Erika K Wilson
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I am a Black law professor with locs. I earned tenure with locs. I’ve taught students with locs. I’ve gone to court & advocated on behalf of clients with locs. I didn’t have to cut off my locs to do any of those things. Stop colonizing our children’s minds.
Today, the NFL’s
#InspireChange
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It’s worth remembering the men who killed Ahmad Aubrey originally faced no charges. It took cell phone video of the murder being leaked online to put pressure on state officials to intervene. There can never truly be justice in a system that operates in such a manner.
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This is unsustainable. Does anyone care how people are living? Struggling? And most of these places resist affordable housing developments, have sizable populations of color, and do not pay a living wage.
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This is sad. If it wasn’t for Greyhound, I couldn’t have gone home during college breaks. I couldn’t afford to fly; didn’t have a car. U.S. is actively hostile to poor people, who are disproportionately blk & brown, but not exclusively. It’s disturbing to watch what’s happening.
Greyhound bus terminals are rapidly closing around the U.S as the company sells its valuable terminals to investors like hedge fund Alden Global Capital.
60 million people depend on intercity buses, primarily minorities and people with disabilities
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@MrsBundrige
They get to be in the room b/c they won’t make systemic change. Their presence “legitimizes” a system that is really illegitimate and amoral; pacifying people into not revolting. Their presence is NOT charity, but instead integral to maintaining modern racial capitalism.
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@ShaunKing
Black people r canaries in the coal mine.Eventually a rogue police state turns on all, even the privileged. That's what this video shows.
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Here’s the video of Toni Morrison discussing the plight of white mothers harassing black children who integrated schools. Whenever I see Ruby Bridges & the horrors done to her I think of this interview.
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Many people are fine jettisoning democracy if it has to be a multi-racial democracy. Once you understand that, everything else makes sense.
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@RapAllStars
A couple of millionaires giving a billionaire a Bentley. Black capitalism for you 🤷🏾♀️😩🤦🏾♀️
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@GHaydson
@AmandiOnAir
your comment perfectly illustrates how true diverse representation is used to falsely claim that whites are being pushed out. Whites were still the majority of interns in the Obama White House. But anything more than a “token” presence of non-whites is viewed as a “takeover” 😏
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Is anyone else still masking? In most spaces I’m either the only one, or one of very few, wearing a mask. I’ve also encountered people offended that I’m wearing a mask. What a time 🥲
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@staceyNYCDC
@tressiemcphd
I couldn’t get past the part where her husband said “I can’t do it..I can’t watch him for this long.” WATCH HIM? Does he mean parent him? He’s not a damn babysitter he’s the father. I purposely picked a husband who co-parents not watches our son or else I’d catch a murder charge
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@CoreyMiles__
Listen... I’ve found that the fear of not having enough never leaves you, no matter how much money you have. You worry that you might get canned, no matter how secure your job is. Poverty creates toxic stress that seemingly elevates your fight or flight responses permanently.
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1/ This photo made me so sad. NFL player Deshaun Watson was sued by 20+ women for alleged sexual misconduct &/or assault during massages they were retained to give him. He settled the suits & was suspended for 11 games for violating the NFL’s conduct policy. This man & his son 👇🏾
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@BenjaminPDixon
This video has disturbed me all evening. They had to pull the white kid off the black kid in order to handcuff the black kid. Makes no sense from a public safety perspective. It really underscores how much policing is about social control rather than actual public safety.
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@normanination4
The psychological costs of black/brown/Asian girls growing up seeing mainly white girl disney characters is immeasurable. It does something to their sense of worth;reinforces whiteness as the standard. The folks flipping out over a blk Ariel are mad whiteness is being decentered
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@jemelehill
Trump is in office because of white citizens. If he wins it will be because white citizens still want him. He is a reflection of white citizens policy preferences. If 10% drop him he will lose. White citizens control the country’s fate. If history is any guide I’m not optimistic
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@stephenasmith
@FirstTake
Being Black doesn't mean you can't be xenophobic though. Your intent is irrelevant. Your words carry weight and sent the absolute wrong message.
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@Sammie_Ware
😳🤭 I was literally just telling someone else some of the same people screaming “black lives matter,” have at some point made a black person’s work experience a living hell. This is an extreme example but here you have it.
