Mika Gadsden
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Black women are expected to perform so much emotional labor for so many random ass people. Like, who the hell is Rebel Wilson? What does Meghan owe her?
Rebel Wilson says Meghan Markle wasn’t as “naturally warm” as Prince Harry after Rebel’s mother asked her a bunch of rude questions
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The
@BreeNewsome
erasure is violently unbearable. This framing is also inaccurate and disappointing. This city is constantly attempting to re-write history by moving Black figures and narratives to the background while lifting up meager, white (and white proximate) magnanimity.
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If you’re asking “What was Brittney Griner doing in Russia?”, You’re:
A) Focused on the wrong shit.
B) Clueless about the lengths women athletes have to go to earn competitive salaries.
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This is what happens when a Black woman in
#Charleston
speaks up against white supremacy in the form of MAGA rallies. My comments re: Mylk Bar prompted this
@BravoTV
“actor”
@KathrynDennis
to taunt me with monkey emojis in my DMs. Along with a whole host of other names.
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Meanwhile, in *actual* Charleston…
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Rice in South Carolina is deeply political.
Rice in South Carolina is Black.
Exploited Black labor revolutionized rice cultivation in the South and made many white families obscenely wealthy.
They’re still getting rich off (some of) us. Some of y’all is complicit.
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Alan Wilson may be taking a macabre victory lap following this trial. But we remember when he treated Kyle Rittenhouse to BBQ. MAURICE’S BBQ! If you know, you know.
#MurdaughTrial
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Every major restaurant in Downtown
#Charleston
owes Martha Lou Gadsden a debt of gratitude.
Recipes that Martha Lou’s Kitchen and similar establishments perfected and popularized are heralded as award winning dishes in white-owned eateries.
Where are the public tributes?
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Charleston’s food and bev folks are in my inbox spilling a lot of tea re: hiring practices downtown. There is something brewing...
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When I met
@SenWarren
at a Black Women’s round table in Columbia, SC, I was encouraged by her ability to engage w/ Black Women on the issues that matter to us most! I found her to be forthright & a candidate who values the strength of our voices. I’m a proud member of
#BWFWarren
!
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This is disgusting. SHAME on Shanshui for exploiting Black death for commercial gain. No matter how much they donate, they stand to benefit financially and in other ways. This is reprehensible and offensive. This line needs to be pulled ASAP!!!
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I see me!!! ☺️
#ElizabethWarren
#PresidentElizabethWarren
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The default for women like this is violence. Violent, racist rhetoric. Violence in the form of economic pressure. Once a Black woman revokes her labor or compliance, these “Kathryns” resort to violent tropes. Like clockwork.
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The local news coverage here in Charleston will continue to showcase the damage that businesses & buildings sustained. The tourism economy will emerge as the “real victim”. This is the narrative that will take hold. This is how they’ll frame it.
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@GCobbHunter
and Ms.White told us this! My mother and my father told me this. A reality so many don’t understand. (Or won’t)
"If you are elderly and you were born in a rural area [or] born during Jim Crow, you may not have ever gotten a birth certificate."
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Even after if this, I wouldn’t leave South Carolina. Over 5 years of organizing across the state...the work is HERE! The people are HERE! The wins will be HERE!
Leaving isn’t the solution. I won’t promote that type of defeatist mindset.
#ImStayin
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Memeification and commodification of extrajudicial killings of Black bodies is horrible anywhere. But when it’s done here in the “cradle of slavery” - - in a city that has yet to address the harm it’s done to Black lives and entire communities- - it’s worse! This is GROSS!!
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@sambearrr
@personifier
@GANolePeach
@B1ackSchefter
Or bring up her dating history to discredit her.
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My thoughts to the
@nytimes
re:
@ExploreCHS
👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿
“There has been a deliberate effort by very powerful industries and organizations to sanitize and whitewash Charleston and show a ‘safe’ and white and palatable Charleston,”
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The State, July 30, 1906. Columbia, SC. This is just one historical account of many I've found in the archives. This underscores the fact that the demand... the entitlement to Black women's labor is part of a twisted, timeworn tradition. This article provides so much clarity.
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I thought the Citadel integrated in 1966?
