In 1946 WWII veteran Maceo Snipes was shot in his back by the KKK the day after he became the first Black person to cast a vote in Taylor County, Georgia.
After he was shot, Mr. Snipes walked three miles to the hospital with his mother. For six hours doctors left him waiting and bleeding. By the time he was seen, he needed a blood transfusion. The doctors said the hospital had no “black blood.” Snipes died two days later.
This is why I will vote in every election. The day I stop voting is the day I stop breathing. #DemsUnited #BlackHistoryWithLana
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Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou: The fact that the very people who are meant to lead this country have completely retraumatized us… it’s—I mean—it’s like being raped by the Department of Justice.
I looked at these documents and everything went into slow motion. My addresses, my driver’s license with my picture, my phone numbers. I was compelled to give testimony in the Maxwell trial, and therefore compelled to give an honest amount of information about my life—notes on everything personal that had ever happened to me. And all of that was released.
You can’t put that back in.
Many people have written to me on social media saying, “Well, if you’re already out and talking about being a survivor in your own name, what’s wrong with having your information out there?”
First of all, it wasn’t my choice to be public about this. It was my choice to speak in my own name at the dismissal hearing of Epstein’s charges after he died. But it was not my choice to be outed on the internet, or exposed in these ways by various trolls.