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Ida Bae Wells
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It’s useful to remember here who it was doing the physical enforcement of white supremacy — it was law enforcement who enforced Jim Crow laws, who put down civil rights
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Immediately after the 2016 election, I wrote a piece on Trump's victory. Like other JOCs, I pointed to racism as the center. It's striking to me how so many mainstream
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The Black, Latino, Muslim journalists relegated to the “race” and “ethnicity” beats should have been leading political coverage these last 5 years. They are the ones who saw this for
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I am thinking of Fannie Lou Hamer tonight. 20th child of Miss. sharecroppers, kicked out her home for attempting to vote, founder of the the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party that
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We've only had a real democracy for 55 years. The vast history of our country has been minority rule & the violent and corrupt suppression of democracy. The idea, then,
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Seems to me that if you found a country that was more about power than democracy, then it’s not shocking when people are so willing to suspend democracy in order
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I hv not even changed out of my pajamas today and was most definitely not planning on doing a Twitter thread, but after seeing this, I must, because Fred Gray
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This is the party of law and order, personal responsibility, moral authority? Poor people, especially people of color, who commit crimes out of desperation are due no mercy, but mercy
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If you’ve heard me talk about the genesis of the #1619project then you know I first came across the date 1619 in a one-semester high school Black studies class. That
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All you have to do is talk about is integrating schools to see the truth about how poorly people of every political stripe think of Black children. I think I
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At least 9 police break down this woman's door and then stand around with their body cameras filming as she sobs, completely naked. It was the wrong house and their
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Obama is brilliant &, from his past books, has a quite sophisticated grasp of racism, so we then must conclude arguing police racism is confined by slinging the n-word, water
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