“I believed strongly in being an engaged citizen and had a certain level of social and political awareness, but my understanding that the struggles of the Civil Rights Movement and its accomplishments shifted during the course of the Obama administration and especially in 2013 when I witnessed the acquittal of George Zimmerman and the attack on voting rights in the state of North Carolina. (Interview with aaihs)” PoliceBlack Lives MatterPolice BrutalityCivil Rights MovementNorth CarolinaObamaVoting RightsPolice Violence2013 Author:Bree Newsome Bass
“Amazing how quickly those thin blue line flags turned into weapons against the police, almost like the only true ideological commitment is to white supremacy & literally nothing else (1/6/2021 on Twitter)” TrumpPoliceWhite SupremacyDonald TrumpRepublicansConservatives2020 ElectionConservative Movement Author:Bree Newsome Bass