I need you to tell your stories today. /1 #Thread
#Ourstory

An attorney used @KhalilGMuhammad's phrase, Criminalization of Blackness, to describe the weight Black people carry in this country. /2 #Ourstory

Every year, the voices documenting, analyzing, and creating movements to end this hatred grows - a little. New writers and artists bring their gifts to the effort. /3 #Ourstory

I see the depth of the beauty of this struggle. I've given my life to it. /4 #Ourstory

Fully five billion people do not. /5 #Ourstory

In the United States, we are used to being "always outnumbered, always outgunned." #Ourstory #WalterMosley /6

Around the world, the success of globalization has replaced the solidarity of these struggles for freedom with a suicidal consumerism. #Ourstory /7

So much of our work in education, history, and economics on this platform celebrates our successes and sacrifices. We literally rewrite the public language and global policies to provide new paths to justice. #Ourstory /8

But it is a slow process; millions of us suffer and die as we fight to move forward. #Ourstory /9

I'm asking you to do more than usual today. #Ourstory /10

Could you share your stories about the individual conversations you have that opened new doors to racial justice in your life? Can you tell us more about the moments when racial injustice moved you to act? #Ourstory /11

Write a few tweets (or a blog) about working with an organization to dismantle inequity? #Ourstory /12

Share the rare moments when your work changed a family dynamic, a local incident, or a national/international movement? @butwait
#Ourstory /13

We all need more evidence today about the power of our daily choices to destroy hatred and racism. #Ourstory /14

My examples? #Ourstory /15

#Ourstory Patrick Kennedy and I have a running conversation about how we have/haven't overcome injustice. /16

#Ourstory My faculty ( @CounselingMUed) specialize in teaching social justice, especially antiracism, in school settings. /17

#Ourstory Big projects like Building One America, the White Privilege Conference, Black Panther, and #racialviolencesyllabus will hopefully last long after we are gone. /18

#Ourstory Please take a moment to share a contribution. You could make a major difference today. I dedicate this thread to the memory of my cousin, Sam Young. He passed away alone during the pandemic on May 13. /19 #endthread

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