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. (@MsPackyetti) May 26, 2020
Compiled by white people who made the effort: https://t.co/z8rydxjNlkhttps://t.co/PJkFBM7dNm
https://twitter.com/melodyMcooper/status/1264965252866641920
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Ok I am nonbinary. But socially I am read as a woman. A white woman. And from that standpoint I wanna address white women/people socially read as white women because this is important:
— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020
we are weapons of white supremacy; in fact, we are THE weapon of white supremacy
Our supposed "purity" is the justification behind acts of racial violence and murder. Lynchings were so often committed because a black man was accused of assaulting/touching/looking at! a white woman. The specter of black men coming after white women was major racist propaganda
— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020
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And we were not innocent in this of course. This is pretty basic history. Think of "To Kill A Mockingbird," an entire book based on a white woman using the fear of black men's desire to hide her own shame and her father's guilt.
— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020
That isn't made up. That happened.
Emmett Till was murdered because of a white woman who lied. A white woman who has lived her life free from the consequences of her actions, a white woman who caused a child's violent lynching and got away with it.
— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020
White women we know of what we are capable
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And white women, when we call the police on a black person we are knowingly committing a modern-day lynching.#amycooper could very have killed that man, just as Carolyn Bryant Donham killed Emmett Till
— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020
This is a difficult truth to face, I know. White women, sometimes we (and those of us socially read as women) feel like we aren't as bad as white men because we're, you know, women.
— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020
But when it comes to racism in general and anti-blackness in particular, the dynamic shifts
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and white women we have social power--enough social power to get people killed.
— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020
So we cannot be passive here. We cannot assume we are doing enough. We have to be very clear that we will not tolerate racism done in our name
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More here
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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.
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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!
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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}}}}
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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.