Marc Lamont Hill
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CUNY Presidential Professor • Host of @BET News, @TheGrio , @AJUpFront , and Coffee & Books • Owner of @UncleBobbies • Sixers Fanatic • Philly Born • ΚΑΨ MADE
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Trump didn’t denounce White supremacists. He told them to “stand back and stand by.” This wasn’t an accident.
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My sister died this morning. We just buried our father yesterday. This is the cruelest year that I’ve ever experienced.
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We cannot buy into the "perfect victim" narratives circulating about Christian Cooper. Yes, there is something satisfying about him being a Harvard grad who clearly contradicts racist stereotypes. But we should not have to be "extraordinary" to avoid being killed by the State.
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Started listening to Drake’s album. Was 3 tracks in when I read about the Megan Thee Stallion reference on Twitter. I won’t be finishing the album. And please don’t tell me it’s just wordplay… or that it went over my head. I’m very smart. I got it. Doesn’t make it less gross.
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My blood is boiling. They stole this girl’s big moment, both for her and her family. If this had happened to one of my children, I would have rushed the stage.
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The police stopped this man for eating a sandwich. How can anybody defend this?
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I’ve been fighting Covid-19 this week. It’s been tough but I’m managing and self-quarantining. Please wear masks. Please observe social distancing. Please stop sharing conspiracy theories and bad science.
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Yes. I called for a ceasefire. That’s not an endorsement of Hamas. It’s a call for peace. And no, history really didn’t begin on October 7. We must actually study the full past to properly understand (and avoid repeating) what led to that awful event, and the resulting crisis.
At a protest in Philly this week,
@CUNY
professor
@marclamonthill
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He also claimed the Palestinian people have been "catching hell for over 100 years" (even…
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My father passed away early this morning. 92 years old. I’m grateful that I got to see his face yesterday and make him laugh one last time. Although I’ve lost a great deal of my joy, I’m trying to find comfort in the fact that he has lost all of his pain. Rest Well, Dad.
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I love how the Right quickly deploys the “don’t give the shooter any attention” narrative when the victims are Black, Brown, or Muslim. If the shooter were Muslim, they’d be showing us his elementary school report cards by now.
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So we’re clear... You affirm that the president is racist and unequivocally supports a White Nationalist agenda. But you don’t see that as a sufficient ethical and moral imperative to impeach. Got it.
When
@realDonaldTrump
tells four American Congresswomen to go back to their countries, he reaffirms his plan to “Make America Great Again” has always been about making America white again.
Our diversity is our strength and our unity is our power.
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Kanye West decision to wear a “White Lives Matter” shirt is disgusting, dangerous, and irresponsible. Some of y’all will rush to defend him. You should ask yourselves why…
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When they come for you on a topic thinking you don’t know what you’re talking about.
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Biden: “you have 9 super pacs. You want me to list them?”
Bernie: “yes. List them.”
Biden: *awkard laugh* *changes subject*
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Today, let us remember Martin Luther King as he was: A Black radical anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, revolutionary Christian internationalist who was deemed an enemy of the State and assassinated for his radical work. Just about everything else is a lie.
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I support Palestinian freedom. I support Palestinian self-determination. I am deeply critical of Israeli policy and practice.
I do not support anti-Semitism, killing Jewish people, or any of the other things attributed to my speech. I have spent my life fighting these things.
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Stop using the term “riot” to describe the current actions in MN. These are REBELLIONS. This isn’t random or irrational violence. This is organized resistance to an evil system that only pays attention went it feels financially or physically unsafe. This is how we feel every day.
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These guys spent so much time erasing American history that they forgot to read it.
Think for one moment. In every single war that America has fought, we have never asked for land afterward—except for enough to bury the Americans who gave the ultimate sacrifice for freedom.
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This young woman, Hafsah Abdur-Rahman, was denied her high school diploma for dancing on stage. Philadelphia High School for Girls should be ashamed of themselves. They humiliated this young woman. For NOTHING.
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“I’m going to ask a question about race. If you wanna respond about something else, you can.” - America in a nutshell.
