thinking about this 1983 interview where David Bowie point blank period asks MTV why they don’t play Black artists pic.twitter.com/H36PQhqrNA— lauren milici (@motelsiren) June 11, 2020
The Tulsa Race Massacre took place in May of 1921. For 18 hours, white mobs tossed Molotov cocktails and torched churches and hospitals, killing 300 black people died. On Juneteenth, Trump will hold a rally there. Not any rally, a white supremacist rally.— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) June 11, 2020
for those newly interested in "systemic racism", yes put up your Black Lives Matter window sign, but stopping this wave of evictions where African Americans will be disproportionately affected is where the real fight against racism begins. https://t.co/UK1Dl90EWt— Keeanga-Yamahtta T. (@KeeangaYamahtta) June 11, 2020
P.S. you can't fix 400 years after just one week.— TyreeBP (@TyreeBP) June 10, 2020
The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved legislation that would give the Pentagon 3 years to rename installations and other military assets named for Confederate leaders — just a day after Trump tweeted he "will not even consider" renaming bases. https://t.co/7PUxkithKp— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 11, 2020
If the mayor can’t even get the cops to wear masks how can he get them to stop beating people up? https://t.co/fhywf7QiaO— Molly Jong-Fastš” (@MollyJongFast) June 11, 2020
Racism, what does it look like? https://t.co/R1f8JC71y9— Molly Jong-Fastš” (@MollyJongFast) June 11, 2020
People really need to ask themselves why their communities chose to erect statues to slaveholders instead of abolitionists.— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 11, 2020
Worth taking a second to marvel at the fact that in 2020 things like "banning chokeholds" and "removing statues of treasonous white supremacists on public land" count as genuine progress!— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 11, 2020
Far too many white people have turned this moment into their white guilt camapign, still centering themselves.— Frederick Joseph (@FredTJoseph) June 11, 2020
Platform, support, and uplift Black people. That’s it.
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