The past is never dead.
It’s not even past.
This entire thread is much Truth.
So much Black history, really isn’t history, because so many people alive today experienced it.
This is amazing content. It hits differently when you see it than when you only read it. The $20 thing is so visceral because the amount of routine theft that everyday white people did and do is impossible to measure. Impossible. https://t.co/BjylzlVhZ3
— Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd) January 26, 2021
He had crumpled the bills up and shoved them in my hand. I was smoothing them to count them. And he got red and started screaming at me. Screaming. Because I was counting the change he knew he had just shorted me. Just everyday violence and theft.
— Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd) January 26, 2021
Until the day they closed, my mother and grandmother were this way about Loehmann’s. The store had apparently allowed us to try on the clothes and that was enough for three generations of loyalty.
— Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd) January 26, 2021
I still see the habit in young Black people and kind of smile. They inherited the ritual and you can tell. A young Black man at a convenience store making a show of putting away the change for his blunt papers will always make me smile a little
— Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd) January 26, 2021
https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1357796536546172932
One of my heroes
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Barbara Jordan was my representative when I lived in Houston.
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