A Prophetic Reminder

Jude Jones
2 min readMar 26, 2021

Because past is too often prologue, of course our resistance is personified through the visage of a Black woman’s arrest. Give Representative Cannon her things. Including campaign contributions. But spare the fake shock and performative empathy.

None of this is surprising.

It happened after reconstruction. It happened in streets in Tulsa. On bridges in Alabama. In schools in New Orleans. Of course…

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Jude Jones

Go ask my pre-school, even talk to my old principal / He’d tell you how you I used to pack a number two pencil