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Trump is fighting harder to stop the count than he did to stop the spread of COVID.
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In the span of a few days, both Robert Fuller and Malcolm Harsch were found hanging from trees in Southern California cities about 50 miles apart.
There must be full and immediate investigations into their deaths.
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BREAKING: A member of the Breonna Taylor grand jury just filed a motion asking a judge to release the full proceedings of the grand jury. This is more evidence that AG Cameron's public statement contradict both the facts and what was presented to the grand jury.
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Less than two months ago, Garrett Rolfe, the officer who killed Rayshard Brooks, took a 9-hour de-escalation course.
#DefundThePolice
Tim Scott: Rayshard Brooks shooting shows de-escalation training is "so important"
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“Everything that you fought for was not for yourself, it was for those who came after you.” -Chadwick Boseman giving the 2018 commencement address at Howard University
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In a recent dissent, Amy Coney Barrett wrote that the right to vote and serve on juries belonged "only to virtuous citizens." Her opinion also suggests that all civic rights are subject to virtue-based exceptions.
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Today is a good day to think about empathy: who receives it, and who is always denied it.
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Det. Brett Hankinson:
-Murdered Breonna Taylor
-Has been accused of sexually assaulting two women
-Sued multiple times for excessive force
-Sits on the Louisville Police Merit Board (which reviews police disciplinary appeals)
-Is still being paid by
@LMPD
-Has not been arrested
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This is the joy that so triggered Peggy Noonan that she wrote a column about how Senator Harris comes off as “insubstantial, frivolous.”
Black joy is something they feel the need to attack.
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What if we told you that every city and state has organizers and leaders like Stacey Abrams, you just haven’t been listening to them?
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Brett Hankinson, one of the officers who murdered
#BreonnaTaylor
and who's been accused of sexually assaulting two women, is a member of the Louisville Police Merit Board, which reviews police officer disciplinary appeals.
The officers who murdered Breonna must be arrested *NOW*
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Priscilla Slater died in police custody on Wednesday. Harper Woods Police Department are refusing to provide her family with full information. Call or email the Harper Woods Police Department to demand justice.
#SayHerName
Phone: 313-343-2530
Email: vsmith
@harperwoods
.net
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Black and Latino voters in Philly, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Detroit, and Phoenix just ended Trump’s presidency. Don’t ever forget it.
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Black and Latino voters in Detroit, Milwaukee, Atlanta, and Phoenix will deliver this election to Joe Biden.
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BREAKING: The recordings of the Breonna Taylor grand jury will be released on Wednesday pursuant to a court order requiring Attorney General Daniel Cameron to file the recordings with the court.
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Trump's attacks on Critical Race Theory are rooted in the belief that there's something dangerous about people learning about America's history of slavery, white supremacy, and racism, and how those phenomena continue to shape our country.
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In the first month of protests after George Floyd's death, drivers hit protesters 66 times. Today, Florida Governor DeSantis proposed removing any liability from drivers who cause injury or death by hitting or driving into protesters. His message couldn't be clearer.
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To listen to Amy Coney Barrett describe herself as an originalist is an exercise in absurdism because an originalist understanding of the Constitution would not permit her—as a woman—to serve on the Supreme Court, or even to hold her current position.
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The impact of racist felony disenfranchisement in key states in 2020. Number of disenfranchised voters in:
Florida - 1,132,000
Texas - 500,000
Georgia - 275,000
Arizona - 233,000
North Carolina - 83,000
Wisconsin - 69,000
Pennsylvania - 48,000
Michigan - 38,000
Nevada - 14,000
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Black women are fired for wearing their hair natural, fired when they speak out about workplace discrimination and harassment, and fired when they demand equal pay.
It's rich to see people writing op-eds and letters in national papers about how cancel culture has come for them.
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Today is the anniversary of Tommie Smith and John Carlos' famous Black power salute at the 1968 Olympics. The image of Smith and Carlos with fists raised is one of the most recognizable sports photos in history. The story behind the famous image, however, is less well known.
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“We appreciate you guys. We really do." -Kenosha Police Department to a group of armed white vigilantes, one of whom murdered two protesters shortly after the Kenosha PD expressed their appreciation.
There's a long history of cooperation between police and white supremacists.
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Breonna Taylor
Atatiana Jefferson
Natasha McKenna
Pamela Turner
Sandra Bland
Kayla Moore
India Kager
Rekia Boyd
Aiyana Stanley-Jones
Korryn Gaines
Michelle Cusseaux
Shantel Davis
Bettie Jones
Pearlie Golden
Redel Jones
Alexia Christian
Miriam Carey
Too many others.
