Mentally, your professors—and especially your professors of color—are here
It’s one thing to watch coup coverage.
It’s another thing entirely to hear what these assholes were shouting (“Take back our country”) and being the kind of person they’d clearly kill to take it back from.
Please, nobody ask me for anything, I am so tired.
Also tiring!
Having to publicly perform just how much racism takes a toll in the hopes that people *maybe might maybe* finally get it and do something—quite literally anything.
And then they don’t. Again, and again, and again.
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I’m going to need every news anchor to start asking all their image-rehabilitating GOP guests some very specific questions:
—“A number of Wednesday’s rioters likely voted Republican in previous elections. What about your party’s platform do you think appealed to them?”
—“You said this has been a long time coming. When, specifically, did you first have this realization and why is this the first time we’re hearing this from you?”
—“Was your silence worth it? Were those Supreme Court Justices worth it?”
For the past... very long time, I’ve woken up every morning wondering just how bad things would have to get for certain folks to simply say “It is racism, and it is bad.”
There’s really something to be said that photos of the confederate flag in the Capitol still aren’t enough.
You really and truly do not need to intellectualize this or make abstract “what if” slippery slope arguments.
Practice with me: “It is racism, and it is bad.”
This is not to say ~other factors~ didn’t contribute to [gestures widely] all of this.
But the extended silence about white supremacy in particular—from so many people AND EVEN STILL—is just stunning and makes me so, so unspeakably sad.