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My 92 year old father is gravely ill and has spent the last 3 weeks in the hospital. He cannot be visited because of Carona. He is alone. He was just discharged to his nursing home facility that it also locked down. We just have to keep calling and praying he’s ok. This is tough.
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Snoop apologizes to Gayle King. So happy he did this. Respect.
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RT if you pay more in taxes than President Trump.
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There has NEVER been a moment in history when Black people didn't resist slavery. Some did it by jumping off ships. Some killed masters. Some ran away. Some did it through everyday forms of resistance. Slave masters didn't retire. Our resistance led to our freedom.
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Diamond —of the right-wing, Trump- loving duo Diamond and Silk— has died. In late November, she was hospitalized due to COVID-19. The duo was fired by Fox News a couple years ago for spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines. You cannot script this stuff.
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Roger Ailes has died. Wow. Sending deep and heartfelt condolences to everyone who was abused, harassed, exploited, and unjustly fired by him
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Mental health issues are not “demons.” She needs medical support and care.
She was my “Chocolate Dream” when I was kid. I hate that her demons are winning right now. 😔
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No. He made fun of a ridiculously false claim. He was mocking the absurdity of the claim. Are you saying he deserved to die?
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As a race scholar, bookstore owner, parent, Black person, and rational human, I offer my analysis: This shit is ridiculous.
Kristen Bell has written her first children's book 'The World Needs More Purple People' about a purple person, who looks for similarities before differences.
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The same white people "scared" of Arabic spoken on planes love henna, get Arabic tattooed on their bodies, and can't wait to get to Dubai.
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I support Bernie Sanders. Not because I believe he is perfect -I have critiques of him- but because I am certain that he is our best chance to beat Donald Trump. I am also certain that he is our best chance to produce a world that protects the vulnerable and advances justice.
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They murdered that boy. And no amount of bullshit stories about self-defense or citizens arrests will change that.
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Y’all really think y’all own us, huh?
Stevie Wonder takes a knee for the Anthem during a concert.
Another ungrateful black multi millionaire.
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You called Professor Finkelstein a “Holocaust denier.” He lost his much of his family in the Holocaust. His parents survived the Warsaw Ghetto and Auschwitz. You said he wasn’t a credible scholar, yet he holds a Ph.D. from Princeton and is the leading political historian of Gaza.…
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Five years ago today, I was fired from CNN after giving a speech at the United Nations in defense of Palestinian rights. So much about the situation in Israel and Palestine has changed since then. I can’t help but wonder how this “dangerous” speech would have been received now:…
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10s of thousands of people with a living wage.
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Wow. That’s all it took, huh?
HES RACIST THEY SAID HE DONT CARE ABOUT BLACK PPL THEY SAID WELL ALL THOSE THAT SAID THAT ARE LIARS, THANK YOU
@realDonaldTrump
FOR COMPLIMENTING MY FLY SUIT LOL
#KAG
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If Drake released a song with “clever” wordplay that mocked the shooting of a male rapper, or any man for that matter, the same people defending him would be outraged. But of course, he would never do that…
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I’ve studied Arabic since September 1996. I hold Advanced certificates in Levantinian and Modern Standard Arabic from Al Quds University. I conduct ethnographic fieldwork and journalistic interviews in Arabic. So yes.
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Pay. The. Players.
The cheapest ticket for UNC vs. Duke is $2,990.
The reason? Zion Williamson.
The freshman sensation has set the online ticket resale market on fire:
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Today, let us remember Martin Luther King as he was: A Black radical anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, revolutionary Christian who died as an enemy of the State. Anything else is just a lie.
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It took 74 days, a smoking gun video, and a national campaign to get an arrest in the Ahmaud Arbery case. And many of us, quite reasonably, have no faith that a trial will produce justice. Yet another example of how little Black life is worth to this country.
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Today, let us remember Martin Luther King as he TRULY was: A Black radical anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, revolutionary Christian internationalist who was deemed an enemy of the State and assassinated for his radical work. Just about everything else is a lie.
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After 9/11, the United States invaded Iraq. Most of the world, indeed, viewed this as a gross (and illegal) overreaction. Do you really not remember this?
