Apropos of the fact that Dr. King was in Memphis in solidarity with the sanitation workers' strike and delivered his mountaintop speech in which he said "always anchor our external direct action with the power of economic withdrawal" the day before he was assassinated
Warnock: "Slavery was bipartisan. Jim Crow was bipartisan. The refusal of women's suffrage was bipartisan. 3/5 compromise was bipartisan. When colleagues talk to me about bipartisanship, I ask: at whose expense? Who is being asked to foot the bill? Is liberty itself the cost?"
On December 4, 1969, Black Panther Fred Hampton was murdered by police.
"We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism."
Stephen Sondheim, the revered and influential composer-lyricist behind some of Broadway’s most beloved and celebrated shows, has died at 91. https://t.co/8lSmZrbQEh
BREAKING: All three defendants were found guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was chased down and shot while out jogging. https://t.co/xzs8x81nIp
We just witnessed a system built on white supremacy validate the terroristic acts of a white supremacist.
This only further validates the need to abolish our current system. White supremacy cannot be reformed.
And please believe that Governor Stitt knew he was going to commute the sentence yesterday. Still, he had Julius Jones undergo all the rituals and rites of execution. This is part of the cruelty and perversion of an immoral state with unmerited power to decide who lives and dies.
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