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I’m tripping that you can assault someone on live television on stage at the Oscars and just take your seat and watch the rest of the show.
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My daughter just asked my birth year and I said 1976, and she said, "Dang! That's close to the Holocaust." And I was going to object, but it's actually closer to the Holocaust than it is to the present day and now I'm messed up for the rest of the day.
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Journalists, stop calling the failure to pass the voting rights bill a “major setback” for Democrats. It is a major setback for DEMOCRACY. The right to vote is not a partisan issue. Stop framing it as such and legitimizing anti-voter efforts.
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With a bachelor’s degree I worked part-time at Subway, as a receptionist, and as a cashier at a department store. I sold mattresses with a master’s degree. I also am human enough to know that your job does not dictate your value.
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Say it with me: Voting rights secure all other rights.
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I was invited to give an MLK speech today and a small number of members of the group hosting me wrote and then leaked emails opposing my giving this speech, as it dishonored Dr. King for me to do so. They called me a "discredited activist" "unworthy of such association with King"
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We knew it was coming and yet it still took my breath away. I have no words.
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I’ve been thinking more and more that newsrooms need to hold an all-staff meeting where they invite democracy experts & historians in & really do a massive reset of how we are covering what’s happening in our country right now. It’s not about partisanship but covering reality.
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In this country, you can even kill white people and get away with it if those white people are fighting for Black lives. This is the legacy of 1619.
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Let’s look at the race of the pilots of every U.S. flight that has ever crashed and then call this what it is: unabashed, standard-issue, racism.
Charlie Kirk: “I’m sorry. If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’”
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You know what hurts workers more than the cost of milk? The cost of childcare.
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A model, in many ways, for how journalists in real time should be forcing politicians to back up their claims with facts and sources and not simply allowing them to go unchallenged.
Jon interviewed Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas Attorney General, about why her state banned gender-affirming care for minors - ignoring the guidelines of major medical organizations and taking the decision out of parents’ hands. Watch the full interview on
@AppleTVPlus
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This is an argument against every public good and that’s not how public goods work. Why should we pay, then, for public school if our kids attend private or we have no kids? Why pay for libraries if we choose to and have the ability to buy books instead of borrow?
Pelosi also questioned the policy wisdom of cancelling student loan debt:
“Suppose…your child just decided they, at this time, [do] not want to go to college but you’re paying taxes to forgive somebody else’s obligations. You may not be happy about that."
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I am confused about how one state going Republican for governor and another remaining Democrat is the death knell for Biden’s agenda. Seems like the scripts are written no matter the results.
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This is why it’s not enough to tell people to vote. People did vote. These voter suppression laws are in response to people organizing and voting. Our democracy is on the cusp and we cannot treat this as politics as usual.
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Happy Birthday to Frederick Douglass, the greatest American ever born. When he self-emancipated, Douglass chose Valentine's Day as his birthday because his mother gave him a heart-shaped cake right before she was sold away. This country has taken so much, and yet we keep giving.
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I've been staying off of here today, but just know I see you all and I am grateful.
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Black people tried to tell y’all. Do you believe us now?
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I have been overwhelmed by all the support you all have shown me. It has truly fortified my spirit and my resolve. You all know that I will OK. But this fight is bigger than me, and I will try my best not to let you down.
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It’s actually simple: If you can feel pride in things you didn’t personally take part in, then you can feel shame in things you didn’t personally take part in. Some of you are motivated to make this hard, but it’s only hard bc you want the glory of our history but not the burden.
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Remember when we were told they weren't opposing the teaching of Black history, just "CRT"? And how many dismissed those of us who said these laws were anti-history laws, and anti-Black? Perhaps one day folks will listen to those who know.
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Y’all, my daughter has been asking for a dog since she was five years old. The other day I told her for the first time I’d actually consider it. Why did I do that? She has been going IN since I said that. And last night she hit us with the 10-slide PowerPoint presentation. 😂😩👏🏽
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That's right. "We've" never heard of her. What an amazing self-own.
Can we start teaching real history again? Link in the comments.
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In 2021, I was tested & disrespected. I had the audacity to say I refuse while wearing this bright red hair that so angers people who think intellect & success must adhere to their norms. Most of all tho, I’ve been loved, supported, uplifted. Grateful and looking forward to 2022.
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This really is what it’s about. They do not want accurate history, but to erase history. It never occurs to them that we should teach both.
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I’ve avoided tweeting about the white supremacist massacre so not to dishonor the dead in anyway. But I keep obsessing over the constant drumbeat of the last year abt the dangers of CRT when the literal violent danger of the white supremacy CRT exposes has been downplayed/denied.
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I left them with this: People who oppose today what he stood for back then do not get to be the arbiters of his legacy. The real Dr. King cannot be commodified, homogenized, and white-washed and whatever side you stand on TODAY is the side you would have been back then.
