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Fame is such a bizarre thing but this lady is consistently very good at it
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In 2000, a Haitan American man named Patrick Dorismond was standing outside a bar in midtown Manhattan. A plainsclothes cop walked up to him and asked him where he could buy crack.
“What are you doing asking me for that shit?” Dorimsond asked.
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White people just experience a fundamentally different kind of policing.
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Spike Lee said that when Do The Right Thing came out, a lot of critics thought it irresponsible to show Mookie throw a trash can through the window of Sal's pizzeria bc it would encourage riots...but they had far less to say about the cops choking Radio Raheem to death 🤷🏿♂️
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Schitt’s Creek is a good show and also doing the world a service by denying Ms Maisel more wildly undeserved plaudits
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This is unhinged.
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he should be alive, 25, and not known to anyone but his family and friends.
Trayvon Martin should have turned 25 years old today.
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one of the wildest things abt white supremacy is how white people's feelings abt racism are always the terrain being contested and always presented as The Stakes.
Sitting down with Nicholas Sandmann - the student at the center of the protest controversy at the Lincoln Memorial. Airs tomorrow on
@TODAYshow
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(The league fell short of revenue projections bc arenas were shut down and the league missed out on ticket revenues. But this picture makes it seem like, you know, protests drove fans away.)
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When i was dead broke — like literally $12 to my name — i got popped twice in a week for turnstile-jumping in NYC. They hit me w/ escalating fines that i couldn’t pay and threatened me with a night in jail if i did it again.
This video is vicious af; being poor is expensive.
Subway fare beaters are costing New York millions — so
@InsideEdition
decided to confront them.
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The very sole of our nation depends on it
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he's both correct and leaving out that suburbanization of the US was a segregationist project, and the loss of third spaces is one consequence of that.
an example: private, backyard pools were not a thing until Black folks pushed to desegregate public ones and white people fled.
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FOH I’m supposed to trust this baby to come fix my water heater?
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Raise your hand if your living parents and grandparents lived under Jim Crow. 🙋🏿♂️
“Paying reparations to all descendants of slaves is a mistake,” Coleman Hughes said, adding only people who lived under Jim Crow should be compensated.
He also said, “People who are owed for slavery are no longer here.”
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“Our manager never intended for these men to be arrested...this should never have escalated as it did.”
Calling the police introduces the prospect of arrest, and since the police are armed, the prospect of violence. Calling the police IS an escalation.
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A cop fires 10 shots at a 16 y.o.
Waits three seconds. Fires another shot.
Walks 12 feet closer to the teenager, who is presumably incapacitated/bleeding out at this point.
Another minute passes, and the cop shoots him four more times.
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we once did an ep on the so-called "placeless" American accent you hear on the news. We led w/ a young Black journo who had been told, repeatedly, that he didn't sound "TV" enough to do TV news. His name was Deion Broxton.
Looks like he landed a gig AND went viral.
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Erica lit that ass up — and rightly so
AITA for asking my roommate to be more polite toward my guests?
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James Craig Anderson was a 47-year-old gay Black man from Mississippi. One night in 2011, he was standing in a parking lot he was attacked by a roving pack of young white dudes who had gone out to, in their words, “fuck with some niggers.”
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If you want to understand elevated distrust of the medical establishment, don’t invoke Tuskegee. Look at what Black women *today* say about their routine encounters with the medical establishment.
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again, Trump is only a viable candidate because of his overwhelming white support, up and down the income ladder and across generations.
white voters are the constant. if Trump lightly underperformed with white voters in, say, Florida, the map looks different.
But go off.
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CNN pundit saying that Blasey-Ford’s testimony is more resonant bc — unlike Anita Hill who projected strength and poise — Blasey-Ford projected vulnerability.
Soo much to unpack there.
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"They shouldn't make The Doctor a woman or POC to make some political point!"
Whiteness is not neutral. Maleness is not neutral.
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Ugh.
1.) this poor kid. 😔
2.) What kind of coach lets a young athlete be put in this position?
