Trying and failing not to get frustrated at the people who say shit like “this is not America anymore!🥺” when the human rights violations start happening to white people…. Like babe… I wish I could live in whatever land of the brave home of the free cartoon these people have been living in their whole lives, but unfortunately, this has always been what America is about. A country quite literally founded on violence against brown people. Believe it or not, this is the most progressive it’s ever been, and it’s still a nightmare!
Any american with a brain knows this. And as a BIPOC in this country we’re taught about the same atrocities from childhood. I grew up hearing stories about my cousin being lynched before i was born. Hearing about the poverty my grandmother lived in in Puerto Rico because of the US government’s occupation of the island. Driving past the oak tree that my grandpa offhandedly told me him and his classmates protested under after the black kids in their district were denied the same resources as the white students. Learning about the genocide of the indigenous peoples I share blood with. I promise you. We know
