Me: Understand what? This is NOTHING new. Black ppl have been terrorized by “White Radicals” since 1619. And every time y’all want to scratch up a theory as to why. It’s the same $@/& as last time.
Rinse & repeat
Black people aren’t even given the privilege of 6 whole days to grieve before y’all want to pull out think pieces to analyze the 18 different ways racism presents itself in modern day society.
Give it a break.
Y’all are not slow. If we know why it happened, so do you.
Have a 12yo boy fatherless & y’all want to deep dive on which social media platform was used and how this psycho’s mouth felt.
Miss me with it.
Write a think piece instead on how to address THIS boy’s PTSD. How to get him and others the care they will need. To fix THEIR pain.
This little boy’s pain is the same as #PhilandoCastile’s daughter as she WATCHED him shot by an officer while sitting in the back of the car. It’s the same pain felt by the little girl watching as #GeorgeFloyd took his last breath w/ a knee on his neck.
Unpack THAT. Center THAT
Spend more time centering the needs of the victim and less time trying to find a unique perspective of the racism that landed them with that title.
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I’m not going to lie, this Buffalo shooting has hit to my core. Hate has a way of disturbing all peace. They were just shopping for food in a community already greatly deprived of resources. The only store available.
White people, talk to your family.
Open your mouths. And talk.
This whole, “we don’t talk about politics bc it just causes fights at the dinner table” BS has GOT to stop. Hell, we want to be able to live long enough to have a disagreement at a damn dinner table, too!
We want to be able to go to church, grocery store, movie theater, & school.
Don’t smile in my face. Don’t retweet. Don’t high five me if you stay damn silent in the setting of your own family, friends, & congregation. Someone KNEW this family. Someone KNEW this sick man who wanted to go to an elementary school so he could SHOOT BLACK CHILDREN.
Y’all have the nerve to publish stuff like this when Black & Brown Children are STILL 2x more likely to be hospitalized, 5x more likely to die & make up 65% of the kids now ORPHANED due to #COVID.
Stop blaming it on lack of in person learning. These kids were battling to live!🧵
How about instead write about the fact we have STILL not repaired the ventilation systems in the schools that is leading to more Black And Brown children getting infected. We have NOT provided social support services to address the fact that their parents died at higher rates.
Talk about how we have NOT addressed the fact these communities STILL don’t have Wi-Fi access to allow for virtual learning if there’s an outbreak in the school. Or that NOW testing/vaccination carries an out of pocket fee that the most vulnerable can not afford.
Talk about that.
If Black People die at YOUNGER ages and HIGHER rates for Breast Cancer, Colorectal Cancers, Lung Cancers, Prostate cancers, etc. Then why are we NOT granted screenings at younger ages?! Don’t group us with the screening age of White Americans IF WE DO NOT DIE AT THAT AGE. 🧵
AND HOW, in this free world where we speak of inhumane acts committed by others, do we allow the conditions that LEAD to the development of these conditions in targeted neighborhoods? The poisoning of air/water supply dictated by policies supporting industrialization over people?
There is NOTHING weak about the DNA of Black people. We’ve survived what should have killed us w/ half of resources needed. But you can’t fight environmental racism, industrialization, poverty/denial of access, & medical racism w/o coming up short. And we have for generations.
Them: We’re short staffed. We don’t have teachers, bus drivers, restaurant workers, delivery persons, nursing aides… people don’t want to work!
Me: It could be that… or maybe it’s that 715,000 people have died…& currently another 1 is dying every 47seconds. They were “staff”
Let me clarify a point, #Death is not the only thing that can keep someone from working, #disability can too. Studies show 20-50% of #COVIDinfections results in #LongCOVID. Well, 61% of the 44M Americans w/ #COVID are 18-74yo… that’s 27,454,517.
America, we have a problem
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And I’ve said this before, will say it again, history is our greatest teacher. #1918Pandemic showed that our nation’s economy is TIED to our nation’s health. The pandemic was 1918-1920. It had a great impact on younger ages, esp 15-44yos. The workers. And what happened in 1929?👇🏽
All of this. #MyStanceHasNotChanged.
The fact that we willingly expose our kids to #COVID19 is beyond me. Opening schools knowing full well structural racism exists preventing adequate social distancing & the lack of proper ventilation is a setup for further #RacialDisparities
▶️ 25% of Black 9th graders are in classrooms w/ >40 students: 2x rate of Hispanics, 3x rate of Whites
▶️ Urban vs Rural, 12.5x more likely to be overcrowded
▶️ richest 10% of districts spend 10x more than poorest 10%: literally use old buildings w/ poor ventilation & high lead