White folks: instead of lather, rinse & repeat your tweets for #GeorgeFloyd or about #AmyCooper, here are things you can *actually do* to interrupt that stems from which you benefit.
— brittany packnett cunningham does not do remixes. (@MsPackyetti) May 26, 2020
*75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice*
Google whether your local police department currently outfits all on-duty police officers with a body-worn camera and requires that the body-worn camera be turned on immediately when officers respond to a police call. If they don’t, write to your city or town government representative and police chief to advocate for it. The racial make-up of your town doesn’t matter — This needs to be standard everywhere. Multiply your voice by soliciting others to advocate as well, writing on social media about it, writing op-eds, etc.
Google whether your city or town currently employs evidence-based police de-escalation trainings. The racial make-up of your town doesn’t matter — This needs to be standard everywhere. Write to your city or town government representative and police chief and advocate for it. Multiply your voice by soliciting others to advocate as well, writing on social media about it, writing op-eds, etc.
More and more stories of black folks encountering racism are being documented and shared through social media — whether it’s at a hotel, with the police, in a coffee shop, at a school, etc. When you see such a post, call the organization, company, or institution involved to tell them how upset you are. Then share the post along with the institution’s contact information, spreading the word about what happened and encouraging others to contact the institution as well. Whether the company initiated the event or failed to protect a POC during an onslaught by a third party, they need to hear from us.
Many companies have recruiting channels that are predominantly white. Work with your HR department to recruit Americans who are descendants of enslaved Africans. Recruiting from HBCUs is a good start. Work to put descendants of enslaved Africans already hired under supportive managers.
Donate to anti-white supremacy work such as your local Black Lives Matter Chapter, the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, the NAACP, Southern Poverty Law Center, United Negro College Fund, Black Youth Project 100, Color of Change, The Sentencing Project, Families against Mandatory Minimums, A New Way of Life, and Dream Defenders. Join some of these list-serves and take action as their emails dictate.
Call or write to your state legislators and governor to support state-wide criminal justice reform including reducing mandatory minimum sentences, reducing sentences for non-violent drug crimes, passing “safety valve” law to allow judges to depart below a mandatory minimum sentence under certain conditions, passing alternatives to incarceration, etc. Study after study shows that racism fuels racial disparities in imprisonment, and most of the US prison population are at the state and local level.
Call or write to state legislators, federal legislators, and your governor to decriminalize weed. No, not because black folks use weed more frequently than white folks. Because black Americans are arrested for marijuana possession far more frequently than whites.
Call or write to state legislators to require racial impact statements be required for all criminal justice bills. Most states already require fiscal and environmental impact statements for certain legislation. Racial impact statements evaluate if a bill may create or exacerbate racial disparities should the bill become law. Check out the status of your state’s legislation surrounding these statements here.
Let’s be real fucking real. This was due to the push back they received after their previous statement.
Following our internal review of the incident in Central Park yesterday, we have made the decision to terminate the employee involved, effective immediately. We do not tolerate racism of any kind at Franklin Templeton.
Amy Cooper said "African American" because racist white women know how to hide behind the appropriate terminology as they weaponize the state when their privilege is challenged.
With a camera on her, Amy Cooper's every move was calculated and informed by white supremacy. There was no fear there. Just enraged entitlement because a Black man had the audacity to ask her to follow the rules.
A white woman (could be a Latina, too) on here truly suggesting that he was out of pocket for videoing her and that her racism was triggered by fear. He was yards away from her in a public park in broad daylight. Even If she *was* afraid (she wasn't), THAT ITSELF IS RACIST.
I'm still tight at the suggestion he was wrong for videoing her as if racist white women haven't been out here surveilling Black people's every move right down to little girls selling water in front of their own home. Talking about, "Where's your permit?" LEASH YOUR MUTT, AMY!
I'm still tight at the suggestion he was wrong for videoing her as if racist white women haven't been out here surveilling Black people's every move right down to little girls selling water in front of their own home. Talking about, "Where's your permit?" LEASH YOUR MUTT, AMY!
