Other movements were created to siphon energy away from Civil Rights. But be careful here. Are we better off *WITHOUT* James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Bayard Rustin & Barbara Jordan? Stop excluding people from the tribe, then railing against them for selling out the tribe.

https://t.co/5QQVBiyCE2

Why isn't reparations an issue for @TheBlackCaucus?

@HMAesq @AlexNowrasteh I suppose you can’t even see nor regulate your need to cast multigenerational BlackAmericans/descendants of slaves as children who are used. Racist 👀? Did you listen to the part of the public conversation abt evolution of thought leadership in immigration reduction?

lol

https://t.co/cN8haQm5MQ

Read this 🧵

Amen

Last February the #DuBoisChallenge asked people to recreate historical #dataviz by W.E.B. Du Bois using modern tools. Read @ajstarks' recap and get ready for this year's challenge!

@CjsgoNews @princss6 2 things stood out 1) 9 out of 10 Blk applicants were denied/ % of ADOS 2)Median hh income 4 both black 67,000 & wht 83,000 r above nat'l income (45,870, 71, 231)(USCensus,2021). 4ADOS Reparations is a good policy.

Black applicants are denied a mortgage at a rate 84% higher than white applicants, an increase of 10 percentage points since 2019. Black homeownership is at 44%, far below the peak of 49.7% set in 2004. https://t.co/mJTGeHnAGV

Rep. Scott to Host Virtual Town Hall on Resolution to Declare Racism a Public Health Crisis in Georgia – Georgia House of Representatives

Nikole Hannah Jones now says @tonetalks & I don’t deserve any credit for framing redress around lineage, but in a previous interview w Barry Jenkins of the Hollywood Reporter, she was clear about where her thoughts around lineage derived from 👇🏽 1/

TNC got the country *TALKING* about reparations, then the energy died, after TNC made it clear that he was NOT an activist, & said his *ONLY* job was to explore ideas. We created a movement, bc all political change comes via movement work, not self-centered, boasting writers

#ADOS are the “unsung” heroes of the United States. Like music, everything that is loved about the United States was created by us… #AsAmericanAsApplePie #ADOSAF #UnsungHeroes #ADOSmusic

“Kruger is the daughter of two physicians. Her mother hails from Jamaica, while her late father was the son of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe. Kruger attended the prestigious Polytechnic School, a private prep school in Pasadena, California..” 🤷🏽‍♀️

NHJ will tell us we can’t take credit for our reparations work bc other people had worked on reparations at some point in the past, all while she takes credit for a slavery project? As if slavery hasn’t been studied by generations of scholars & journalists alike?

The countdown begins for our TWO Twitter conversations with @RoyBeck, author of Back of the Hiring Line. See you on Feb 1st for Session 1: Immigration’s Impact on Freed Slaves (1865-1980)

@therealest007 @nhannahjones So let me get this strait you want access to money owed 2 our community as a result of stolen lands, money, labor? Would you ask your neighbor who's father dies for part of the insurance payout because you know your father died 2? Why not? This isnt free money. Its back pay. Owed