Kaitlyn Greenidge
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A question for historians, as I continue to spiral into anxiety before the 4th--has there ever been a country that got to this point in the fascist checklist that was able to turn the tide? if so, which ones & what steps?
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How I knew I was at a Brooklyn kid’s birthday party: dusk fell in the park and the mom hosting said “ok pack it in. Rats are out. We in their house so we have to go”
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Absolutely bizarre how infrastructure costs get written about. Yes please pay billions to keep poop out of water and make it drinkable! That is a fair price and a thing that only govt can do with a modicum of justice! Trying to scare ppl about the price tag is so sinister
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"It's like everyone imagines that if they were poor, they would make the best poor person and actual poor people are doing it wrong"--my sister on those weird shaming articles about how easy it can be to feed a family of four on $100/week and meal prepping or whatever
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Pls trust, this deep into pandemic life, if someone has their camera off its probably for a really good reason
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Black people in NYC in the 19th century would avoid celebrating 4th of july both because of white oppression and because it was dangerous—white male new yorkers used the holiday to attack black neighborhoods. So instead Black nyers
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Last night, was talking to an educator about how this mayor has cut funding for art classes so badly that schools are crowdsourcing for scissors
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@NYCMayor
with the robocop, which cannot make the heart with the mayor because it has no arms
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this casting is perfect but if i go to this movie and find out it's 5 mins of Marcus Garvey and 3 hours about the white FBI agent who followed him around I will be pissed
Winston Duke is set to play famed Black nationalist Marcus Garvey in a new upcoming film:
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eroticism requires a level of emotional vulnerability, directness and commitment to pleasure that is anathema to most media being produced today and, honestly, most audiences consuming it....
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the obsession that some ppl have with "whether or not he's racist in his heart" is so weird and missing the point of how white supremacy actually works
a friend just asked me if I think tucker carlson is really a white nationalist or just pretended to make money, and the answer is I don’t give a shit. If you pretend to be a white nationalist, you’re a white nationalist
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A reminder that the IRS disproportionately audits Black taxpayers from the South who make less than 30 k a year….
BREAKING: the IRS failed to audit any of trump’s tax returns under the mandatory audit program except one year, and that was AFTER the House asked for his tax returns. An IRS memo said there were too many problems to look into. Here are a few, INCLUDING the 7 springs easement:
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prompting this is news that a FL school district voted to put any child who is "open about their identity" on a list that they then send to parents.
We're at list making--of children--levels rn. We've been here for a while for other pops for sure, but this is also an escalation
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Toni Morrison on love and generations: "Each generation has a kind of love. Some of it's really tough. What my grandmother thought was love for her children was really staying alive for them...1/
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL!
@haymarketbooks
is reissuing one of the most insightful books about writing and life of all time. Been out of print for years. If you consider yourself any kind of cultural worker, get a copy and study for craft
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Prayers up for this door dasher who i sent to this jamaican restaurant 😭 poor man frantically texting me that theyre telling him theyre out of everything i ordered
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The FBI so closely surveilled so many Black writers...in Lorraine Hansberry's file, they noted when she changed her bangs (Source: William Maxwell's F.B. Eyes)
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Celebrated on the 5th. It was their emancipation day (also bc of how slavery was gradually abolished in ny state, final date of slavery fell on 5th july). Freedom days like juneteenth existed throughout us on different days for different Black communities. In nyc they celebrated
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The US does not exist in a historical vacuum. The past can have lessons for us. And too many ppl are putting trust in institutions that are clearly not for democracy
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(Pls don't reply with a clever tweet. Rarely are they as funny as you think they are)
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5th of july with oysters and sometimes cold water toasts (if in abolitionist circles which were also often temperance supporters as well). If you are just now feeling uncomfortable with the 4th, consider the history of the 5th
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here's a more revealing question: why is a certain subset of americans so freaked out by masks
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“There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers–at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”--this Octavia Butler essay, I come back to all the time. But especially this morning
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A very small part of the unlivability of cities and suburbs—a mom friend said to me recently “my daughter loves to act but I can’t find any kids’ theater for her. Everyone keeps saying put her on tik tok and make money but I just want her to have fun…”
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that's called the blues i thought we covered this
Earth’s largest animals are singing in ever-lower tones than before, and nobody knows why.
