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Jul

white People Refuse To Handle The Truth

This narrative that black people who want an accurate reflection of history are "angry and resentful" leaves us wit… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

First, let's be clear: The Founders were racists. They weren't "products of their time." They KNEW slavery was wr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

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James Madison, who wrote the Constitution, "thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

In the only book Thomas Jefferson ever wrote, "Notes on the State of Virginia," he dedicated pages to explaining wh… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

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BUT here is the thing: When these truths are pointed out by black people or actual historians, it doesn't mean we… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

The problem is that many white people believe that being a racist is an all-encompassing trait that stains everythi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

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For instance: The fact that police disproportionately shoot black people is racist. It does not mean that individ… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

Jefferson, Lincoln, Washington and others did not explicitly say they hated black people. They just created a syst… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

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White supremacy is the reason there is an electoral college There were more enslaved people in the south, which wou… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

White supremacy is the reason every state has different voting laws. Some states allowed free black landowners to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

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White supremacy is the reason behind America's military might. Southern states didn't think the federal government… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

So, instead of facing these historical truths and force us to reconcile with how this country has treated black peo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

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Why wouldn't you hate the idea of defunding the police if you didn't know that American policing descended from sla… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

Why wouldn't you think black people are lazy and less intelligent if you didn't know about redlining and how it sti… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

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Why wouldn't you think a speech at Mount Rushmore was a great idea if you didn't know how America stole the land fr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

Confederate monuments do represent history. They represent the historical lengths this country has gone to whitewa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

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Removing these symbols of white supremacy has nothing to do with anger or resentment. If black people ever unleash… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

There is only one way. See, a long time ago, we read another activist explained exactly how to eliminate racism an… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

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"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free:"
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(@michaelharriot) July 05, 2020

Jul

This Is A Movement

By Nerdy Wonka 151 Comments

Categories: All Photos
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

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

June 26th

By Nerdy Wonka 188 Comments

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Tags: #CharlestonShooting, Amazing Grace, baptist, Barack Obama, charleston, church, death, Emanuel AME, funeral, Gun Violence, June 26th, lgbt, LGBTQIA, Marriage Equality, memorial, murder, Obama, Obama White House, President, pride, Pride Month, racism, SCOTUS, song, South Carolina, Stonewall, Supreme Court, tweets, white house, White Supremacy

Jim’s courage and persistence helped change America for the better. And so did every American who marched, organize… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 26, 2020

Just a few moments after 10 am ET on June 26th, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision when t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) June 26, 2020

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In the afternoon of June 26, 2015, @BarackObama traveled to Charleston to eulogize Reverend Pinckney after a racist… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) June 26, 2020

Barack Obama Says Progress Happens When 'We Stand Up, Speak Out and Demand Change' in Stonewall Day Speech people.com/politics/barac…
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People (@people) June 26, 2020

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This was one of the few times I apologized to @BarackObama for a draft. I had nothing left. And even though he didn… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Cody Keenan (@codykeenan) June 26, 2020

Jun

Cops Are Evil

By Nerdy Wonka 141 Comments

Categories: All Photos
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

Take Me Out Of It

By Nerdy Wonka 114 Comments

Categories: All Photos and All Videos
Tags: Anti-Racism, Anti-Racist, Author, Black History, interview, racism, Toni Morrison, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy, writer

twitter.com/VeedyBro/statu… https://t.co/0q41RdnYsu
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giabuchi (@jaboukie) June 04, 2020

Jun

Disparities

By Nerdy Wonka 206 Comments

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Tags: Barack Obama, Disparities, Equal Pay, Fair Pay, Gender Equality, Income Inequality, inequality, mother's, Obama, President, racism, salary, tweets, workers

The pandemic has magnified the financial insecurity of too many American families, the deep and real racial dispari… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 27, 2020

Jun

Racism: In Every Corner Of America

By Nerdy Wonka 130 Comments

Categories: All Photos
Tags: Black History, Columbia Records, Fruits, ice-cream, Macroaggression, Microaggresion, Music, racism, song, songs, tweets, Watermelon, White Privilege, White Supremacy

Every time I hear that ice cream truck sound I would get irie feeling ... to the point that I would ask my friend w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Samirah (@Thisishowispeak) June 11, 2020

Y’all needa understand when black ppl say racism is so engrained into this society we mean little subtle shii like… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Don Neto (@MarshJay__) June 11, 2020

Jun

Racism In Plain Sight

By Nerdy Wonka 111 Comments

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, Coronavirus, COVID-19, death, gop, GOP Obstruction, Medical Racism, Pandemic, police brutality, Political And Funny Tweets, Quarantine, racism, racist, racists, republicans, trump, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy

Given the data on who's dying, anyone who advocates for a reopen because "only" a percentage of people will die is,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Studio Glibly (@NoTotally) April 16, 2020

I know this is hard because white people like to frame racism as some kind of mysterious matter of the heart but fo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Studio Glibly (@NoTotally) April 16, 2020

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Whites are worried about what being called "racist" will do to their livelihoods, while people of color have to wor… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Studio Glibly (@NoTotally) April 16, 2020

People who are willing to sacrifice part of the population have seen the data on who's actually dying, and if they… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Studio Glibly (@NoTotally) April 16, 2020

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They have to be lying, because we now, all of us, have a very good understanding of who we'd be "sacrificing," and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Studio Glibly (@NoTotally) April 16, 2020

So we've seen the data, and they've seen the data, and so taking that position inherently means that they're okay w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Studio Glibly (@NoTotally) April 16, 2020

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Two totally different energies in these headlines..... @TMZ 🧐 https://t.co/NLCE4zYB46
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Chanel (@MaeLiing) May 03, 2020

Same city. Same police force. Passing out masks to white folks not social distancing, while literally having thei… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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zellie (@zellieimani) May 03, 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