saira rao

Fear

Today would have been baby boy’s 18th birthday. I think about Tamir a lot. I think about Tamir’s mother Samaria Rice and her pain. I think about his sister who witnessed his brutal murder by a Cleveland police officer and was handcuffed after the shooting. #TamirRice (THREAD) https://t.co/eCCmLNphU0

— saira rao (@sairasameerarao)

Joy

After years of keeping this convo in-group, I wrote about the unbearable anti-Blackness among brown folks, here and globally. That we’d rather kiss the ring of whiteness than be associated with Blackness has turned us into white supremacists in brown skin. https://t.co/iS3NtPByGI

— saira rao (@sairasameerarao)

Sadness

Meet racist Timothy Lawler located in Austin Texas, Timothy made a hate comment about hanging this little black boy. I’m disgusted. @Airbnb he’s one of your hosts! DO THE RIGHT THING if u truly believe black lives matter! This should not be tolerated. Twitter do your thing. https://t.co/4A3tojXwTG

— saira rao (@sairasameerarao)

Trust

White supremacy would be dismantled in academia if white liberal faculty and staff stopped considering themselves the creators and controllers of everything. You hug us “in support” while going behind our back on everything else and never confronting the whites stalking us.

— saira rao (@sairasameerarao)