Dr. Claudine Gay, Ms. JaMaiya Miller, and the Plantation Ethos of the United States

Two Black women walked through a door. If that sentence sounds like a setup, it is. But it’s not a setup for a joke, nor is it the beginning of a “once upon a time” fable. It’s the prologue to the vicious and toxic reality of right now. Claudine Gay, the former president of Harvard University, walked through a door, one long barricaded by the power and privileges of wealth and race. JaMaiya Miller, an Amazon delivery driver, also walked through a door, one similarly buttressed by the powers of race and class. <a href="https://abc13.com/amazon-delivery-driver-assault-at-residential-building-in-river-oaks-caught-on-camera/14232326/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">What happened</a> next was made predictable by the implacable mechanisms of American white supremacy. You see, it’s not that Black women can’t make it through the door, it’s what happens to them once they get inside. It’s what happens when the masters and minions of white supremacy decide that they <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-woman-was-hired-to-investigate-racial-harassment-after-a-suicide-then-she-encountered-it-herself/ar-AA1mQbQu?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=7235a623a9924efebec8ca7f82f253b5&ei=100" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">don’t belong</a> inside.  <a href="https://medium.com/@maureenwalker/dr-claudine-gay-ms-jamaiya-miller-and-the-plantation-ethos-of-the-united-states-6aa20bb1cc17">Read More</a>