#SayHerName
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In a 2016 paper, Amy Coney Barrett described the Fourteenth Amendment as "possibly illegitimate."
The Fourteenth Amendment requires due process and equal protection, and has served as the basis for such Supreme Court decisions as Brown v. Board, Roe v. Wade, and Obergefell.
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Only a week ago, heavily armed white protesters were allowed to storm state capitols to protest for the ability to go to the gym or get a haircut.
But when Black people protest in defense of our humanity, we are tear-gassed and met with state violence.
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This is an elected Republican in the Florida legislature. Absolutely evil.
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In her opinion she makes no mention of how such "virtuous citizen" restrictions were used after the Civil War and the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments to deny African Americans the right to vote.
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We have a system of criminal justice that would rather arrest every protester and every person who dares cry out for justice than hold accountable the officers who murdered Breonna Taylor.
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Black voters turned out in record numbers for Biden/Harris. Meanwhile, Trump won Republicans 93%-6% despite all the money the Lincoln Project project spent on ads.
The staffing and policy priorities of a Biden administration must reflect this.
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At a time when the right to vote is under extreme attack, we should be critical of those who endorse outdated notions rooted in white supremacy as a justification for denying millions of Americans the right to vote.
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Fact check: America is systemically racist.
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This flag flew from the NAACP's headquarters in NYC from 1920 until 1938. It's sad and infuriating that the flag is still relevant today.
Black people remain subject to racist violence, perpetrated by both the state and private vigilantes.
#RobertFuller
#MalcolmHarsch
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Before calling the police, ask yourself "am I okay with the possibility that this person may be killed because of this call?"
That is what's at stake when you call police because someone is blasting music, committing a traffic violation, or experiencing a mental health crisis.
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"Stand back and stand by" is not a condemnation, it's an instruction.
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THE OFFICERS WHO MURDERED BREONNA TAYLOR ARE STILL EMPLOYED AND NOT ARRESTED.
How much violence will the police and National Guard mete out instead of simply arresting these officers? How many people will they murder instead of simply holding these officers accountable?
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Det. Myles Cosgrove
-Murdered Breonna Taylor
-Was suspended in 2006 after firing eleven shots at a driver and passenger he was attempting to pull over
-Received Written reprimands in 2008, 2010, and 2016
-Is still being paid by
@LMPD
-Has not been arrested
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Breonna's 27th birthday would have been this Friday. The three police officers who murdered her and still employed and still free.
#SayHerName
#BreonnaTaylor
There can't be peace until there is justice.
LMPD: 502-574-7111
Mayor Greg Fischer 502-574-2003
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Jon Mattingly, one of the Louisville Police officers who murdered Breonna Taylor is now suing her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, for emotional distress, assault, and battery.
He stormed into Breonna’s home, killed her, and now torments those who loved her.
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It's Wednesday. Arrest the officers who murdered Breonna Taylor.
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Man wait until he hears some of the things Black people are called...
Sen. John Kennedy: "It hurts to be called a racist. I think it's one of the worst things you can call an American."
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Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly
-Murdered Breonna Taylor
-Received a written reprimand related to use of force in 2018
-Is still being paid by
@LMPD
-Has not been arrested
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It’s been six months since Louisville police officers murdered Breonna Taylor. We won’t forget about you. We won’t stop fighting for you.
#SayHerName
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So what is Critical Race Theory, really? And why is it so important?
Kimberlé Crenshaw (
@sandylocks
) sets the record straight on CRT and the right's disinformation campaign in our latest video. Watch and share:
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Black people have been summarily executed by police if they're so much as suspected of a crime but now the NYPD is unsure if vehicular assault is an offense? 🤔
Police are trying to determine if the driver who plowed through a group of Black Lives Matter protesters in Times Square actually committed a crime, NYPD Police Commissioner Dermot Shea says.
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There's no training that can teach you not to shoot an unarmed Black man in the back at point blank range. There's no training that can teach you to value human life.
#DefundThePolice
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"I ran because of Barack Obama."
Yeah, it's not exactly a secret that your hatred of the first Black president is what motivated you to spend four years trying to undo everything he accomplished.
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Today,
#BreonnaTaylor
should be celebrating her 27th birthday. She would be celebrating if not for the Louisville police officers who stormed into her home and murdered her.
