Today in BIPOC Privilege
12th April 2023
Removing Black lawmakers is voter suppression – and the US has done it for centuries (The Guardian)
‘I hear racist statements all the time’: Lawmaker on Tennessee State House (CNN)
GOP Guest Schools Joy Reid on Racist Roots of Abortion, When Life Begins
‘He Didn’t Deserve It’: Widow of Murdered BLM Protester Speaks Out (Rolling Stone)
How Ron DeSantis waged a targeted assault on Black voters: ‘I fear for what’s to come’ (The Guardian)
NYT: No Phun with Photos: How to Obfuscate the Race of a Brutal Mississippi Sheriff
Target Customer Demands Reparations, Gets Punched by Security Guard
Second Expelled Black Lawmaker Pearson Returned to Tennessee House
Now-former state Rep. Liz Harris expelled from the Arizona House (12News) She’s not black, so nobody cares.
House Dem Leader Defended Anti-Semites Who Praised Hitler, Called Black Conservatives ‘House Negroes’ As opposed to black Democrats, who are–what? Yard Negroes?