“I’m going to tell them an African American man is threatening me” = she is literally telling the man she knows this can get him killed. AND EVEN THEN the man doesn’t react. Doesn’t scream or demand anything. And even says thank you when she complied with the law….
As an 18 year old African American male, white women absolutely terrify me. Like this shit is so traumatizing. The cops don't care about my community service, my GPA, me being an actual fucking human, they just think I'm a dirty nigger that they should kill, fuck you Amy Cooper https://t.co/23RHuk5pCh
This is just full of lies, because she was so ready to drop that performance, like she had clearly done it before. She wasn’t panicked. She made a cold decision to perform panic for the police, in order to get them to come and kill him. https://t.co/oK8grtFhS8
This is how to be an ally. May Salley Rowley rest in power.
My grandma’s mugshot from 1961. Arresting after protesting segregation. This amazing woman spent 6 months in jail and died of COVID-19. Remember her name and face. pic.twitter.com/uAHMK7dCss
I wrote this article about her after she passed. Hope this sheds some light on the woman she was and how devastated I am she’s gone. https://t.co/WW3trM5TFb
NW the massive anti-racism resource for white people is brilliant, the spelled-out directions so needed. Thanks.
Am committed to begin ploughing through them. Being one and equal is every breath and not just some far off concept. What appears as separate is feared instead of loved, in a circle. Thank you for your time always. And everything you’ve so truthfully written here. Nothing can take away the pain and injustice and uncertainty of being non-white in America. The w.h. plan today hinges entirely on racism. So sorry this or imo any other response is not enough.
A teacher explains why schools should not reopen in the fall — and how to prepare for distance learning now. (via @thebolditalic) https://t.co/6HHvPJ2Ufy
We are grateful Christian Cooper is safe. He takes great delight in sharing New York City’s birds with others and serves as a board member of @NYCAudubon, where he promotes conservation of New York City’s outdoor spaces and inclusion of all people.
Black Americans often face terrible daily dangers in outdoor spaces, where they are subjected to unwarranted suspicion, confrontation, and violence. The outdoors—and the joy of birds—should be safe and welcoming for all people. https://t.co/X1Vuuszn89
I just want to get my son through high and college and then set him up in his first apartment or house and then leave this world because I won’t be able to bear the fact of losing him over some bullshit. I’m to the point where now when I see or read about how black men and women lose their lives over basically nothing, it worries the fuck out of me, it drives me insane. How do I teach my son how to drive a car and then buy him a car and let him drive to the movies or to a friend’s house? We just started to let him walk by himself to the donut shop two blocks from the house. He’s already 6’2 150lbs of skin and bones with the cutest face and he’s only fourteen years old. I want to let him live his life and see the world. I want him to make mistakes and correct them like I did growing up. Even when we are out at Walmart or HEB I don’t let him out of my sight for one minute, now to some of you this might seem crazy. But to me it’s not crazy at all, it makes perfect sense. I watch the news and I’m on the internet constantly, I know my reality pretty damn well.
Don, I don’t have kids and sometimes I am thankful for that. Cuz i would be a horrible parent in that i wouldnt leave my kid out of my sight either. It would drive me insane too. Sometimes I see little kids wandering far from their parents and that worries me.
You are perfectly right to be concerned. These cops -all of them, deserve maximum punishment.
6’2 eh? At 4’11 1/2 … I am jealous 😊 Dont tell anyone but I say I am 5 feet tall when asked. LOL.
Don, my son is a bit older than yours. Yet no difference in what they go thru, & how we continue to protect them. Still, in every call or meeting, I tell him to be careful, be aware of his surroundings at all times. Keep those ear buds outta your ears, Son, so you’re sharply cognizant of yr surroundings, etc. Can’t help myself. I try hard to not infuse my fears into his life. A luta continua. 💞
Sending you and yours peace and comfort, Don. May guardian angels forever watch over your son as he moves through his world as a Black boy and eventually a Black man. May his path always be clear and may he always be protected from evil in any form. May you and your wife see him become the fully realized person you are loving and teaching him to become.