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@MurphysicalLaw
@ShaunKing
What happened in this video happens to Blk people on street everyday. Blk people surrender their 4th amendment rights everyday no one cares
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@Olas_Truth
She grew up in Forsyth County,a notoriously racist place w/a violent history.That often gets glided over. She is white privilege & greivance,dressed in a faux blue collar package,to fool working class white folks into accepting wages of whiteness over something concerete or real
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@DapperDomo
@Phil_Lewis_
Why do these free thinkers with large platforms always trumpet white supremacist talking points? Why don’t they demand universal healthcare, living wages & housing for all? How is it their free think leads them to anti-black & anti-semetic tropes? Free think or regurgitation🤔hmm
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Duke coaches should have pulled the team. Duke players should have walked out. It can’t just be on the people victimized by racism to take a stand.
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When I was 5, all I wanted was a cabbage patch doll. It took my mom 2 years to find a Black one, so I didn't get one until I was 7. I am certain that there are no shortage of white American girl dolls. But a handful of non-white dolls is a bridge too far for these people though.
Newsmax host says he couldn't find an American Girl doll that looked like his daughter: "My daughter is just a cute little 6 year-old white girl - we couldn't find anybody that looked like my daughter. It was -- the whole place, it was, like, wokeified"
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@XXL
Kids don’t care about dads net worth. They care about dad being at the soccer game. But this is what happens when one equates male virtue with their ability to make money. They think all they have to do to be a good person, husband, or father is make money. It’s dehumanizing.
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@michaelharriot
Also worth adding to the list that black people in many places are disproportionately the “essential” workers staffing grocery stores, driving buses, etc..increasing the odds of being exposed to the virus.
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2/are protesting his suspension. The way we socialize children to view women & the lengths we go to to exculpate men- especially ones who have special talent like athletes, politicians, etc..is indicative of how deeply rooted misogyny is in our culture. Shameful.
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@queenveej
If republicans whole platform wasn't built on racism & white supremacy, a good number of Black folks would consistently vote Repulican.
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Today I learned that my promotion to the rank of Full Professor was approved by the Board of Trustees! I am filled with gratitude for those who came before me & laid the groundwork. I sit under the shade of a tree I did not plant. I pledge to plant seeds for others to follow.
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@bevtgooden
It’s crazy how people can experience the song so differently! The last verse where she says you stay in the bar,still don’t have a job, and see your friends more than your kids so take your fast car & keep on driving, is a dead give away. She repeated the cycle of her parents
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UNC Diverting DEI funds to police sends one helluva symbolic message. The summer of 2020 “racial reckoning” cost way more than we received in return. The backlash is leading to a bona fide police state & unearthing virulent anti-blackness.
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“It would ban students who attend Harvard,Yale, Princeton, or any of the roughly 50 other wealthy, private colleges subject to a tax on their endowment from taking out federal student loans.” They trying to make sure there are no black, brown or working class people at the Ivys😳
All eyes have been on the end of affirmative action, but an emerging bipartisan bill would bar wealthy colleges from accepting federal student loans poses a new threat to diversity at those schools
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@YeshaCallahan
Chris Rock ate that punch & reacted pretty smoothly… all things considered. That could have ended very different if he had not. Sheesh. But the calls to arrest or charge will smith are lame and predictable. The carceral state ain’t the solution. I’d rather have Denzel mediate
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@keithboykin
@keyonharrold
@ArloHotels
The way that she demanded “proof” that his iPhone wasn’t hers is peak white entitlement. The modern day “show me your freedom papers.” She wasn’t a hotel guest yet mgmt intuitively sought to protect her interests at the expense of the kid’s dignity.
#blackinamerica
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@Oseaivy
@ArlanWasHere
1/One of my profs in law school was a Blk woman w/locs. Something she said to me that I never forgot is that you don’t want to work somewhere that requires you to subsume a big part of your identity in order to get the job. I say that to say the law firm did you a favor
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@stephenasmith
I hope your back doesn’t get tired carrying the NFLs water. Kaepernick had every right to not want to waive his right to sue the NFL for its continued collusion to keep him out of the league. That broad of a waiver was unnecessary & devious. But go off Uncle Ruckus 🤷🏾♀️
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@DominiqueJL15
The part where Black candidates with vast potential is overlooked happens so often. Junior Black candidates have to be damn near a finished product to be seriously considered.
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@jemelehill
The calls to unify, forgive & understand are rooted in white supremacy & the way whiteness is always situated as “innocent.” Notice some are now situating themselves as victims of being harshly judged as racist w/no mention of the harm they & their candidate inflicted
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@BritniDWrites
Black capitalists are just window dressing that legitimate and illegitimate system. There’s a reason half the America black billionaires are entertainers or connected to the entertainment industry. You can’t black capitalist your way out of the harms of racial capitalism.
