Stephen Hunter Johnson (Foundational Bad Dem #afa)
@stephenhjohnson
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Past President, 100 Black Men of South Florida
Past Chair, Miami-Dade Black Affairs Advisory Board
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Black America is the target of a psychological operation ("psyOp") designed to divide it for the political purposes of voter surpression. It is evident and identifiable to those who understand the use of narrative to persuade and influence human behavior.
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@KristyT
If
@djvlad
is free to have an opinion, (your point), then logic dictates that Professor
@MorganJerkins
is prusumably free to have an opinion on that opinion. Except the power dynamics are such that no, Vlad can offer his ill-informed opinion freely, and Professor Jerkins must
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@AnnYonan1
Ma'am, I'd appreciate it if you left Black America alone. You don't know our history well enough, and you do your people a disservice and my people great insult. You may wish to delete this.
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@RonFilipkowski
To feel compassion is to engage in AntiBlackness. It was a choice. He chose to make us his unnecessary enemy.
Don't engage in AntiBlackness Ron.
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Y’all got your Black kids out here doing performative protest for someone who’d treat them racist and call them slaves. They didn’t stop selling slaves until 1960’s. 😒
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The "interracial marriage case" that Dinesh just lied about. The government broke into their home and arrested them. So the Government of Virginia "staged" it?
The Left screams that the LGBTQ case was a setup. No real victim! Well, Brown v. Board of Education was a setup. The interracial marriage case and sodomy cases too. They were all STAGED to produce a change in law. The Left howls only when the setup goes the other way!
#SCOTUS
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Democrats push the racist
#GenderDivide
between Black Men & Black Women so much… that they now even list us as different “Constituents.” This is from
#StacyAbrams
website. Notice they don’t do that to ANY OTHER group.
It’s disgusting. 👇🏿
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I interrupt my crusade to defend Black History in Florida schools to announce that my wife successfully defended her dissertation today. She is now Doctor.
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@NobleNegroe
In a word, racism. Unskilled immigration is not allowed from Black African nations. As a result, immigrants come as professionals or students at a greater percentage.
I thought you knew this already.
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"I like science and space. I'm going to work at NASA"
"NoOo! You're not liberating mEeEe"
Everyone ain't a revolutionary, sis. The point of liberation is pursuing your dreams.
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@KenNYbUnchained
@cbouzy
Both were atrocities. Full stop. Both should be taught as such. Full stop.
Any attempt to add nuance to evil is normalizing evil.
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Now that the names of the African American History Standards Workgroup are out, aside from the "benefits of slavery", here are some additional questions they must be asked
Q1: Explain the "good and bad people on both sides" teaching of race massacres like Rosewood and Ocoee?
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What is a psyOp?
Psychological operations...are intended to “convey selected information and indicators to ... audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of...organizations, groups, and individuals. ...
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@AnnYonan1
@GeoRebekah
There was no twist. You had the unmitigated gall to say started. Ma'am, we've been fighting for Civil Rights since 1776. You were wrong to say what you did. Perhaps you meant something else. Perhaps you were caught up in the moment. Perhaps you think my people a bunch of backward
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Stephen Hunter Johnson (Foundational Bad Dem #afa)
The psyOp directed at the Black community in America today merges the reparations movement with the Great Replacement Theory. Specifically, some actor(s) has repackaged White Nationalist thought for consumption by the Black community with reparations as the pot of gold as a goal.
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Essentially, it's propaganda directed at a targeted audience in order to get that audience to act in a certain way. The military and the government uses psyOps, but psyOps can also be used by political operatives to improve their chance at winning an election.
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@elizabeth_dynan
@Phil_Lewis_
Elizabeth, please look at my original "prediction" if you will, and ask yourself "what about THIS Defendant doing the most time would be 'ironic'?"
I think you're making a leap and missing a commentary.
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I don’t blame American males looking abroad for wives.
The “strong, independent woman” in combination with America’s no fault divorce laws (with the family court system rigged against fathers) will inevitably result in the American husband’s bankruptcy on top of a hefty monthly
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She should not have let the world into her life. But I assure you, she's Black. She's always been Black and her, her children's children and their children will be Black.
She is Homer Plessy.
Plessy v. Ferguson.
And the folks who attack her disgust me.
@JeffersonShupe
@nhannahjones
Consider for a moment that the so called "nuances" of slavery are not present in the teaching of the Holocaust and understand the issue more clearly.
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I received an X Space invite dm from
@tropicmr1
-a kind gentleman. I had a moment so I joined.
Only for CHASE
@PEOPLEBEREAL
to launch an unprovoked attack on 2 black women Patriots.
This indignant man is the reason black ppl call all Republicans racist. Listen for yourselves.
