Thread by @CTULocal1

Whew.

So many thanks. We owe Black and Brown grassroots organizers — in every city and state that went overwhelmingly blue — a great debt. Thank you for seeing what is often unseen by operatives, pundits and party leadership.

Thank you for acknowledging the complexity of choosing survival.

Thank you to Black voters, in particular, in cities like our own, and Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee and Philadelphia, and to Brown and Indigenous voters in Arizona and Nevada. You've commited to a vision of America that our ancestors have died for, and that we have yet to realize.

Thank you to the Black voters and voices in our own city who supported this transformation — more than 82 percent of whom also voted yes to Fair Tax and progressive revenue.

There is overwhelming support in Chicago for city, county and state budgets that tax wealthy individuals and corporations instead of laying off public workers or imposing more fees and fines on working people.

Service cuts, layoffs and punitive fines are the agenda of the white supremacists and billionaires like Ken Griffin, who happily watch poor Black and Brown people suffer, and whom we unequivocally oppose.

It was Black enslaved laborers and indigenous peoples who rebuilt the United States following the Revolutionary War, and it is their descendants who are rebuilding our country following four years of Donald Trump’s war on democracy.

Trump will go, but Trump-ism remains, because that is rooted in white supremacy and discrimination, which are as old as our country itself. This is what fuels hate, fuels division and fuels big money forces like Griffin who want to close our schools and defund public education.

Unity doesn’t come because we ignore this hate; unity comes because we do the work to confront it and move our city and our country forward. Today we reflect, but tomorrow we get back to work and continue to push our leaders in fighting for the schools our students deserve.

Our full, official statement on the election of Vice President @JoeBiden and Sen. @KamalaHarris to the offices of president and vice president of the United States. ctulocal1.org/posts/thank-yo…