How careless white America has been with black pain.
The same careless spirit that allows Trump to compare lynching to a constitutional process.
The same spirit that sees slave plantations as romantic venues.
That spirit that loves black forgiveness after white violence.
The same careless spirit that allows Trump to compare lynching to a constitutional process.
The same spirit that sees slave plantations as romantic venues.
That spirit that loves black forgiveness after white violence.
Trump's lynching comments exemplify white America's carelessness w/ the black experience in the country.
The same carelessness oozed out of Joe Biden when -- in a response to a question about slavery -- implied that black families need social workers to help raise their kids.
The same carelessness oozed out of Joe Biden when -- in a response to a question about slavery -- implied that black families need social workers to help raise their kids.
And then I think again, it's not white America's carelessness with black pain. White America enjoyed it. Cultivated black pain.
Lychings were entertainment. Sadistic public spectacles. White people even made photos and postcards of lynchings as souvenirs.
Lychings were entertainment. Sadistic public spectacles. White people even made photos and postcards of lynchings as souvenirs.
The spirit of white supremacy interplays delicately with Victimhood. White America will harm us in the form of media commentary, racist policies, and pop culture representations...
Then turn around and call black folks an angry Twitter mob when we use social media to resist.
Then turn around and call black folks an angry Twitter mob when we use social media to resist.
When black people warned about the dangers of Trump, its because we knew what America is capable of.
That America's institutions have been used to shield those who have caused enormous harm to the marginalized groups in this country.
We knew. We knew. We knew.
That America's institutions have been used to shield those who have caused enormous harm to the marginalized groups in this country.
We knew. We knew. We knew.
White America and its media will have to reckon with the fact that Trump (and Trump supporters') attacks on Muslims, immigrants, refugees, black people was and is shocking, titillating, amusing, grotesque -- but not disqualifying.
His abuses have become public spectacles.
His abuses have become public spectacles.
For almost 4 years we have watched Trump and his enablers rhetorically and politically lynch and abuse the vulnerable both and home and abroad.
Some parts of America have been watching in horror.
Others have been watching with glee.
But we've all just stood by, watching.
Some parts of America have been watching in horror.
Others have been watching with glee.
But we've all just stood by, watching.
