Gratitude to Pittsburgh educator and leader, Jamilla Rice, for this contribution today to the necessary conversation beginning/continuing/deepening in Pittsburgh, and everywhere: "It’s important to know that white supremacy runs deep in this region. People will try to flip it and say “don’t make it political” and they’re idiots for saying so. The words that drove the murderer were political. The people he chose to attack was a political act. Trump’s visit was a political act. We’re less than a week away from midterms. To accuse people of “making it political” is to live in a privileged place of ignorance. Those of us whose very existence has been an act of political resistance know the fallacy of that rhetoric and should ALWAYS clap back. I’m sorry that they’ve lived such isolated existences and have not had a thorough Social Studies education in order to see that everything is political, whether they like it or not. #InterruptIgnoranceAndHate #EspeciallyIfItsYourRelativeOrNeighbor"