I honestly worry that a lot of folks in the media have no idea how targeted people of color feel by this president and how angry we are at his enablers.
Both sides did not do this. Both sides do not support this. This is happening because the President has decided to inflict pain and instill fear on a systematic basis.
Saw a clip floating around from Bill Moyer's 1978 report on a middle-class black family, the Spencers, integrating Rosedale in Queens NY. Watched the full thing. Check it. Fascinating, mind-boggling, saddening, infuriating &, unfortunately, relevant. #SAMO https://t.co/BZ8RV6eJ6K
Friendly reminder that you don’t have to say the ‘n word’ to be racist. That’s not the sole requirement. Asking people to prove racism is another tool the oppressor uses to marginalize and discredit us.
Some are thinking about a white student who had his Harvard admissions rescinded bc he used racial slurs. I am thinking about the black students who excelled in an environment w/ classmates who used racist slurs yet were never admitted to Harvard in the 1st place.
Leah Lange Chase, the Creole chef whose gumbo sustained everyone from two United States presidents to troubled families in the housing projects across the street from her family’s New Orleans restaurant, died on Saturday. She was 96. https://t.co/s8nx7QVYSY
Know your history.
Memorial Day was started by former slaves on May, 1, 1865 in Charleston, SC to honor 257 dead Union Soldiers who had been buried in a mass grave in a Confederate prison camp. #MemorialDay