We lift up Breonna's story and celebrate her life.
#SayHerName
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A 17-year-old with a history of racist and misogynistic social media posts traveled to Kenosha and murdered two protesters. This is white supremacist terrorism.
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The full opinion (which concerns whether someone convicted of a felony can prohibited from owning a firearm), as well as Judge Barrett's dissent and her tangent regarding the right to vote can be found here:
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Five years ago today, Sandra Bland died while in custody after she had been unlawfully stopped and arrested. Like too many other Black women, her life was cut short by state violence.
We remember you, and we won’t stop fighting for you.
#SayHerName
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The Minneapolis police implemented trainings on implicit bias, de-escalation, and crisis intervention. They adopted body cameras and initiated a series of police-community dialogues.
They still killed George Floyd.
#DefundThePolice
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Here's a copy of the motion:
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This election should put to rest the idea President Trump is an aberration. He and the white supremacist ideals he embodies are part and parcel of our nation's long history of racism and violence, a history that we have never reckoned with.
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It's tempting to view the fake Shake Shack "poisoning" as a weird, goofy bit of news.
But it also reveals 1) how readily police lie, and 2) how willing news outlets are to run with the police's account of events, regardless of how far fetched it may seem.
In the fake Shake Shack "poisoning" of NYPD officers, three officers made the drink orders using mobile apps, so the employees couldn’t have known cops placed the orders since the ordering wasn’t done in person.
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Read Kimberlé Crenshaw's (
@sandylocks
) statement on the use of 'Say Her Name' by Marjorie Taylor Greene during the State of the Union Address
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It's Friday. A day shy of three months since
#BreonnaTaylor
was murdered.
Arrest the officers who murdered Breonna Taylor.
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Firing the officers who murdered Breonna Taylor is not justice.
Arresting the officers who murdered Breonna Taylor is not justice.
They are necessary first steps, but justice is when Black women can sleep in their own homes without fear of being murdered by police
#SayHerName
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Kenosha Police Department has a history of fatally shooting people:
Aaron Siler - Killed by Kenosha police in 2015
Michael Bell - Killed by Kenosha police in 2004
Jonathan Lee Davis - Killed by Kenosha police in 2004
Kelly Combs - Killed by Kenosha police in 2003
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Stand up for racial justice. We need to fight back against this repressive censorship campaign like our lives depend on it— because they do.
Watch and share our new video with
@sandylocks
:
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Stop asking Black people to extend olive branches to people who don't even recognize our humanity.
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🚨Breaking:🚨 An attorney representing one of the grand jurors in Breonna Taylor's case put out a statement indicating that "The grand jury didn't agree that certain actions were justified, nor did it decide the indictment should be the only charges in the Breonna Taylor case."
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John Lewis demanded that our nation live up to its ideals. He demanded that America make good on its promise of justice and liberty for all. He reminded us that freedom could not wait.
May you rest in power.
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Trump claiming that anti-racism education is anti-American is very telling.
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Today we celebrate the life and legacy of
#EleanorBumpurs
, who would have been 102 today. Bumpurs was shot and killed by NYPD officers who broke down her door because she was behind on her rent of $98.65. We
#SayHerName
because Black women should not be killed in their own homes.
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Pence denying that systemic racism exists, refusing to accept the reality of climate change, and not committing to a peaceful transition of power seem a tad more important than the fly that landed on him.
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Firing the officers who murdered Breonna Taylor is not justice.
Arresting the officers who murdered Breonna Taylor is not justice.
They are necessary first steps, but justice is when Black women can sleep in their own homes without fear of being murdered by police
#SayHerName
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"When people tell me that intersectionality marginalises class, I say no, intersectionality is what we need to understand why it’s been so difficult to mount a fully class-centric movement.”
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This should be disqualifying. The Fourteenth Amendment, in addition to providing for due process and equal protection, is what applies the Bill of Rights to the states. It was passed shortly after the Civil War as a necessary corrective for a Constitution that condoned slavery.
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To suggest that the Fourteenth Amendment is "possibly illegitimate" is to suggest that all people are not equal under the law. It is a rejection or more than a century and a half of progress towards greater civil rights.
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Black people spending hours in line waiting to vote isn't inspiring. It's voter suppression.
Pass it on.
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Today we Say the Name of
#KorrynGaines
who was shot and killed by police w/her son in her arms 1 year ago today. Rest In Power
#SayHerName
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A Black woman is about to be Vice President of the United States. What a truly historic moment.