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Imagine being in a foreign country, not speaking the language, desperate and with your child, and being dropped off in the middle of the street in a strange city with nothing because a politician wants to stoke the ugliest instincts of humanity. American exceptionalism indeed.
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Folks on here saying this will energize “women” voters are blatantly ignoring that majority of Black, Latina, Asian and Indigenous women voted against Republicans, and majority of white women voted for despite Rs explicit promise to end Roe. So, what are you really saying?
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Once again, it is Black people who are the greatest agents of democracy the United States has ever seen.
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💪🏽✊🏽
JUST IN: Award-winning journalist
@nhannahjones
reveals on
@CBSThisMorning
she has declined the University of North Carolina's offer for tenure and will be the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Reporting at
@HowardU
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Dr. King was a radical critic of racism, capitalism and militarism. He didn't die. He was assassinated. And many, including Regan, fought the national holiday we're not commemorating. If you haven't read, in entirety, his speeches, you've been miseducated & I hope that you will
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If you understand the history of Montgomery -- one of the most prolific slave-trading cities in the US turned brutally repressive apartheid regime after, and majority Black but JUST got its first Black mayor -- it gives so much more perspective to this video. Trust.
Yo this is wild 😭
A group of white men attacked a black security guard after the security asked them to move their pontoon boat so the big Harriot can dock. They refused to & attacked the security guard.
A group of black men seen & went defend him by beating the white men 💯🙌🏾
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What would it look like if Democrats ran an anti-gun campaign the way Republicans ran the anti-CRT campaign?
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The cruelty of being the poorest state in America and choosing — choosing — to turn down federal aid for poor children to eat.
Gov. Tate Reeves’ office says Mississippi won’t participate in a federal summer food program for children because of his desire to reject “attempts to expand the welfare state”
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America is not a racist country but if we teach our children about all the racist things this country has done they might think the country is racist is a helluva argument, I have to say.
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He shot this 60-year-old woman three times. This is the result of a society with too many guns and too little tolerance and the certainty that the law will protect you for shooting first.
An 81-year-old Ohio man shot and killed an Uber driver he believed was working with a scammer, according to officials who said the victim was sent to the home by the same scammer.
Loletha Hall didn't threaten him, didn't have a weapon or assault him
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Here's a thought: Maybe vaccinated people are still wearing masks because none of us know who is and is not vaccinated and so it is an act of being unselfish to not force workers/others to determine who is putting them at risk and who isn't. WE'RE STILL IN A PANDEMIC.
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Many companies are stepping up and offering travel and other assistance for their employees to get abortion access but women should not have to share this private health decision with their employers in order to access what yesterday was a constitutional right.
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I have to say hotels claiming they aren’t cleaning rooms daily because of Covid while operating fully maskless bars and restaurants is a great hustle.
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Honestly, y’all should be embarrassed for even posting this salary. Women deserve better.
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Are folks realizing how insane this is? One, that teaching an academic theory is prohibited by law? Two, that what’s really outlawed is teaching about race, racism and accurate history? Three, that educators are losing their jobs over this?
Dr. James Whitfield, a Black high school principal in Texas, is fighting to get back to his job after being accused of promoting critical race theory, which is outlawed in the state.
@ahylton26
reports.
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Here is my full statement about my decision to decline tenure at UNC Chapel Hill and instead accept the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Reporting at
@HowardU
.
"I have never asked for special treatment. I did not seek it here. All I asked was to be judged by my credentials and treated fairly and equally."
@nhannahjones
' official statement on declining the tenure offer from UNC Chapel Hill:
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DEI is not the reason why you presume Black people aren’t qualified. Racism is the reason. And a need to believe a Black person could not possibly do better than you. I know it and you know it, too.
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Because clearly it still needs to be said: Student loan forgiveness is not about irresponsible people taking out education loans and then not paying. These are compounding interest loans: borrowers are struggling because they pay many times OVER what they borrowed and still owe!
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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE TWEETS SOME NONSENSE DOES NOT MEAN I AM REQUIRED TO DEBATE THEM ON HERE OR ANYWHERE ELSE. MY PUBLISHED WORK IS MY DEBATE.
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If you're going to lock up everything in the drug store, an already demeaning shopping experience, at least have enough workers to open up the cases for all the customers who just need a razor.
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This is why the 1619 Project exists. This is why the decades of scholarship that undergirds the 1619 Project exists. Because if we do nothing, they will co-opt our history and use it against us.
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What we are seeing is exactly why the
#1619Project
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I used to only read history. Now I’m mostly reading on fascism and authoritarianism and how how democracies fail. If you’re a journalist in these times and not doing the same, I’m wondering why.
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Imagine being Black and running in a political party where you believe you need to disgrace your ancestors to have a chance.
