#jimcrow

RE: https://mastodon.social/@LiamOMaraIV/117332511411344026 to the “but Jim Crow happened a long time ago” crowd: i was born 5 years after this happened. Jim Crow fascists still walk among us. Trump is your most obvious example. Mitch McConnell as well. #racists #whiteSupremacists #whiteTerrorism #JimCrow #elections

#JimCrow #ScottsboroBoys #Yiddish #history "A Yiddish theater troupe condemned U.S. racism — then the Nazis came The 1935 Yiddish play ‘Mississippi,’ inspired by the Scottsboro Boys, is available to English readers for the first time. In 1935, the experimental theater group Yung Teatr invited audiences in Warsaw to a new play that was virtually all in Yiddish but wasn’t about Europe or Jews. It was a modified retelling of the plight of the Scottsboro Boys, nine Black teenagers who were falsely accused of raping two white women in Tennessee in 1931. While the case was being retried in the United States for the second time, the three-act play Mississippi exposed Polish Jews to the injustice."

RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116975481908082068 #voterSuppression #electionInterference #fascism #JimCrow

#GiftArticle A Shocking Betrayal of #Black Americans by Mara Gay The dismantling of Black political #power in the South is a great betrayal, & its effects will ripple through our #democracy. #RepresentationMatters #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #law #ElectionLaw #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct #VRA #redistricting #elections #USpol #Trump #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy

🔥 @repcohen.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy : “Don’t tell me, John Roberts, The Supreme Court is not political. It is an arm of the White House. 🇺🇸 is being destroyed from within 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.” #Memphis #JimCrow #RacistRedistricting

SEC boycott picking up steam… #Memphis #JimCrow @realdlhughley.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

🔥 CHARLAMAGNE gives Speaker Johnson DONKEY OF THE DAY 🫏: “This is why Black folks don’t trust politicians — 🇺🇸 has a long history of moving the goalposts every time Black folks figure out how to play the game… we need protection, Mike Johnson.” #Memphis #JimCrow

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy to @rbreich.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy : “They’re spitting on the graves of our martyrs, bringing us backwards in history… An almost entirely white Republican caucus in Tennessee — that’s the system they’re bringing us back to.” #Memphis #JimCrow

“It’s an insult to the intelligence of the people in this state.” @jeffyarbro.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy shreds the lie🤥from Sen. Stevens & TN Republicans race wasn’t used to make the map, puts it in (racist) historical context, and says they couldn’t racially gerrymander it any better. #Memphis #JimCrow

🔥 @redstateupdate.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy (MURFREESBORO): “When they want to do something to hurt Black people— the wheels of government turn fucking FAST.” #Memphis #JimCrow @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy : “I just handed Rep. William Lamberth a confederate flag saying we will not go back, because you are trying to bring us back to the confederacy... it’s shameful.” #Memphis #JimCrow

“How are you proposing a map and you don’t know anything about it?” 🤔🤷🏼 WATCH — Senator John Stevens pathetically ducks all Sen. london lamar very valid questions as he pretends not to know Memphis is a majority-Black city + claims this isn’t about race. #Memphis #JimCrow @GovBillLee

Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy said what he said #Memphis #JimCrow @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn @TNGOP

“It has always been more subtle. In this situation there’s no shame involved… this is a wrong.” #Memphis #JimCrow @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn FULL: www.wkrn.com/news/tenness...

Q: If stripping Memphis of representation is really not about racism, why didn’t a single TN Republican care Black Tennesseans were hurting yesterday? And why were many of them laughing at their pain? #JimCrow @MarshaBlackburn @govbilllee

SEN. SARA KYLE: “This is the most important vote we will ever take. We know where we stand - we stand on the right side of history. This IS about race.” #Memphis #JimCrow @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn @SenJohnson

🗣️ REP. @justinjpearson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy : “GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY… we convict the Tennessee general assembly of exploiting Black people and attempting to dilute Black political power. Governor Lee is guilty. Cameron Sexton is guilty. White supremacy is guilty.” #Jimcrow #WeThePeople

🔥 REP. SHAW: “YOU HAVE TO LIVE WITH YOURSELF.” #Memphis #JimCrow @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn @senjohnson

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy burns a confederate flag in the rotunda after the House passed 9-0 maps stripping Memphis of representation… #Memphis #JimCrow @MarshaBlackburn @GovBillLee

🔥 @justinjpearson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy: “WE ARE STILL HERE.” #Memphis @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn #JimCrow