much unless they possess something that no one else ever will.
Three young Black lives. Three trips to a store. Three families left carrying a lifetime of grief.
Latasha Harlins was killed after being falsely accused of stealing a bottle of orange juice. Video evidence showed she had money in her hand and did not steal the item.
Cyrus Carmack-Belton, 14 years old, was shot in the back after being accused of shoplifting. His family lost a son. A community lost a child.
Trayvon Martin was returning from a store with an Arizona tea and a bag of Skittles when his life was taken.
Different cities. Different years. The same painful question.
How many Black children must die under suspicion before Black life is treated as innocent, human, and worthy of protection?
Oppression does not disappear because we ignore it. It does not retreat because we hope it will. Every generation must decide whether it will accept injustice or confront it.
We are a people who desire peace. But peace without justice is submission. Peace without accountability is silence. Peace without power is fragile.
The question is not whether history is repeating itself. The question are prepared to do to stop it?
Black People voting Dem got us:
1. The Civil Rights Act
2. 40% increase in high school grads
3. Twice as likely to have college degree
4. 6x greater wealth
5. 23% decrease in infant mortality
6. 11.5 year life expectancy increase
7. The Community Reinvestment Act