Ends & Dividends
Ratchet & Respectable
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The History of White and Political Protests
The Times notes that in 1917, they went back. There was a silent protest parade organized by the NAACP in which 10,000 black folk marched down Fifth Avenue and protest against discrimination and anti-black violence. They all wore white. In 2020, there's a Brooklyn Liberation March, a protest for black trans rights in front of the Brooklyn Museum. They had 15,000 attendees. All wore white. We just talked about Hillary Clinton and her Ralph Lauren white in 2016. And she wore white is a nod to Geraldine Ferrero, who also wore white when she became the Democratic Party's first female nominee for vice president in 1984. So long history of wearing white. When I started reading
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