#LongVentingPostSoICanGetBackToThisWork:
We've spent years putting issues of poverty, violence, health and economic disparities front and center.
Folks call(ed) us rabblerousers, Facebook warriors, bullies, opportunists, race baiters and much worse (yea, we know)...+
We've spent years putting issues of poverty, violence, health and economic disparities front and center.
Folks call(ed) us rabblerousers, Facebook warriors, bullies, opportunists, race baiters and much worse (yea, we know)...+
...We sounded the alarms of needed equity, smoke-and-mirrors, mythical momentum, cheap religiosity, gentrifying "development" and more.
We've birthed orgs, protested, created programs, helped shape policies for criminal (in)justice reform, media accountability, living wages...+
We've birthed orgs, protested, created programs, helped shape policies for criminal (in)justice reform, media accountability, living wages...+
..., access to healthcare, equitable education, fair contracting to aid black businesses...you name it.
Meanwhile, folks did more to interrogate and demonize our efforts than they did to hold elected and appointed officials accountable for their actions and investments... +
Meanwhile, folks did more to interrogate and demonize our efforts than they did to hold elected and appointed officials accountable for their actions and investments... +
... in this system and structure that is crumbling before our eyes yet STILL sacrificing people for profit.
Folks bragged last November (in memphis); tried to trease and taunt, revise history, move the goalposts and redefine the criteria of progress.
Now those same folks...+
Folks bragged last November (in memphis); tried to trease and taunt, revise history, move the goalposts and redefine the criteria of progress.
Now those same folks...+
...+silent as this #COVID19 pandemic peels back all the layers of our pretentiousness, political spin and petitions to be the token negroes.
Most folks didn't really disagree with our efforts. Yall just weren't gonna support it because you couldn't LEAD IT or get the credit...+
Most folks didn't really disagree with our efforts. Yall just weren't gonna support it because you couldn't LEAD IT or get the credit...+
... (And I'll put my receipts of supporting other folks initiatives up against ANY. BODY.)
And the same folks yall been trying to suppress, drag through the mud, and push to the margins have been SOME OF the main ones fighting to get us access to data, medical and economic...+
And the same folks yall been trying to suppress, drag through the mud, and push to the margins have been SOME OF the main ones fighting to get us access to data, medical and economic...+
...resources to help save lives, businesses and our sanity.
Charity hasn't saved us. There are no political saviors. Injustice, inequity, elitism, sexism and xenophobia are our enemies.
Even if you ain't gone help us, follow the first rule of the Hippocratic oath - DO NO HARM.+
Charity hasn't saved us. There are no political saviors. Injustice, inequity, elitism, sexism and xenophobia are our enemies.
Even if you ain't gone help us, follow the first rule of the Hippocratic oath - DO NO HARM.+
.... In other words, as Shahidah Jones would say, "Shutting the **** up is always an option."
So, get outta the way while we do this work... Or NOW you just gotta get rolled over.
Lives are hanging in the balance.
#BlackVotesMatter
#BlackVotersMatter
#UPTheVote901
So, get outta the way while we do this work... Or NOW you just gotta get rolled over.
Lives are hanging in the balance.
#BlackVotesMatter
#BlackVotersMatter
#UPTheVote901