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The prize committee that judges whether or not your novel about Black life in the US is sufficiently authentic
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This is like when you tweet about global warming and someone replies "well the EARTH will still be here. just all humans will die amid immense suffering"...as if we aren't two humans talking to each other on this cursed app 🙃
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Sometimes when ppl say "no one tells you how hard motherhood is" they are really saying "we don't listen to people who talk about motherhood". Because. There's so much devoted to telling ppl, in granular detail, why motherhood is hard. But culture asks for this perpetual surprise
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I would add…their organizing has been successful because the us govt has not surveilled, sabotaged or assassinated leaders…they aren’t better organizers than the left, they just get to live longer
Conservatives are receiving wins on decades long organizing strategy. Wins from them utilizing every tactic possible—direction action, media propaganda, narrative, funding, infiltrations, and more. The current political terrain can’t be reduced to the 2016 election results.
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i do have to say, every middling marketing exec and ted talk grifter calling themselves a "storyteller" over the last 15 yrs has really muddied the waters in terms of ppl understanding what narrative art is and what it takes to make it
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A sickening thing about this is a bunch of reporters and editors will keep publishing antitrans stories under the cover of “just asking questions”. Zero self reflection. Zero willingness to acknowledge their hands in any of this.
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I ask this not to flip into "we are doomed" territory. Or, if you are being especially slow, it's not because I can't think for myself...
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"What I thought was love of my children was giving them the maximum amount of freedom, setting an example of how you could make choices in your life."
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Y’all it’s really not that complicated. Everyone defending that murder fits a v particular demo who have fantasized about the public torture of Black men since this country was founded (that demo is not particular to one gender eitehr)
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If anyone tries to draw you into "white men can't publish literary novels anymore" discourse pls just throw this at them forever
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After she said that we saw a hawk swoop down and grab a rat. Kids were terrified. Grown ups were cheering the bird on
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The idea that the arts are there for expression for all, and not to be monetized at every possible level, is disappearing so fast for kids
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All those arts spaces that used to exist bc they could afford the rent are gone or quickly disappearing. Like, I did kids’ theater in an abandoned middle school with a random lady who just loved theater. It wasn’t professionalized—it was just to express oneself…
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I really need people to understand that just because you may identify as Black doesn't mean you know Black history through osmosis
Black Americans dont use rice in their dishes like Africans or Caribbean’s do. They weren’t given rice that often during slavery.
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the turning point on adoption for me was when I learned that well into the 1980s, Black families in Massachusetts were prohibited from adopting from the state foster care system
Adoption in the United States is so widely perceived as an altruistic social good that I'm not surprised that people are apparently struggling to understand it as oppressive practice.
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You’re not pro Black if the only Black people you extend grace to are Black men with power
Hope this helps clear some things up
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I went to school with the children of upper-middle class ppl while being poor. One of the weird things about that educational system is how that class is taught to view politics as a game, as a sport/
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"What my mother thought was love of her children was to get to a better place, maybe get enough money to send you to college if you wanted to. 2/
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To fetishize any institution in America as one of true fairness or intelligence is a fool’s errand. Perhaps we can move away from telling fairy tales and cutesy justice nicknames to understand these institutions as what they have always been—levers of power.
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“Nah you don’t understand. That was majestic!” Was said to try and calm a kid down 😭
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If i could make one book mandatory for all elementary school kids it would be the photo book "The Good Old Days, They We're Terrible!" which was basically just pictures of common day US life before safety regulations existed
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Seeing all these white parents up in arms about CRT being taught to their kids reminds me of how I learned Black history which was at home. It was an unspoken understanding that school would never give the complete truth--even in "very good" schools that taught slavery was wrong
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This country spent billions on “promoting marriage” during the bush years but non poop water is somehow a bridge too far???
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I really wish we as a society could have an honest conversation about how often courts and the entire structure of trials fail survivors. Because this unfortunately is not an anomaly
Things Kevin Spacey did in court: He cried. He apologized for apologizing. He talked about his abusive father. His lawyers characterized Anthony Rapp as "jealous" (at age 14) of Spacey's interest in other men.
The jury sided with Spacey. We've seen this before.
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Can't stress enough how much the protests of 2020 scared people in charge. The idea of ppl marching for racial justice & questioning police--& specifically the brief moments of multiracial organizing--is many leaders' worst nightmare. Even the ones who pay lip service to the CRM
1/ The city of San Pablo is set to build a regional police training center it estimates will cost $43.6 million
It's a large investment for the small city, population about 30K, which spent about $66 on all its budget expenditures last year. My report:
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Congrats to my big sis
@GreenidgeKerri
on earning tenure at Tufts!