Great time with The Citadel Republican Society tonight! We see a sea of campaign volunteers to put the
#LowcountryFirst
! ☎️🚶♀️🙌
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Every single
#Charleston
based company or organization that posted a black square during the uprisings or used the hashtag
#BlackLivesMatter
should publicly denounce Thomas Legare.
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.
@rtraister
was right. The media seems to almost exclusively use photos of women leaders with their mouths agape😑. Anyway... I’m glad they’re giving Liz’s housing plans some well-deserved pub.
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I’m starting a
#book
club specifically for
#Charleston
via the
@ChsActNet
platform. I’m anxious but it’s gonna be dope! Save the date: 8.18.20! 1st selection, Denmark Vesey’s Garden by
@EthanKytle
&
@BlainRoberts1
!
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The face of MAGA in
#Charleston
belongs to White and White passing women. They feel strong, they are empowered. They don’t mind hurling threats and insults. These business owners’ actions confirm so much of what we already knew.(thread)
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I look forward to the
@postandcourier
’s forthcoming investigative piece about how a sitting member of
@CityCharleston
council was a key participant in a white supremacist rally with the Proud Boys. Harry Griffin should resign IMMEDIATELY after what he spearheaded yesterday!
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My daddy is an OG from Wadmalaw Island. Born in 1939. Son of July.
He just sent me a text message for the first time ever from his flip phone! 🥺
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Black Lawmakers in South Carolina, I’m gonna need your calls for JUSTICE for
#jamalsutherland
to be decidedly louder than your calls for peace.
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Throw in a pair of boat shoes, a plantation reference and a joke about corn hole and it’s LITERALLY Charleston.
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I don’t need our elected officials to “disagree” with their colleague’s involvement in a white supremacist rally. I need them to DENOUNCE that action. Adamantly. Publicly. Vehemently.
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These SC politicians apply the word “terrorism” to everything except Dylann Roof.
Pawleys Island mayor calls Black Lives Matter a ‘terror organization’ in Facebook post
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I think most organizers know that any gains made in GA don’t belong to any one woman. However, there’s power in lifting up Stacey Abrams’ name given how valiantly she fought, how unjust her loss was and how determined she was to create more access to the ballot for others.
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For the love of God can the
@postandcourier
please hire a Black woman to write about Lowcountry Arts & Culture???? Please!
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It’s not PERFECT Black Lives Matter. It’s BLACK LIVES MATTER.
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The caucasity. The unmitigated gall. You will not take this moment in history and use it to reconstruct your image. You’ve upheld and promoted white supremacy on your show, in your daily life and now you want to exploit our collective trauma. STFU!
It’s hard to know the right words to say but I will not be silent. My black brothers and sisters I hear you, I see you, and I am with you. 👊👊🏼👊🏿
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Living in
#Charleston
as a
#gullahgeechee
descendant means remaining entrenched in a war over historical memory while fending off the erasure of my ancestors legacy. Shit is exhausting.
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This is sitting city councilman Harry Griffin heard giving enthusiastic praise to the organizers of Saturday’s alt-right rally in
#Charleston
. Calling them “good people” and “friends”. These men invited the Proud Boys to Downtown Charleston to “take back” the City.
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If you start a phrase with “I’m not a Trump supporter but...” - - You’re a Trump supporter. You’re just self-aware enough to know it’s not cute. Stop wasting my time trying to normalize hate in my inbox.
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The default is always violence with these women. I’m glad they’re getting exposed.
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They run Charleston like a wannabe Miami. Things in common: both cities are sinking, trying to be a tech hubs, tons of cocaine and golf (paired intentionally) and both have ports.
But at least Miami kept some Latin and Haitian flavor.
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The same women who co-signed this altered photo of a tearful AOC responding to human tragedy at the border? Mace is no feminist. Her election is not a victory for women. This isn’t the representation we need or want!
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace's SC-01 campaign led by team of women
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I wish y’all loved Southern, radical revolutionaries the same way y’all love romanticizing revolution.
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Remember when a white supremacist shot up a Black church in
#Charleston
and illicited a similar response from law enforcement? Yeah, me neither. Lawmakers won’t even close the “Charleston Loophole” but this makes sense?!?
