Black people have been under the boot of racism, white supremacy, economic anxiety, inequality and so much else. Despite it all, we somehow didn’t vote for a racist and didn’t storm not nary a U.S. capitol. But sure, let’s keep centering everything around aggrieved white people.
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) January 18, 2021
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Students listening to President Obama at Georgia Tech this afternoon. Photo by @dougmillsnyt @nytpolitics http://t.co/oQ03Fk9xvt
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Thomas Simonetti (@thomassimonetti) March 10, 2015
#47traitors
Respect our President or leave Congress http://t.co/EWahPAGrqZ
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MS BETH (@MsbethmartinezA) March 10, 2015
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Most admired world leader 7 years in a row. No wonder #47GopTraitors stage idiotic attempts to sabotage. #IranLetter http://t.co/T3VhiawQH2
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Tracy (@taiping2) March 10, 2015
Sen. Tom Cotton’s letter to Iran’s leaders is brazen, gratuitous, and plainly stupid: slate.me/1GC5tnE http://t.co/DUcf2HQXm6
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(@Slate) March 10, 2015
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“Honorable people can disagree over policy. But this is no way to make America safer or stronger." –VP Biden VPOTUS/the-vice-president-on-the-march-9th-letter-from-republican-senators-to-the-islamic-republic-of-iran-86299d0bb526"> medium.com@VPOTUS/the-vi…
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Vice President Biden (@VP) March 10, 2015
.@SenTomCotton ICYMI my response. In English. goo.gl/OOU7Ha http://t.co/9482aLbSC6
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Javad Zarif (@JZarif) March 10, 2015
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Obama says Senators who sent a letter to Iran's leaders were aligning themselves with Iranian hard-liners on.wsj.com/1E3e24K #IranLetter
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Capital Journal (@WSJPolitics) March 10, 2015
Biden Rebukes Senate Republicans Over Letter to Iran nyti.ms/1D0jGcM
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The New York Times (@nytimes) March 10, 2015
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You are sent into a situation where a naked man is acting weird. He is clearly unarmed. It should be apparent to you that he might be mentally ill. You have a taser. You don’t use it. Instead you use your gun and kill him. You kill a man who served his country and just needed some help
#AnthonyHill, unarmed, naked Black man, fatally shot by police near Atlanta huff.to/1KQOYXN http://t.co/Kyf0CF71Xm
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HuffPost BlackVoices (@blackvoices) March 10, 2015
Here's another photo of #AnthonyHill, fighting for a nation which allows ppl like him to b murdered @ home. #Antlanta http://t.co/w6cG5Sybrm
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Jim Chambers (@jccfergie) March 10, 2015
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One is not ARMED with #MentalIllness.
Mental illness is not a weapon.
Mental Illness is not a capital offense.
#AnthonyHill
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5'7 Black Male (@absurdistwords) March 10, 2015
Crowdfunding Effort Raises $34K for Now-Unemployed Chef of Racist Frat bit.ly/1C449c8 (VIDEO) http://t.co/SyBJDGisFK
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(@Mediaite) March 10, 2015
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2 NYPD cops admit to trying to tear off clothes of woman whose rape they were investigating, keep jobs nydn.us/1ExxGLu
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Daniel José Older (@djolder) March 10, 2015
Seattle police chief to revamp leadership amid shift on use of force reut.rs/1D1Ypj0
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Reuters U.S. News (@ReutersUS) March 10, 2015
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Politicususa: … On October 7th, 1998, Matthew Shepard accepted a ride from Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson … they drove Matthew into the country, tied him to a fence post and beat him severely … they attacked Matthew because he was gay. They left him there in the cold dark, bleeding and unconscious until a cyclist found him, almost 18 hours later. Matthew died from his injuries on October 12th, 1998…
Eleven years after Matthew’s death, President Barack Obama signed into law The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Act … this bill makes it a federal crime to assault people based on their gender, sexual orientation and gender identity … Judy Shepard had visited President Obama in the Oval Office and he had made her a promise that this day would come. By signing The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Act into law, President Obama kept his promise to Matthew’s family.
…. I asked many people to share their memories of Matthew Shepard with me, including Captain Stephen Snyder-Hill … the Army officer who was booed at the Republican debate…
Joshua Snyder-Hill: … A year later I was taken to DC for my first equality event. I was still not out to my family or friends. The one thing I remember most were the people picketing the concert hall cheering Matthew’s death and celebrating it as a victory. I remember all my fear of coming out melted away. I had spent three days in DC seeing nothing but hope and activism until that moment; it was then and there I decided, I had to be part of the fight for equality. Matthew’s death and the energy behind it, made me want to be proud of who I was and show love conquered hate.
Full article here
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, 2009:
Rest in peace, Matthew Shepard
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