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Jul

This Is A Movement

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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

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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

Jul

‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’

By Nerdy Wonka 120 Comments

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, 4th Of July, america, Black History, Colonialism, Colonization, Descendants, Douglass, Fourth Of July, Frederick, Frederick Douglass, history, July 4th, slavery, speech, United States, White Privilege, White Supremacy

Jul

Jane Elliot

By Nerdy Wonka 120 Comments

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, Ally, Anti-Racism, Anti-Racist, education, elliot, history, jane, Jane Elliot, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy

Feel like this a good time to drop this on the TL again https://t.co/o7GiYSmfw6
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01 Allen Iverson (@JuggernautBG) June 03, 2020

@JuggernautBG Why not keep it going 🤷🏾‍♂️ #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/y6AUzP65Xd
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Son of a Panther ✊🏾💜 (@Rihannas_Crush) June 04, 2020

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Jane Elliot gone clear a mf, specifically somebody of her race twitter.com/juggernautbg/s…
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Sid Fleeks (@sidfleeks) June 04, 2020

#JaneElliot asked a great question, that I don’t believe she ever got an answer to.. #GeorgeFloyd https://t.co/VOaGDf89Kp
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❤3rika ❤️ (@REDTOPS112) May 28, 2020

Jul

The Movement Is Ongoing

By Nerdy Wonka 107 Comments

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #DefundPolice, #DefundThePolice, Civil Rights Movement, cops, movement, New York, police brutality, protest, Protesters, protests, tweets

I don’t think people understand. This is NYC right now. Day 30. In a row. The #BlackLivesMatter movement is just… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) June 30, 2020

Jun

Sound The Alarm For Breonna

By Nerdy Wonka 108 Comments

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #BreonnaTaylor, #DefundPolice, #DefundThePolice, #SayHerName, Breonna, cops, Kentucky, Louisville, murder, police brutality, taylor, tweets

There still have been no arrests made for the murder of #BreonnaTaylor. Call 844-298-2731 to demand… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Be A King (@BerniceKing) June 29, 2020

Jun

About Time

By Nerdy Wonka 108 Comments

Categories: All Photos and Michelle Obama
Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, First Lady, Michele Obama, Michelle, New Jersey, Obama, Princeton, racism, tweets, university, wilson, Woodrow

Heartened to see my alma mater make this change, and even prouder of the students who’ve been advocating for this k… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) June 29, 2020

In 2015, student activists occupied President Eisgruber’s office, which led to the creation of the Wilson Legacy Re… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Princeton University (@Princeton) June 27, 2020

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As the tragic killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Rayshard Brooks drew renewed attention t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Princeton University (@Princeton) June 27, 2020

Wilson’s racism was significant and consequential even by the standards of his own time, taking America backward in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Princeton University (@Princeton) June 27, 2020

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#PrincetonU is part of an America that has too often disregarded, ignored, or excused racism, allowing the persiste… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Princeton University (@Princeton) June 27, 2020

Jun

Cops Are Evil

By Nerdy Wonka 141 Comments

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #DefundPolice, #DefundThePolice, assault, cops, Misogynist, misogyny, North Carolina, police brutality, racism, rape, Rape Culture, Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy, Wilmington

A cop hit on me when I was 21 and drunk in front of a club. I told him to go f**k himself. He slammed me against a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sulome (@SulomeAnderson) June 18, 2020

I spent the weekend in custody, miserably hungover and sobbing, still wearing a miniskirt and high heels. When I wa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sulome (@SulomeAnderson) June 18, 2020

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To be clear, I have never done meth, and if I had been, I certainly wouldn’t have volunteered that information to t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sulome (@SulomeAnderson) June 18, 2020

I was a junior at NYU. I had no criminal record and had never been arrested. I explained to the court lawyer that I… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sulome (@SulomeAnderson) June 18, 2020

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Thinking about this now, I realize it would have happened very differently if I were black. In many ways, I was ult… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sulome (@SulomeAnderson) June 18, 2020

Women are supposed to call the police when we are sexually assaulted. When that happened later in my life, I didn’t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sulome (@SulomeAnderson) June 18, 2020

