Month: August 2014
“We have to make sure that we are starting at the beginning; you will find that the people doing the oppressing often want to start the narrative at a convenient point..always want to start in the middle. It starts with a kid getting shot and killed and being left in the street for four hours.”
– Jesse Williams talking about Mike Brown on CNN [x]
Do you ever fall in love? Just like that?
(Jesse Williams is an activist/actor, you can watch him beautifully articulate the criminalization of the black body and the indifference around black life here, or learn more about his work with Question Bridge: Black Males and The Advancement Project here. Oh and he has a tumblr too. Also relevant, 10 Things White People Can Do About Ferguson Besides Tweet)
