“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
“I don’t think most people are well informed on the history of voting rights. I don’t think most people are well informed on the concept of democracy even. And that is all intentional. We have, in my view, experienced a generation of deliberate miseducation and historical revisionism around the civil rights movement specifically, around the history of voting rights, around what voting is” EducationDemocracyAmerican HistoryCivil Rights MovementUs HistoryVoting Rights Author:Bree Newsome Bass
“We must overthrow the election & support the Trump dictatorship! -1/2 of Republicans No, that's going too far! We must stick to disenfranchising Black people, gerrymandering districts, installing as many far right judges as possible & ignoring the will of voters! -the other 1/2 (1/6/2021 on Twitter)” DemocracyTrumpRacismRepublican PartyDonald TrumpRepublicansVoting Rights2020 ElectionGerrymandering Author:Bree Newsome Bass