Brittney Griner is Finally Coming Home
And white America is losing its mind.
The blatant support of white supremacy in America is undeniably and clearly outlined in the uproar of Brittney Griner’s return.
The outcry that an arms dealer is such a significant threat to this country while people openly and excitedly support a past president/current presidential candidate that goes out to eat with known white supremacists is something you can’t even make up. It is a bold and unrelenting statement of how this country operates. It is nothing short of American.
Black women are so undervalued and discarded in this country that people would rather villainize a queer Black woman than recognize the deep-seated white domestic terrorism that is currently existing and that is so purposefully embedded within America’s DNA. We have seen multiple examples of the rise of white violence over the past few months, yet that is overshadowed by people’s disdain for an American citizen returning home as opposed to being imprisoned for 9 years because of a plant. We live in such haunted echoes of the past that we cannot hear beyond the white supremacy that is so loudly proclaimed in this America.
Every single day I wake up and see renewed white violence in the streets of this country. I see white men getting taken in alive after taking the…