♫ OOOUUU ♫ [wyd? 11.02.16]
Shake em off.
The KKK’s out here giving white lifesavers to voters talmbout “Your vote could decide if we have a country anymore or not.” We’re just trying to figure out when these haters are gonna quit playing and rebrand themselves. Forget the platform of white fragility, patriarchal violence and hurt feelings — pointy hoods? Fam. It’s 2016. Why does the KKK mascot look like he belongs around a boiling cauldron chanting Avada Kedavra? They need to link up with John Galliano.
WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS
- A Michigan judge ruled Flint’s got mad receipts — the city’s residents have grounds to sue You Know Who & Company for poisoning Black people for profit.
- …And we back! Just like clockwork, every time an election rolls around, we get to relive some Jim Crow-era bullshit. Ohio is out here chucking voter registrations in the trash. And Georgia. And Indiana. SMH. Y’all need to play fair.
- Renee Bracey Sherman dropped the first installment in our #WeBuiltThis op-ed series over at For Harriet last night. Her thesis? The denial of reproductive health care is an act of state violence against Black women. Speak on it, ma’am!
WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON?
- Dante Barry, Executive Director of Million Hoodies Movement for Justice, says all politics is local. That’s why Million Hoodies uses a diversity of tactics to build power in Black communities. Get to know this man with a plan for Black liberation in our lifetimes.
- National Director of BYP100 Charlene Carruthers says you can’t have some of us without all of us. Damn straight. She said, “We operate through a lens informed by the unique lived experiences of our membership base. We center the ‘divergent topics’ because these are our truths.”
- BLOOP. The #WeBuiltThis fam was rofl at the clapback swiftly served to a troll who crawled up in BYP100’s comments. Feast your eyes on this:
BLACKITY BLACK: EXCELLENCE, JOY & MAGIC
- #WCW is live and in effect! You know who we’re crushing on? Baes who vote. Check marks the spot. Heyyyyyyy!
- We’re still in our feelings about the finale of FX’s Atlanta. Whyyyyy, Sway?! Glover is Warhol! It was too good. And too brief. And Black af. Basically.
- AND OUR PSA WAS ALL FLAME EMOJIS. Period. Goodbye. If you’re still sleeping on us, good night. We’ll have 20k more views when you wake up, it’s chill.
Click here to tweet Avada Kedavra. ;)
For freedom,
#WeBuiltThis
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