3.) if you need a concise example of why the whiteness of the sports media matters, consider this tweet, in which a reporter lauds a kid’s humiliation as ✌🏾good sportsmanship✌🏾
Epitome of a team player ⬇️
A referee wouldn't allow Andrew Johnson of Buena
@brhschiefs
to wrestle with a cover over his dreadlocks. It was either an impromptu haircut, or a forfeit. Johnson chose the haircut, then won by sudden victory in OT to help spark Buena to a win.
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lol
gotta love a rich kid who owes his entire career to his daddy's fortune finger-wagging to the formerly housing-insecure son of a teenage mother about economic precarity and people not having the luxury to take off work
Jared Kushner says he'll reach out to
@KingJames
today.
"What I'd love to see from the players in the NBA--again they have the luxury of taking a night off from work, most Americans don't...I'd like to see them start moving into concrete solutions that are productive."
@politico
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The killing of Patrick Dorismond has been on my mind a lot the last few days.
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Sandra Bland didn't signal a lane change. John Crawford was shopping at a Wal-Mart. Philando Castile was coming home from dinner.
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The NYPD had imposed themselves on a man who was minding his business, and then killed him, and then the mayor of the biggest city in the United States spent weeks telling anyone who would listen that that slain man was a dangerous criminal.
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there’s so much in this
@NewYorker
story abt the vise grip the police of Vallejo have on the city and its politics, but *this*? No words.
@GeeDee215
Timely piece on Vallejo:
Anyone who argues that this can be reformed is engaging in self deception.
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Congrats to this brother and also: these viral feel-good stories always have glaring omissions of context
Like, how is it that a school in OAKLAND that’s been around for 100 years has never had a Black valedictorian?
This teen is graduating with a 4.7 GPA – and making history as Oakland Technical High School's first male Black valedictorian.
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Thirteen white dudes in a row playing a character meant to regenerate with a totally new identity every few years...is a political stance.
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Uber, Door Dash, etc spent $200m
for a campaign to kill workers’ benefits when they coulda just spent that money on workers’ benefits
Uber says it wants to bring laws like Prop 22 to other states
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that the Philly police bombed a Black neighborhood on *live TV* and killed 11 people — including five children — and no one involved in that massacre was ever reprimanded should really hammer home how no set of facts is sufficient to hold the police accountable
The death of five children and six adults killed in Philadelphia’s infamous 1985 MOVE bombing was not accidental but instead homicide, the city now acknowledges.
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No mayors this time, and an indictment, as well. But the valorization of the police also means the concomitant demonization of the people they destroy.
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Dorismond had, in fact, been an altar boy; he'd even attended the same Catholic high school that Giuliani had graduated from.
There was nothing in Dorismond's juvenile records more serious than some minor charge for which he was given a summons.
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It doesn’t make sense. A Black registered voter has a 90% chance of voting for Democrats. A Latino voter has a 70ish% chance of doing so. But a white voter has a <50% chance of doing so — and a white Republican way less than *that* — why not focus on Black and Brown turnout?
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oh.
We are excited to announce our first-ever Show of the Year -
@NPRCodeSwitch
. 🎉 In a year dominated by conversations about race, this show provided powerful insights, with personal perspectives from hosts
@RadioMirage
and
@GeeDee215
, and their guests.
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These are not tragedies that involve crimes.
They are very much tragedies that involve policing.
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reading this and can't help but think about all the ways that people of color are punished for trying to interface with seemingly legitimate institutions, and how folks' seeming paranoia is almost always justified
This is...wow. The feds created a fake university in Detroit to ensnare undocumented students.
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If “cancel culture” is really a thing then explain Scarlett Johansson...?
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y'all, if you make 400,000, you're rich.
this isn't hard.
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Ruby Bridges is a superhero. But let's remember all the ways that the costs of desegregation were borne by black kids + black institutions.
1. Ruby Bridges, the first black student to integrate an elementary school in the South, is 63 today.
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this isn't the most important point, but the news says this man is pushing 60?
word?
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Dorismond, a member of a prominent Haitian-American musical family, was unarmed.
It was already an ugly, horrific mess — an example of the routine excesses of policing that Black and Latinx people were subjected to in NYC — before
Rudy Giuliani, the mayor, weighed in.
