When You Brag That The Women’s Marches Were Nonviolent

Ijeoma Oluo
The Establishment
Published in
3 min readJan 23, 2017

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Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by an Alabama police officer after her arrest during the bus boycott (Wikimedia).

When you brag that your protests had no arrests, I wonder what you think that says about you.

“When someone asks me about violence… I just find it incredible. Because what it means is that the person asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through — what black people have experienced in this country — since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.” — Angela Davis

When you brag that your protests had no arrests, I wonder what you think that says about you.

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Ijeoma Oluo
The Establishment

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