Tim Scott says Johnson's Great Society was harder to survive than slavery
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When I deleted Facebook some years ago over privacy concerns, I missed it for approximately four days. All I have felt since then is liberated. Trust me, it will be ok if you stop using it.
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So, I scrapped my original speech and spent the entire first half of it reading excerpts from a bunch of Dr. King's speeches, but without telling anyone that I was doing so, leading the audience to think King's words were mine. And, whew, chile, it was AMAZING.
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Oh, the uncomfortable silence as I read Dr. King's words at a commemoration of Dr. King's life when people had no idea that these were his words. When I revealed that everything I said to that point was taken from his speeches between '56 and 67... Can you say SHOOK!
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To test how race-neutral the DeSantis bill and others like it are, Black, Latino and Indigenous parents should flood these states with lawsuits about lessons that make their children feel discomfort, or that one race is superior to another and see how it goes.
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When the speech was over, Father Pfleger, who had been been cheering me on from the crowd, whispered in my ear: That's what you call the "You Gone Learn Today" speech and I 💀. Because, yeah.
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The family *needs* to be honored with some financial reparations.
Nearly 70 years after her death, Henrietta Lacks — whose cancer cells were taken without her knowledge or consent and led to world-changing advances in medical and scientific research— was honored by the World Health Organization.
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I came from a working-class family. My parents took out Plus Loans & desperate to make something of myself I took out 10s of 1000s in student loans. After repaying many multiples of my original debt, at 45 I finally paid them off. I’d wish that on no one coming behind me.
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Do you ever notice how few teachers are ever interviewed in these so-called CRT stories? Simply allowing Republican operatives posing as “concerned parents” to fear-monger about what they don’t want or what they say is happening, isn’t actually good reporting.
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I am so honored to reveal the covers of the first
#1619Project
books: THE 1619 PROJECT: A NEW ORIGIN STORY, which dramatically expands the original project, & the children's picture book BORN ON THE WATER, both to publish by
@OneWorldLit
Nov. 16. Info at
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I never want to hear anything again about “dysfunctional Black culture.”
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@WhitlockJason
Helluva take from the king of shitty takes. You can’t simultaneously valorize an entire profession as innately heroic and then justify letting children die because Americans don’t think police should lynch a Black man on national television.
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Racist slurs have always been about power, that is why it is convenient for people atop the racial hierarchy to pretend otherwise. There is no equivalent to the N-word that Black people can deploy against white people because of the history of white power in the US.
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Journalists: the Jacksonville mass murder was not racially motivated violence, it was RACIST violence. We must be specific and direct with our language.
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I’m thinking leg two of the
#1619Project
needs to be the “banned book” tour, where I go to all the states that have banned the teaching of this work! What do y’all think?
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This was a dream I didn’t even have the audacity to dream. No magazine has meant more to me than
@essence
. As a Black girl from a working-class family in a working-class town, Essence exposed me to the beautiful spectrum and possibilities of Black womanhood. I am pinching myself.
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There’s more.
MacArthur Fellows
@nhannahjones
and Ta-Nehisi Coates join the
@HowardU
faculty to establish the Center for Journalism and Democracy:
#MacFellow
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Y’all. There’s no illusion anymore. Kids in the diverse Miami-Dade school system in Florida having to sign permission slips to be read to from a book because it’s “by an African American.”
I had to give permission for this or else my child would not participate???
@SuptDotres
#BlackHistoryMonth
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But it somehow doesn’t include teaching students about racism and inequality?
Free speech is free speech PERIOD that spirit incl speech on podcasts
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UC does not have affirmative action, Black students remain under-enrolled. Blaming Black folks, however, never goes out of style.
Asian-American student with 1590 SAT score and 4.65 GPA rejected by 6 elite colleges, inc
@UCBerkeley
— blames affirmative action
@FoxNews
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Why would a journalist even ask this question? When was the last time journalists asked a white governor if a catastrophe happened because too many white people were hired? This is how racial propaganda works. Media should not legitimize it.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Republicans blaming DEI for the bridge collapse: "I have no time for foolishness."
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Parents in NYC public schools are being asked to try to get our children tested b4 returning to school tomorrow. This is an abject failure. If the city wanted testing, they should have provided home tests before the holiday or rapid testing for every student at the door tomorrow.
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The fear that you’ll be treated the way you’ve treated others.
Pat Robertson says critical race theory is "a monstrous evil" that is urging people of color to "rise up and overtake their oppressors" so that once they've "gotten the whip handle," they'll then "instruct their white neighbors how to behave."
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I am HERE for this.
REPORTER: Is this unfair to people who paid their student loans or chose not to take out loans?
BIDEN: Is it fair to people who, in fact, do not own multi-billion-dollar businesses if they see one of these guys getting all the tax breaks? Is that fair? What do you think?