And shout out to my mom who, between my 2 big sisters, has now given birth to 5% of all black women tenured humanities profs in the country and 20% of all black women tenured humanities profs in New England 🙃
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my one time as the main character of twitter was when i posted that i would never give up a plane seat if a couple asked to sit together because they didn't plan ahead and a bunch of wife guys angrily dm'd me on instagram bc my msgs here were closed.
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I did not publish much this year because I was getting divorced, moving to another state, being a single mom and selling a book. But here's what I did that I really liked...first up, this cross-generational oral history of Black Punks fo
@harpersbazaarus
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Fantastic reporting & lol at the white ppl in the replies “have you heard of community gardens?”
I promise u, when u read abt community resource issues, it’s rarely caused by Black ppl not thinking of the thing that 1st popped into yr head 30 secs after hearing about the problem
Ever wonder why Black communities struggle to get a grocery store? Or why there's so many Dollar General, Family Dollar, and Dollar Tree stores in low-income and high-income Black communities?
Here's my latest:
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this is why the crime rate needs to stay at a steady level
"Karma Chameleon" is taking over the New York Subways!
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A list of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Favorite Things… including his favorite sport (indoor): reading and his pet vanity: a beard…courtesy of the Du Bois Forum this past weekend in the Berkshires
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You are not being censored if
--you are regularly published in national newspapers and your work is promoted
--you have your own network tv show
--you have a million dollar recording contract
--someone asks you to take responsibility for your words and actions/questions both
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you have to know that everyone working at a cafe is just wishing this would happen to them it's like the number one reason not to work in your house
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this is so...abhorrent on a soul level?
Toto’s ‘Africa’ will play on a loop in the middle of Africa’s oldest desert for eternity
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There is a way of teaching writing that assumes if you emerge from workshop emotionally broken, the workshop is good & the instructor cares enough about your work to eviscerate it.That's not true. It's never been true. You can't be denigrated into writing a better essay or story
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Im sorry but singing yr acceptance speech acapella no warm up and with no pre-warning is a FLEX is Thee Flex.
Sheryl Lee Ralph just gave the most moving acceptance speech in
#Emmys
history.
#AbbottElementary
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Lovely photo and bless the child running this account calling these rollerblades 😭
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the generation that won't dance in public anymore for the very real fear some random person will record it and upload it to social media for ridicule is fighting an uphill battle to get comfortable enough for full on eroticism
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Remember that week when half of gentle progressive twitter revealed themselves to be defense contractors
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The fact that the Haitian revolution was barely mentioned when discussing early America, then reading primary sources and seeing how many white politicians were obsessed with and/or terrified by it…also nothing about the near constant slave rebellions in the us
If you grew up in the United States, what's one thing that you learned in history class that you later learned was just propaganda?
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"One board member (said) it was the testimony of transgender students that really moved them in their vote...It is the expression of transgender joy and resilience that has continually moved elected officials to not take our rights away."
@ErinInTheMorn
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just want to point out that the city of Jackson tried to stave off this current crisis by voting to increase their own taxes a few years back. but state government refused to do the actual repairs 🙃 that's where we are headed, whether you live in a blue state or a red state
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The idea that an algorithm written by people who drink in Black death would ever be able to approximate the consciousness of one of our greatest liberators…
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Earlier in this mess someone condescendingly asked me to turn mine on and i thought fuck it ok and they were treated to the sight if my baby attempting to scale me for titty access and the person said “ok i understand”
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unpopular opinion about The Ultimatum: Queer Love but Lexi is just as manipulative as Vanessa...she's just much better at it
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One of the key things to impart to a child is knowing what peace and safety feels like in their own body so they can return to that feeling when agitated and they instinctively know when a person or entity is trying to take it away
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Cis women regularly getting a period is relatively rare, historically. Up until like 150 yrs ago most cis women only got it a handful of times because they were always pregnant and/or did not have the body fat to menstruate. Earlier male doctors sometimes argued menses was a myth
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a key element of eroticism is a person identifying the particular thing that is arousing/pleasing TO THEM, which is also at odds with media made for an algorithim
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like, there's a certain mindset that sees public space not as something shared or something passed through but as a place to test power in small ways and a mask...fucks with that in a way they don't know how to respond to
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Boston is the only city where you can go to a 4 star restaurant and the woman sitting at the table next to you will be wearing a faded patagonia fleece thrown over an old anne klein dress and look at YOU crazy for being dressed up
One of my favorite things about Boston is how almost no one looks cool.
