“you always told me it takes time. it’s taken my father’s time, my mother’s time. my uncle’s time, my brother’s and my sister’s time. my niece’s and my nephew’s time. how much time do you want, for your progress?” - james baldwin pic.twitter.com/JkE8w7up9Y— nadirah (@hinadirah) May 27, 2020
It's time.
A President who sits in the White House, disconnected from reality, encouraging hate and attacks other leaders in crisis is disgraceful. This is not leadership. It's demagoguery.
A few things to read:
Uprisings and Education
Don't understand the protests? What you're seeing is people pushed to the edge: by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Dismantle White Supremacy: Ben and Jerry's Open Letter. My thanks to an ice cream company that still seeks to make the world a better place. To paraphrase their old slogan, 'What's the doughboy (in the White House) afraid of?'
What if... 'this time' we moved ahead, bravely, to address hatred, racism and oppression. What if we made real changes. What if we kept the discussion going rather than let another protest fade into history with little to no results.
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