News flash: We are still light years away from the end of racism, never mind the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and all the progress that has been made in the years following. If police brutality (which birthed the Black Lives Matter movement) isn’t occuring daily, then popular myths like the one in the thread below serve to reinforce divisiveness and hatred against people of colour.
See below:
https://twitter.com/iSmashFizzle/status/892557827675480064
https://twitter.com/iSmashFizzle/status/892558187668398085
https://twitter.com/iSmashFizzle/status/892565801026428929
Reactions:
Obama was first black president of Harvard Law Review. Trump and others still said he only got in because of Affirmative Action.
— Dr. Mansa Keita (@rasmansa) August 2, 2017
I mean that's what hilarious. Legacy admits or people who bought their way in & who are obviously stupid will attack a brilliant black man.
— Serious Black (@NicT10) August 2, 2017
Or that our race grants us acceptance in the first place.
— York Whitaker 💬 (@YorkWhitaker) August 2, 2017
Yep. It's always a brown person who took "their" spot.
— York Whitaker 💬 (@YorkWhitaker) August 2, 2017
What a world.
