Thread by @michaelharriot

This shouldn’t matter... But let me show you why it does:

A thread.

https://twitter.com/AmandiOnAir/status/1383191315614171136

First, let’s see what some of the people who dismiss the idea of systemic racism were up to to today:

Take race scholar @CarmineSabia for instance. He predicted that the shooter couldn’t possibly be white. Then again, he has a history of knowing a lot about racism

A lot of people said the cops were protecting the mass murderer because he was a person of color.

Now I don’t think that’s quite how America works but, who am I to judge geniuses soothsayers like @BuzzPatterson, who also predicted the shooter’s race

He is a noted racism expert

Of course, there are a lot of racist people who who say talking about race is racist...
Until they wanna talk about race.

Like @TameraL36320095 who used a dead 13-year-old to make her racist point?

At leas @conservateurmom isn’t like that. She’s just conservative who hates all that race talk... except when she wants to be lowkey racist

And political and racial commentator @klose_terry, who points out the media’s “quite” obsession with race. She was wrong, too.

So was @patriot_ca who despises this racism... but kinda likes to bring it up when it involves dead people

This was really a thing with white people on Twitter today

I’m not floating that the shooter is white. In fact, I only bring this up for one reason. And it has actually nothing to do with mass shootings.

It’s to remind you that these are the same people who accuse black people of “race baiting,” playing the “race card” and having a “victim mentality.”

Let this be a reminder:

When it comes to racism and white supremacy, whites people don’t know shit.

NOT ONE THING

They weren’t right about it in 1609 when they slaughtered the natives and called THEM the savages.

Not in 1619 when they realized they couldn’t actually build a new world because they were incompetent but called the stolen Africans “uncivilized”

They fought the anti-lynching movement because we were “rapers by nature” they fought integration because “God made us separate.” They we’re just as adamantly opposed to the Civil Rights movement. The Voting Rights Act, the Housing Rights Act...

The MAJORITY of white people opposed every single human rights advancement this country ever made.

WHY WOULD YOU EVER LISTEN TO ANYTHING A WHITE PERSON SAID ABOUT RACE?

I’m not saying an individual white person cant occasionally be right; I’m saying:

Historically and presently, if white PEOPLE collectively push a narrative, it is ALWAYS, ALWAYS wrong.

Now imagine if a news outlet presented two sides of history by jusxtapoding the words of @neiltyson with a random bro who believes the earth is flat.

Or imagine someone thinking they could win in the UFC because they watched a lot of Kung Fu movies and ACTUALLY getting a shot at the heavyweight title!

Sound crazy, right?

Well, race in America is the only topic in which the opinion of people with no expertise, experience, or education will be juxtaposed with people who study work in and live the reality of white supremacy.

That’s why there isn’t, nor has there ever been a racial divide in America

One side is right

And the other side is white people