Photo: CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images I am rarely sincerely moved by politics, but on Wednesday morning, I broke down and cried when I found out the Reverend Raphael Warnock, a first-time candidate and the pastor of Atlanta’s iconic Ebenezer Baptist Church, won his Senate race. Of course, those emotions did not last long.
Despite the very American efforts to obscure past pain every time there’s progress and treat horrific events as one-offs, there is no amount of change that can wipe our memories or the slate clean. We witnessed this process at its absolute apex on January 6, a day that will live in infamy unless we do our American thing of pretending as if the worst parts of us are a fringe.
This kind of whiplash is as common in the United States as mythmaking exceptionalism and double standards in policing. America was built on violent theft, enslavement enforced through brutality, and congressional leaders manipulating the levers of power to suppress the vote, but whenever there’s perceived progress, including Barack Obama being elected to the presidency and Warnock becoming the first Black Democratic senator from the South, we’re asked to bury all of the ugly history.
freeblackgirl Powerful article from which we in the UK could equally take note. Hoping the machinery of democracy and decency can lay the groundwork to enable the rooting out of the deep rooted toxic weeds poisoning our communities on either side of the pond
freeblackgirl Nice article there, but how is this related to fashion of all things? It belongs on Vox.
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