A century after a racist White mob devastated #BlackWallStreet in Tulsa, I keep reflecting on the vicious cycle of anti-Black racism.
Mobs of racist policies silently roaming structures stopping Black people from rising and stopping the rise of their resistance. 1/4
Mobs of racist policies silently roaming structures stopping Black people from rising and stopping the rise of their resistance. 1/4
When racist policies failed to stop the rise, racist mobs violently knocked Black people down. When Black people were downed, racist ideas chalked up the plight of Black people to their inferior behaviors, and denied racist mobs ever knocked them down. 2/4
I can’t stop picturing this enduring history—and the antiracist resistance that battled at every rotation. I can’t stop thinking about what this all means from us today. 3/4
To *not* stop the silent and violent mobs in 2021, to overlook the mobs of yesterday, to *not* provide reparations to Black people from Greenwood to economically razed Black communities across this land, is to allow the vicious cycle of anti-Black racism to continue. 4/4
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