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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 05, 2019
Posts Tagged ‘racism
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Jul
19
It’s Our America
What truly makes our country great is its diversity. I’ve seen that beauty in so many ways over the years. Whether… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) July 19, 201901
Jul
19
The Cruel Realities Of Racism
Let’s be clear here: The opposition was to court-ordered desegregation, not to busing. There was no vehicle that wo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 29, 2019****
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Lol to y’all who keep arguing white resistance to “busing” was about travel time. Is that why white mobs attacked s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 30, 2019****
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My grandfather had to drive my mom and her siblings to the bus stop because white kids would throw mangled stray an… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Morgan Jerkins (@MorganJerkins) June 30, 2019****
I’ve refrained from weighing in on this for now (stay tuned). But fortunately, here’s @nhannahjones. Impt to see ho… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) June 29, 2019****
It was Black children who bore the burden of travel time during/before court ordered desegregation. Howard HS in Wi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Malik (@malikwashington) June 30, 201922
Jan
19
Grace And Wisdom
Thank you to @VinceSchilling of @IndianCountry and many others who identified the proud Native man who is being har… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ava DuVernay (@ava) January 19, 2019Todays charcoal/pencil drawing
I was working on an important painting today, I stopped so I can draw this
I'm dis… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Jon Lion (@JonLionFineArt) January 20, 2019.@MichelleObama opens up to @RobinRoberts in revealing new interview; says she felt "lost and alone” after sufferin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Good Morning America (@GMA) November 09, 2018****
Krissah Thompson: In Revealing New Memoir, Michelle Obama Candidly Shares Her Story
As Michelle Obama’s highly anticipated memoir “Becoming” arrives, it’s clear that the former first lady is occupying a space in the culture beyond politics. “I don’t think anybody will be necessarily prepared to read a memoir like this — especially coming from a first lady,” said Shonda Rhimes, the television producer, who read an advance copy of Obama’s book. The first-lady memoir is a rite of passage, but Obama’s is different by virtue of her very identity. “Becoming” takes her historic status as the first black woman to serve as first lady and melds it deftly into the American narrative. She writes of the common aspects of her story and — as the only White House resident to count an enslaved great-great-grandfather as an ancestor — of its singular sweep. “The whole [birther] thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed. But it was also dangerous, deliberately meant to stir up the wingnuts and kooks,” she writes. “What if someone with an unstable mind loaded a gun and drove to Washington? What if that person went looking for our girls? Donald Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this I’d never forgive him.”
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.@MichelleObama to @RobinRoberts: "I think it's the worst thing that we do to each other as women, not share the tr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Good Morning America (@GMA) November 09, 2018****
She divides the memoir into three parts: Becoming Me, Becoming Us, Becoming More. The first section is a deep, often sociological exploration of Chicago and the people and institutions there. Its textured discussion of gentrification, public education, race and class are reminders that Obama majored in sociology and minored in African American studies at Princeton University. The second section, Becoming Us, is a romp through her romance with Barack Obama, starting a family with him and her search for work that she loved. It begins with words that have never before been written by a first lady about her man: “As soon as I allowed myself to feel anything for Barack, the feelings came rushing — a toppling blast of lust, gratitude, fulfillment, wonder.” She also shares intimate details for the first time, for instance, that she and her husband had trouble getting pregnant, suffered a miscarriage, and that both daughters were conceived through in vitro fertilization. And that she did a great deal of this while her husband was away serving in the state legislature, leaving her to administer the shots that are a part of that process herself.
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26
Jun
18
The Gospel Truth
If you’ve never had to fight oppression you don’t get to tell us how. Be quiet.
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Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) June 25, 2018The problem with this is that we still woulda been in chains if black people took this advice. The civil rights mov… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) June 25, 2018****
I have a problem with some of these white journalists who literally never think anything is racist or sexist judgin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) June 25, 2018MLK really was right about the dangerousness of white moderates.
Y’all are entirely useless.
If stopping fascis… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) June 25, 2018****
When you say “let the trump team eat in peace” you’re saying you’re okay with some of us being the meal.
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Broderick Greer (@BroderickGreer) June 24, 2018****
What you see in the case of most white journalists and white folks who appear on television to provide commentary i… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Terrell J. Starr (@Russian_Starr) June 25, 2018****
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