Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

So many people really don’t want to acknowledge how commonplace this kind of thinking is in America, because it disrupts the heroic vision that’s been carefully cultivated, including in the educational setting. But trust me: the Black people you know, KNOW this is out there. — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

This was the rude awakening my mother got when she came here in the 1960s. My godmother has STORIES about what she and my mom saw and dealt with, even as “foreign” Blacks who could avoid SOME of the racist BS even in New York. But they were expected to know they were still n—ers. — PolitiTweet.org