Rebecca Carroll
@rebel19
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Writer & Cultural Critic | Editor at Large, The Meteor | Hive: @rebeccacarroll | Post: @rebeccaacarroll | IG: @rebeljunemarie
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The way that a Black woman in America can be as highly, hyper educated, intelligent, elegant, skilled, experienced and qualified as KBJ and still be treated like this by white men on national television. It's not even symbolic. It's a glaring body of evidence.
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Issa Rae's out of office email message says "I am unavailable, unreachable and uninterested for the next two weeks" and I love it.
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Now a whole new generation of black folks are traumatized by nooses, the resurgence of a specific, public racism. One thing to be triggered by image of a noose, another to manage the trauma of having your neck in one. Jussie Smollett didn't deserve this. None of us deserve this.
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As a young black woman starting out as a producer for the prestigious Charlie Rose show, I had to gauge every day whether to respond to casual racism or sexually predatory behavior.
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"The black woman of the white imagination is not the black woman of reality." Whew. A. Word.
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Ruby Bridges, the Little Black Girl Who Desegregated New Orleans Schools, Is Only 62. Let That Sink In.
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I am a WHITE MAN, GODDAMMIT! The United States Constitution was WRITTEN FOR ME!!
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My white adoptive family can't see the value of the Black writers who endorsed my memoir, bc they've never read them. If you're a grown white person and haven't read Roxane Gay, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Damon Young, Bassey Ikpi or Kiese Laymon, you shouldn't be raising Black children.
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Beto, Abrams and Gillum.
If Beto, Abrams, AND Gillum lose, then who is the Democrat star of the night?
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That video of Laura Ingraham being racist as hell toward Lebron James is a disgrace and her smug confidence of knowing she'll get away with it is exactly what racism looks like.
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His own bank thinks Ryan Coogler is trying to rob them when he's just trying to take money out of his own account, and then he gotta deal with Variety calling him a "promising" director. Any given Wednesday in America.
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America to BW: Be strong but not to strong. Raise our kids while we shoot yours. Save democracy but not too loudly. Be conventionally beautiful but not too dark and never more so than white women while they steal your entire aesthetic. Be assertive but never on your own behalf.
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Honestly
@jes_chastain
as an outspoken voice for equality how do you pose for a photo like this and not feel absolutely mortified by the blatant exclusion? How is it possible to not understand the msg this photo sends?
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HONESTLY THE IDEA OF BANNING THE BLUEST EYE IS SO BANANAS TO ME THAT I HAD TO GO ALL CAPS AND I WILL NOT APOLOGIZE.
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White people should be watching
#MeghanandHarry
bc Harry is showing up the way white people need to show up as they learn.
#MeghanandHarryNetflix
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"...my agent told me, 'They went after Amy Adams, and she’s not doing it.' And I said, 'I’ll do it!' And he was like, 'They love you, but they’re going to Natalie Portman.' 'Oh, right.' There’s always another."
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Rotisserie chickens never taste as good as they smell and I'd like to speak to a manager.
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I have an issue with non-Black people using pretty much all Black vernacular. It is an unearned intimacy. I'm looking at you white feminist women who think it's cute to call me and other Black women "Mama" or "Sis" — it isn't.
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Lena Dunham trending; Aurora Perrineau not trending. Can we start believing and centering black women's stories? Cool.
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Listing Meghan Markle in the same category of narcissist as Elon Musk and Donald Trump is a wildly irresponsible and truly white choice.
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Ryan Gosling brought me flowers when I was 9 mos pregnant bc he'd confused the date and time to meet for our intervw the day before.
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Look. At. His. Face. He went from smug racist to thrilled racist. The sheer scope of privilege afforded white boys and men is astonishing.
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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I can't stop thinking about Vanessa Bryant, who was with Kobe longer than she was without him in her life, who has an infant child and two other young daughters, and who will have to bear this memory anew when each remaining daughter tries to reconcile this tragedy.
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"My name is Naomi and I'm 11 years old." Bless these young ppl. Praise up. So moving. "I'm here to represent the African American girls whose stories don't make the front page of every national newspapers."
#MarchForOurLives
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I didn't think I was ready. But then it all just tumbled out. This is for you, Toni Morrison. It's all for you.
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Do y'all know who John Lewis is? For him to be saying this. My god.
I never thought I would live to see a day when the Supreme Court of the United States would again make a decision as inhumane as Dred Scott v. Sandford or Korematsu v. United States.