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@Oseaivy
@ArlanWasHere
4/ My own experience was that even with straight hair, I was still subject to implicit & explicit bias along with microagressions. Some employers still passed me over b/c I was Blk. So if I’m going to get the treatment anyway, I’m going to do like Frank Sinatra & do it my way 😉
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@primediscussion
Before NIL, Colleges were laundering money through financing outrageous facilities to make it look like they don’t turn a profit so they could say they were barely breaking even 😂😂😂
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@queenveej
If Lisa Leslie said the same thing Lebron did- she wouldn’t give up ball for her kids b-c her husband is “the shit” & takes care of them- the reaction would be very different. default assumption for moms is to sacrifice, even what you love. For dads,it’s to outsource & “do you.”
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@kzshabazz
@okayplayer
@jeremyoharris
This is absolute bs. There is nothing funny about enslavement. By making light of it, it desensitizes people to the brutality of it. This play is especially pernicious when you consider that the history of enslavement is isn’t taught accurately in the first place 😡.
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@KimberlyNFoster
Whew. You’re opening up a whole can of worms. It’s past time to have the conversation w/o people “all lives mattering” the subject, saying “we’re all Black,” so what’s the big deal. Yes we’re all black but colorism in dating is real & it’s time to take the lid off.
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NFL is using an algorithm that says Black players start off w/lower cognitive abilities to deny them compensation for brain injuries. Most of the NFL’s retirees are Black but only 1/4 of people compensated under the settlement are black. NFL has long been a plantation sport.
To determine which players are eligible for payouts in the NFL’s $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims, the NFL has insisted on using a scoring algorithm on the dementia testing that assumes Black men start with lower cognitive skills.
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@A_Daneshzadeh
When the reporter said “you don’t sound like an American,” and she responded “that’s because I’ve read…” took me all the way out 😭😭💯💯💯 if they didn’t want the truth, they shouldn’t have asked her 🤷🏾♀️ Good for her keeping it all the way real. They were ready for that .
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@WalkerBragman
This isn’t cool. Nothing good happens when you mix schools with the criminal justice system. Nothing at all.
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@NeilLewisJr
If you are silent pre-tenure,you will be silent post-tenure. Tenure does not give you courage or conviction. In fact, I would argue silence is a privilege. For faculty of color especially, silence is harmful. For that reason,I have been the exact same person pre-and post tenure
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@Oseaivy
@ArlanWasHere
3/ choosing to assimilate their hair.I once did it.I just want young Blk people to know they have options. You don’t have to straighten your hair or get a low fade to be successful. You can make intentional choices to reject white supremcist notions of what is professional.
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Not only does it not break the cycle of poverty, I’ve found you become the safety net for the rest of the family, sending money to avert evictions, lights getting cut off etc.. So when you are mired in debt on top of that, it feeds a vicious cycle of sustained familial poverty.
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Black folks have long warned about police being militarized,police using gratuitous violence to effectuate arrests & police callously disregarding Constitutional rights. We are the canary in the coal mine that gets ignored. What’s done to us eventually hits the masses..
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@ElieNYC
Not only did she cry….but she cried at the “mistake” the officer made, not at the dead Black young man w/his whole life in front of him, including a child who is now fatherless. That’s the most telling thing to me. How much the value of black lives is diminished or ignored.
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Today’s majority opinion ending AA exempts the military academies b/c of their “distinct” interests” (see FN 4 ). Black folks take a moment & sit with the implications. Affirmative action is about access. You can have access to the military but not Harvard. KBJ said it best
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@LeftSentThis
Sexism & trying to create a narrative that lonzo’s motivation is something other than a ball player looking out for another ball player.
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Nah Texas is the United States. It is convenient to try and situate what is happening in Texas as foreign or "unamerican." But it is not. The U.S. has a sordid history of deputizing private citizens against marginalized groups, recall the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
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@blkswn___
Even when Black people do enter professions that pay well many are saddled with loan debt that makes it impossible to accumulate the same level of wealth. Either way a society where someone feels comfortable driving a 100k car while others are homeless & hungry is a sick society
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@revrrlewis
Man these folks act like Martin Luther King & Medgar Evers weren’t assisinated;like 4 little Black girls weren’t bombed & killed at the 16th street baptist CHURCH;like MLK didnt have a 75% disapproval’s rating before he died. Just making up stuff like there’s no google 😏
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@Oseaivy
@ArlanWasHere
2/ I spend a lot of time counseling black students on whether they can wear their natural hair on interviews. My final advice is do what you can live with but know that there are successful Blk people like me that do fine w/o compromising. You can too. I never fault anyone for...
