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We know what Sen. Kaine is saying, right? That there wasn’t a legacy system of slavery on these shores, so America created one and that foundation of racism, specifically of African-Americans, lasts until today. https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1272944779542831106
How did some of you get high school diplomas with this level of verbal comprehension?
Look, African-Americans ndetstabd that slavery has existed forever, all over the world. That not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about the American version, the 3/5th version, the American Civil War version that begat Jim Crow. That’s the one we’re talking about.
How uniquely cruel was America toward her black citizens? Adolf Hitler studied American Jim Crow laws, using them as a blueprint: https://www.history.com/news/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-jim-crow
It’s 2020. Being uninformed or misinformed isn’t an excuse any longer. It’s not cute to say “I didn’t know <blank> about black people.” Educate yourself. Get off social media and find a book. Read something.
You think Africans that we’re brought in chains didn’t fight back? They just woke up one day during the Civil War and suddenly got woke? A lot of these grievances are things black folks have been trying to tell the majority for centuries.
Just because YOU just found out about the Tulsa massacre (and the hundreds of other similar tragedies) last year doesn’t mean those stories of pain and death weren’t shared, those tales weren’t told. I was hip at a young age: don’t be fooled by this pristine notion of America.
And for all the death and terror brought against black people, how many perpetrators were brought to justice? Few, if any. This country a lot of you love so deep saw my grandparents’ pain and either laughed or shrugged or politely looked the other way.
And now we sit in 2020, with the world burning and some of you have the audacity, the unmitigated y’all to tell African-Americans to wait, to be patient. My parents were patient. My grandparents were patient. To paraphrase James Baldwin: how long do you need?
I know I’m always ranting, but I’m upset. I’m upset that Black death at the hands of the state is just chalked up as the price of doing business. Like, it’s just the way things work here.
I’m tired of people going out of their way to misunderstand what we are saying and what we’ve been saying: stop killing Black people.
Then we get all these distractions. Chicago, Black on Black crime, All Lives Matter, Blue Lives Matter, a Black person was mean to me once.
Then we get all these distractions. Chicago, Black on Black crime, All Lives Matter, Blue Lives Matter, a Black person was mean to me once.
It’s all crap. In 2020, we know why American society is set up the way it is: because enough white people are comfortable with the setup. It’s that simple.
Back to my original point. Sen. Kaine should have been clearer. Yes, America didn’t invent slavery or apartheid. But we perfected it. Our version inspired some of the worst people in history. The sooner America owns that, then we can move forward.