#DefundThePolice
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Such a dope event today! Got to spend time w/
@ewarren
just moments before she went on stage. She’s the real deal. Period.
Thank you to everyone who came out to our Goose Creek town hall, and thank you to everyone who stayed for the photo line!
South Carolina is ready for the big, structural change we’re fighting for together.
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.
@postandcourier
made sure no mention of its disturbing past made it into this piece. From plantation heir ownership to their poor coverage of Black communities during Jim Crow apartheid, this paper’s ghosts will forever linger. No matter how many billionaires they transact with.
Three years ago in South Carolina, ten local newspapers folded their print editions. But some papers are bucking the trend, collaborating with other newsrooms and raising funds from readers to expand their coverage of vital local news.
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If your understanding of Mother Emanuel’s significance extends only to the tragic massacre of 2015 and ignores the church’s rich, rebellious legacy, then of course you’re offended by the protestors’ call for a ceasefire in that sanctuary.
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For the life of me, I cannot understand why no news outlet (or former journalist for that matter) has written extensively about how Ellen Weaver, Moms for Liberty and the pr*ud b*ys have all coordinated to create a very specific political impact. The story is right there.
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I can’t organize from a position of fear. Fear of losing employment, alienating others or becoming a larger target for scrutiny. All that is already happening. I’m a Black woman of size with a Mic in the South. No amount of moderation makes me safer.
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I’ve never concealed nor have I ever hid the fact that I’m Jersey born and raised. But for a few folks, that means I can’t lay claim to my
#Gullah
heritage. Lol...it don’t work that way. My daddy is Wadmalaw Island born and raised. Nice try, tho.
#daughterofjimcrowrefugees
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These two books are poised to reshape the way we think about history and the impacts of the
#climatecrisis
here in the Lowcountry. These are must reads for environmentalists who need to be reminded that sound climate advocacy must include a race analysis.
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I hope white people know how terrifying it is the be Black in
#Charleston
during weeks like this.
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The world is watching
#charleston
and its area elected leaders fumble each and every opportunity they are given to confront this city’s painful past. The world is watching the “Holy City” fail its Black residents over and over again. Our city council should be embarrassed.
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The City of Charleston should tap into some of them discretionary funds and bailout Black businesses that make their tourism culture such a smash hit. There’s no reason why Nana’s should have to crowdfund for support. COVID or not, Tourism Management should cut a check.
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The way white liberals hurl insults like “Uncle Tom Scott” and homophobic tropes at our state’s two Republican senators is revolting.
There are 1,000s of ways to criticize these two. Using racist, homophobic language should never enter the conversation.
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The passive framing of Vesey’s legacy will forever be a stumbling block for non-Black, non-Gullah journalists who work quite comfortably within Charleston’s embarrassingly homogeneous media landscape. “Divided”? Misrepresented by the dominant culture.
Denmark Vesey's legacy has divided Charleston for two centuries. Black residents have viewed the slavery insurrectionist as a freedom fighter; Whites have viewed him as a terrorist.
"The latter view is changing today, as more Charlestonians confront the city’s racial history."
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This is NOT about an emoji. It’s about challenging “powerful” white women who uphold white supremacy. And when a WOC,
@PepiRod
, dared to do that, she was met with vitriol and threats. Don’t erase her!
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A clinic. You put on a clinic,
@AnnieAndrewsMD
! That's how you debate! Well done! You led with facts and integrity. It will benefit you and all who support your candidacy. You should be proud.
#sc01debate
#scpol
#chs
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What are y’all saying? Imagine downplaying the actions of a serial offender with an ungodly amount of power and privilege in the name of stan culture. Let Monica own her outrage. It’s hers and hers alone.
Monica Lewinsky happily slept with a married man at the very adult age of 24 and kept the dress Beyonce referenced as a souvenir. I’ll save my sympathy for real victims. 🙄
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If last night didn’t make it crystal clear for you, let me say it plainly:
#Charleston
isn’t “Blue”.
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I don’t listen to scary white moderates here in SC. At this particular time in our state’s history, I’m gonna reflect on the words of
#SeptimaClark
! It’s time to apply pressure and get radical! Chaos is a gift!
