Posting this from months ago because we DO have homegrown experience with autocratic regimes in this country. In nearly half this country during the first 6 decades of the 20th century Black people lived under systems of cruelty, voter suppression, hate, state violence & corruption. Ask them! - ThreadSky

sifill.bsky.social • 2 hours ago

Posting this from months ago because we DO have homegrown experience with autocratic regimes in this country.

In nearly half this country during the first 6 decades of the 20th century Black people lived under systems of cruelty, voter suppression, hate, state violence & corruption. Ask them!

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jhughesviews.bsky.social•1 hour ago

I realized that the shock is that it's now also happening to whites (like me). I live in Canada & work with Indigenous organizations; everything that the Repugs are doing in the US, our govt has done historically & currently, to First Nations people & communities. We interned Japanese Canadians.

jacqueline321.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Fb? Are we in this together or not?

postmistress.bsky.social•2 hours ago

This is what makes it so scary to me. These assholes are trying to implement Jim Crow nationally and we know that there is a large constituency for that in this country, with deep roots.

balzz14u.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Oh boy... stick to something challenging for your skills... like coloring books

kimberlymbonner.bsky.social•41 minutes ago

Please continue to say this.
Hitler used Jim Crow laws as a model.

jazzrat2000.bsky.social•2 hours ago

I'm an old white guy how can we get this to happen?

ifiwasdaking.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Exactly. And its why our experience fighting homegrown fascism gives us hope. We are still fighting, but we have won battles before.

james-t-freeman.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Also ask an honest white Southerner of a certain age born under Jim Crow into a racist family and culture — like me. (I’ll be 64 next month.)

Ask how that brainwashing is as effective as anything the North Koreans could devise. Ask how long deprogramming oneself takes. (1/ )

james-t-freeman.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Ask whether it helps to GTFO of the South. (It does.) Ask about the toll of biting your tongue to “keep the peace” in your family. (Don’t do that. Doesn’t help them, makes you feel like shit.)

Ask whether, back in the day, shows like “Julia” and “Room 222” was our Radio Free Europe. (It was.) (2/ )

james-t-freeman.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Ask about the Pavlovian half-second before your morality kicks in, the gift of conditioning from birth that doesn’t go away. Ask about the cultural doom loop this sort of fascism creates, and ask about the horror of how it all feels so very normal and even “democratic” if you know no better. (3/ )

james-t-freeman.bsky.social•2 hours ago

And, finally, ask yourself whether this is how you want YOUR kids and grandkids to grow up. (I don’t recommend it.) Because the South was, is and always has been fascist (and served as a model for the Third Reich), and This Present Darkness *is* Jim Crow 2.0. (4/4)

jeanniet.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Does MSNBC still allow people of color on the network? Weird! Sad! Now MSNBC can’t be trusted!

el-zee-ethel.bsky.social•1 hour ago

You are exactly right. It has been a disgrace since 1619. I am ashamed for how Black people have been treated in our country. Here it is 2025 and there is still such rampant racism. It’s sickening!!!!

andrewlevesque.bsky.social•2 hours ago

"Racism is the gateway drug" for trump...this is profound when considering that autocracy has already been experienced by Black people in the US...

darwin57778uyy66.bsky.social•16 minutes ago

UiiiU

darwin57778uyy66.bsky.social•15 minutes ago

Watch the Elon Musk prostitute scandal https://plenixa6.blogspot.com/p/elon-musk-kisses-famous-dancer.html

knewsy.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Yep. And this is why they don’t want this history taught so they can repeat it

frumboldt.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Thankyou, Sherillyn.

hookcity.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Sherrilyn, you are an absolute national treasure.

colettewildflower.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Segregation has returned. Merit based hiring lasted 60 years. Now we are back to Biff's dad knows Skip's dad at the club. Very white of them.

judyds.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Fight back!! Get people there. Get this out there! Post in every comment section & repost on your page. Post on FB, Instagram, Tictoc. Make sure everyone you know, knows about this. Help save our country!!! and BE THERE!!!

babbm.bsky.social•37 minutes ago

As a child of the Jim Crow era and the subsequent Civil Rights Movement, I witnessed first hand home grown oppression. Lots to unpack here!

mccainsuzanne.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Well said!

zortside.bsky.social•1 hour ago

That's a misleading comparison, the US has a democratic system with checks and balances, not an autocratic regime, and while past injustices were real, they were not equivalent to a totalitarian government.

