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Hey, um. I know I said this already. But...I am SO for real. And you don't have to like me for it. But hear me out.
If you - for whatever reason - are incapable of running for your life, please don't attend a protest.
If you - for whatever reason - are incapable of running for your life, please don't attend a protest.
The stories I have heard since March, from dear friends who are veteran demonstrators and organizers and who are ALSO noticeably not White, not straight, and not rich have chilled me to my core.
Y'all have seen the footage. You SEE who law enforcement and violent bigots target.
Y'all have seen the footage. You SEE who law enforcement and violent bigots target.
There's other ways to help. Okay? It's not 1965. It's 2020. Raise awareness, contribute to bail funds, call your Congresspeople. Shit.
I'm going to say this cuz it keeps coming up.
Folks have been arguing that bringing kids to these recent protests isn't a bad thing. After all, kids participated in marches and demonstrations alongside their adult relatives during the Civil Rights Era.
Lemme tell you something.
Folks have been arguing that bringing kids to these recent protests isn't a bad thing. After all, kids participated in marches and demonstrations alongside their adult relatives during the Civil Rights Era.
Lemme tell you something.
Activists letting kids protest alongside grown folks during the CRE was an act of desperation. Folks talk about kids being in the audience in D.C. during Martin's speech.
White supremacist terrorists blew up a Black church, killing 4 Black baby girls, less than a month later.
White supremacist terrorists blew up a Black church, killing 4 Black baby girls, less than a month later.
Being children didn't protect Black kids from the poisonous rage of criminal and murderous White people. There are SO MANY examples of proof of this that I won't get into. But know that placing their offspring in harm's way speaks to the level of EVIL CRE activists were fighting.
