There’s something to be said about all the ways Black people are tied to and centered in the pageantry of this political moment, the Inauguration, and I’m sitting with the complicated discomfort of seeing us but remaining so unseen in this nation as human beings. #InaugurationDay
It’s reminiscent of the Obama years, but different, something more available in representation yet still illegible in terms of its meaning. I’m thinking a lot about @KieseLaymon’s 2016 @TheGardianNews piece about Blackness and our corrupt oligarchy. #InaugurationDay
The long history of Black folks being positioned as the convenient darlings of electoral politics, while remaining its proverbial stepchild in to policy and practice, calls into question whether our inclusion in pageantry is anything more than political theater. #Inauguration
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