Mightyverse

This is a big deal.

When people bring up healthcare she speaks about Black home health aid workers, when people bring up the environment she speaks about Black communities on the front lines, when people bring up housing she speaks about the insidiousness of redlining. She does it on every issue.

The way Elizabeth Warren speaks about almost every issue - whether it be the environment, healthcare, income inequality - & lifts up the experiences of Black ppl is so important. She doesn't wait for the "race" question bc she recognizes the way racism is entangled in everything.

"Isn't this the place where they used to call us slaves?" "Yes sir." "Isn't this the place where they used to call us 3/5ths of a man?" "Yes sir." "Isn't this the place where they used to call us chattel?" "Yes sir."

I’ve said this before but because today is Juneteenth it feels appropriate to say again: interview your older family members while they’re still alive. There’s so much history. My grandmother’s grandfather, who raised her, was born an enslaved person. I didn’t know until I asked.

If you accept how contemporary systems of oppression operate as a given, simply because you’ve never seen something different, you would have very likely done the same in any other era.