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Jonathan Ferrell was asking for help after a car crash. Tamir Rice was playing in a park. Akai Gurley was walking down the stairs.
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this is such a bad take. The NBA had a 50-year head start and literal decades of unprofitability. The league was in dire economic straits until Magic and Bird.
It's because the NBA is so profitable and valuable today that it should generously subsidize its sister league.
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He oversaw an all-white magazine staff that ran breathless cover stories on the dangers of welfare moms, spent the last 25 yrs defending racist pseudoscience abt Black people's intellectual inferiority, and tweets about Black men's penises. But he's tired of 'identity politics.'
In four years I never changed my mind about Trump’s unfitness for office. But I found the left’s relentless identity politics increasingly repellent. I wasn’t alone.
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The habitual be is such a beautiful invention
The African American urge to
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My new therapist: I noticed that whenever i ask you abt your feelings, you just give me a bunch of facts
Me: ...
Me: ...
Me: ... you know, there’s a lot of disagreement over whether the blue whale is *actually* the heaviest creature that ever lived
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The officer who shot Patrick Dorismond was not indicted.
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Smollet’s story is looking real suspect now, but i guess the question is: how can anyone look at the history of racialized violence or hate crimes in America and think some randos with bleach and a noose aint feasible?
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2) had he survived — he sadly did not — an awful lot of ppl would have said that the details of his story seemed implausible, that they didn’t add up.
But it’s worth remembering that hate crimes are often random cruel and theatrical; the spectacle is often the whole point.
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it’s weird and prolly *completely coincidental* that the people who are set to cash in from this emerging legal weed economy are white people while the ppl who have historically borne the brunt of the punishment for the underground weed economy were Black and Latinx. 😬🤔🙃
I’m joining the board of
#AcreageHoldings
because my thinking on cannabis has evolved. I’m convinced de-scheduling the drug is needed so we can do research, help our veterans, and reverse the opioid epidemic ravaging our communities.
@AcreageCannabis
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The next morning, Giuliani took to the media to trash Dorismond.
He ordered the city's police commissioner to release Dorismond's *sealed juvenile records* to the press.
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run outta things to say.
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A scuffle ensued, for some reason. Another plainclothes cop shows up. At this point, none of the officers have identified themselves as cops. One of them pulls out his gun and shoots Dorismond to death.
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only upside of racism is nobody wants to sit next to you on Amtrak.
Modest as reparations go, but i'll take it.
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i hope one day you walk out of the house and are kidnapped by books
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Gonna try to work “that’s a really loaded piece of toast!” into a convo this week
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A quick thing about Isaiah on The Falcon and The Winter Soldier.
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black ppl have disproportionate contact with police regardless of their proximity to crime, regardless of falling/record-low crime rates.
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John McCain voted at least six times to prevent divestment from apartheid South Africa and voted against making King’s birthday a federal holiday.
His campaign manager in the 2000 presidential race was an *actual* neo-Confederate who ran a magazine called Southern Partisan.
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Is Nat Geo’s cover story finna be the shocking revelation that race is socially constructed? 🤔
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Giuliani went on Fox News and said he "would not want a picture presented of an altar boy, when in fact, maybe [he] isn't an altar boy."
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a monthly reminder that in these “my community didn’t accept me” narratives “my community” is actually just five bullies/mean girls from ninth grade
"I just want my community to embrace all shades." Ayesha Curry discusses her multiracial heritage and the struggles to fit in with her community that came with it.
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This makes me wonder about your worst roommate stories. Go!
I’ll start: came home one Sat and had an eviction notice on the door. Turns out roommate had been taking my rent money — at that point, $5K — to pay for his dues to his Scientology-lite cult group.
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sigh.
If you're talking abt Kobe's Black Mamba persona or the hashtag GirlDad memorializing that greeted his death, you're REALLY talking abt a branding switch necessitated by his rape case; league/fan investment in that rebrand was/is so strong that it inflates his greatness
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and this drop is true of nearly every big city in the US – homicide and violent crime rates have PLUMMETED over the last two decades, and at or near record lows in some places. but if you watch local news (or read Nextdoor) you might think it's Mad Max out here.
