William Monroe Trotter, born on this day in 1872, was a newspaper editor and civil rights activist based in Boston, Massachusetts who co-founded the Niagara Movement with WEB Du Bois.
Trotter was an early opponent of the accommodationist race policies of Booker T. Washington, and in 1901 founded the Boston Guardian, an independent African-American newspaper he used to express that opposition.
Trotter was a key founding member of the “Niagara Movement” with W.E.B. Du Bois and contributed to the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), although he never participated in the group due to a bitter split with Du Bois.
“My vocation has been to wage a crusade against lynching, disenfranchisement, peonage, public segregation, injustice, denial of service in public places for color, in war time and peace.”
- William Monroe Trotter
https://trotter.umich.edu/article/timeline-william-monroe-trotters-life
I hope you nerds have a good month of April 
Remember no crackers
I actually met my first IRL r*dditor a few days ago at a painting thing. This guy shows up with a Vaush-style unkempt beard and starts off with “It’s good to be able to work on stuff without the kids bothering you, right fellas? Haha…”
Okay so this guy is a dad who needs some alone time. That’s normal. But then he proceeds to spend the entire time talking about his kids. “Oh that’s like when my son did that in school!” or he’d say “My daughter showed me that,” and so on, non-stop for like 4 hours.
I really wanted to say “Dude, shut the fuck up no one here cares about your son’s grades or whatever the fuck. Maybe you should have brought them with you instead of perpetuating the same ‘Dad can’t show children interest or affection’ shit your parents inflicted on you?”
But what really made me not like this guy (who was otherwise friendly and I probably shouldn’t have been bothered by him) was that he finally felt comfortable enough to say “I saw on reddit…” He switched from talking about his kids to whatever slop he saw Stormfront. Memes, tutorials, whatever…he was unironically doing “I must consoooooom!” in response to astroturfing instead of recognizing he was getting psyop’d. Like no, guy. I don’t use that shitty site because it’s all fake nonsense or white supremacist propaganda or some sexual predator meeting spot.
Anywho. I think I mentally overreacted to this person’s vibe. But he was a peak whiteboy millennial stereotype who may otherwise have progressive politics, yet hasn’t ridden himself completely of libshit because his material interests are not with the rest of the proletariat.
Sorry for the rant, it’s just been rummaging around in my head for two or three days now how much I hate these fucking people.