It’s #BlackHistoryMonth and I have to ask: Are people including enslaved Africans, descendants of those enslaved, and Black people whose unjust, low-wage labor sustained the economy in the 1800s/1900s as immigrants when they say “immigrants built this country”? Because

The logic behind saying, "immigrants built America," is so flawed. Why? Because no immigrant in their right mind is uprooting themselves from their homeland to move to a country that isn't already established and thriving...

Immigrants and slaves aren’t interchangeable. One requires choice and agency. Words matter, history matters.

Langston Hughes told the world as much in 1943

When Black immigrants who come to here don’t learn Black American history, they parrot white supremacist talking points pervasive in the mainstream. Shaboozey also claimed America is a place where hard work pays off, overlooking centuries of racial discrimination against us.

Black people built this country, quite literally not even a debate. Your immigrant ancestors came here to the work we’ve already done. No shade, but it’s ok to just say fuck ICE.

STOP USING AI TO MAKE CARTOONS OF YOURSELVES OMG YOU’RE 40!!!!

the way i will not be gaslit

Why is the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Twitter arguing with Cardi B? Y’all are a federal agency. Your job is national security, not clapping back at celebrities because they criticized U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This is so dangerously weird.

These are law students, by the way. The future lawyers, prosecutors, judges, and policymakers. When we talk about systemic racism, this is what we mean. It is embedded in the institutions themselves. And it’s hard to believe people who openly think this way will suddenly become

You also realise he was so real for saying this

If she's wearing a $350 perfume and $200 earring I doubt she is using you for a $20 drink.

everybody saying blonde is my color and I appreciate that but there’s nothing like a jet black bussdown on me!

how it feels to become okay with being perceived as a fucking bitch

Summoned her ass like Thor to his hammer. Iktr. 😭😭

Literally like watching footage from Nazi Germany. There is absolutely no remorse here at the impact of that law: Denying people rights, imprisoning them and murdering them en masse for their nationality. Barbarism.

Don't ask why we call Trump a racist when news like this is breaking every week

the shit israelis do is so incomprehensibly evil that you have no idea how to tell other people about it without sounding insane