This chapter discusses how college-educated Black males in the workforce are essentially genocide survivors among their peers. There is so much institutional investment in preventing Black males from becoming leaders in their communities and society, generally.
🚨 DAMN.
Ruby Bridges said the moment she finally understood what was happening during school integration was when a little white boy told her:
“My mom said I can’t play with you because you’re a nigger.”
She was SIX.
And she said hearing that felt like “a huge weight lifted,” because suddenly everything made sense.
Why the classrooms were empty.
Why adults were screaming.
Why U.S. Marshals had to escort her to school.
Not because of anything she did.
Just because of the color of her skin.
A six-year-old child realizing an entire country was angry at her for existing.
Can't overstate how important it is to celebrate and publicize these historic wins in the face of huge rightwing ideological & political apparatuses.
Stephen A. Smith says he’ll never forget when two politicians ripped each other apart on TV, only to later spot them together at a restaurant “laughing it up.”
“I was in a booth next to them. And they were like, ‘That was some DAMN GOOD TELEVISION.’”
Smith says things on TV got “really bad” and “ugly.” So intense that you felt like you needed security on standby because they were “going to come to blows.”
But after the cameras stopped rolling, Smith says he spotted the same politicians “laughing it up” and “clanking glasses,” bragging about how they got “everybody fooled.”
Smith says this was a moment that “changed” his life politically forever. He couldn’t believe it.
He realized: “The more division you have, the more control you have because you’re forcing folks to pick a side.”
The NAACP has launched a campaign calling for college athletes and fans to withhold athletic support from public universities in Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas & Georgia due to Black voting representation.
It calls for athletes to "consider all available options under the transfer portal."
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