New York City saw more than 2,200 killings in a single year in 1990, compared with 468 last year, according to city data. That’s a nearly 80% drop.
Los Angeles saw more than 1,000 homicides a year in the early 90s, compared with fewer than 350 last year.
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The dude at the end of an NBA bench who can’t get run is literally better at basketball than all but 600-1000 people on the planet.
This is a good way to end up shoeless.
This high school player called out Brian Scalabrine to a 1v1 and put his shoes on the line 😳
(via joshlopesss/Instagram)
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what do they find so fascinating about this dude?
he is a sentient Wharton Business School application
SCOOP: President-elect Joe Biden is considering a high-profile ambassadorship for Pete Buttigieg, possibly sending him to China, people familiar with the matter tell Axios.
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This is it. After decades of fleeing to the suburbs, white folks are opting to live in cities now but want to drag all those rules of the suburbs — the policing of private space, of quiet, of the imperatives of *whiteness* — back into these cities with them.
these folks want the look and the comforts of a city but have a sharp and intense aversion to the *feel* of a city because they want whiteness as a way to literally displace folks in terms of sensual experience: touch, taste, smell, sound, sight.
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Read back on the details of the Matthew Shepard case, perhaps the most notorious murder of a gay man in the US; or the lynching of James Byrd, Jr. in 1998. These crimes were so monstrous and random and thorough that they might seem to defy plausibility.
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this kinda stuff is weird, y'all. please maybe stop?
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policing is the constant.
if Philando Castile were alive today, they would still be stopping him.
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Just helped a dude move some of his plants onto the elevator.
Me, making small talk: “You moving out?”
Him: “We’re doing a big Friendsgiving and I’m just transporting some of the decor.”
[We are doomed.]
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Every conversation rn.
Me: what's good? How are you?
Them: things are good! I'm doing well....
{pause}
I mean, you know...*CONSIDERING.*
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there are all sorts of calamitous disruptions to people's lives that come after police contact that fall way short of physical harm.
what if those dudes, who were held in jail until 2:30 in the morning, had night jobs?
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Did other Black kids hate you because you were *smart* or because you were the type that walked around proclaiming that Black people hated you bc you were smart?
🤔
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From the time he began driving at 19 to when he was killed by an officer at 32, he was stopped by the police FORTY-SIX times.
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There’s a lot of shit in the
@yourewrongabout
deep dives on Princess Diana, but the one detail that has bothered me for days is that the dusty-ass Windsors would drag her to their castle at Balmoral for holidays and balk at her asking if they should turn the heat on.
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White people have defined racism into such abstraction that calling PG County a "nigger district" is not, apparently, sufficient evidence of one's racism.
"It does not represent my heart."
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“The Simpsons” and fanboy response to
#TheProblemWithApu
is like the call-center script for these convos.
The logic goes: “Racists are monsters and I am not a monster. And since I produce/consume this cultural object, that object therefore can’t be racist.”
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don't get me started on overdraft fees. they made my life hell when i was broke and a reason why i never want to hear people lecturing poor folks about financial literacy.
banks realized the only way to make money from poor customers were shady fees and so they went HAM. a scam.
Overdraft fees were created in 1990.
Credit scores were created in 1989.
We can live without them.
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33 years ago today, the Philadelphia Police Department dropped a bomb on a Black, middle class neighborhood. Eleven people died, including five children, and several city blocks burned to the ground.
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this is my actual nightmare:
Black man, out running.
white dude sees him, decides the runner is a burglar, so he and his son grab some guns, hop in a truck, chase that man down and kill him.
no charges.
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The MOVE bombing was 32 years ago today.
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Two things abt this horrible story:
1) you probably don’t remember getting breaking news alerts on you phone abt *this* case, even as ever my twist in this Smollet case has been obsessively detailed by all kinds of news organizations.
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for real...and for a bunch of reasons.
This feels like the Michael Jackson day all over again
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Not to belabor the point here, but the Dorismond incident came not too long after the Abner Louima case.
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re: this "freethinking business"...Black people aren't averse to conservatism so much as they're skeptical of *white* conservatism, which necessarily defends the current racial order, often by denying that the current racial order even is what it is.
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