Monitor
Movements Are Nothing Without Endurance
The Bus Boycott took a year; don’t get tired yet
In the grand scheme of things, Black people have only been free-ish in America for about 56 years. It’s been barely half a century since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which desegregated public areas and the Voting Rights Acts of 1965 secured unfettered voting rights for Black Americans. Surprisingly, however, many White people (and some Black, tbh) seem to be confused when it comes to time and the fight for equity. There is this underlying desire to consistently tell Black people to “just wait” for equity as if we haven’t been patient for 500-plus years while everything we build and champion is destroyed by White rage. And worse, while we sit patiently and nonviolently, waiting to be released from the stranglehold of White supremacy, they want us to do so with gratitude and a smile.
Yet, after just three months of quarantine due to a global health pandemic, these same White folks brandished AR-15s and other reckless military apparatus because the hair behind their ears was getting too long. How does that even make sense? The audacity of caucasity honestly never fails.