No other country in the history of humanity could experience what Israel did on 10/7 and have the world be like “golly don’t you think you’re overreacting a bit?”
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Literally no one argues this.
Live from Tel Aviv:
Built in 1928!!!!
Don’t tell me there wasn’t JEWS here before 1948!!!!
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Sitting on the porch. Just told a teenager to pick up a bottle he threw on the ground. He looked irked, but he did it. I’m officially old.
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Today, let us remember Martin Luther King as he was: A Black radical anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, revolutionary Christian who was murdered as an enemy of the State. Anything else is just a lie.
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إنا لله وإنا اليه راجعون
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Biden’s entire interview was smug and condescending. The final remark was just the worst part. It’s bizarre that people are fighting this.
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I plan to be unreasonably sad about Betty White for a long time…
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This video is heartwarming and heartbreaking at the very same time…
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I've been in denial for a week. But this Justin Bieber album is REALLY good.
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Erykah and Jill did this perfectly. They tore down the "battle" model and held space for love, affirmation, and sisterhood. We could all learn from tonight...
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I’m always fascinated by the conservative response when asked for evidence or examples of their claims.
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This young sister moved me to my core. Sending love and solidarity to all the young folk on the ground. Resist. Resist. Resist.
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The fact that it took 5 years, international activism, and multiple investigations to get Daniel Pantaleo fired for killing Eric Garner ON VIDEO with a banned chokehold says everything we need to know about the value of Black life in America.
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ALL holidays are made up. You honor July 4th, which commemorates “independence” despite the fact that Black people were still enslaved. You celebrate Thanksgiving, which whitewashes indigenous genocide. Yet you’re bothered by Juneteenth, which celebrates Black freedom? Why? 🤔
Juneteenth is still ghetto and made up.
Hope everyone enjoys it!
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Funeral planning for a parent is the most difficult and painful thing I’ve ever experienced.
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Rest in Peace, comrade. May your sins be forgiven and your grave made spacious and full of light. إنا لله و إنا إليه راجعون
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Biden said that, under Trump, we’ve become “weaker, poorer, sicker, and more divided.” That’s a great line.
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So they’re “good people” when they show up to the state house with guns, but
@Kaepernick7
was a “son of a bitch” for protesting State violence. If 6 weeks of staying home justifies their anger, how angry should we be about centuries of Black death?
The Governor of Michigan should give a little, and put out the fire. These are very good people, but they are angry. They want their lives back again, safely! See them, talk to them, make a deal.
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Biden’s decision to “temporarily” cut UNWRA funding is among the most cruel and indefensible moves of his career. And that’s a high bar. This is a gross and brutal act of collective punishment that only enables and expedites the Israeli government’s genocidal actions in Gaza.
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The mother who posted this was reportedly killed in an Israeli air strike, along with her oldest daughter, the very next day.
This must stop.
Ceasefire NOW!
Finally managed to do a “birthday party” for my daughter despite everything. Her happiness was worth the world.
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NFL PLAYERS: Please use your power to stand up right now. Not just for Kaepernick but for yourselves. What you do right now matters. RESIST!
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Emmett Till’s father beat and choked his mother until she was unconscious, after she caught him cheating. She got a restraining order against him. He kept stalking her until the judge made him choose between prison and the military. Let’s not romanticize the story. Or patriarchy.
#EmmettTill
also had a father. His name was Louis.
His father was sentenced to death by the US military.
Had he been alive, his son would have been better protected.
#BlackFathersMatter
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White people watched Donald Trump demonstrate no knowledge of the issues, lose the debates, and insult everyone. They still chose him.
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Unless you’re kneeling in protest of state violence...
Pence defends shutdown: Never a mistake to "stand up for what you believe in"
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Voting “present” on the Iron Dome issue is an act of political cowardice. Vote yes or no. Let the people know where you stand. Otherwise it’s just a cynical gesture designed to sustain a radical “brand” while performing the status quo.
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Spoke to a family member. They confirmed it. This is nuts.
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I have long been a Green Party member. I remain one. But I believe that Bernie Sanders is the best available shot, both short- and long-term, for building the world I want to see. I support him.