Being black is having a good day and then seeing another black person was killed for no reason. then you have to think about/talk about that all day. or don't and numb yourself. It's a constant emotional war.
Amy Cooper made a choice. Not a mistake. Not an error in judgment. A choice. She chose racism, fully and deliberately chose to attempt to put a Black man in harm's way for the "offense" of asking her to obey leash laws. She was going to try to ruin his life, if not take it.
Later today when you get the fauxpology & people say she didn't deserve to have her life ruined? I want you to look up the words "NYPD brutality" & think real hard about her performance in that video. She's the aggressor & she's reaping the consequences of her actions.
I want everyone who feels bad that she lost her job & the dog she appears to regularly endanger to ask why they think her future comfort is what us important & not a Black man's life. She didn't care about his future, she just didn't want to put the leash back on her dog.
Also, yes she did in fact call the police & is on video filing a false report. She should be charged for that & animal abuse at the minimum. Because she chose to commit those crimes in front of a camera. Just imagine what happens off camera.
THANK YOU, NW, and the TOD community for your contributions to everything happening in real time and for your humanity. We are in dangerous territory every damn day. Whether it’s racism, misogyny, a virus, jobs, right to vote or who knows what else, Republicans are here every day to take away from our lives, our experience, our hard work for equality and justice. FIGHT BACK with everything you have.
So important that they are raising awareness here.
This incident shows how quickly something as simple as going birding or even going to the park can take on new meaning if you’re Black. This essay by @JasonWardNY explores this topic as well. https://t.co/YyKpAiXpd7
Author and naturalist J. Drew Lanham—@1blackbirder—has reflected on what it means to bird while black, including dealing with racist encounters while in the field. https://t.co/DOGRG1CKlL
Black Americans often face terrible daily dangers in outdoor spaces, where they are subjected to unwarranted suspicion, confrontation, and violence. The outdoors—and the joy of birds—should be safe and welcoming for all people. https://t.co/X1Vuuszn89
We are grateful Christian Cooper is safe. He takes great delight in sharing New York City’s birds with others and serves as a board member of @NYCAudubon, where he promotes conservation of New York City’s outdoor spaces and inclusion of all people.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper says he is prioritizing public health over politics in the planning for the RNC, after Pres. Trump raised the possibility of moving the event out of Charlotte. https://t.co/VOpfNndTl7
Fomenting chaos, fear and dissension into our electoral process could be the end of our country and society as we know it.
It is past time for decent (relative term), high profile republican leaders to mount a clear and sustained opposition if they really care. Mitt has tried a little, but him, George W., Colin Powell, John Kasich, Condoleezza Rice, General Petreus and many others need to go much further than occasional dismay.
You’re so right, mags. None of them seem to care enough to do any more than dip a toe in the water. I just don’t understand how a General Powell in particular can sit back and say next to nothing.
Just delete them. Every breath he takes, he lies. Every tweet he makes, is a lie. Delete is a no brainer. A huge % of his so-called 75M followers are bots anyway. So, we talking 2 real people, Twitter, eh?
When @JoeBiden was asked by @DanaBashCNN whether he thinks wearing a mask projects strength or weakness, Biden wisely replied as follows: "Leadership. What it projects is leadership. Presidents are supposed to lead, not engage in folly and be falsely masculine." #Biden2020
My full stmt on the death of George Floyd. One more thing: if you are moved to protest, *please* be safe—use social distancing, wear a mask, find ways to be heard & seen that keep you & others safe. It's an act of care for yourself & community to do so.https://t.co/6ixgEtgZcM
— Attorney General Keith Ellison (@AGEllison) May 26, 2020
George Floyd mattered. Somebody loved him. His life had value. He lost it yesterday in a way that raises pain and trauma once again for so many. We owe it to everyone affected to investigate thoroughly. We will seek justice and we will find it.
