I’m willing to give Republicans credit for their ground game, their hard-won gain, and the election they purchased. I’m also putting them on notice. We will fight back. Those anti-education Republicans don’t want people to know Black history because they don’t want our young people to know that we’ve surmounted racism before. In the wake of the Red Summer of 1919, when rabid whites attacked more than 30 Black communities in Washington, DC, Chicago, St. Louis, and other places, the poet, Claude McKay, wrote of this resistance, a fitting anthem for our time:
