Nope! This is as American as apple pie.
This is the Klan riding, by another name, bold enough to show their faces since the Age of Respectability is over. It's the Klan with a dry veneer of BIPOC inclusion.
This isn't the rise of fascism. This is homegrown terror, ever with us. https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1322717985333747712
This is the Klan riding, by another name, bold enough to show their faces since the Age of Respectability is over. It's the Klan with a dry veneer of BIPOC inclusion.
This isn't the rise of fascism. This is homegrown terror, ever with us. https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1322717985333747712
This is why we have to study, respect, and center the Black South in our analyses of race, politics, and culture.
We don't do that often enough and it shows.
We don't do that often enough and it shows.
"Hating white people." Hm.
1. My work has been labeled as "too White."
2. I have some "white" ancestry, like most Black Americans.
3. White people lynched my great-grandfather. It's why I grew up in Detroit.
Hate you? No. I wish you didn't hate us.
https://twitter.com/Matthew_Koonts/status/1322928676460236805
1. My work has been labeled as "too White."
2. I have some "white" ancestry, like most Black Americans.
3. White people lynched my great-grandfather. It's why I grew up in Detroit.
Hate you? No. I wish you didn't hate us.

Muting this. Have a good Sunday. For heaven's sake, no matter what your politics, *read.*
Nothing my mild & boring Blerd self posts should be shocking to ANY thinking US adult.
Reading lists:
1. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/06/a-reading-list-on-issues-of-race/
2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/06/24/13-books-history-black-america-those-who-really-want-learn/
3. https://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2019/08/400-years-a-traumatized-nation-a-reading-list-for-the-fourth-centennial-of-slavery-in-america.html
Nothing my mild & boring Blerd self posts should be shocking to ANY thinking US adult.
Reading lists:
1. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/06/a-reading-list-on-issues-of-race/
2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/06/24/13-books-history-black-america-those-who-really-want-learn/
3. https://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2019/08/400-years-a-traumatized-nation-a-reading-list-for-the-fourth-centennial-of-slavery-in-america.html