— Attorney General Keith Ellison (@AGEllison) May 26, 2020
A reminder that HALF of all police officers fired in Minnesota who appeal their cases end up getting their jobs back because their city’s police union contracts allow lawyers who nobody knows and nobody elected to unilaterally give them their jobs back. https://t.co/pV5X5zHZ9z
MPD restrained a man and choked the life out of him. And now the police are close to rioting tonight because the responding officers…got fired.#PoliceBrutality
— Hound Around the House (@HoundLizzy) May 27, 2020
Trump punched his music teacher in the face and threw rocks at a baby all while still a kid. When he became too much for his family they sent him to a reform school for rich brats disguised as a Military Academy. What you see on Twitter is what he’s always been. @realDonaldTrump
If you’re unbothered or mildly bothered by the 1st knee, but outraged by the 2nd, then, in my father’s words, you’re “more devoted to order than to justice.” And more passionate about an anthem that supposedly symbolizes freedom than you are about a Black man’s freedom to live. pic.twitter.com/kxpVOEeTNR
Dear @realDonaldTrump: The First Amendment stops the government—that’s you—from interfering with free speech. That means you can’t stop @Twitter from fact checking your false tweets.
And the fact that we’re reading your excrement on Twitter shows it is not stifling your speech. https://t.co/0lF478Q1hW
Donald Trump is setting the tone by knowingly, negligently, killing thousands and thousands of Americans.
We knew how it was going to go when we let him take little babies from their mother’s arms, and jail them.
How about now?
STOP THE KILLING.
Mr. George Floyd could have simply been issued a ticket to show up in court.
Instead the criminal officers stood around and watched their co-worker slowly kill him, face down on the street, handcuffed behind his back. Mr. Floyd was stopped for a suspected, non-violent issue only.
Mr. Floyd was unarmed. No reason to treat him (or anyone) that way. They just wanted him to suffer. They killed him. Start giving cops like these serious jail sentences. Let’s see how their families deal with it, not just Mr. Floyd’s. How many cops think this was not OK and what are they prepared to say about it?
The Obama Diary 
*75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice*
Google whether your local police department currently outfits all on-duty police officers with a body-worn camera and requires that the body-worn camera be turned on immediately when officers respond to a police call. If they don’t, write to your city or town government representative and police chief to advocate for it. The racial make-up of your town doesn’t matter — This needs to be standard everywhere. Multiply your voice by soliciting others to advocate as well, writing on social media about it, writing op-eds, etc.
Google whether your city or town currently employs evidence-based police de-escalation trainings. The racial make-up of your town doesn’t matter — This needs to be standard everywhere. Write to your city or town government representative and police chief and advocate for it. Multiply your voice by soliciting others to advocate as well, writing on social media about it, writing op-eds, etc.
More and more stories of black folks encountering racism are being documented and shared through social media — whether it’s at a hotel, with the police, in a coffee shop, at a school, etc. When you see such a post, call the organization, company, or institution involved to tell them how upset you are. Then share the post along with the institution’s contact information, spreading the word about what happened and encouraging others to contact the institution as well. Whether the company initiated the event or failed to protect a POC during an onslaught by a third party, they need to hear from us.
Many companies have recruiting channels that are predominantly white. Work with your HR department to recruit Americans who are descendants of enslaved Africans. Recruiting from HBCUs is a good start. Work to put descendants of enslaved Africans already hired under supportive managers.
Donate to anti-white supremacy work such as your local Black Lives Matter Chapter, the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, the NAACP, Southern Poverty Law Center, United Negro College Fund, Black Youth Project 100, Color of Change, The Sentencing Project, Families against Mandatory Minimums, A New Way of Life, and Dream Defenders. Join some of these list-serves and take action as their emails dictate.
Call or write to your state legislators and governor to support state-wide criminal justice reform including reducing mandatory minimum sentences, reducing sentences for non-violent drug crimes, passing “safety valve” law to allow judges to depart below a mandatory minimum sentence under certain conditions, passing alternatives to incarceration, etc. Study after study shows that racism fuels racial disparities in imprisonment, and most of the US prison population are at the state and local level.
