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Jul

Let It Sink In: 8:46

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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

Jun

Let’s Get To Work

By Nerdy Wonka 114 Comments

I wrote out some thoughts on how to make this moment a real turning point to bring about real change––and pulled to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 01, 2020

Jun

Waiting For Justice

By Nerdy Wonka 120 Comments

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #BreonnaTaylor, #GeorgeFloyd, #JusticeForAhmaud, Ahmaud, Breonna, civil rights, cops, george, georgia, Justice, Kentucky, minneapolis, morrison, police brutality, protest, protests, racism, statement, taylor, toni, Toni Morrison, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy

“what struck me most about those who rioted was how long they waited. the restraint they showed. not the spontaneit… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Shamari K. Reid (@shamarikreid) May 28, 2020

Jun

Protect Black Lives

By Nerdy Wonka 135 Comments

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #BreonnaTaylor, #GeorgeFloyd, #JusticeForAhmaud, activism, Ahmaud, Ally, Anti-Racism, Anti-Racist, Arbery, Breonna, Floyd, george, protests, racism, racists, taylor, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy

White friends, not being racist is not enough. We need white accomplices. Racists should feel afraid, uncomfortable… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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christina anthony (@christinanthony) May 27, 2020

Jun

“You Matter. Your Lives Matter. Your Dreams Matter”

By Nerdy Wonka 129 Comments

Categories: All Photos and All Videos
Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #BreonnaTaylor, #GeorgeFloyd, #JusticeForAhmaud, #SayHerName, activism, Ahmaud, Author, baldwin, Barack Obama, Breonna, Chicago, civil rights, Community Organizing, Congress, death, Floyd, george, interview, james, James Baldwin, john, John Lewis, lewis, meeting, murder, Obama, Obama Foundation, panel, poet, police brutality, President, Protesters, Protesting, protests, Representative, speech, taylor, The Fire Next Time, Town Hall, tweets, Zoom

In our @MBK_Alliance town hall yesterday, I mentioned James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time. From 1962, it remains a s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 04, 2020

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Young Black men and women have always been at the forefront of progress. As @BarackObama said, "know that your live… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 03, 2020

"The way this young man died, watching the video, it made me so sad. It was so painful. It made me cry. I kept sayi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) June 04, 2020

Jun

“I Know You Know That Black Lives Matter”

By Nerdy Wonka 125 Comments

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #BreonnaTaylor, #GeorgeFloyd, #JusticeForAhmaud, #SayHerName, activism, Ahmaud, Anti-Racism, Anti-Racist, Arbery, Breonna, Community Organizing, Duchess, Floyd, george, graduation, high school, Immaculate Heart High School, Los Angeles, Markle, Meghan, Protesting, protests, racism, speech, taylor, tweets

"George Floyd's life mattered and Breonna Taylor's life mattered and Philando Castile's life mattered and Tamir Ric… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Omid Scobie (@scobie) June 04, 2020

👏"The. Only. Wrong. Thing. To. Say. Is. To. Say. Nothing" Brilliant & powerful speech by Meghan Markle. I love how… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu (@SholaMos1) June 04, 2020

Jun

A Word From Martin Luther King Jr

By Nerdy Wonka 161 Comments

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Here is a gift to white people who insist they know what Martin Luther King Jr. would have said. A thread
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(@michaelharriot) June 01, 2020

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Jun

If You’re Not With/For Us, You’re Against Us

By Nerdy Wonka 119 Comments

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #BreonnaTaylor, #GeorgeFloyd, #JusticeForAhmaud, Agitators, Ahmaud, Breonna, civil rights, Floyd, george, March, police brutality, protest, Protesters, Protesting, protestors, racism, racists, taylor, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy

dear white ppl at protests: your job is NOT to be destructive. ur job is to protect, shield, and amplify if ur riot… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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SAI ✰ (@bIackspicegurl) May 31, 2020

In this video, a black woman picks up a brick and returns it to a car with white people and admonishes them not to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) June 01, 2020

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What a moment on CNN. https://t.co/T9XMzXmlVb
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Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 31, 2020

The media won’t show these peaceful moments that took place in in Beverly Hills today, so we must. #LosAngelesriots https://t.co/GTGEvMhB1A
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Simar (@sahluwal) May 31, 2020

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Put this on the news. https://t.co/YfXB2x6bcz
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Frosty (@FrostyTheSkid) May 30, 2020

What the media won’t show in Minneapolis. Free food, water and resources. Community is a verb. https://t.co/piKlEqun0t
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zellie (@zellieimani) May 30, 2020

May

The Cops Have Always Been The Violent Ones

By Nerdy Wonka 140 Comments

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #BreonnaTaylor, #DefundPolice, #DefundThePolice, #GeorgeFloyd, #JusticeForAhmaud, Ahmaud, Arbery, atlanta, Breonna, cnn, cops, Floyd, george, minneapolis, New York, police brutality, protester, Protesting, protestor, protests, racism, racist, racists, taylor, tweets, Violence, violent, White Supremacy

This boy had his hands up when an NYPD ofcr pulled his mask down and pepper sprayed him. ⁦@NYPDShea⁩? Mayor ⁦… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) May 31, 2020

Share widely: National guard and MPD sweeping our residential street. Shooting paint canisters at us on our own fro… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Tanya Kerssen (@tkerssen) May 31, 2020

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notice how you don’t see any of this on the news. https://t.co/kaYiXVVagN
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𝐲𝐚𝐬 🐝BLM (@sottcalum) May 31, 2020

White people talking to white people. More of this please. If you’re white and you believe yourself not to be racis… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ava DuVernay (@ava) May 31, 2020

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Evergreen until it’s not. https://t.co/AG11URt6O2
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Issa Rae (@IssaRae) May 30, 2020

This is the moment Minneapolis Police fired on our CBS News crew with rubber bullets. As you can see, no protesters… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Michael George (@MikeGeorgeCBS) May 31, 2020

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I cannot believe what I just witnessed. They pulled up onto the square with a police siren on and did this.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Natalie Neysa Alund (@nataliealund) May 30, 2020

watching a stream of the union square protests to see this police officer throw up what looks to be a white power s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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kiki (@kikimurphy_) May 31, 2020

May

“It Broke Me Down”

By Nerdy Wonka 116 Comments

Categories: All Photos and Michelle Obama
Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #BreonnaTaylor, #GeorgeFloyd, #JusticeForAhmaud, activism, Activist, Barack Obama, Breonna, civil rights, cops, death, First Lady, Floyd, george, georgia, Kentucky, Michelle, Michelle Obama, minneapolis, minnesota, murder, Obama, police brutality, President, protest, Protesters, protests, racism, statement, taylor, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy

My statement on the death of George Floyd: https://t.co/Hg1k9JHT6R
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 29, 2020

Like so many of you, I’m pained by these recent tragedies. And I’m exhausted by a heartbreak that never seems to st… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) May 29, 2020

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Race and racism is a reality that so many of us grow up learning to just deal with. But if we ever hope to move pas… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) May 29, 2020

It’s up to all of us—Black, white, everyone—no matter how well-meaning we think we might be, to do the honest, unco… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) May 29, 2020

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It ends with justice, compassion, and empathy that manifests in our lives and on our streets. I pray we all have th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) May 29, 2020