What happens when burning shit down is the only way the powerless ever get heard? 1/10

"A riot is the language of the unheard."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 2/10

What happens to justice denied? Dignity denied? Equity denied? Or a dream deferred indefinitely? 3/10

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

-Langston Hughes 4/10

What happens when peaceful expression is criminalized, brutalized & beaten down? 5/10

“the words of the late John F. Kennedy come back to haunt us. Five years ago he said, ‘Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable’ Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken”
- MLK 6/10

What happens when the entire 'acceptable' political spectrum is bounded on either side by corporate interests above human interests?

When both political parties are owned by & accountable to corporations & the 1%? 7/10

What happens when wealth & power continue to concentrate into fewer & fewer hands? 8/10 https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/06/22/american-fascism-it-has-happened-here/

What happens when the system itself is rotten to the core? When authoritarianism, injustice, inequity & environmental destruction are inherent institutional features – NOT aberrations? 9/10

We need a new system: A system that inherently upholds & advances our shared values. 10/10 https://twitter.com/ArashKolahi/status/1157358909054574592