“We have been endowed with a weak messianic power to which the past has a claim.” -Walter Benjamin

We decide what the past will have meant, and we carry its banners.
🧵This country has a deep history of resisting & rejecting oppression. It isn’t often taught or acknowledged.

We need to know. We need to learn from our elders, ancestors, & political forebears. Now.

A thread about that. I will inevitably miss many examples; pls reply or QT with additions.

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