Call or write to state legislators, federal legislators, and your governor to decriminalize weed. No, not because black folks use weed more frequently than white folks. Because black Americans are arrested for marijuana possession far more frequently than whites.
Call or write to state legislators to require racial impact statements be required for all criminal justice bills. Most states already require fiscal and environmental impact statements for certain legislation. Racial impact statements evaluate if a bill may create or exacerbate racial disparities should the bill become law. Check out the status of your state’s legislation surrounding these statements here.
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So good Nerdy! Had to tweet it.
Thank you, Nerdy. My affection & respect for you are unbounded.
Please stay safe.
Same to you, Bob.
Thank you dearest {{{{{{{Nerdy}}}}}}}
Let’s be real fucking real. This was due to the push back they received after their previous statement.
Exactly
Precisely
Nerdy,
Simply, thank you.
Right back at ya.
THIS, THIS, all of THIS!!! Thank you Nerdy ❤
This is how to be an ally. May Salley Rowley rest in power.
🙏🏾😔
NW the massive anti-racism resource for white people is brilliant, the spelled-out directions so needed. Thanks.
Am committed to begin ploughing through them. Being one and equal is every breath and not just some far off concept. What appears as separate is feared instead of loved, in a circle. Thank you for your time always. And everything you’ve so truthfully written here. Nothing can take away the pain and injustice and uncertainty of being non-white in America. The w.h. plan today hinges entirely on racism. So sorry this or imo any other response is not enough.
Hi Everyone! 😘
No … ask him to stick with Clorox and Chloroquine.
Tons of it, quickly …
Don’t worry, be an idiot. Go away & carry yr trunk of miserable idiocy.
Big things happening at NASA tomorrow! 🚀
I’ve been working on myself and my fellow white people since I was a teenager. Lifelong work. Nerdy, thanks for the resources to renew the commitment!
You’re welcome, Judith. Keep on keeping on!
🙌🏾
Good afternoon / evening to all in TODville.
Thank you NW for keeping this space open for us.
😀
WOW…great Statement…but i must say ..even if he wasn’t a person of notoriety…he did not deserve to be treated in this manner by this woman
I just want to get my son through high and college and then set him up in his first apartment or house and then leave this world because I won’t be able to bear the fact of losing him over some bullshit. I’m to the point where now when I see or read about how black men and women lose their lives over basically nothing, it worries the fuck out of me, it drives me insane. How do I teach my son how to drive a car and then buy him a car and let him drive to the movies or to a friend’s house? We just started to let him walk by himself to the donut shop two blocks from the house. He’s already 6’2 150lbs of skin and bones with the cutest face and he’s only fourteen years old. I want to let him live his life and see the world. I want him to make mistakes and correct them like I did growing up. Even when we are out at Walmart or HEB I don’t let him out of my sight for one minute, now to some of you this might seem crazy. But to me it’s not crazy at all, it makes perfect sense. I watch the news and I’m on the internet constantly, I know my reality pretty damn well.
Don, I don’t have kids and sometimes I am thankful for that. Cuz i would be a horrible parent in that i wouldnt leave my kid out of my sight either. It would drive me insane too. Sometimes I see little kids wandering far from their parents and that worries me.
You are perfectly right to be concerned. These cops -all of them, deserve maximum punishment.
6’2 eh? At 4’11 1/2 … I am jealous 😊 Dont tell anyone but I say I am 5 feet tall when asked. LOL.
(((((((((( Don ))))))))))
Heartbreaking. Absolutely heartbreaking. And it’s a fact of life for millions of Americans, day by day.