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They called Ida B. Wells a “slanderous and nasty-minded mulattress.” None of this is new. And I told y’all: I am built for this.
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Through the years people would ask me why I didn’t teach at an HBCU and I’d say because no HBCU ever asked me. Thank you
@HUPrez17
for asking. So happy to be part of The Mecca.
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My hair color really makes some of you so mad because it grates against your classist, misogynoir notions of what a successful Black woman should look like. I refuse to wear the uniform and everything about my look is intentional. Have a great day!
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I nearly fell out. We should make doing this a thing.
These guys crashed a confederate army reenactment, they even came dressed to play a role.
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Meanwhile, Black folks sitting behind bars for weed convictions.
5 years ago I left my job to start selling weed with some guys I grew up with. Our first year we sold $1.2M to dispensaries a pound at a time.
Now we're publicly traded and we'll do $130M in 2022.
Millions of jars, joints, edibles, vapes.
Here's what we did:
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This is absolutely hilarious because literally from 1790 to 1967 every single member of the Supreme Court was selected initially through an exclusionary criteria of race and gender. What is wrong with some of you?
Biden is now going to create one of the more jarring and incongruous moments in the history of the Supreme Court. When the justices will hear arguments on the use of race in admissions, one member will have been selected initially through an exclusionary criteria of race and sex.
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Oh, this was something. Study history folks. Everything old is new again, including motivations.
That moment when he realizes he put a Jim Crow-era slogan in the bill he’s claiming isn’t voter suppression😬
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Last night's shooting & the appalling rise of anti-Asian violence stem frm a sick society where nationalism has again been stoked & normalized. Anti-Black & anti-Asian racism & violence run in tandem in the U.S. Both grps were brought here for labor but never meant to be citizens
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The type of country that prevented a talented player from playing strictly because of his race is precisely the history you don’t want children learning.
75 years ago, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier as the first African American Major League Baseball Player. Today we honor him and his lasting legacy.
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This is why journalists must stop reporting law enforcement accounts as fact. We should be highly skeptical at all times. We know better. Do your jobs.
UPDATE: Chicago has released bodycam video of the police killing of 13-year-old
#AdamToledo
:
▪️ The video shows Adam had his hands up when police opened fire, killing him.
▪️ Cook County now says prosecutor made an error when they said Adam was holding a gun.
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A truly powerful moment in my journey was getting to meet Ms. Viola Fletcher, radiant at 109, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre. As we held each other's books, I felt the power and gravity of the moment: They want to hide a history that we are still living.
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Let me say, again, the use of the word wokeness and/or woke by journalists is lazy and biased and counts on the reader/viewer filling in with his or her own stereotypes. If you can’t state specifically what you mean, why are you writing it?
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A few weeks ago, parents, activists and educators in a red state where Republicans hold a legislative supermajority successfully beat back an anti-history (CRT) law, & yet I saw no national coverage of it at all. This says something important about media.
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Interesting choice by
@CBSSunday
-- my favorite news show btw-- to do an entire segment in book bans that didn't feature one POC, that didn't mention the racial makeup of Moms of Liberty, and that erased the role the targeting of 1619 Project has played in all of this.
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I do not understand people who think journalism is important enough to read but somehow are offended that it must be paid for. Producing journalism is not free.
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Thomas Jefferson's occupation was an enslaver. That's what he did for a living. Enslaved people built Monticello, worked its lands, made the nails and the bricks, cooked the food, and one enslaved woman bore his children. He went to Monticello for a fairy tale & got hit w reality
Fox brings on a guest who was a recent visitor to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, to complain about his tour guide over-emphasizing TJ’s history as a slave owner: “I just thought that Monticello would be protected from this disease of wokeism.”
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Just got home from two days of emotionally devastating filming in my ancestral land of Mississippi and this was waiting for me. It’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen and I finally am holding it in my hands. The very first image in the book: That’s my dad. 🖤🖤🖤
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To be clear: We should care about Ukraine. But not because it is European, or the people appear white, or they are “civilized” and not “impoverished.” All people deserve to be free and to be welcomed when their countries are at war.
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I cannot predict what will happen in our country, but I do believe we will look back and be appalled at the failures of journalism in this period of clear and in my lifetime, unprecedented, attacks on freedom of speech and our democratic institutions.
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Every time they do this, they think they are insulting me, but really are just revealing how much it bothers them to the point of obsession that this Black woman has done something that they never will and never can.
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Even if you feel the jury got it right for legal reasons, what kind of person are you to celebrate *someone* who went armed to a protest with an illegal gun and killed two people.
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Imagine thinking that taking care of a newborn consists of nothing more than attaching the child to a woman's breast 24-hours a day. This is why people who know something about real life should be the ones writing policy.
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