Thank you so much for the video of Angela Davis's life. I was a hippy protesting everything back in the late 60s and 70s, well before law school, and Angela Davis was one of my heroines. We were the beginnings of white support for the end to racism.
I note now the prominence of so many Black men and women, so visible in the public eye. Obama's election in 2008 was an incredible high and gave us so much hope. Some of us didn't learn the lesson of Jim Crow after Reconstruction, or even hear of the Tulsa Massacre. That was never taught. And now we sit on the tipping point - we have the opportunity to elect an incredible Black woman with her white male VP candidate while the racist/sexist component threatens a crackdown on the entire nation that those of us unfamiliar with what Black Americans suffered all those years of Jim Crow - the white hand of fascism in support of a privilege based on gender and epidermal accessories.
I look at Harris and Stacy Abrams, Karine Jean Pierre, Michael Steele, Katanji Brown Jackson and so many others and know that their earned prominence by virtue of their hard work and intelligence and know that the angry racist sexist white male supremacists of both sexes seethe with resentment and hatred, thinking that those positions belong to them by right of race and gender.
May we as a nation take the next powerful step to end all isms with this next election. What is remarkable is the success that the progress so far has produced so many prominent and gifted Black folks who rose through their own hard work. No more Jim Crow. No more Tulsa Massacres. No more hatred. No more supremacy of any kind.
Thank you so much for the video of Angela Davis's life. I was a hippy protesting everything back in the late 60s and 70s, well before law school, and Angela Davis was one of my heroines. We were the beginnings of white support for the end to racism.
I note now the prominence of so many Black men and women, so visible in the public eye. Obama's election in 2008 was an incredible high and gave us so much hope. Some of us didn't learn the lesson of Jim Crow after Reconstruction, or even hear of the Tulsa Massacre. That was never taught. And now we sit on the tipping point - we have the opportunity to elect an incredible Black woman with her white male VP candidate while the racist/sexist component threatens a crackdown on the entire nation that those of us unfamiliar with what Black Americans suffered all those years of Jim Crow - the white hand of fascism in support of a privilege based on gender and epidermal accessories.
I look at Harris and Stacy Abrams, Karine Jean Pierre, Michael Steele, Katanji Brown Jackson and so many others and know that their earned prominence by virtue of their hard work and intelligence and know that the angry racist sexist white male supremacists of both sexes seethe with resentment and hatred, thinking that those positions belong to them by right of race and gender.
May we as a nation take the next powerful step to end all isms with this next election. What is remarkable is the success that the progress so far has produced so many prominent and gifted Black folks who rose through their own hard work. No more Jim Crow. No more Tulsa Massacres. No more hatred. No more supremacy of any kind.
Beautiful post, and writing. I can tell you are a lawyer, and a writer. ( :
Loved this, Brian!