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If you call the police on an 8 year old Black child selling water, you’re saying that you don’t care if that child lives or dies. It’s that simple.
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This is not about third parties. This is not about minority voters. This is about White Supremacy. Anything else is just a distraction.
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I can’t say enough about how much I admire
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for rejecting UNC, AFTER getting tenure, and then choosing Howard. She wins.
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“I just wanna fast forward to the part of my life where everything is ok.” -
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WOOOOOOORRRRRDDDD
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Dr. King was not a Zionist, bro. And if he were alive today, I promise you that he wouldn’t be echoing your support of the Israeli government. I welcome a debate with you on this subject.
CANCEL THIS ZIONIST TODAY!!!!
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a
#ZIONIST
& there’s no doubt he would be cancelled if he was alive today!!!
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“Found dead” is WILD.
‘I’m so scared, please come’: Hind Rajab, six, found dead in Gaza 12 days after cry for help
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Ahhh the good old days of pre-10/7, when Gaza was an unlivable open-air prison, effectively controlled by a settler-colonial apartheid state.
@marclamonthill
Only if we could turn back time to October 6th , only if the barbric attack of October 7th by Hamas didn’t happen , only if Hamas didn’t initiate the war on that day , we didn’t have to share heartbroken pictures
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Today, let us remember Martin Luther King as he was: A Black radical anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, revolutionary Christian who was murdered as an enemy of the State. Anything else is just a lie.
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Congrats to Joe Biden for winning his first primary in 32 years!!!!
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Pro Tip: No one ever wants to hear a new single on Verzuz.
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Watch this white woman is on this Black man to 911. The weaponizing of White fragility, as well as 911 itself, is not a game. It can lead to Black death. Sometimes “Karen” is indifferent to this truth. At other times, like this, it appears quite intentional. This is terrifying.
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This tweet has been radically misunderstood, willfully so in many cases. Bernie is saying that party power brokers will/should not determine the winner. The People should. This wasn’t an arrogant or anti-democratic call. It was a call for democracy.
I've got news for the Republican establishment. I've got news for the Democratic establishment. They can't stop us.
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I am profoundly disappointed that Van Jones is speaking at the March for Israel in DC. In addition to the noble goals of fighting antisemitism and honoring innocent lives lost on 10/7, the march is also organized to affirm U.S. solidarity with an Israeli government that has not…
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Palestinian journalists are being targeted and killed in Gaza. How is this not an international crisis? Why isn’t Western media outraged by this fact?
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In my interview with a former Israeli deputy Foreign Minister, he acknowledged that Israel is collectively punishing the people of Gaza.
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When I saw Roethlisberger criticized Kaepernick,I double-checked to make sure there wasn't a 2nd player by the same name who wasn't a rapist
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My reference to “river to the sea” was not a call to destroy anything or anyone. It was a call for justice, both in Israel and in the West Bank/Gaza. The speech very clearly and specifically said those things. No amount of debate will change what I actually said or what I meant.
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No shade at all. I just really wish more people read books about things. Especially before they discuss things. Particularly before they discuss things on large platforms.
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This Joe Biden interview is precisely why we gotta stop giving White people “invitations to the cookout” or fictive kinship status like “uncle.” We can no longer applaud and reward liberal white people for showing basic decency or, worse, merely hiding their racism.
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Sir. The fact that you can name all the Black people who won an Oscar over the last 88 years is exactly the point.
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I was about to begin my sophomore year in college, dickhead. Are you outraged that I didn’t fire up the old Time Machine and cover it on my tv show?
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Note. These are actually Palestinians. They’re from Al Baqa’a refugee camp in Jordan.
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Remember when Ryan Lochte got caught lying and people demanded that he be charged with felonies? Oh right... That didn’t happen... Accountability doesn’t mean criminalization.
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Always. I could eat what my mom made or I could not eat.
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So many university academics who insist upon doing performative, virtue signaling “land acknowledgements” at every public event are eerily silent as real liberation struggles are happening. Guess decolonization really is a metaphor for some folk…
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