Obama demanding we have nuance with slave owners is a demand only placed on Black and Native victims and a reminder of how we constantly expected to minimize our trauma so that white people can preserve their heroes and continue their romanticized illusion of America.
We need to bring back intellectual elitism. Sorry, but a virologist will always know more about vaccines than a yoga mommy blogger with a ChatGPT Plus subscription.
FIFA’s broadcast cameras appeared to avoid showing this moment, likely due to rules around political gestures and protests.
But today, Lumumba covered his mouth and mimed a gun to his head in a powerful protest against the silence surrounding the conflict in eastern DR Congo.
One of the world’s most active crises has displaced thousands, and he used the World Cup stage to make sure people could not look away.
This is what true influence looks like. 🇨🇩👏
in California, they used to burn the Chinese villages to the ground, and from monterey there are photographs of very fine white ladies in Victorian dress picking through the ashes looking for chinese mementoes, a kind of adventure for them 😬
White people in Ireland are conducting pogroms and going house to house pulling people of color out of their homes. There are videos of CHILDREN running for their lives. My God help us.