🧵 Via Tim Wise: 1/...

When JD #Vance says Kamala #Harris isn't "grateful" enough for America, he is repeating same trope racist white folks have always offered: Black people aren't grateful enough for all they've been "given" in this country. I have thoughts.

1st, folks of color haven't been "given" anything by America. Had it been up to most of "America" & esp most white folks they wouldn't have gotten freedom or right to vote, etc. They fought for & earned those things. They weren't gifts