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yall owe a public apology to the organizers of the Black Justice League for your racist treatment of them five years ago when they raised this issue https://twitter.com/Princeton/status/1276916407473778691
i also want to recognize the radical memory work these students engaged in before they organized the sit-in. that fall, all around campus they posted flyers with quotations from wilson's racist ass. it was remarkable.
i ultimately think these forms of memory work are the most lasting. not the bullshit exhibits that the archives put up.
@timesnewrobin noted that today makes five years since Bree Newsome scaled the pole and snatched the Confederate flag in SC. i hope she's having a great day.
here's an excerpt from an upcoming thing i'm writing. sharing only because it's relevant to the previous tweets.
i finish with: "This is the ultimate lesson from archives, that they are concurrently fundamental yet futile for liberation; that the archival imperative is not access, but action, and that we had better act like our lives depend on it. Because they do."
you'll see it somewhere, someday soon. maybe. hopefully?
