This entire thread:

1/ The right wants to erase the legacy of the civil rights movement. It's why they want to replace Raphael Warnock in the Senate — the man who leads MLK's old church — w/ someone like Herschel Walker. But it gets worse…follow along with this short thread, please…

— Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) October 15, 2022

3/ They did it on purpose. It wasn't an oversight or done out of ignorance. It was deliberate, both as trolling of the left, but also to extinguish the legacy of the movement they would never have joined had they been around back then…a movement they would have opposed…

— Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) October 15, 2022

5/ The erasure of historical memory when it comes to the struggle for freedom, and its replacement with pallid substitutes for that struggle: Black "leaders" who don't challenge inequality but accede to it, or blame Black people for it…

— Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) October 15, 2022

7/ But the civil rights movement WAS of the left. It was progressive, in opposition to the traditional (conservative) hierarchy of the South, as was the abolition struggle. The right has always been about preserving/conserving traditional authority…

— Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) October 15, 2022

8/ white, male, rich, etc. That is who the Black freedom movement was fighting. By necessity. These charlatans today want us to forget that. To re-write the history. To make the collaborators the heroes. The perpetrators the heroes…we cannot let them.

— Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) October 15, 2022

Never forget…the bullshyt about CRT is about Whitewashing American History, and erasing the truth of what happened to Black people from the moment we came to this country in 1619. Nothing more than the continued support of White Supremacy.