Remember... the South did not want to end segregation. Or, slavery. They did not want to give black people their constitutional right to vote.
They were FORCED to. They're going to go back to the 1940s. They WILL segregate schools again. They've been trying to go back to this.
1. 🧵"If you are taking seats from Black people...then you are a thief."
Baton Rouge civil rights activist Gary Chambers said the quiet part out loud Friday as GOP lawmakers push to wipe out Louisiana’s majority-Black districts.
See the heated exchange👇
the va supreme court denied the results of the redistricting referendum. scotus gutted the voting rights act and tennessee carved up the last dem district destroying black voter power in the state.
those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable
I need Democrats to start thinking beyond the Voting Rights Act. Our country has changed. So too must the means by which we guarantee real multiracial democracy.
I can’t believe what I’m living through. At some point we have to acknowledge that the median American voter is braindead and equally responsible for this evil simply by being too lazy to open a fucking book.
its clear to me that the goal here is to keep escalating until something gives and people push back. and then use that as a means to implement martial law and engage in mass repression. Minnesota is a testing ground.
no matter what the next seasons bring; what happens with the actors, etc, this first season of heated rivalry will go down in entertainment history as one of the few shows with a near perfect first season. something really shifted with the culture here, theres no denying it.
Writing’s been on the wall for a while, but it does look like one of the most probable scenarios for the US is ~15-30 years of entrenched, unaccountable minority-party rule. Everything just gets steadily worse until some exogenous shock produces enough discontent to shake it up
Charlie Kirk said black people were better off in slavery and subjugation before the 1940’s.
“It was bad & it was evil but they committed less crimes”
So I dnt wanna hear yall tears frfr