If ever there was a time for public school teachers to strike, it is now. Refuse to go. It’s not like they’re funding your school anyway. It’s definitely not worth dying over.
No but seriously, the whole thing is evil. A Trump rally. On Juneteenth. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, the site of the black Wall Street massacre. We live in the pettiest version of hell
y’all stopped talking about BLM too fast for me.
BREONNA TAYLOR needs her justice. this isn’t over. keep protesting, keep posting, keep this movement alive.
WA's gov. ordered a new investigation on the killing of #ManuelEllis, a Black man who died when police held him in a chokehold, as he said "I can't breathe."
Examiners ruled it a homicide.
The investigation was being done by officials linked to officers involved in his arrest.
The 1921 #TulsaMassacre was one of the worst acts of racial violence in U.S. history, killing approximately 300 Black people.
Newspapers practically ignored it.
This was organized and led by Indigenous people.
Columbus literally started a genocide against them.
What a sick thing to say about those taking down monuments to their own oppression.
Story I learned last night:
I started Girl Scouts in first grade and was an active scout until I was 17 (12th grade)—did ALL the GS stuff and loved my scouting experience. I was a GS national delegate.
My troop, 1001, was in Detroit and almost all black.
Police have murdered Black ppl in America with few repercussions since the beginning. Meet Walter Francis White. He was a Black man with blond hair and blue eyes, parents born into slavery. In 1920, he used his lightskin to infiltrate KKK meetings. Guess who was there?