#StandWithMuslims
#NoMuslimBanEver
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Losing Erica Garner in last days of this year in which black women demonstrated again, as always, how we carry this nation, show up and out for democracy, humanity, is a haunting denouement. Erica Garner declared brain dead with no chance of recovery
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This is how you use the power of your platform. Oprah Magazine erecting 26 billboards of Breonna Taylor around Louisville
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“I’ve got what my Mum left me .. I think she saw it coming.” Good lord.
#HarryandMeghanonOprah
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I reviewed André Leon Talley's memoir for
@nytimes
— Anna Wintour Is Not the Star of André Leon Talley’s Memoir. He Is.
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My memoir Surviving the White Gaze, which came out earlier this year, is not just my story about the enduring trauma of being adopted into a white family, but an excavation of the chillingly foundational dynamic of transracial adoption in America. 1/1
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I stay waiting for white women (looking at you Susan Collins) to realize how ultimately disposable they are to the patriarchy they continue to cape for over and over again.
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This combination of ferocity and vulnerability and empathy is the model for all of us. All of us.
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Amy Coney Barrett's callous suggestion that birthmothers just gestate children and then give them up for adoption is sadly emblematic of that foundational dynamic. That she is an adoptive mother of two Black children all the more so.
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Some personal news. Thoughts and prayers to all the white people I’ve ever known.
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Y'all better recognize. Jordan Peele's 'Get Out' Is Now The Highest Grossing Film For An Original Screenplay
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We're not having this conversation abt Matt Damon's tone deaf opinions re sexual assault w/o addressing his equally harmful and tone deaf opinions re race.
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White men referring to women as "sacred" has always meant white women. And the sacredness of white women is the bedrock of white supremacy.
John Kelly said women should be "sacred" then insulted a black woman with lies & now refuses to apologize after his lies were exposed. Sad.
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The takeaway for me is Meghan stepping into her Blackness, her personal fortitude, and calling out the gaslighting she experienced. Because I relate, and because Black women everywhere, and because give us our fcking flowers.
#HarryandMeghanonOprah
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When you evolve out of being controlled, it's a real inconvenience for those who have been controlling you.
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Wrote this first as an assigned piece but then editors passed; I pitched it to another pub that loved it, then also passed; brought it to
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who said immediately, this is a necessary piece. Thank you.
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And on behalf of all of us black women writers who are being asked to write tributes to Toni Morrison 10 minutes after the announcement of her death, I give us all permission to say: Maybe when I'm good and fucking ready.
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I wrote about the need for a moral intervention in the minds of white America.
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It's really something to think back to the yrs btwn 1997-1999 when I worked as a producer for Charlie Rose. Thinking: Does he just get to do this? Will he ever be held accountable?
CBS Fires Charlie Rose Amid Harasssment Charges
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I really have to sit w this
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Funny how none of the men's acceptance speeches have recognized the movement tonight.
#TIMESUP
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RIP
#johnglenn
. The first American to orbit the earth bc he trusted a black woman to do the math.
#KatherineJohnson
@HiddenFigures
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"Nasr is the first Black editor in chief in the history of the 153-year-old publication."
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To present these women collectively worth millions of dollars as change agents when black women with like regular jobs just saved an entire Southern state from a racist pedophile getting seat in the US senate is just beyond.
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"Meghan Markle, who is pregnant, has been advised by her doctors not to travel for the ceremony." MM's doctors:
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The babysitter who lost my child on the subway three years ago just sent me a LinkedIn request.
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You don't have to be that much of a dick, Hugh Grant. I mean you really just don't.
#AcademyAwards
#Oscars
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Or you could just say "I raped a 13 year old, I'm lucky I'm not in jail" and then retire to your pied-a-terre and quietly take up crafting.
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On Linda Fairstein; “I don’t know if I’ve told anyone this, but she tried to negotiate conditions for her to speak with me, including approvals over the script and some other things. So you know what my answer was to that, and we didn’t talk.”
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And so for media asking me to talk about Charlie and my experience w the show and my thoughts on these allegations -- I'm not coming w/o thoughts on structural racism too.
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Chadwick: "To be young, gifted and black. We all knew what it's like to be told that there's no place for you to be featured. That is what we went to work with everyday. We knew we had something special. That we could be full human beings in the roles we were playing."
#SAGAwards
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I feel like Julia Louis-Dreyfus is the best white woman we have.
