Ijeoma Oluo, Desmond Cole, Roxane Gay and other prominent Black writers and activists on pro-Trump mob storming the Capitol

If you’re having difficulty finding the words to describe the ugliness unfolding at DC’s Capitol, look to the authors and activists who’ve been writing on the subject for years.  

“It’s not protest, it’s insurrection,” said President-elect Joe Biden. Here’s what other leading voices have to say—listen to them and continue to amplify.

TFW you write a whole book about the violence of white male mediocrity and then you look at the news coming from DC and you say to yourself, “yeah. It tracks.”

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 6, 2021

Always interesting to see how white protestors can encounter so little resistance and breach the capitol with the vice-president there, while black protestors would be lying dead in front of the capitol building right now.

— roxane gay (@rgay) January 6, 2021

Black people can’t even sleep in bed safely at night without getting shot and killed by police. But when white nationalists attempt a coup, suddenly cops can’t even find their handcuffs. https://t.co/01Luv6s9bV

— Saeed Jones (@theferocity) January 6, 2021

If it’s not necessary for police to use teargas against the fascists storming the Capitol right now, it’s not necessary in any circumstance.

— Bree Newsome Bass (@BreeNewsome) January 6, 2021

 

reminder: pic.twitter.com/BcTpmRWic1

— derecka (@dereckapurnell) January 6, 2021

white men with guns are not protestors
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— negro frolics (@DesmondCole) May 16, 2020

If it’s not necessary for police to use teargas against the fascists storming the Capitol right now, it’s not necessary in any circumstance.

— Bree Newsome Bass (@BreeNewsome) January 6, 2021

The same reason why the police routinely kill Black people is the same reason why the police are routinely unprepared for White domestic terrorists.

— Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) January 6, 2021