Patrisse Cullors Instagram – Trigger warning: 1st slide: hate mail 2nd slide: a drone above my home taking pictures and surveilling me and my family I don’t share all the level of hate and vitriol I get on a daily basis. I don’t share the consistent surveillance I am under on a daily basis. I don’t often communicate how the tabloid lies from NY post, Daily Mail etc, and many of the Black gossip sites proliferated about me with out ever actually interviewing me ( mostly shame on the Black gossip sites ) impacted my mental health, my confidence, my sense of self, my whole entire being. I rarely discuss how often Black people NOT trolls incite violence against me in my comment section. But this is my life. And this is the life of many of us who decide that we will and must fight for Black life. Even though I am way less visible than I use to, I am still perceived as a threat to white supremacy. I’ve only ever been guilty of fighting for Black people, for caring for Black people, and yet…. This is the shit that I experience often. I pray for all of us. That our world transitions into the abolitionist vision I and so many of us imagine. We all deserve better. And we will eventually receive better. Ashe ooooooo