So this gets problematic real quick. What if I told y’all that we deserve a president that didn’t need to see burning tiki torches to know that some of us have been under attack for hundreds of years... now I know some of y’all are going to come to his defense but hear me out.
If he came to VIRGINIA to speak about Charlottesville in a 30 minute speech, I need a report on the solutions that he proposed to change things. Or it sounds like it was using Charlottesville as a political pawn which is divisive and offensive.
I hope we can all assume the baseline of Charlottesville = Bad. But what I’m finding we cannot assume is that all candidates/electeds/leaders are prepared for the next level of the conversation which includes reckoning, restoration, and repairing.
In this pivotal year where all 140 seats of the VA General Assembly are going to be on the ballot on November 5th, and as we Democrats are poised to be in positions of more power, please know that I will not be sweeping aside important conversations about race for fake unity.
And @JoeBiden sir, this is not just directed at you. It is directed at anyone who so strongly claims to be an ally but scrambles for real receipts upon demand. We need to dig deeper, especially for those who DEPEND upon Black voters for their next promotion.
And for context in case you’re just seeing this tweet alone, it’s about the domestic terrorism that occurred in Charlottesville that = bad. Not the city. The city is awesome!
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