.jessejholland: Here's why Black Americans were seething watching Shaye Moss' Jan. 6 testimony
Freeman: Oh, they screaming. They still bamming on the door.911 Dispatcher: They are on their way, ma’am.This is a tale Black Americans, but especially Black Southerners, know well. There are so many of us with tales of fathers, mothers, grandmothers, grandfathers, cousins and uncles who were told to flee for their lives from the racist mobs …You have to be stone-hearted to listen to her 911 call and not be enraged at what Trump supporters did to Freeman.
Though the Supreme Court, conservatives and even some liberals tell us that we no longer live in a world where white men intimidate, scheme and murder their way to power or seek to rile up racist, sexist and homophobic crowds to gain votes; though we’re told that there’s no longer a need for voting rights acts or anti-lynching legislation because white America has changed, we know better. And those who didn’t already know better should know after seeing Tuesday’s testimony from Moss and Freeman.
Moss described the threats she’s been getting since Joe Biden fairly won the state of Georgia in 2020: “A lot of threats wishing death upon me, telling me that, you know, I'm — I'll be in jail with my mother, and saying things like, 'Be glad it's 2020 and not 1920.'” Threats from white Americans are not something that Black Americans, especially not Black Southerners, shake off easily.
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