We Wouldn’t Be Americans If Not for “Thugs”

To make sense of our present, perhaps we should understand our past.

Vanessa Torre

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Photo by Nicole Baster via Unsplash

Yesterday, shortly after midnight in Washington D.C., in a tweet flagged for glorifying violence, the president referred to the protesters in Minneapolis as “thugs.”

It’s a heavy term to be used, especially as we saw a video of one of the first acts…

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Vanessa Torre

Top 10 feminist writer. Writing, coaching, and relentlessly hyping women in midilfe. linktr.ee/Vanessaltorre Email: vanessa@vanessatorre.com