#The scaffold meaning skin

Januwas an ugly eruption of white supremacy, white privilege, white makes right. By contrast, the Black votes of Georgia – delivered in large part thanks to the brilliant tactician, Stacey Abrams –and the Black votes from across urban America, don’t factor into Trump’s calculation, don’t count, don’t deserve to be counted, because they were cast by Black people. It should not surprise anyone that the president’s racialized lies about election fraud are informed by his belief that only white votes count.

#The scaffold meaning skin

Januwill, indeed, go down in infamy, but its seeds and roots and shoots have been a malignant growth for 400 years choking out racial justice, causing terrible damage, consistently privileging white skin over Black. Its cruel existence causes untold harm to Black bodies, Black lives, Black families. So penned James Russell Lowell, Cantabrigian, abolitionist, and poet in his poem The Present Crisis (1845), a reminder that our present crisis is not sui generis, but rather an expression and exposure of what remains deeply, darkly true of the United States of America: our original sin of racism persists.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.