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Apparently counting every vote is now coded as a partisan win for Democrats.
The Supreme Court will allow absentee ballots in North Carolina to be received and counted up to 9 days after Election Day, in a win for Democrats.
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Arrested protesters are political prisoners.
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Two of the men who stormed the Michigan capitol and stood armed in the senate gallery while it was in session were among those charged in the plot to kidnap and kill Gov. Whitmer.
This is the result of Trump and the GOP praising and encouraging violent right-wing militants.
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Today is a good day to think about empathy: who receives it, and who is always denied it.
Now is the time for every Biden supporter to reach out to one person who voted for Trump.
Empathize with them.
Tell them you know how they feel (you do, from 2016).
Come up with one issue you can agree on.
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A majority of Black voters voted for Biden.
A majority of Latino voters voted for Biden.
A majority of Asian voters voted for Biden.
A majority of white voters voted for Trump.
Keep that in mind before sharing your hot take.
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It's the first day of the new Supreme Court term and Justices Thomas and Alito have released a statement attacking marriage equality and implying that Obergefell needs to be overturned. They paint Kim Davis, the clerk who refused to authorize same-sex marriages, as a martyr.
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Six white supremacist terrorists conspiring to kidnap and kill the Governor of Michigan after the president called on his supporters to "liberate Michigan" would normally be the biggest story of the year. But it barely registers amidst all the violence Trump has instigated.
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This flag was ripped off of Asbury United Methodist Church, a historic Black church in D.C.
Nazis are literally in the streets burning banners from Black churches. This is who Trump told to "stand back and stand by."
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Critical race theory is a way looking at race— a way of looking at why, after so many centuries since Emancipation, we have patterns of inequalities that are enduring.
@sandylocks
on
@thereidout
. Watch and share:
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19 years ago today, Rep. Barbara Lee courageously cast the lone vote against the Authorization for Use of Military Force, warning that it would give the president a blank check to wage war against any country without time limit.
Sadly, her warning became reality.
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Counting every vote is not a win for Democrats. It is a win for democracy.
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Are you booking Black organizers on your talk shows? Are you interviewing Latino and Native voters about why they voted for Biden and what policies they want prioritized?
Or is it going to be more non-stop coverage of what white conservatives want?
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It’s journalistic malpractice to lead with these headlines when one of the two candidates refuses to condemn white supremacists or commit to a peaceful transition of power.
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This is extremely concerning. D.C. Police lied and told media that people affiliated with Black Lives Matter stabbed Proud Boys, only to later admit they had absolutely no evidence that that happened.
It's almost as though they're trying to foment violence.
NEW: DC Police changed info given to us, initially saying at 6:15am members of Proud Boys were stabbed by members of Black Lives Matter. They retracted at 7:50 a.m., saying they do not know the identities of those involved. Here's what we're being told.
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Trump's attacks on the 1619 Project, like his attacks on Critical Race Theory, are rooted in the belief that there's something dangerous about people learning about America's history of slavery, white supremacy, and racism, and how those phenomena continue to shape our country.
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Fred Hampton would have celebrated his 72nd birthday today if he hadn't been assassinated. His message was so powerful the state murdered him to try to stop it from spreading.
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We need to realize that Trump bragging about every law enforcement agency supporting him and Trump refusing to condemn white supremacists are related to each other.
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"I won't rent to Black people"
"Bring back the death penalty"
"Bring back our police"
"Black guys counting my money! I hate it"
"Very fine people on both sides"
"Stand back and stand by"
The man who says he's the least racist person in the room.
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Breonna Taylor
Atatiana Jefferson
Natasha McKenna
Shelly Frey
Sandra Bland
Kayla Moore
India Kager
Rekia Boyd
Aiyana Stanley-Jones
Korryn Gaines
Michelle Cusseaux
Shantel Davis
Bettie Jones
Pearlie Golden
Tanisha Anderson
Yvette Smith
Miriam Carey
Too many others.
#SayHerName
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Intersectionality
Critical Race Theory
Structural racism
White supremacy
Implicit bias
White privilege
These are some of the concepts that the Trump Administration is trying to ban with EO 13950. How many of these banned concepts have been critical to your work and education?
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Now let's talk about reparations.
Philadelphia's city council voted to apologize for the 1985 bombing of a Black neighborhood.
Police dropped combat explosives on members of Black liberation group MOVE, who were living in a row house. 11 people died — including 5 children — and fires left 250 people homeless.
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