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
Holy shit, this is reminding me of this moment that lives rent-free in my head where I typed a whole-ass comment on Reddit explaining why “anti-white racism” is not a thing, and, in said comment, I specifically mentioned that acts of anti-white prejudice do happen, but such do not entail systemic harm and cannot be considered racism.
Despite this, some bozo responded to me by retelling this moment when some Black teenagers moved into their neighborhood and called them things like “whitey” and “cracker” as their sole “evidence” against my entire comment, thinking that we are automatically granting that anti-white prejudice “counts” as racism.
They basically are so caught-up in that semantic trap of believing that anti-white prejudice must be denoted a form of “racism” that they legitimately believed that my point was to argue that anti-white prejudice does not exist rather than arguing that it does exist but it is not “racism,” despite my comment unequivocally saying otherwise.
Liberals and Chuds often make this mistake, where the only racism that exists are slurs and overt discrimination. They fundamentally do not understand the systemic definition or think systemically, everything is personal-individual and moralized.
Years ago, I stopped interacting with these people. They’ve had systemic prejudice explained to them, why trans women are women, how intersectionality works, why liberals aren’t leftists, etc. and they double down on why those are all wrong. I can only conclude it’s deliberate. They say the wrong things on purpose because they want to hurt people they don’t like based on immutable characteristics. They will make any justifications to inflict harm on others while stealing their shit.
The best thing to do is talk more to the audience and ignore reactionaries who say such nonsense. The only replies those types get from me is insults telling them to fuck off.