[1]Cori Bush

John, we’re not
going to sugarcoat this.

We can’t allow racist lawmakers to whitewash our country’s history. We
can’t expect future generations to carry on the fight for racial justice
if our schools prevent our children from learning about the real
atrocities Black Americans endured for centuries.

But that is exactly what’s happening in school districts across our
country.

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White supremacists can try to silence us, but we will never stop speaking
the truth. So today we want to talk frankly about why white supremacists
are trying to erase history and why it’s important we acknowledge the
past.

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in $5 or whatever you can to support Cori's work in
Congress to protect Black lives.

Over 12 million of our Black ancestors were kidnapped, stolen from their
homelands. They were shackled, branded, and packed into slave ships and
more than two million Africans died in this journey referred to as the
Middle Passage.

Those who survived these horrendous conditions were then bought and sold
at auctions. For centuries, Black adults and Black children were enslaved,
tormented, tortured, and raped by slave owners on slave ships and
plantations.

In fact, more than 1,700 Congressmen enslaved Black people. Lawmakers who
stood in the halls of Congress Cori now walks in every day.

This is our country’s history. But instead of learning from our country’s
mistakes, students today are being denied the truth.

We need to talk about lynchings. We need to talk about the white people
who watched and celebrated the murder of Black Americans. We need to talk
about the fact that many of you reading this email right now have
ancestors who participated in these atrocities.

Because only then can we understand what it takes to repair the damage and
achieve reparations.

Our children deserve the truth — not whitewashed history. That’s why we’re
so thankful for every voter in St. Louis who helped elect the first
activist from the movement in defense of Black lives and made Cori the
first Black woman to represent Missouri in Congress.



Together, we can continue bending the arc toward justice and push back
against the wave of white supremacy in our country. [ [link removed] ]If you’re ready to
rise up in this work with us, please make a donation today to keep Cori in
Congress and support our movement for racial justice.

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Together,

Team Cori


 


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