It’s cute how y’all want to believe the guys who stormed the capitol live in their mom’s basement snorting Cheeto dust pissing in Mountain Dew bottles because you don’t want to believe it’s your retired colonel neighbor and your realtor and lawyer and your sister’s cop husband
When Black and PoC told White folx to talk to their racist relatives during the holidays past four years, they were all like "we don't wanna ruin the mood" over their dry ass unseasoned turkey. And now it's all "let's reach out to them in love." Bye.
Black people have been under the boot of racism, white supremacy, economic anxiety, inequality and so much else. Despite it all, we somehow didn’t vote for a racist and didn’t storm not nary a U.S. capitol. But sure, let’s keep centering everything around aggrieved white people.
With so much going on, Dr. King’s leadership is as steadying a force as it’s ever been. I’ve been reflecting a lot on his example, and how it might help us move forward after these last four years. #MLKDaypic.twitter.com/oGCF2wbT18
If anyone had a right to question whether our democracy was worth redeeming, it was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Because in the face of billy clubs and lynchings, poll taxes and literacy tests, he never gave in to violence, never waved a traitorous flag or gave up on our country. pic.twitter.com/TCmbuiXkUa
I always look at the quotes that people choose to post today on #MLKDay. When I see white folks post the "Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that" I cringe a little. B/c that's one of the top ones used out of context to scold us for our anger at white supremacy.
— Luvvie is the #ProfessionalTroublemaker (@Luvvie) January 18, 2021
“We must face the hard fact that many Americans would like to have a nation which is a democracy for white Americans but simultaneously a dictatorship over Black Americans.”
#MLKDay "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." – Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pic.twitter.com/s2A6YzSL63
