Eddie C. Brown wrote an OpEd for the Washington Post titled "I'm a black CEO. I've been discounted on Wall Street because of my skin color."
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The conditions facing Black America, including gun violence, are ALL DIRECTLY TIED TO THE WHITE SUPREMACIST SYSTEM. Stop trying to separate these things. This whole narrative about how we need to get ourselves together first if we want freedom from racism is entirely racist. 1/— Bree Newsome Bass (@BreeNewsome) July 8, 2020
Some of y'all have never had to sit in a room while people casually debate your existence and it shows— Brittany N. Williams 🎭📖 (@BrittanyActs) July 8, 2020
I don’t understand how you can witness what’s happening in USA right now & not recognize the violence of white supremacy & the US gov’t. It is the mostly deadly force in this nation & the world. Hundreds of thousands of ppl of all races will die needlessly from COVID b/c racism.— Bree Newsome Bass (@BreeNewsome) July 8, 2020
The white elite are saying they’ll cut funding from public schools unless communities offer their children up to illness and death against all common sense health guidelines in the fall. I don’t know how much more you need to see to understand why revolution is necessary.— Bree Newsome Bass (@BreeNewsome) July 8, 2020
Oooh this reminds me... Folks finna admit Mo’Nique was right the whole time or nah?— Tonja Renée Stidhum (@EmbraceTheJ) July 9, 2020
Jeff Bezos received a 245k loan from his parents in 1995 to help stop the early Amazon company from going under, this is the stuff we are talking about when we mention the 400 year head start— BJ (@BjLamont) July 8, 2020
The people throwing groceries & attacking baristas when asked to wear a mask will be the first ones to say “if you complied, you wouldn’t get shot.”— Nichole 🍞🍯 (@tnwhiskeywoman) July 9, 2020
annie leibovitz has been on this planet for SEVENTY years and has not learned how to light and photograph black skin. rich, sumptuous browns turn to ash through her lens and she needs to stop getting covers— folu (@notfolu) July 9, 2020
Members of the exonerated Central Park Five help paint #BlackLivesMatter on the street in front of Trump Tower on New York’s Fifth Avenue. pic.twitter.com/Cw2AB2zhb9— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) July 9, 2020
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