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The responses to this tweet…being miserable is not praxis, despite what twitter may have told you 😭
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Cats out of the bag....3rd novel coming with
@Flatironbooks
and
@NadxiNieto
.....can't wait to unleash this thing that's forming around the wilds of blackademics, identity and race post-
Obama 🤓
it's fun to write fiction again!
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michael scott is a perfect portrait of a very specific type of vaguely liberal white man gen x-er who is deeply afraid of difference and why the show works.
it's fascinating the creators don't see it that way tho...
Mindy Kaling Says
#TheOffice
Is ‘So Inappropriate Now’ and Couldn’t Be Made Today: Most Characters ‘Would Be Canceled’
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it's the mask, in particular, that seems triggering and i'm not sure why.
@tressiemcphd
said something at the start of this, that it's about losing the usual tools used to establish social dominance that ppl are freaked out about losing and i kinda think that's it
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Just once I would like the hand wringing over fascist politicians getting book deals to acknowledge all the radical writings that have never even been considered for publication by the big five and how so many ppl just take that as obvious
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@phylliswjordan
Long history of democracy for who? We’ve only had true universal suffrage for 50 yrs
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The belief that black narratives are only “realistic” or “serious” if the characters experience intense pain and trauma needs to die away
People want Abbott Elementary to be traumatic so bad. It’s weird af & definitely feels racist.
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To believe that white owned press/media was somehow objective before trump is its own weird whitewashing of american history
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i love how young ppl twitter has decided that 30 is death and everyone on earth is either 25 or 70
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Nothing on twitter will ever be as stupid as people who have never protested in their lives or even read a book (even a picture book) about protesting trying to give their opinion about what would be an effective protest
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If your "pro Black" guru believes there were "more Black children in two parent families during slavery", then they are either an op or straight stupid
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“Riding horses…embodies an agility that challenges border logic—forbidden mobility, fugitive consciousness. It’s a politic that has echoed throughout the diaspora…”
@bkfrombklyn
in
@harpersbazaarus
for Juneteenth
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did you grow up with ppl still using the word "vexed" in casual conversation and are you west indian
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White philadelphians were notorious for destroying black neighborhoods and targeting black children with violence in the years before the civil war and many were angered by the number of fugitive slaves coming to their city but hey, centrist fanfic is more important than facts
I'm Doing The Work and reading Angela Davis's Are Prisons Obsolete. It starts with the gobsmacking claim that anti-slavery was a fringe position until the Civil War. This would be a surprise to Pennsylvania, which outlawed slavery in 1780.
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So keep that in mind when you engage with them about politics. And maybe question this fundamental, very wrong view they have of it. Also NEVER TRUST someone who happily describes themselves as a "politics junkie".
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Perhaps the one good thing about this presidency will be that Americans finally rid themselves of the lie that objectivity, love of democracy or respect for law originate in and are key components of whiteness.
New ABC/Post poll of Trump approval rating just out:
Whites: 53% approve, 44% disapprove
Blacks: 11% approve, 83% disapprove
Hispanics: 16% approve, 81% disapprove
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For the past few months, I've been working with
@PENamerica
and a host of others on this report on Book Bans for
@harpersbazaarus
. Here's the openiner w links to original work by Jesmyn Ward, Edwidge Danticat, Maggie Tokuda-Hall (
@emteehall
) and more
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Why is there an argument that the slightest verbal criticism can turn white people to nazism (according to some) but centuries of systematic racism, denying healthcare, housing & education is supposed to make black people love, respect & want to communicate w/ white ppl even more
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I got to speak to
@felicerosser
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@Honeychild8rm
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@ChrisLTerry
, James Spooner and Osa Atoe in a roundtable of Black punks across generations and scenes for
@harpersbazaarus
. A true dream. Please read and check out the photos.
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These are the types of ppl who always call for civility, who will always, always tell you that disrupting any sort of "peace" is worse than whatever offense someone has done to you. They know history well, so they know, in theory, the concept of unjust law/
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“A self-described “numbers guy,” Mr. Yang left the group’s budget depleted...In 2017, when he left to run for president, the nonprofit spent $2.6 million more than it raised, ending the year with only about a month’s worth of cash in reserves.”
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What we are seeing is what happens when your top political advisors are not ideologues or activists or even people who have consistently won elections. This is what happens when your loudest advisors come from corporate management consulting.
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