Read this entire piece. Don’t skip to the end, this is not a TL;DR since it doesn’t start where one may expect. It shows the danger of what’s going on right now in American legislatures & specifically at the hands of whatever it is the GOP has become🧵
nytimes.com/2021/06/29/mag…
nytimes.com/2021/06/29/mag…
2| This was especially poignant:
“[A]nyone looking at the United States from the outside immediately sees that our new memory laws protect the legacy of racism.”
nytimes.com/2021/06/29/mag…
“[A]nyone looking at the United States from the outside immediately sees that our new memory laws protect the legacy of racism.”
nytimes.com/2021/06/29/mag…
3| As well as this:
“In most cases, the new American memory laws have been passed by state legislatures that, in the same session, have passed laws designed to make voting more difficult. The memory management enables the voter suppression.”
nytimes.com/2021/06/29/mag…
“In most cases, the new American memory laws have been passed by state legislatures that, in the same session, have passed laws designed to make voting more difficult. The memory management enables the voter suppression.”
nytimes.com/2021/06/29/mag…
4| We must be compelled by the fierce urgency of now to fight against these American memory laws (and especially against those pushing them) and all that they entail and the destruction of democracy that comes with them. //end
Read👇🏾
nytimes.com/2021/06/29/mag…
Read👇🏾
nytimes.com/2021/06/29/mag…
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