Have you ever wondered how so many people could allow thousands of Black people to be publicly lynched week after week, year after year in the 19th century and 20th century? Have you ever wondered how so many people could blame the victims of lynchings for their own deaths? 1/
Have you ever wondered how so many people feared the murdered and felt safe around the murderers? Have you ever wondered how decade after decade legislatures and governors and presidents and courts refused to deploy their power to stop the lynchings? 2/
No one should have to wonder anymore. Open your eyes to police violence. See how so many people keep responding. By treating police shooters as victims. By blaming Black victims for being shot in the back. By being outraged about Black rage. 3/
By bringing out National Guards to protect property and not people. With political cowardice. With fear of the people with bullet holes in their backs. With more political cowardice. Witness the racist past as the racist present. What will the future say about us? --
