Americans' ahistorical understanding of the US' racist history runs so deep that being historically accurate will have people believing you're a conspiracy theorist.

this country. i don’t know, man.

crazy that a child was murdered and his
mother stabbed and also three young men were shot, all because they are palestinian and that’s not even in the conversation about who is safe in america right now

🥂

universities have never been safe. the veil is being lifted. from sexual violence to hazing to censorship, there is so much hidden violence sanctioned and now ordered by administrators.

'there are between 20 to 50 protesters in hamilton hall which is completely disproportionate to the police response we are seeing tonight.' - brave student journalists on air just now WKCR-FM NY

according to WKCR the NYPD threatened to arrest jelani cobb -- the dean of the journalism school -- if he left the j-school building.

A woman on CNN is saying the anti-Vietnam protests were different from the situation now, which is “very polarizing.”

People always do this — make it seem like past activists were somehow uncontroversial.

It’s nonsense. Activism by its nature is antagonistic to the status quo.

With the immediate and intense escalation of police violence towards campus demonstrations, and what’s currently unfolding @ Columbia tonight, I went digging for this thread that I did on the militarization of the police across the US. 👇🏾

If we’re not going to divert funds from the police to other services, can we at the very least disarm the police?

Because if you’re so afraid of an unarmed teen that your first response is to shoot them, you shouldn’t have a gun. You shouldn’t be a cop at all, but I digress.