Posts Tagged ‘lynching

08
Jul
20

Let It Sink In: 8:46

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08
May
20

#JusticeForAhmaudArbery

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07
May
20

Being Black Is Not A Crime

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https://twitter.com/eveewing/status/1258054381649514497

https://twitter.com/eveewing/status/1258054879081267202

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https://twitter.com/eveewing/status/1258056019713961990

https://twitter.com/eveewing/status/1258056020754120713

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https://twitter.com/eveewing/status/1258057346082918400

https://twitter.com/eveewing/status/1258058734951190529

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26
Apr
18

The Victims Of White Supremacy

02
Apr
15

A Tweet Or Two

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https://twitter.com/thekarami/status/583707190239760385

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https://twitter.com/rezamarashi/status/583688746714923008

https://twitter.com/NuclearTalks/status/583745083477983233

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Good riddance to a rubbish student

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Screw you, Cosmo

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Continue reading ‘A Tweet Or Two’

31
Mar
15

A Tweet Or Two

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So sorry for the setback, GB. We here at TOD want you to know that we have your back, we admire your strength and courage, and we are rooting for you all the way

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Yay

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Different day. Same disgusting BS

https://twitter.com/honeycoquette/status/582637462503190528

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Wow

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There is no pleading ignorance about nooses. When you use a noose against a Black person, everyone knows what you mean. Everyone one knows the threat, violence, and racism it represents. Everyone knows that you are terrorizing Black people

https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/582995269530193920

https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/582995678420279296

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https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/583008376940048384

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But…but…cops are here to protect everyone

https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/580901597678575617

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https://twitter.com/AntDeRosa/status/583029072156049409

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Great article

https://twitter.com/PiaGlenn/status/582642948115996672

https://twitter.com/ChiefElk/status/582716511174799360

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Continue reading ‘A Tweet Or Two’

23
Feb
15

A Tweet Or Two

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20
Feb
15

A Tweet Or Two

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Our education continues 🙂

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https://twitter.com/ethiopienne/status/568910039009910784

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This is the horror that occurs when you don’t view people as human beings because of the color of their skin

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James Jameson, heir to the Jameson Irish Whiskey company, once bought a 10-year-old slave girl for six handkerchiefs because he wanted to sketch the event as cannibals killed, mutilated, and finally, ate her According to a report from The New York Times, Jameson had a fascination with cannibalism and wanted to experience the act firsthand. Jameson was on a trip in Africa in 1890 when an opportunity to fulfill his sick fantasy presented itself because he and his translator happened upon a cannibalistic tribe. Jameson consulted the tribe’s chiefs who told him if he wanted to witness the event, he’d have to buy a slave girl to be killed. Jameson returned a few minutes later with a 10-year-old girl he bought from a nearby slave trader for six handkerchiefs. The translator then approached the chiefs and said, “This is a present from a white man who desires to see her eaten.” According to an eye witness report of the scene, the cannibals tied the girl to a tree and stabbed her twice in the belly. The natives then cut pieces off of her body as Jameson sat sketching in his notebook. Jameson and his translator then made their way to chief’s hut where Jameson finished his sketches in watercolor.

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The same holds true once again

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In 1919, in the wake of World War I, black sharecroppers unionized in Arkansas, unleashing a wave of white vigilantism and mass murder that left 237 people dead. The visits began in the fall of 1918, just as World War I ended. At his office in Little Rock, Arkansas, attorney Ulysses S. Bratton listened as African American sharecroppers from the Delta told stories of theft, exploitation, and endless debt. A man named Carter had tended 90 acres of cotton, only to have his landlord seize the entire crop and his possessions. From the town of Ratio, in Phillips County, Arkansas, a black farmer reported that a plantation manager refused to give sharecroppers an itemized account for their crop. Another sharecropper told of a landlord trying “to starve the people into selling the cotton at his own price. They ain’t allowing us down there room to move our feet except to go to the field.” No one could know it at the time, but within a year these inauspicious meetings would lead to one of the worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history. Initiated by whites, the violence—by any measure, a massacre—claimed the lives of 237 African Americans, according to a just released report from the Equal Justice Initiative. The death toll was unusually high, but the use of racial violence to subjugate blacks during this time was not uncommon. As the Equal Justice Initiative observes, “Racial terror lynching was a tool used to enforce Jim Crow laws and racial segregation—a tactic for maintaining racial control by victimizing the entire African American community, not merely punishment of an alleged perpetrator for a crime.” This was certainly true of the massacre in Phillips County, Arkansas.

