We cannot let this faction erase the wins of our ancestors & drag us backwards. Young people are building power, defending our freedoms, and fighting whitewashing.

The backlash to the backlash is coming.

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The movement that erupted 5 years ago may be less visible now, but it lives on. It is the newest manifestation of the movement for freedom and equality, which has only grown throughout our country’s nearly 250-year history. And it is growing still.

Their movement is shrinking, and they are the last desperate manifestation of an idea whose time has passed. At this very moment, they are overplaying their hand, going too far, turning the public against them.

It may feel like we have never been farther from repairing the violence of white supremacy.

But this regime does not act from a place of strength, it acts from a place of weakness

Today, they helm our government, and as they work to reverse the progress of not just the last 20 years but the last 200, it may seem like they won. They are unraveling civil rights victories, whitewashing history, and attacking institutions that commit to challenging discrimination.

As the streets emptied, a white supremacist faction plotted its revenge. Since that moment five years ago, they have used every tool at their disposal to memory-hole that movement, criminalize the truth, and entrench the structures of white supremacy that they rely on to hold onto power.

Suddenly, for the first time in many of our lives, the lies and structures of white supremacy slipped, and a just, fair, equal society was within reach. The power and potential of this rising generation were, for the first time, visible.

And that terrified the wealthy, white few.

Legislators introduced reparations commissions in states & cities all over the country. Corporations commit to doing their part to investigate and undo discrimination. The momentum swept a nakedly white nationalist regime out of power.

Young people mobilized from the largest cities to the smallest towns & everywhere in between. Demonstrations grew larger every day.

It is these fighters who created the largest protest moment in United States history. Who changed the narrative and then moved policy.

Because Floyd’s murder happened in this particular moment & history, it was met by a new generation of freedom fighters. Fighters who had seen enough. Fighters who stood on their ancestors' shoulders. Fighters who mobilized to get free from the entire system of white supremacy.

Floyd’s murder happened in the wake of 8 years of the Movement for Black Lives, after decades of the Black Power Movement, after generations of the Civil Rights Movement, after centuries of the movement to abolish enslavement

Floyd’s murder happened in the immediate aftermath of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery & Breonna Taylor, amidst a global pandemic carving its fatalities across red lines of discrimination & exclusion, and after centuries of failing to reckon with or rectify ongoing legacies of enslavement and genocide.

George Floyd’s murder did not happen in a vacuum.

It occurred in a lineage of white supremacist violence.