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On this 18th day of
#BlackHistoryMonth
I celebrate the multi talented Loletha Elayne Falana, better known as Lola Falana. Like me, she was born in New Jersey but raised in Philadelphia, before she was discovered by Sammy Davis Jr.
She has shared the screen with greats
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Today, there are various reparations movement groups, American Descendants of Slavery (
#ados
) Foundational Black Americans (
#fba
) Black First (
#b1
) Freedman (
#Freedmen
) are pushing the case for reparations for slavery, which is understandably attractive to the Black community
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"The following is a list of appeals commonly used in PSYOP:
• Legitimacy.
• Inevitability.
• In group - out group.
• Bandwagon.
• Nostalgia.
• Self-preservation (self-interest)."
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So what's the goal? Simple old fashioned voter suppression. If the psyOp can convince enough of the audience that elections don't matter, either because everyone is an enemy or no one has picked up the "single issue", it may influence the outcome of an election.
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@banjxhn
@kingjerrry_
I've never had to do it. My daughters like making up their own faces. But if it made them happy...tea parties, the whole 9.
On the other hand, they know FlyEaglesFly, so it's a balance.
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@GaMtnChief
@DineshDSouza
The "interracial marriage case" that Dinesh just lied about. The government broke into their home and arrested them. So the Government of Virginia "staged" it?
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@Travis_in_Flint
As a Black person, if I'm telling you that your war on CRT is in truth a war on Black History, and not directly tied to your core conservative beliefs, but is rather being used to trick you into thinking I'm your enemy (and for fundraising) because my history has never been an
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Elon Musk has made it possible for my company to reach more people. The old Twitter was bad for my business and the old woke employees hated when I put my black face on a Pancake Box.
I will continue to advertise with ( X ) because Elon is fighting for
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@nhannahjones
This is hilarious. They're going to co-opt the great gun rights advocate Dr. Huey P. Newton next. The fact they're doing it unironically has made my Sundy morning.
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"Inevitability appeals most often rely on the emotion of fear,particularly fear of death, injury, or some other type of harm." Here "replacement theory" is used.
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The current psyOp is philosophically similar. If I can convince a group to effect political change by making it a single issue voter, I've essentially eliminated a political threat.
The why is evident. The "who" is funding it must be explored.
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@BLMChi
I'm now convinced this account is actively trolling Black people, and the world-which only seems to think this account is some sort of Black moral authority.
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@nhannahjones
@dawnstaley
Dawn Staley routinely played with against and beat men in Philadelphia on the Court. Somehow, I don't think she, or any player she recruited, would be afraid to show up anyone on the Court.
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The focus on
@TheAmandaGorman
poem was helpful to make the story viral, but the travesty is that educated professionals decided to move two plain children's books to middle school.
Imagine your 8th grader bringing this home for a book report...
This keeps getting lost, but the Amanda Gorman poem wasn't the only thing that got removed. Also removed: "Love to Langston" and "The ACBs of Black History." These books were expressly written to introduce black history to kids in lower grades!
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@JeffersonShupe
@nhannahjones
Adding "nUaNcE" of dubious nature and providence is what one does to excuse. I've only highlighted the tool used to accomplish the goal.
And before I hear the (entirely racist) retort (if not from you, from twitter) but the architects were Black, I'd point them to Otto
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According to the Psychological Operations Leaders Planning Guide prepared by the US Army in November 2005 () there are multiple "appeals" that can be used to influence a target audience.
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@ConscienceBarb
I was using you as an example. You, a lineage defender of all people. The venn diagram between your opinion on the matter and those you have told to get out of Black American business is....something, though.
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This isn't new...it happened in Trinidad and Tobago. There was a whole movement to effect political change by convincing Black Trinidadians to not vote, ironically named "DO SO"...
Symbols are important in a psyOp, anyone who has come in contact with these groups particularly on social media, will immediately know them by the changing but repeated use of profile pictures...
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"An in-group–out-group appeal seeks to divide a (target audience) or separate two... It creates an enemy of the out group... and it encourages the TA to rebel against or avoid the out group, thereby becoming the in group. ...
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To be wealthy and famous and Black in America does not shield a man from racisim (Assuming status because reasons). But it does shield America from the reprocussions. As you see, Desmond laughed through the hurt. All of us won't laugh. Some of us can't laugh. But we all
An "Entitled" passenger tried to get me removed from
@americanair
flight because I was "sick". To justify is request he told the supervisor "I am sure my status is higher than his so you should remove him."😳
After I took this video he asked the FA if he could switch seats.😆
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@nhannahjones
@BaldwinBooks
Amazingly, the law targets the businesses that are supposed to get a bost from tourist filled events. When the superbowl is in Miami Gardens, the whole region lights up with events designed to cash in. That is the reason why governments compete for the events in the first place.