The Obama Diary

Jul

Go Harder For Breonna Taylor

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Tags: #BreonnaTaylor, #JusticeForBreonna, #SayHerName, Breonna, death, Justice, Kentucky, Louisville, murder, police brutality, taylor, tweets

I read a post that said, “Go Harder for Breonna Taylor.” I took that as a personal challenge and accepted it...I de… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Jelani 3.4 (@thejcurt) July 06, 2020

@thejcurt This is amazing! We (@industryblkout) have a dope pre-populated email template for Breonna if you want. I… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Rosa Parks Cab Driver 👩🏾‍✈️ (@eleven8) July 06, 2020

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@thejcurt This is amazing! We (@industryblkout) have a dope pre-populated email template for Breonna if you want. I… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Rosa Parks Cab Driver 👩🏾‍✈️ (@eleven8) July 06, 2020

Jul

Happy Birthday, Malala

By Nerdy Wonka 105 Comments

Categories: All Photos and Michelle Obama
Tags: #MalalaDay, birthday, Happy Birthday, Malala, Michelle, Michelle Obama, Obama, tweets

Wishing a wonderful birthday to @Malala! As we celebrate #MalalaDay, let’s not simply be in awe of her accomplishme… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) July 12, 2020

Jul

DING…DING…DING

By Nerdy Wonka 169 Comments

Categories: All Photos
Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, masks, Pandemic, Political And Funny Tweets, Quarantine, Social Distancing, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy

The people throwing groceries & attacking baristas when asked to wear a mask will be the first ones to say “if you… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Nichole 🍞🍯 (@tnwhiskeywoman) July 09, 2020

Jul

Surprise Guests!

By Nerdy Wonka 127 Comments

Categories: All Photos, All Videos and Michelle Obama
Tags: books, Coronavirus, First Lady, kids, Michelle, Michelle Obama, Obama, Pandemic, pbs, Political And Funny Tweets, Quarantine, reading, Social Distancing, tweets

It's been such a joy spending my Mondays reading with all of you. To round out the series, we'll spend today readin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) May 25, 2020

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Jul

The Fight For Fair Maps

By Nerdy Wonka 117 Comments

Categories: All Photos
Tags: #VotingMatters, 2020 Election, All On The Line, Barack Obama, democracy, election, eric, Eric Holder, Gerrymandering, holder, maps, organization, President, tweets, Voter Suppression, voting

For too long, gerrymandering has contributed to stalled progress and warped our representative government. Redistri… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 08, 2020

Ever wonder what gerrymandering is? 🤔 How it undermines our democracy and what YOU can do about it? Watch Preside… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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All On The Line (@allontheline) July 08, 2020

Jul

Let It Sink In: 8:46

By Nerdy Wonka 142 Comments

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #DefundPolice, #DefundThePolice, #GeorgeFloyd, Brooks, cops, Floyd, george, Gun Violence, history, lynching, murder, police brutality, Rayshard, Rayshard Brooks, slavery, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy

Black people have been wondering why white people and other non-black people have been riled so much by George Floy… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) June 17, 2020

America watched black men get shot and killed. America watched reporters get shot on camera. Twenty *white* chi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) June 17, 2020

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We sanitize our language and imagery around gunshot victims. Not many Americans see the damage bullets do to a body… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) June 17, 2020

The white officer who shot Rayshard Brooks in the back--- also kicked Brooks as he lay dying on the ground. There… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) June 17, 2020

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The lynchings of black people were public entertainment. White folks even made photographs and postcards of lynch… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) June 17, 2020

Perhaps now, what we finally see is a collective white shame and guilt about these cruelties. So white people, yo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) June 17, 2020

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In short, what Derek Chauvin and Garret Rolfe did to George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks was barbaric. Primitive. Th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) June 17, 2020

I will never forget that George Floyd called out for his late mother in the moments before he died. And the whole… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) June 18, 2020

Jul

Why Voting Matters

By Nerdy Wonka 116 Comments

Categories: All Photos and Michelle Obama
Tags: #WhenWeAllVote, Celebrities, Celebrity, First Lady, interview, Michelle, Michelle Obama, Rhimes, Shonda, Shonda Rhimes, tweets, Voter Suppression, voting, Voting Rights, Voting Rights Act, When We All Vote

Loved talking to my friend @shondarhimes about @WhenWeAllVote and the importance of voting in every election. Your… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) June 22, 2020

I’ve talked about voting a great deal over the years, and my friend @MichelleObama explains its importance better t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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shonda rhimes (@shondarhimes) June 22, 2020

Jul

white People Refuse To Handle The Truth

By Nerdy Wonka 105 Comments

This narrative that black people who want an accurate reflection of history are "angry and resentful" leaves us wit… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

First, let's be clear: The Founders were racists. They weren't "products of their time." They KNEW slavery was wr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

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James Madison, who wrote the Constitution, "thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

In the only book Thomas Jefferson ever wrote, "Notes on the State of Virginia," he dedicated pages to explaining wh… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

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BUT here is the thing: When these truths are pointed out by black people or actual historians, it doesn't mean we… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

The problem is that many white people believe that being a racist is an all-encompassing trait that stains everythi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

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For instance: The fact that police disproportionately shoot black people is racist. It does not mean that individ… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

Jefferson, Lincoln, Washington and others did not explicitly say they hated black people. They just created a syst… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

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White supremacy is the reason there is an electoral college There were more enslaved people in the south, which wou… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

White supremacy is the reason every state has different voting laws. Some states allowed free black landowners to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

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White supremacy is the reason behind America's military might. Southern states didn't think the federal government… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

So, instead of facing these historical truths and force us to reconcile with how this country has treated black peo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

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Why wouldn't you hate the idea of defunding the police if you didn't know that American policing descended from sla… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

Why wouldn't you think black people are lazy and less intelligent if you didn't know about redlining and how it sti… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

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Why wouldn't you think a speech at Mount Rushmore was a great idea if you didn't know how America stole the land fr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

Confederate monuments do represent history. They represent the historical lengths this country has gone to whitewa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

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Removing these symbols of white supremacy has nothing to do with anger or resentment. If black people ever unleash… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

There is only one way. See, a long time ago, we read another activist explained exactly how to eliminate racism an… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

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"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free:"
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

Jul

This Is A Movement

By Nerdy Wonka 151 Comments

Categories: All Photos
Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, activism, Activist, Activists, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Marches, New York Times, protests, racism, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy

There have been more than 4,700 demonstrations during the recent Black Lives Matter protests, an average of 140 per… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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The New York Times (@nytimes) July 03, 2020

The recent protests peaked on June 6, when half a million people turned out in nearly 550 places across the U.S.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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The New York Times (@nytimes) July 03, 2020

Jul

‘What To My People Is The Fourth Of July?’

By Nerdy Wonka 134 Comments

Categories: All Photos
Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #DefundPolice, #DefundThePolice, 4th Of July, activism, Activists, america, Black History, Celebrities, Celebrity, cops, Daveed, Diggs, Douglass, Fourth Of July, Frederick, Frederick Douglass, July 4th, police, police brutality, protest, protests, slavery, speech, tweets, United States, White Supremacy

Amidst the national uprising for racial justice, ’Hamilton’ star @DaveedDiggs and a collective of Black artists cre… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 03, 2020