Anat Shenker-Osorio

We were also explicit about race from the jump. When we first came together in August, we said if they try to steal this election, they are going to do it with racist attacks on Detroit in an attempt to disenfranchise Black voters & other voters of color. 9/

We said it to everyone that would listen. This will be racialized & unless folks stand in solidarity with Black folks & Detroit, they're going to wage divide & conquer attacks, encourage white nationalist violence, & wedge white folks against us w/ Law & Order rhetoric. 10/

So no one was surprised when Trump was got out his racist dog-whistle in his 11/5 unhinged presser saying Detroit was corrupt & couldn't be trusted with the election. We saw it for what it was - a racist dog-whistle attempting to disenfranchise Black folks. 11/

And everyone was clear about it when they testified. Yesterday at the BOC meeting, rural white folks, Yoopers, suburbanites stood in solidarity with Black&brown Detroiters calling out the racist bs. The very ppl they were trying to wedge with the dog-whistles called bullshit 12/

We were capped off by mass COVID-safe offline & online actions. Yesterday's miles-long Car Caravan + livestream & digital actions were amazing. Led and planned by women of color organizers like Rai from @MILiberation, Steph from @SEIU, and Hoai An from @WeThePeople_MI + more 13/

It was the cherry on top of a month of powerful offline & online actions with thousands of ppl in dozens of communities in every corner of the state. Actions that were joyful, fun, moving - with music & dancing & healing space & OUR people. The stuff ppl want to be a part of 14/

And finally, we operated as a collective. The whole was genuinely > the sum of its parts. We built relationships deeply, operated with trust, left egos & drama aside. Named tension when it came up & dealt w/ it. We flew under the @WeMakeMichigan banner & rocked together. 15/

All of our leaders, teams, orgs got to shine in the ways that they shine. & we gave love & gratitude. It was beautiful. It is the future. So when you start hearing pundits talk about who saved our democracy, know it was us. It was our people. 16/