On January 26, 2019
Aware of the criticisms that have surfaced around the national Women’s March, hundreds of participants in Raleigh crowded in the state’s legislative courtyard late January 2019 preaching a message of intersectional feminism and equality for minorities, immigrants, and the LGTBQ community.
But words can only go so far.
Activist Takiyah Thompson—a black woman who was arrested in 2017 after helping to topple a Confederate monument in downtown Durham—was singled out by police while marching with a sign held up by a stick. Most everyone in the crowd around her also had one, but police pulled Thompson to the side and began interrogating her, she said. Some, but not all, of the participants were asked to remove the sticks and other supports from their signs before entering the courtyard.
Encircled by police officers, Thompson began to chant “Freedom! Freedom! All these racist cops, we don’t need ’em.” The white women around her kept walking.
“You could hear a rat piss on a cotton ball when I started that chant because everyone is afraid to affirm the rights of black women, of black people,” Thompson told the crowd.
Thompson was not arrested and was pulled on stage as the event’s first speaker. Thompson marched alongside Mikisa Thompson
Women’s March On Raleigh has not apologized to Takiyah Thompson or Black women in general for the abandonment of Thompson during the march once Thompson was assaulted by the raleigh pd.
Nationally, the Women’s March came under fire in December after some of its organizers were accused of anti-semitism and homophobia after throwing Mallory under the bus for appreciating the life of The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
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