HT @ellie_bufkin
"Some enterprising Black families purchased property as a way to avoid sharecropping and achieve a measure of independence from White-dominated society." Could this read any more like "Scott's uppity black family dared not be beholden sharecroppers?" 1/
"Some enterprising Black families purchased property as a way to avoid sharecropping and achieve a measure of independence from White-dominated society." Could this read any more like "Scott's uppity black family dared not be beholden sharecroppers?" 1/
https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/1385549365142597635
2/ And I don't see the @washingtonpost doing a "There's more to the tale" about Vice President Harris' "fweedom" tale of marcing for civil rights. washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/…
3/ Like, maybe "There's more to the tale," being that Harris is a descendent of slaveowners? jamaicaglobalonline.com/kamala-harris-…
4/4 I don't seem to recall any such indepth reporting on Elizabeth Pocohantas Warren's claims either, which were false. Yet they try to present Senator Scott as a liar because his family picked cotton on land they owned instead of sharecropped. Un.Real.
Post-Twitt: This history actually helps explain why Scott is a Republican.
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