These occupations are not about voting. It’s about policing Black bodies, stripping our humanity and dignity and keeping us in our place. Don’t minimize it saying it’s about voting b/c it’s not and wypipo want to pretend it’s everything but race.
These occupations are not about voting. It’s about policing Black bodies, stripping our humanity and dignity and keeping us in our place. Don’t minimize it saying it’s about voting b/c it’s not and wypipo want to pretend it’s everything but race.
It’s both. They need to maintain their power to do it.
I don’t think armed military intimidation will keep Black folks away from a voting booth. We were built for this shit.
Part of what is happening is so shocking to “wypipo”because they have never had their right so messed with. That is not so for Blacks and other POC. Do they know our history; the brutality we faced just trying to exercise the same rights as Whites? John Lewis got beaten unconscious . We aren’t (1)
(2)…that easily intimidated. White people are going to have to push past their discomfort because change can only happen when discomfort is present.