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@jes_chastain
It is literally the antithesis of "a shift in focus" -- this is literally The Same Focus on White Women in Hollywood.
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For the
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@GloriaSteinem
and her life-long pledge to stand in solidarity with black women as seen through archival photographs. And also the critical impact of that solidarity on my life and career as a black woman.
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“'I'm used to being called names. A racist is one I will not take,' Osbourne told Maher." One of the most racist things that racists always say, because racists like to be in full charge of their racism.
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Wait. Isn't the premise of Rebel Wilson's new film pretty much the same as Amy Schumer's earlier this year? Plus-sized white girl who laments the fact that her life sucks bc guys don't ask her out then bumps her head and the world is beautiful and cute guys ask her out?
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Racism is not a cancer. It is not an illness. Racists don't catch it or suffer from it or take medication for it. Racism is a calculated and cultivated systemic construct that purposely, actively, consciously oppresses and denigrates and dehumanizes non-white people.
This country has a racist cancer and Fox News is the primary vehicle by which it spreads.
Every. Single. Day.
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My heart goes out to Kanye's children, who are ultimately going to be raised by a family of white women who have cannibalized and capitalized on Blackness in a way that is going to cause irreparable damage to those Black children if they ever make it out past the compound.
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@Ryan_Ken_Acts
"at least" do better, be better, look better ... than the Black kid = whiteness in America.
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I don't actually care what the Toronto Film Festival decides to do in the fall, I'm just grateful it brought me this image today of Idris Elba on a horse.
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Which obviously in and of itself does not make him a racist. But there wasn't a single day that went by during my experience working w him that I believed he thought black people were his equals. Watch all the way to the end.
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My whole heart goes out to the blk journalists and writers
@NewYorker
who held this pub up in their minds as the grail of literary journalism for so long before they finally got there, who represent us in scarce numbers w beautiful, bold, magnificent writing. You deserve better.
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Is there a club for ppl who have loved Sandra Oh since Sideways?
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I spoke out about racialized or micro-aggressive racism and was punished for it. The predatory behavior was ignored or accepted or laughed off -- it was inherent to our daily culture.
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Black Americans have given you all your country back — remember that next week, next month, next year, and for the rest of your time on this earth.
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The most remarkable thing abt
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is how truly intersectional it is. These young ppl are proving that the way to be intersectional is to just BE intersectional. Inclusive, open, thoughtful, resolute. Lead the way.
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Amy Coney Barrett in her stance here alone has already damaged the psyches of her Black adoptive children — has already made them feel like their origin stories were transactional, that she saved them from heartless Black vessel.
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The thing about white privilege is that it's so deeply internalized for most white folks that even the idea of giving it up feels physically wrong or disorienting. Like vertigo. And then they right themselves by doubling down on their privilege.
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I am not anti-adoption. I have always maintained this. Love is love. I get it. But if there was ever a time to reexamine the longterm repercussions of white parents/people making choices on behalf of Black children who will grow up to be Black adults, it's now.
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Judd Apatow clutched his pearls so tight they snapped. The way white people assign murderous "out of control rage and violence" to Black men. It was an openhanded slap. He lost his temper not his mind. It was wrong. It was not homicidal.
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One Thousand Times THIS.
The Dominance of the White Male Critic
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So it's like TOTALLY not. It's this year's Sorry to Bother You. And it's brilliant. We can have more than one talented AF black person on team black people who make art and things.
Sorry to Bother You: why Boots Riley’s surreal race allegory is this year’s Get Out
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When social media works for the good. Civil Rights Investigation Opened After Black Wrestler Had to Cut His Dreadlocks
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Hill staffer sent me this pic of Ocasio-Cortez they took just now. I’ll tell you something: that jacket and coat don’t look like a girl who struggles
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If her remarks don't awaken you to the potential repercussions of continuing this dynamic without a rigorous interrogation of how transracial adoption works — please reconsider, and spend some time thinking about it.
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Charlie is from Henderson, NC where the KKK has a white page listing. He boasted friendships w black folks in the same way he boasted his "respect" for women.
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Barrett is the White Gaze incarnate, but she is not the only form of it — my adoptive white parents are well-intentioned, liberal, educated people. They created what they thought was an idyllic world, but it was through THEIR gaze, which meant a race-less existence.
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Honestly, these folks in my mentions asking why I didn't leave the Charlie Rose show? Have y'all never needed a job?
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