they didn't start trying to destroy public schools until the public schools were integrated

they didn't start slashing funding to state colleges until the state colleges were integrated

they didn't start yelling about "gov't overreach" until the gov't told them they had to serve Black ppl

Trump didn't "make" the GOP racist

they were racist already

Here's some New Years perspective to start your 2023.

Barbara Walters, Anne Frank, & Martin Luther King, Jr. were all born in 1929. Yet while we were just with Ms. Walters days ago, those two icons are portrayed as ancient history.

But the ideals they fought for weren't in some distant past—they're a contemporary reality we must continue to fight for today. We control that narrative. Let’s keep fighting for that justice in 2023 & beyond.

Remember, "The past is never dead. It's not even past.”