Its. Not. Crazy. (((((Don and son))))) because the sad reality is you are not particularly safe either. #GeorgeFloyd
{{{{{{{{Don}}}}}}}
Don, my son is a bit older than yours. Yet no difference in what they go thru, & how we continue to protect them. Still, in every call or meeting, I tell him to be careful, be aware of his surroundings at all times. Keep those ear buds outta your ears, Son, so you’re sharply cognizant of yr surroundings, etc. Can’t help myself. I try hard to not infuse my fears into his life. A luta continua. 💞
Sending you and yours peace and comfort, Don. May guardian angels forever watch over your son as he moves through his world as a Black boy and eventually a Black man. May his path always be clear and may he always be protected from evil in any form. May you and your wife see him become the fully realized person you are loving and teaching him to become.
🙏💪🤗😍💪🙏
THANK YOU, NW, and the TOD community for your contributions to everything happening in real time and for your humanity. We are in dangerous territory every damn day. Whether it’s racism, misogyny, a virus, jobs, right to vote or who knows what else, Republicans are here every day to take away from our lives, our experience, our hard work for equality and justice. FIGHT BACK with everything you have.
I second all of this.
Love you Nerdy.
Love you meta.
Love you TOD.
❤️❤️❤️
{{{{Dudette}}}}
😘😘😘😘😘😘
AMENNNNNNNN…WE will continues to struggle…”because we are no ways tired”
So important that they are raising awareness here.
OOooops, you’re way ahead me! Apologies for the dupes.
No problem at all Dear. I love that you agreed this was worth highlighting. 🙌🏾
Yes, absolutely.
If adding a fact check to this one, they need to add it to all the tweets about the young woman in FL who worked in Joe Scarborough’s Office. J
Fomenting chaos, fear and dissension into our electoral process could be the end of our country and society as we know it.
It is past time for decent (relative term), high profile republican leaders to mount a clear and sustained opposition if they really care. Mitt has tried a little, but him, George W., Colin Powell, John Kasich, Condoleezza Rice, General Petreus and many others need to go much further than occasional dismay.
You’re so right, mags. None of them seem to care enough to do any more than dip a toe in the water. I just don’t understand how a General Powell in particular can sit back and say next to nothing.
A BIG old yes to what both of you said.
Just delete them. Every breath he takes, he lies. Every tweet he makes, is a lie. Delete is a no brainer. A huge % of his so-called 75M followers are bots anyway. So, we talking 2 real people, Twitter, eh?
Looks like the policeman was clearly intent on killing, if you ask me.
They need to charged with murder.
I’m sorry but this funny to me.
This is why must be charged with a crime…not just fired
they*
Think of that … 70 years v 3 months ….
Putin is winning, every single day ….
My moments on Twitter are likely soon to be over …
Twitter is enabling. Time for everyone to rethink all social media platforms.
You mean the Injustice Dept?
Right
Donald Trump is setting the tone by knowingly, negligently, killing thousands and thousands of Americans.
We knew how it was going to go when we let him take little babies from their mother’s arms, and jail them.
How about now?
STOP THE KILLING.
Mr. George Floyd could have simply been issued a ticket to show up in court.
Instead the criminal officers stood around and watched their co-worker slowly kill him, face down on the street, handcuffed behind his back. Mr. Floyd was stopped for a suspected, non-violent issue only.
Mr. Floyd was unarmed. No reason to treat him (or anyone) that way. They just wanted him to suffer. They killed him. Start giving cops like these serious jail sentences. Let’s see how their families deal with it, not just Mr. Floyd’s. How many cops think this was not OK and what are they prepared to say about it?
https://www.instagram.com/p/CArGypElKnJ/?igshid=1ntvq281s0vym
Goodnight, TODers, & our magnificent NW. I’m just going to drop this here, coz we all need a teaspoon of sweetness! 💞 (Hope it posts right 👀)
Oooh, it did, it did! Posted right! 💃💞
So glad it *did* post Gazelle!!! Daddy and daughter are talented each in their own right. Together they are dynamite!!!
My heart needed this! Thank you Gazelle! 😍😍😍
Some perspective
= CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE.
We all embody the nobleness of the human spirit
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/05/27/exhausting/
The weather’s kinda right now. Hopefully, weather permitting, will we have another milestone in space travel today. 🚀
thx Dudette…superb.