When they want to do something to hurt Black people, the wheels of government turn F$king fast.
Do not believe me?
Just watch.
The Wheels of Justice Grind Slowly
In this attempt to put words to the vile debauchery of the Trump MAGA agenda, the intersection of these two videos could not be clearer if daylight itself stood in testimony.
βThe Voting Rights Act was paid in blood.β
One video uses satire, profanity, and frustration to expose the obvious. The other, through the voice of Justin J. Pearson, rises like ancestral thunder inside the Tennessee halls of government.
And somewhere between those two moments lies the uncomfortable mirror America keeps trying not to look into.
Justin Pearson Speech
When Justin Pearson rendered his speech before Tennessee lawmakers, it felt less like politics and more like the invocation of an unseen force the kind of force that has carried Black people through slavery, lynching, segregation, Jim Crow, voter suppression, mass incarceration, and every reinvention of white supremacy this nation has manufactured through polished language and legislative procedure.
