It's hitting me how the slow arc of justice my elders fought and died to set in motion has been halted by the Calais decision.
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It's hitting me how the slow arc of justice my elders fought and died to set in motion has been halted by the Calais decision.
This morning, I was on a call with another (highly accomplished) middle-aged Black women and this is how we processed it together:
We are realizing that we (including our younger elder millennial sisters) are likely to be the LAST generation of Black women who will achieve so much.
This decision is not just a gutting of the VRA but the highest court's massive rejection of the idea that this country is, indeed, a land of opportunity for everyone.
The court is now an overt and explicitly complicit engine of white nationalism.
THAT is how much anti-Blackness has been simmering underneath this facade of 'American democracy.'
So now, Black folks, we need to decide. Retreat, close ranks to protect our own, and/or fight for a renewed Reconstruction on top of the smoldering ruins of this gotdamn system?
#BlackMastodon
#BlackFedi
#SCOTUS
#CivilRights
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It's hitting me how the slow arc of justice my elders fought and died to set in motion has been halted by the Calais decision.
This morning, I was on a call with another (highly accomplished) middle-aged Black women and this is how we processed it together:
We are realizing that we (including our younger elder millennial sisters) are likely to be the LAST generation of Black women who will achieve so much.
This decision is not just a gutting of the VRA but the highest court's massive rejection of the idea that this country is, indeed, a land of opportunity for everyone.
The court is now an overt and explicitly complicit engine of white nationalism.
THAT is how much anti-Blackness has been simmering underneath this facade of 'American democracy.'
So now, Black folks, we need to decide. Retreat, close ranks to protect our own, and/or fight for a renewed Reconstruction on top of the smoldering ruins of this gotdamn system?
#BlackMastodon
#BlackFedi
#SCOTUS
#CivilRights
#BlackHistoryEveryDay@DeliaChristina it's absolutely a tell that the animus of the system for 150 years has been to undo everything.
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