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@SulomeAnderson I had a state trooper pull me over for speeding when I was 21. Kept me in his car on the side of th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Elle Mac - St. Louis (@Elle_Mac_STL) June 18, 2020

@SulomeAnderson And drove on. He let me go with a warning. Then started calling my job, my apartment, apartment… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Elle Mac - St. Louis (@Elle_Mac_STL) June 18, 2020

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@SulomeAnderson Finally got a new job in another city Chicago to Springfield. A coworker's husband was a State Patr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Elle Mac - St. Louis (@Elle_Mac_STL) June 18, 2020

@SulomeAnderson @yogthos In Denver there was a cop, Buster Snider, who sexually assaulted young girls for at least… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Mile Hi Jules (@milehijules) June 19, 2020

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My God. Fired NC police officer on tape: "We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them (expletive)”...… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) June 25, 2020

Port City Daily: Fired Wilmington cop: “We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them f—— ni—–. I can’t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) June 25, 2020

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Port City Daily reports: One officer on tape talking about a Black woman he had arrested: "She needed a bullet in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) June 25, 2020

Jun

The System: Working As Intended

By Nerdy Wonka 137 Comments

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #DefundPolice, #DefundThePolice, Brooks, murder, police brutality, protests, Rayshard, Rayshard Brooks, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy

When I was 15, I was chased through a mall by police who were yelling “Stop thief!” I had thousands of dollars of s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Krista Vernoff (@KristaVernoff) June 15, 2020

When I was 18, I was pulled over for drunk driving. When the Police Officer asked me to blow into the breathalyzer,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Krista Vernoff (@KristaVernoff) June 15, 2020

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The officer laughed then asked my friends to blow and when one of them came up sober enough to drive, he let me mov… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Krista Vernoff (@KristaVernoff) June 15, 2020

When I was 19, I got angry at a girl for flirting with my sister’s boyfriend and drunkenly attacked her in the midd… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Krista Vernoff (@KristaVernoff) June 15, 2020

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When I was twenty, with all of my strength, I punched a guy in the face -- while we were both standing two feet fro… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Krista Vernoff (@KristaVernoff) June 15, 2020

The cop pulled me aside and said, “You don’t punch people in front of cops,” then laughed and said that if I ever j… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Krista Vernoff (@KristaVernoff) June 15, 2020

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Between the ages of 11 and 22, my friends and I were chased and/or admonished by police on several occasions for dr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Krista Vernoff (@KristaVernoff) June 15, 2020

If I had been shot in the back by police after the shoplifting incident - in which I knowingly and willfully and so… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Krista Vernoff (@KristaVernoff) June 15, 2020

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I’m asking the white people reading this to think about the crimes you’ve committed. (Note: You don't call them cri… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Krista Vernoff (@KristaVernoff) June 15, 2020

Defunding the police is not about “living in a lawless society.” It’s about the fact that in this country, we’re no… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Krista Vernoff (@KristaVernoff) June 15, 2020

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The system that lets me live and murders Rayshard Brooks is a broken system that must change. Stop defending it. De… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Krista Vernoff (@KristaVernoff) June 15, 2020

@KristaVernoff The system isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as intended when it was created by racist white people… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Mani 🌸 (@imanialicia) June 15, 2020

Jun

Juneteenth: A Story Of Progress

By Nerdy Wonka 128 Comments

Categories: All Photos, All Videos and Michelle Obama
Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, Barack Obama, Black History, Emancipation, Emancipation Proclamation, freedom, Freedom Day, Galveston, history, Juneteenth, Michelle, Michelle Obama, Obama, President, progress, slavery, texas, tweets

Here's what #Juneteenth means to me: https://t.co/KlOoYwdzD5
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Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) June 19, 2020

This #Juneteenth, let’s all pledge to keep using our voices—and our votes—to keep marching toward freedom. https://t.co/I510X0HCKe
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Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) June 19, 2020

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Juneteenth has never been a celebration of victory, or an acceptance of the way things are. It's a celebration of p… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 19, 2020