Its interesting to me that we have entered into the 21st Century and this New Millennium and we’ve elected our first Black President, we’ve had our firsts, from Stacey Abrams, Andrew Gillum, to Gene Upshaw, and Frank Robinson, to Bob Johnson, and Oprah. We’ve experienced a lot of firsts. In some cases, we get a second, and a third, and then it became commonplace to see us.
During 2017 and 2018 we began to see the firsts of white people calling the police on black folks just because they didn’t like what they were doing - like buying groceries, or getting medicine, trying to fill a prescriptions, or how about being an entrepreneur and selling water on the corner. How about using a coupon for your purchase. All of this came to life in 2017 and 2018. White people became visceral in their distain for black people and began to express themselves through the true prisms in which they've held…RACIST Prisms. White Nationalist Prism...Bigoted Prisms... And in 2019, more than 140 years since Jim Crow started and some 70yrs since it was abolished, we've got a whole lot of White Folks, Putting on Black Faces. And they're putting them on in spite of the racial overtones, in spite of its history, in spite of any backlash. White Folks are Putting on Blackface in our face in 2019 without a care in the world. And in some cases, even to try to be like us. The election of Donald Trump has literally put the safety and character of black people and this country in jeopardy.
Joining me tonight to discuss the irony and the appalling nature of it all, is none other than BPT Contributor, Principle of Caruthers Consulting, and Progressive political strategist, Rebekah Caruthers, along with Civil Rights attorney, activist, president and founder of Transformative Justice Coalition and host of "Igniting Change with Barbara Arnwine, is Barbara Arnwine.
