America is a country where white people can storm the Capitol and be given the benefit of the doubt. Yet Black people going about their lives are treated like THEY’re storming the Capitol?
@AP This white man refused to wear a mask at a grocery store. He then assaulted an employee.
Got in his truck, with police hanging on, HIT THE OFFICER IN THE FACE WITH A HAMMER, and sped off.
Not one shot was fired. The white man lived to tell the tale.
Just because someone says their acts of violence weren’t “racially motivated” doesn’t mean they weren’t.
Racism is viciously nuanced, with historical context, economic considerations, and warped ideology.
#StopAAPIHate#StopHate#BeWise#BeLOVE
When black people were raging about racist violence & murder by the police, their movement #BlackLivesMatter was shouted down with #AllLivesMatter When women are raging about murder & sexual assault their movement is shouted down with #NotAllMen#SarahEverard💔#Clapham
Ted Cruz voted against Sandy relief for New York. New York’s congresswoman, @AOC, just raised over $3 million for organizations in Texas.
The two parties are not the same.
After 231 years of male vice presidents, Kamala Harris is the first woman — and woman of color — to serve as vice president of the United States. https://t.co/889m2mETIL
On Wednesday, Amanda Gorman became the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, performing an original poem titled "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
I wish George Floyd was asked nicely. I wish Breonna Taylor was asked nicely. I wish Trayvon Martin was asked nicely. I wish Philando Castile was asked nicely. I wish Eric Garner was asked nicely. I wish Michael Brown was asked nicely. I wish Tamir Rice was asked nicely. I wish..
Republicans called the valid votes of Black, brown and Indigenous voters across this country “fraud” because they couldn’t believe that, in the middle of a pandemic, we overcame all of their attempts to disenfranchise us.