So when we’re listening, for example, to the GOP rhetoric about this nostalgia of this America when things were simpler and better. You can never tell that story if you bother to think about African American women’s experience. Because there is no moment in American history where it is nostalgic and better to have been a little black girl. So what we do is put black women’s stories at the center of the American story. And all of a sudden the American story takes on a very different resonance and trajectory.
—Melissa Harris-Perry (via elverdugo)
