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🧵Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law today to defund DEI programs at Florida public colleges and to limit how race can be discussed in many courses. This is an example of what my father, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., described as the “white backlash.” #WhiteBacklash #MLK
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Since the founding #WhiteBacklash against Black🇺🇸happens whenever significant advancements are made or even discussed. And as a people, we say back to 🇺🇸
🧵Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law today to defund DEI programs at Florida public colleges and to limit how race can be discussed in many courses. This is an example of what my father, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., described as the “white backlash.” #WhiteBacklash #MLK
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#Anacostiaunmapped2 gets #WhiteBacklash "This is a segregated exhibit! Only thing White in here is the walls! I can't believe DC Govt funded this! I'm telling my friends NOT to come here & make sure they never fund anything like this again! #ByeFelicia #Anacostiaunmapped 9.14.18
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"We still got some house negroes running around here" - #MalcolmX #SCOTUS #SCOTUSIsCorrupt #whitebacklash #WhiteSupremacy
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Now More than Ever I feel Compelled to learn from my ancestors. After the Protest comes the Compromise. So far Black People haven't fared well during the Compromise Periods. Now that #BlackLivesMatter I wanna see what comes next with the #WhiteBacklash
#knowbetterdobetter
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Hand it to @MSNBC to gaslight #race by having @LarrySabato on to make #outlandish comments about #whitebacklash & #whiteresistance. This is straight out of the #Democrats playbook & #America's #awake to it. #MSNBC is truly the network of race gaslighting. #Vagov #Virginia
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#whitebacklash? More and more people believe that white people face discrimination. How do we educate and dismantle this #misbelief? "Most Republicans think white people face discrimination, Democrats disagree" https://t.co/MUVscbuiXm
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#Trump won by blaming #Corporate Americas sins on #Immigrants, #Muslims, & the "other" This was nothing more than a #WhiteBacklash using #Greed, #Fear, #Division, #racism, & mostly #ignorance People, #Trump was a failed businessman! The apprentice wasnt real #WakeUpAmerica 🐑
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Quotes are from his book, ‘Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?’ #MLK #WhiteBacklash
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Black gains, white backlash, repeat. Eddie Glaude Jr., a Princeton scholar and author of book on lessons of James Baldwin, says nation must face racism in its DNA https://t.co/LMqkkcOKp6 via @harvard #racism #BlackHistory #whitebacklash
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#whitebacklash anyone? “Esquire’s Profile Of White American Boy During Black History Month Stirs Controversy” as it continues the narrative of “white teen boy as a victim.” #disgusted #2019trend
https://t.co/pB3ZPL7IEw
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#WhiteBacklash is based on ignorance and fear generated by by #WhiteSupremacy & hate #Republicans #IWillNotBeSilent #StopTheHateNow We need EVERYONE across this nation to stand up in the streets, at the ballot boxes, organize, volunteer, register to #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy #NOH8
🧵Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law today to defund DEI programs at Florida public colleges and to limit how race can be discussed in many courses. This is an example of what my father, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., described as the “white backlash.” #WhiteBacklash #MLK
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We don't talk enough about how Obama's presidency in 2008 led to Republicans taking supermajority control in states like Oklahoma and Tennessee. It's almost as if the realization that Democrats could produce a Black president created a right-wing surge in power. #whitebacklash
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Your BlackHistory/WhiteBacklash Tutorial….. Revealing a sick rhythm in America we must S T O P. Watch…..
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Ever since the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act passed, a lot of White folks have been caught wanting to bring lynching back. This is whitebacklash live in action
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This is what my father described in his book, ‘Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?’, as #WhiteBacklash. That’s when any work and progress in the areas of racial justice and equity are met with assertions that no change is needed; with insistence that programs purposed
A White House official announced Trump’s executive order dismantling federal DEI programs, saying it honors "civil rights champions" who wanted all Americans to "be treated on the basis of their character, not by the color of their skin.”
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#WhiteBacklash On April 4, 1968, MLK, Jr. assassinated. LBJ signs Fair Housing Act a week later. Five years later, NY developer Trump & son are in violation of that Act
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