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not paying to use twitter - artist - free black woman - proud wife & mama - removed sc’s confederate flag in the name of Jesus on june 27, 2015 - Psalm 27 🙏🏾
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Whenever I die, please don't allow my image to be co-opted by the power establishment. Don't let my name & likeness be used to argue for peace in the absence of justice. I believe uncompromisingly in the liberation of the black, poor and oppressed from systems of white supremacy
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Slavery wasn’t abolished. It was reformed.
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Trayvon Martin was 17. White society didn’t give a damn. Now folks care about age when it’s a white supremacist with a rifle murdering 2 people. GTFOH
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Dude is just standing there and they start wailing on him with everything they have. They’re dressed for war while he has on a sweatshirt but we’re supposed to believe they’re the ones who are “afraid”.
This guy in Portland tonight must be made of steel. Unreal.
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Emmett Till would’ve been 79 today. That’s another reminder of how recent that event was. He was born a year after John Lewis.
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“How can it be racist if the police are Black?”
BECAUSE THE INSTITUTION OF POLICING ITSELF IS RACIST
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Wow it’s almost like police forces in the US exist primarily to enforce the race/class divide & not actually to protect public safety
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If you have to train people not to kill me because I’m Black, I’d really prefer you just not give them the power to kill me at all maybe?
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whyyyyyyyyyyy do we accept such a lower quality of life in this country in exchange for nothing but slogans & confetti
My daughter lives in Canada and applied for the COVID-19 benefit on Tuesday. It took two minutes to apply. The first payment showed up today - two days later. This is government working for the people.
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Everyone arguing that 1-2% of the population dying isn’t a big deal needs to identify 1 or 2 close family members or friends that they are willing to offer up to death in this moment for capitalism. Name them.
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You can’t reform the slave patrols
Police officer pepper-spraying a little child
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The civil unrest is a byproduct of the collapsing state, not the cause of it.
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“I was prepared to support the humanity of Black people until I saw someone set a car on fire.”
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This country has an $839B defense budget but when I go to the checkout at the grocery store I get asked for donations to support the troops & wounded veterans.
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Do folks realize how batty it is that, 8 months in, we’re still focused on keeping restaurants open during a pandemic instead of providing $ to everyone from the restaurant owner to the dishwasher so they can stay home for a few weeks & we can stop the spread?
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Every Biden campaign event:
👩🏻🧕🏾🧔🏿♂️👨🏻👩🏽🦳👱🏼♀️👩🏾🦱: NO GENOCIDE!!
🧓🏻👨🏼🦳👩🏻🦳👴🏻👨🏼🦲👨🏼👵🏻: BOOOOOO!!
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Don't allow racists to reframe
#TakeAKnee
as being a debate about anthem & flag. It's a protest of police brutality & racism... 🙄
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The fact the political establishment was so spooked by protests at Kavanaugh’s home that, within hours, they passed a bill to expand security for SCOTUS is actually further evidence that protesting at their homes is effective
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“You have stolen more than we could ever loot.”
WHEW
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Burning a police precinct is not nearly as violent an act as holding your knee on a person’s neck for several minutes and choking the life out of them. This is another moment where the elite call upon us to feel more empathy for white property than for our own lives.
I don’t 🤷🏾♀️
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You represent the class of women who've always been given space and a voice and a seat. That's why you feel so comfortable talking over everyone else and then cry victim when someone tells you no.
Good morning - to all the fellow conservative “girls” who won’t be quiet.
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America’s “far left” is advocating for universal healthcare—something that exists in every developed nation on earth except the USA lol I don’t think folks realize how backwards this country actually is & how it’s connected to the compounding crises we face
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Tell me again why we can’t defund the police & military when they’ve shown us today that they don’t intend to use any of their expensive gear to protect the Capitol from a domestic invasion?
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Why do folks think millennials are teenagers? Millennials got their kids bringing them breakfast tomorrow morning lmao
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Great time to question how the price tag is going up on everything but your labor
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You can’t describe what’s happening in the Capitol as a “small group of extremists” when they’re being supported by the president, 16% of the Senate, 1/4 of the House, the local police forces & officials at the Pentagon.
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Whichever police officers responded to the scene of the Ahmad Aubrey murder need to be investigated.
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Folks arguing that Black people must comply with police in every circumstance or be killed are the same ones saying mask mandates are a tyrannical overreach of gov’t that entitles them to throw tantrums in public & storm the capitals with guns.
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Why is the pandemic being framed as a war instead of a public health crisis? It’s not a war. It’s a public health crisis that ballooned to disaster due to failures in governance at every level, especially federal.
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Covid at-home test: $25
Minimum wage: $7.25/hr
So, 3 1/2 hours of work at minimum wage to afford an at home test. That’s half a day’s earnings.
Free public testing: 2 1/2 hr wait in line
That’s $18 lost wages assuming someone can take off work to stand in line.
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AOC has to be the most powerful freshman congressperson in the history of the US government. They can’t keep her out their mouths & apparently she’s gone from waitress to running half the gov’t in one term.
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White folks about to be way more upset that Black athletes refuse to entertain them than they are about anything that’s happened the past 4 days.