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Y’all really think I’m finna let these white folks and some token negroes profit off of white women REPEATEDLY calling me a “monkey”?
Think again,
@BravoTV
.
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For me, “Southern Charm”, the phrase, is a euphemism for the ritualized subjugation of Black ppl in the South. It’s a fanciful term meant to obscure the history of wicked practices passed down from one generation of the ruling class to the next.
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Should have been closed and investigated following the shooting incident their staff was involved in. TBH.
Halls Chophouse temporarily closed due to spike in COVID-19 cases
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Cool. Cool. Cool. What about that Hall’s employee that drew his gun on protesters and fired rounds? His job secure?
SC town official fired over Facebook post calling for shooting of George Floyd protesters
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The
@postandcourier
desperately needs more Black writers. So much isn’t captured in their coverage of Black Art, Culture & History. It isn’t enough to speak to Black/Gullah folk for interviews. Your reporters and journalists need a certain level of cultural familiarity.
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Ah, I see. When we call our councilperson re: their silence on Harry Griffin and his support of the Proud Boys rally on Saturday, we’re met w/ lectures on “protecting free speech”.
But loud dissenting voices that call for justice are “divisive”?!?!?
Got it!
#CharlestonStrong
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One of the worst things we can do re: Councilman Griffin is use his age as an excuse for employing bad judgement. If he is old enough to run for and win a seat on our City's council, then he is old enough to know better than to align himself with racial separatists.
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“Charleston County may have voted for Democrats in the last three presidential elections, but it also has a Republican sheriff, J. Al Cannon, who has made it one of ICE’s closest allies in the state.”
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Something I’ve observed about Nancy Mace is her use of misogyny in competitive politics. She’s comfortable w/ hegemonic masculinity and tries to mimic toxic maleness to weaponize it against other women. But when competent opponents best her, she reaches back for her femininity.
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#Charleston
- -
#SouthCarolina
- - is overwhelmed with COVID-19. Don’t believe the
@ExploreCHS
hype! No matter how many tourism awards the CVB may purchase, the reality is we’re
#1
in all the wrong categories. Including coronavirus cases.
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I hope Jaime Harrison realizes that dollars don’t vote. There are folks on the ground willing and waiting to mobilize. We just need to be meaningfully engaged.
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IDK...if a hate group put my face on a flyer and listed me as a featured speaker at a white nationalist rally without my permission, I’d be mad at the hate group.
Not at the activists who hate Nazis. JS. 🤷🏿♀️
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Instagram has a “Close Friends” feature in Stories. If she truly wanted that post to serve as a private invitation to her “Racist Regatta”/MAGA Rally she would have used it. She wanted us to know she’s supports
#45
, the son of a Klansman.
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@tressiemcphd
&
@rgay
just trying serve up a whole heap of dominant narrative disruption along w/ some good old Chip N’ Joanna Gaines luv...that’s all. 🤷🏿♀️ S/O
#ThickTheBook
@hammer_museum
@thenewpress
👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿
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I’m the daughter of a Jim Crow Refugee from S. Carolina.
My Southern parents VIVIDLY remember segregated schools, lunch counters and public restrooms.
What happened in GA last night is unimaginably moving for me on so many levels.
#geogia
#GARunnoff
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This tweet is a random reminder: A group of Charleston-based activists mounted an amazing protest at the Calhoun monument on June 17, 2020 before it came down. Black women lead charge!
#explorecharleston
📸:
@gavin_mci
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Look at all those Black homes in the back. Imagine how tired they must be of all this “nuisance flooding”. But,sure, enjoy the floaties and bacteria, Chad. 🤷🏿♀️
#TwoCharlestons
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Seasonal affective disorder. It has a name, y’all. Have grace for yourself and others. This time of the year can be hard for so many.
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Black people in
#Charleston
:
Start charging these white folks more. WAY more!
Seriously. Double your speaking/facilitation fees.
They have it. They owe it.
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When Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley fixed her lips at the RNC and proudly stated that her parents didn’t give “into grievance”, she’s using their assimilationist values to make a case for or prop-up the “model Asian minority” myth. That shit is tired.
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