yellowgreenblue.bsky.social•19 minutes ago

For black Americans it was. Learn your history.

merisesher.bsky.social•2 hours ago

It’s also why we’re not shocked. This behaviour is not new to us. Sadly it is familiar. The gateway drug is an excellent way of describing this, thank you.

kathleengordon.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Yes. Racism is the gateway drug to autocracy and fascism.

obsidianblue80.bsky.social•2 hours ago

It is driving me insane how people keep acting like Black people don’t have experience with this. I think that’s why you have all of us going what else you got on this crap. It’s not great, but we know how to dig in.

teeth077.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Reading Coates's The Message (which, everyone should!) And a white lady tells him that she got into reading Black history and literature because "nothing else explained why America was so fucked up." And it's true! You can't understand MAGA without knowing the Black experience.

dharmadreamer.bsky.social•1 hour ago

My privilege has shielded me from these truths and I hope that more white folks wake up to the reality that just because we are experiencing it doesnt mean it’s the first time this has happened here. It’s just the first time it’s happened to white folks.

oraclebungee.bsky.social•1 hour ago

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https://www.fiftyfifty.one
https://generalstrikeus.com

vencuyan.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Exactly.

jacksamuels.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Truth

steveyb22.bsky.social•1 hour ago

And they marched, & they put their bodies on the line, broken bones, blood & death, to force the Government to act. That’s the example of courage to stand up & resist.
✊🏼

steveyb22.bsky.social•1 hour ago

I don’t mean to ‘romanticise’ it, none of them wanted to be beaten, broken or murdered by the brutality of the state, but they refused to lie down & take it. And they’re still having to fight it, the whole MAGA thing is built on White Supremacy. It’s sickening. 🤨

coconutlizard.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Yes they did!

yoligirl.bsky.social•2 hours ago

🎯

tompaine1.bsky.social•1 hour ago

ELON MUSK IS A TRAITOR who calls judicial oversight "tyranny."

Call on your local federal judges and thank them for upholding the Constitution.

https://Uscourts.gov

maiett.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Amen to this! I wish more liberals understood that since SCOTUS eroded the Voting Rights Act, former confederate states have been working overtime to replicate those conditions of terror. National Dems have largely abandoned the people living there, an overlooked scandal & part of why Shitler won.

mooserun49.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Post more like this!

christinens.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Your perspective and knowledge are a perfect illustration of why our government, society, and media need to hear from diverse voices.

moreprogress.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Thank you Sherrilyn, for continuing to shine light on their history and villainy. Stay strong.

bearkat1983.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Since I’ve limited my MSNBC viewing, I’ve missed hearing her brilliance. Thanks for speaking truth and gifting us with your knowledge.

saltymermaidtales.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Absolutely. This is probably one of the reasons black women are the most engaged and reliable voter blocks. There is generational knowledge of the horrors of oppression

gardener4ever.bsky.social•43 minutes ago

We need to start the Re-call procedure for the republican representatives and senators.

i2america.bsky.social•58 minutes ago

“Racism is the gateway drug…”🔥

czoernie.bsky.social•2 hours ago

God yes! I think about this all the time.

rebeccaamccoy.bsky.social•1 hour ago

The other day, I was feeling depressed and afraid about the new American regime. Then I thought about black people and all the shit they have had to endure since forever in this country. Properly put me in my place. We must look to how they have endured.

sydaly.bsky.social•2 hours ago

📣📣📣

cethinc.bsky.social•45 minutes ago

This is so important to reiterate. Thank you!

serviceman.bsky.social•1 hour ago

That’s all fine, how or what to do to fix it?

septal-regalia.bsky.social•1 hour ago

How can we just let the Trump supporters subject others to racism. It’s all one bug plan to rid the country of all diversity

pattyshea.bsky.social•1 hour ago

I just finished #IsabelWilkerson’s Caste: the origins of our discontent. It was eye opening. It’s the kind of book I wish everyone would read - the world would be a better place

alicelastname2.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Strongly reccommed taking the 4 hours in watch The People V The Klan. Want to understand MAGA in the perspective of its online cultist development? Watch that.

marjowil.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Yeah I was thinking about this today. Like black folk are, yeah, we know. 😐

cookeagain.bsky.social•2 hours ago

I’ve been thinking about this a lot since mid-January

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