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@quidditch424
Her lived experience in LA was not that of a Black woman. She was brutally honest about that.
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"Finley attacked the police cruiser;that officer called for backup." Duly noted that officer didn't draw his weapon in fear 4 his life 😏
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@bomani_jones
The NCAA will be breathing down Jackson State University's door soon. What JSU is doing upsets the balance especially down south. SEC and ACC coaches will be watching them like a hawk & trying to take them down. One might even try to hire Deion just to stop the movement.
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@TheSWDiva
She probably needed that little job so she took it with a smile. Also when you’re in the moment of racial violence,you may freeze.She may in retrospect wish she has knocked that girls block off. totally agree that commending her restraint isnt the compliment folks think it is
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@jbouie
No. My people are from the south with heavy southwest accents and they don’t sound like Walker. Walkers problem isn’t his dialect. It’s the non-substance that comes out his mouth. This is disrespectful to southern black people to pretend they sound like Walker.
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@jemelehill
A licensed gun owner defending his home charged with attempted murder. And where’s the NRA? Quiet as a church mouse b/c the NRA doesn’t care about black gunowner rights.
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@whatsarahsaiddd
Crazy. My sons nurse practicioner asked my what I did 4 a living. I told her law professor.She asked in a surprised voice if I taught all the students or just the black ones 😂✋🏾My son doesn’t see her anymore. Racism exists everywhere,even with so-called educated”professionals.”
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1/ These comments by Sanders on recruiting QBs vs DL are interesting. They highlight how much the violent nature of football preys on Black poverty & desperation for certain positions like DL, regardless of the color of the head coach.
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“The study finds a correlation between white American's intolerance, and support for authoritarian rule. In other words, when intolerant white people fear democracy may benefit marginalized people, they abandon their commitment to democracy.”
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@nhoodpublicist
Mary’s audience has a lot of disposable income & grown kids so I’m not sure why people thought those boots wouldn’t sell. Crazy.
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@The_Acumen
They mistook building a career for building a life. Their life is their career so without it they don’t see a life. I promise you I won’t have that problem. If I had the financial means, I could walk away from my career today at 46 with 0 regret, doubt, or longing. Like none.
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@BenjaminPDixon
Wow that was a case study in white privilege. Police didn’t even see the whole interaction but cuffed the black kid while the white kid walked off. Racism in policing is an intractable. Abolition is the only path forward.
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@monaeltahawy
@dreamhampton
Unbelievable. If he behaves that way in public in front of millions of people, imagine what he might do behaving closer doors alone with a woman. This is absolutely disgusting.
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@CharlesMBlow
@ewarren
If
@ewarren
was a man she’d have a 20 point lead. I’ve volunteered on the phone bank for her campaign and a common refrain I heard was people like her but don’t think a woman can beat Trump. Sad that people are voting this way rather than voting for the best candidate.
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@paulkrugman
This is false. This is how the media soft peddles & insulates white supremacy. You must have loved through a different post 9-11 than I did. Many of my Muslim & Sikh friends- or anyone white folks mistook for “Muslim” caught hell. Many are still catching hell truth be told.
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1/I am seeing the conversations around a potential Black woman nominee to the Sup. Crt along with the Sup. Crt agreeing to hear the UNC & Harvard affirmative action cases. I want to add a perspective that is missing regarding race-conscious admissions/employment practices. A🧵..
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@MaaloufMD
Jaded, burnt out, & not having children. Powers that be are overturning Roe - will likely come for birth control next- while not addressing the structural impediments to being able to have children. It’s all insane & cruel.
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@kayewhitehead
This is beyond awful! Intimant partner violence is among the leading causes of death for black women 18-35. We need more awareness of the problem
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@ScottAdamsSays
@hbryant42
@ijbailey
LOL yet most corporations remain run by…white men. 86% of Fortune 500 CEOs are white men. Your “boss” was trying to be nice perhaps. The problem was likely you, not your demographic. Just a guess 🤷🏾♀️
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@CjHo1mes
The irony is so many black college athletes play for teams with racist fans like this who see the players as “the entertainment” & think they own them in the literal & metaphoric sense. More 5 star athletes should consider HBCUs going forward.
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@NYPDTransit
@BenjaminPDixon
@NYPDShea
@NYCMayor
Your response is unacceptable. It is indicative of the low regard in which you & these officers view black & brown children. That officer pushed a child out of the subway station. Your use of the term “female” dehumanizes a child & shows exactly what you’re about. Shame on you!
