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Source on public funding for Remdesivir.

Source on Gilead’s planned price.

that’s it. rosa’s feet were tired. 

You see, the actual, spontaneous, unplanned incident was done nine months earlier by a black girl named Claudette Colvin.  She was in the section designated for black people, however, the front became crowded and she was told to move to make way for a white woman (who was actually fine with standing as it turns out, to show how adamantly racist the bus driver was).  She refused and was arrested.

Rosa Parks was a secretary at one of many chapters of NAACP and they had seen the incident but they had multiple reasons for not wanting to publicize it when it happened.  One was that Claudette was a minor.  Another possibility is that Claudette had some marks on her past that could have been considered questionable or immoral and they wanted someone that white people couldn’t pick apart as a villain or a thug for when it happened.

TW: Violent Intent

I just watched a semi truck plow through a group of peaceful protesters in my city.

BY SOME MIRACLE NO ONE WAS HIT

This tanker somehow evaded barricades set up along 35W and drove right on in to a group full of men, women, and CHILDREN.

PLEASE STAY SAFE OUT THERE!!!

To all my black followers and friends, stay safe.

Also, I would like to add that black lives have always mattered, will always matter.

It’s awful that we even have to say that because it should be a given. However, we need to say it loud and clear for the racists.