The House Is On Fire: Cause & Effect 101 and OT

 

People who would prefer not to have Gaetz & Crenshaw in charge – I won’t quote them, because I don’t believe in spreading propaganda deliberately designed to incite violence -  need to listen to Maya Contreras & Elie Mystal

The people – the creatures- who’d have American citizens mostly in poverty and under tyranny, beholden to their patronage for sufferance, are the same ones who do NOT want us to connect the dots. 

That’s a well-known fascist’s trick – for anybody who’s bothered to venture beyond their own state lines or curious enough to go to a library and ask actual questions about things that happen in other peoples’ lives.

None of that ^^  is what I thought I was going to write the day before Roland Garros starts with Naomi Osaka making a statement with her declared absence from ridiculous, repetitive press conferences (willing to be fined for it, and rich enough to afford it) that most of her White colleagues are either not sufficiently well-versed in history or just suffused with DoNotWannaKnow –ness have shown in their remarks that they were all too willing to let her point fly right through their heads …

… but the crazy thing is it’s really pretty much all the exact same point

1) The #TulsaMassacre happened in Lessie’s life. An aspect of Critical Race Theory is discussing resource disparity (White men hegemony over most resources in the US). When Black people create resources for ourselves many in power have historically tried to take them away.

 2) Voting Rights is an example of that. They’re a way for us to access power, to access representatives that work w/us, & to access resources. This is why Republicans are trying to block our path to the ballot box, they want to control power and resources.

3) The GOP are trying to block #CriticalRaceTheory and #1619Project because when the public begins to analyze racial disparities and connect it how law and policy operate in the United States then people understand accountability is needed. Republicans want nothing to do w/that.

4) I admire what James Talarico did here, but American history has been whitewashed since it’s violent inception.  As I told @PepePierce, while I learned about The Trail of Tears and Slavery in 6th grade, you’d think that’s was the beginning and end of Native and Black History.

5) I didn’t learn about Rosewood (1923) or the Tulsa massacre (1921) until I was in college. That wasn’t in class, it’s when accidentally stumbled upon a book about Black run newspapers in America. I didn’t learn about Seneca Village until I move to NYC.

6) We need to continue to fight for a complete History of this Country; to support projects that tell and add to community histories of LGBTQ, Black, Latinx, Native, AAPI, Disability, Jewish, Muslim, etc and how each overlaps & intersects. To see the full complexity of US. 

7) Our stories are important. They’re worth telling. They’re worth preserving. They’re worth archiving. Remember that. Be an archiver of your family stories, your community stories. It’s so important. If we don’t tell our stories somebody else will & they have been for centuries. 

from this thread

https://twitter.com/mayatcontreras/status/1398663314981494789