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You can’t keep murdering people and then calling for peace. That’s not how anything works.
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Disrupt everything. We are escalating into totalitarianism at rapid speed. I’m frightened for you if you don’t see it happening.
NYPD summons for one of the protestors: “Defendant stated in my presence: Free Palestine”
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Notice how something we were told was impossible & even laughable a couple weeks ago has now become possible. This is what everyone must understand about the importance of demanding what we need & not simply accepting it when officials say they can’t do it
President Biden will announce a plan to distribute 500 million at-home rapid Covid-19 tests as the US faces a winter surge of infections
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Please stop saying people “died after encounters with police.” They died because THE POLICE KILLED THEM
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May I suggest celebrities call for a day of donating large sums of money to community organizations that are combatting racism & working to abolish police & prisons instead of using their enormous platforms/influence to call for “silence” & “quiet”?
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Y’all Black people don’t just “have” higher risk factors because of our skin color. We are killed by structural racism. Language matters.
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Notice how all the labor considered feminine is also expected to be free or low cost
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Everybody who didn't know is seeing America as it truly is right now. Can't provide resources for the pandemic but has all the resources at the ready to murder civilians in the street and teargas anyone who objects.
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AMAZING how police consistently make the most “mistakes” when the person they’re dealing with is Black yet they manage to apprehend white mass shooters without killing them time & time again.
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I cannot emphasize enough how ridiculous and ahistorical it is to say “the country’s never been this divided!” about a place that has never fully resolved a civil war.
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Monkeypox is exploding because it was wrongly presented to the public as an STI among gay men. The monkeypox case numbers are an undercount also
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America is not “deeply divided.” The overwhelming majority of people keep voting in favor of progressive policies only to be ignored & overruled by the white wealthy interests that run our govt & the base of rabid racists they empower to help uphold the oppressive status quo
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No one becomes a billionaire without exploiting other people's underpaid or unpaid labor. This is how capitalism works. The billionaire class does not work harder than the laborers earning poverty wages within the industries the billionaires control. Grasp this please.
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The Proud Boys are a white supremacist hate group in Portland today wearing MAGA hats as their uniform. If you're still trying to argue that this is anything but the modern equivalent of brownshirts acting as a militia on behalf of their beloved fascist leader... you're lost.
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If you’re wondering how dictatorships rise and mass genocide events occur, you’re witnessing it in USA right now.
Much of it has to do with the authoritarian side moving like a high-speed bulldozer while everyone else continually underestimates the magnitude of the threat.
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Chicago police punched a young Black woman protester in the face last night and knocked her teeth out. I don’t want to retweet the image. I just want folks to be aware this was happening while politicians were posting their statements about John Lewis in Selma in 1965.
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If we’re required to comply with police without question under any circumstances or face penalty of death, then we have no civil liberties, actually.
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The verbal gymnastics they do to avoid saying IDF is massacring people
JUST IN: Israel confirms an IDF attack caused the massive blast at Gaza's largest refugee camp that has reportedly left many people dead and injured
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Just so we’re all clear, Trump committed impeachable offenses from the time he was sworn in. What changed is he became a mortal threat to figures of the white elite.
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I'm going to keep saying this to y'all:
Trump is being impeached.
However,
when the Senate refuses to remove him,
he will effectively be a dictator.
We then have an entire year of Trump dictatorship
and a slim chance of having a free and fair election
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If it’s not necessary for police to use teargas against the fascists storming the Capitol right now, it’s not necessary in any circumstance.
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"And it’s now impossible to be ‘masculine’ without also being accused of ‘toxic masculinity’." -Piers Morgan
If someone can't see a line between masculinity and toxic masculinity, it's a good indicator they're a misogynist.
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Don't make idols of human beings. The cult of celebrity is a big part of why we're in the mess we're in as a society-- b/c we worship images of fame & fortune often in absence of substance. I'm not saying don't be a fan or don't have a hero. I'm saying don't worship human beings
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🚨Notice how we're constantly told there isn't $ to provide adequate schools or healthcare for poor children but funds suddenly materialize whenever they decide to imprison children
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"Rosa Parks arrested for violating what some say is a racist law"
-how news agencies would write the headline today
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All the worst case scenarios folks said would never happen during the Trump admin, the things they repeatedly called us hyperbolic for warning about, are happening.
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I'm confused by people on the left who think the situation with Russia is a side issue or a distraction. The Trump-Putin alliance is part of the global white supremacist fascist movement
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America is traumatized by the Oscar slap but needs to watch video of a Black person being shot in the back of the head by police to form an opinion. See how that works??
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The Brooklyn Center PD raised a thin blue line flag above its building and then fired teargas & rubber bullets after being ordered not to by the city government. The conversation is way beyond taser v gun
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Notice how police were deployed in large numbers to arrest pro-democracy demonstrators while armed white mobs are allowed to disrupt the ballot counting process without police interference.
