02/09/2026
History doesn't repeat. It echoes.
And right now, it's loud.
When I read records from Reconstruction, I see Black families targeted for organizing, for owning land, for building schools.
When I read records from the Great Migration, I see families who left because staying meant living under constant threat.
When I read records from the Civil Rights era, I see communities surveilled, arrested, and told their citizenship was up for debate.
The tools change. The rhetoric shifts.
But the pattern stays the same: certain communities are marked as "other," and the state responds with force.
That's not a political statement.
That's historical fact.
And when you know the history, you can't be told that "this has never happened before."
Because it has.
And our ancestors survived it.
Not by pretending it wasn't happening. But by caring for each other, documenting what they saw, and refusing to disappear.
That's the legacy we're inheriting.
And that's the work we're doing now.