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https://twitter.com/goldietaylor/status/568606738204786689

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*GROWL* Comic books come to life

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Never change, Canada

https://twitter.com/IostinheII/status/568876540391526400

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https://twitter.com/AnnoyedWasp/status/567440537255706625

10
Feb
15

A Tweet Or Two

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https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/565142954818301954

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https://twitter.com/Cooking_Light/status/565148508538540033

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See, TV head honchos? When you have great representative story telling that reflects the diversity of our world today, you get HUGE ratings

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https://twitter.com/scATX/status/565183902927446017

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Paul Waldman: On Obama’s ‘Evolution’ On Same-Sex Marriage

In Obama adviser David Axelrod’s new book, he reveals that in 2008 the future president did indeed believe in marriage equality, but he was persuaded by Axelrod and others that it would be too risky to say publicly. So he took the standard Democratic position at the time, in favor of civil unions but against marriage rights. I imagine that exactly no one is surprised by this. And while it isn’t an excuse for deception, the decision should be understood in the context of that historical moment, The context of Obama’s falsehood is important to understand—both his own thinking and the reception his statements on the matter received.

https://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/565307473343832064

In 2008, the Democratic Party was undergoing a rapid change in its approach to same-sex marriage, and the stated positions of almost every candidate were in flux. Four years before, when the issue exploded into national debate after the Massachusetts Supreme Court legalized marriage equality (their ruling actually came down in late 2003),  Most of the presidential contenders came down in support of civil unions but against marriage rights, a position that just happened to be where the median voter was. By 2008, everyone seemed to understand that the position all the major Democratic candidates were taking was a temporary way-station on the path to an eventual embrace of full marriage equality. Nobody really believed that was where the party and its representatives were going to stay.

More here

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https://twitter.com/JeffreyGoldberg/status/564218351229370368

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https://twitter.com/Karnythia/status/564557686382292992

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https://twitter.com/jwdalton/status/564077475916177409

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https://twitter.com/YahooTech/status/565197270732533760

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https://twitter.com/Cooking_Light/status/564944547365781504

https://twitter.com/Cooking_Light/status/565231489101864962

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https://twitter.com/juliussharpe/status/560534666956914689

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https://twitter.com/juliussharpe/status/553755691618668544

30
Apr
11

good grief

(Thank for the video link, TeamObama)

The Boston Globe: Expected Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney tread on socially dangerous ground last night as he talked about the need to “hang” a misery index around the neck of Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president.

Romney almost immediately caught himself, with the English major declaring “metaphorically” speaking, but the mix of nervous laughter with applause indicated at least some in the audience realized its potency.

Romney said: “You remember during the Ronald Reagan/Jimmy Carter debates? That Ronald Reagan came up with this great thing about the ‘misery index,’ and that he hung that around Jimmy Carter’s neck, and that had a lot to do with Jimmy Carter losing. Well, we’re going to have to hang the ‘Obama Misery Index’ around his neck. And, I’ll tell you, the fact that you’ve got people in this country, really squeezed, with gasoline getting so expensive, with commodities getting so expensive, families are having a hard time making ends meet. So, we’re going to have to talk about that, and housing foreclosures and bankruptcies and higher taxation. We’re going to hang him — uh, so to speak, metaphorically — with, uh, with, uh — you have to be careful these days, I’ve learned that, with an Obama Misery Index.”

A video of the remarks posted on YouTube cuts off at, “you have to be careful,” without the final 10 words.

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