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The official GOP position is that police are an incorruptible force when it comes to patrolling Black neighborhoods, but also the top law enforcement agency in the nation is corrupt in its investigation of Trump
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
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Protesters: “Stop killing us”
Police: *teargas, grenades, rubber bullets, batons, rifles, tanks, helicopters, driving cars into people*
Headlines: “A clash between police and protesters”
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Diversifying the police force doesn’t end racism because racism is inherent to the organization of the institution & its daily operation. Racism is what policing is
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Please never forget that Chauvin is going to prison today not because the legal system works but because Darnella Frazier captured video that prevented the city of Minneapolis from engaging in a cover up.
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They’re gonna rename a bridge after John Lewis and pat themselves on the back while police are still beating folks in the streets and we don’t have a voting rights act.
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“The protests turned violent”
= police began gassing & beating people
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Here again, folks booed a team taking knee even tho it didn't happen during anthem playing. BECAUSE THEIR ANGER IS NOT ABOUT THE ANTHEM 🙃
Trump: 'Great anger' at Dallas Cowboys for taking a knee last night
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“Police are being vilified”
Because they murder people on video & attack anyone who protests
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Kaepernick: takes knee during national anthem to protest racism
Folks: UNPATRIOTIC TRAITOR!
Trump: colludes w/ hostile foreign power
Folks:
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Still don’t get how people think a guaranteed living wage destroys the economy but the wealthy withholding trillions in taxes doesn’t.
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Notice how conservatives use the language of “coup” and “insurrection” to describe Black people challenging structural racism.
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So kneeling quietly is disrespectful but it's ok to shout & boo during anthem 🙃 Because, again, this is about racism, not patriotism
Fans were shouting at those kneeling during the anthem. It was pretty loud and clear.
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HBOMax functions like there’s somebody who lives inside the app who has to go into the back to access the archives for you
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If the National Guard wasn’t necessary when white men stormed the capitals with guns, it isn’t necessary now.
The white establishment could deescalate this conflict by arresting the murderous officers. They choose not to.
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Describing Betsy DeVos as incompetent misses the larger reality that her purpose is to undo the civil rights movement as far as education is concerned, just as Carson is at HUD to undo the movement in housing & Sessions is doing likewise in the justice dept
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Things are “out of control” now that the precinct burns but they were “under control” when police were murdering someone???
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Y'all realize the lowest level crimes committed by the poorest people receive the heaviest policing, right? And that the wealthiest, most powerful people who are committing crimes against humanity aren't policed heavy because they own the police? I hope we all realize this.
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Funny how folks aren’t as bothered by violence against women as they are by women rapping about sex. Almost like there’s a connection there 🤔
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The political establishment will attempt to take a small amount of $ from these enormous police budgets, transfer it to a handful of chosen programs they view as least threatening to the status quo, & then claim they addressed structural racism. Please don’t let them do that.
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The way police react when they KNOW someone has a gun shows how all these killings of unarmed people are intentional actions by cops who knew they weren’t in real danger
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I actually don’t agree that another candidate from the primary would’ve done better. I think people continue to be in denial about how racist this country is & how committed the majority of white people are to preserving racial caste despite claims of believing the opposite.
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*banging pots and pans*
IF THERE WERE NO POWER IN VOTING, THEY WOULDN'T TRY SO HARD TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM VOTING. NO ONE OPTS OUT OF THE SYSTEM BY NOT VOTING. THE SYSTEM STILL PROFITS FROM YOUR LABOR & YOUR TAX DOLLARS EVEN WHEN YOU HAVE NO VOTE. THANKS FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK.
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This is a great visual explainer of how gerrymandering works
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Why is it framed as a “worker shortage crisis” and not a “low wage crisis”
4.4 million Americans quit their jobs in September as the worker shortage crisis continues, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows
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Please stop telling me to vote & go spend some time monitoring your son’s internet activity. Thanks ♥️
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I really want people to stop sharing Handmaid’s Tale memes and spend some time reading about the history of enslaved Black women & the development of gynecology
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Folks— it is nuts to violently steal somebody’s land & then complain you can’t live in peace with them so they must be eliminated entirely.
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I still argue that the entire point of Trump presidency/era is to reinforce white supremacy & racial caste in the aftermath of a Black person being elected US president. This includes letting Trump engage in a greater level of recklessness as a show of his rich, white privilege.
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Never lived thru the collapse of an empire before so this is a new one for me
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An international debate over whether Osaka should be punished for trying to prioritize her mental health is an excellent way to close out mental health awareness month and show how society actually feels about the topic. *chef’s kiss*
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The white elite are saying they’ll cut funding from public schools unless communities offer their children up to illness and death against all common sense health guidelines in the fall. I don’t know how much more you need to see to understand why revolution is necessary.
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If Arpaio can be pardoned,
#DACA
recipients can be naturalized. This isn't about law & order, it's about racism. I hope everyone recognizes.
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“Defund the police” freaks people out because it actually addresses structural racism in a concrete way. Anything that addresses systemic racism or economic inequality beyond shallow symbolism & gestures will be met with resistance. No different from the fight to end segregation.
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Someone else pointed this out but the fact that so many children depend on school as their only meal for the day is a damning indictment of an economy that doesn’t pay ppl enough to live
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Again, a handful of billionaires pocketed $434B at the same time 40M people lost their jobs.
And they want us to focus on working class people “looting” merchandise.
lol
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