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@AllWayzOnMyGriz
@TheRoot
Exactly. Guy with the camera should have at least tried to intervene rather than record it. The only upside to him recording it is they have the man on camera doing this. But this could have ended tragically in death while the guy recorded!
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@IncisiveThought
@DrRobinStevens
Toni Morrison said something along the lines of ingesting and performing anti-blackness is a pre-requisite for immigrant assimilation in America. It’s so much that even some Black immigrants absorb that lesson.
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1/I am excited to announce my latest article Monopolizing Whiteness is going to be published by the Harvard Law Review
@HarvLRev
. The article critically examines the issue of racial segregation in schools from the perspective of white students.
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If they can come for Roe v Wade, don’t assume that cases once considered sacrosanct- Brown v bd of education for example, are off limits. I’m not being an alarmist, I’m being a realist about this moment in time & the goals of this project.
#DobbsvJackson
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1/I am excited to announce that my article Monopolizing Whiteness is now available at 134
@HarvLRev
2382 (2021). Please check it out! I will provide a very brief synopsis of the article in the tweets that follow.
Our May issue is here!🌷 Check out some incredible pieces from
@glakier
,
@Erika_K_Wilson
, &
@inGerri
(and much more) here:
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@EscaflowneClown
This. We don't talk enough about how prevalent this is. Always want to cast killings as an individual case when it keeps happening over and over again.
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@jemelehill
They will say he was “only 17 & shouldn’t be judged 4 tweets b/c he was a kid,”but will also then say 12 year old Tamir rice caused his own death by playing w/ a toy gun.White 17 year olds get 2 be “kids”who make mistakes.12 year old Blk kids are “men” responsible 4 their actions
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@nrookie
Removing June Jordan and Nikki Giovanni? Goes to show you this has always been about removing Black people from the curriculum and fro students conceptions of who is part of American history.
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@nytimes
Most other employers are so crappy that Amazon comes along and offers more than a crappier employer like Walmart so it looks like Amazon is doing right by its employees. We've allowed the bar to get so low, people cannot see what should be & accept less than their worth.
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Tupac’s admonition is even more relevant today. There should be no billlionaires.
Tupac Shakur on the normalization of greed under Capitalism.
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@morgan_sung
Cuz as a fellow pell grant qualifee it meant your family was down bad finacially. I got a pell grant but also had to work 2, sometimes 3, part time jobs on top of full time school to get through it. I was envious of the folks who went to class & thats it.
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@el_tragon_de_LA
She asks for space and privacy to reflect, with no apology. She may as well have ended by saying “I said what I said.”
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@uche_blackstock
@stephenasmith
Horrified.This is dismissive of the trauma Jones’ mere presence there caused & ignores the plethora of recent anti-black actions by Jones-e.g.,his comments on Kapernick,a 2013 video with him commenting on a white man being w/a blk girl, etc.Recent receipts are readily available
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@GameTheoryHBO
Deion is a good example of why racial diversity alone does not necessarily equal liberation. More black police officers doesn’t stop extrajudicial killings of black people. More black coaches doesn’t stop the exploitation of young black men. Same systems, just different actors.
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Black folks have to literally clean up the mess
The same House chamber doors where the armed standoff took place hours ago is being cleaned for members to return for the joint session:
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@marclamonthill
She is doing what the young people call “securing the bag.” She’s a college dropout with no expertise but she was clever enough to figure out that being a black republican talking head with no qualifications except parroting anti-black rhetoric pays well.
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At some point we need to have the conversation about the judges role in perpetuating the eviction crises. Especially where there is room to exercise discretion like here.
In Fulton County eviction court today: tenant says he’s approved for rental assistance but payment hasn’t been made. Judge won’t reset case and gives him 10 minutes to check with case worker, who says payment may take 7-14 days. Landlord then asks for eviction. Judge approves.
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@Phil_Lewis_
This is similar to the states shutting down schools rather than integrating. USC would rather shut it down than allow a diversity of speech that they are assuming some will find offensive.
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via Since it originated with efforts to prevent labor organizing & patrol slaves, modern policing has punished the poor. No number of diversity workshops, body cameras and community policing initiatives will change that.
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@jemelehill
This is true. But I would say there are Black women too who just want Black men to have better access to patriarchy b-c they bought they fairytale that it will lead to liberation for all of us. It will not. We need to talk about patriarchy AND systemic racism.
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