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Mar

Elect A Clown, Expect A Circus

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Tags: Barack Obama, Coronavirus, GOP Obstruction, Karma, Obama, Political And Funny Tweets, President, Quarantine, racism, Social Distancing, trump, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy

You can’t blame Obama for this. Obama never had anything like this. This is what happens when you elect an incompet… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Marcus H. Johnson (@marcushjohnson) March 29, 2020

Feb

“It’s Because Of Whiteness”

By Nerdy Wonka 144 Comments

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Tags: Banks, Black History, education, Gentrification, Harriot, home, Home Ownership, journalist, loans, michael, Political And Funny Tweets, racism, Redlining, students, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy

A lot of “majorities” aren’t educated that their financial advantage isn’t because of their investments. It’s becau… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

First of all, of you live in a home in a black neighborhood, it’s worth, on average, $48,000 less than an identical… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

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But, for the sake of argument, let’s say that all things are equal. Simply because you are awhite homeowner, you n… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

We know that schools are funded by property taxes. So, if you’re white, your kids get to go to a better school. Thi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

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So, of course, the white districts are considered better because they had higher scores, more college attendees and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

But let’s get back to home ownership. When those white kids got a chance to go to college, their parents could use… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

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But let’s say both kids graduated from college. I mentioned a study by @theSBPC yesterday. The study was really in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

They created a profile of a student. 24 yrs old, recent college grad making $50,000 per year. The only difference w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

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The study found that kids who went to majority black schools were charged higher rates than any other group—even th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

So now you’re a black college grad with more debt than a white student. Regardless of what you do, if you’re black,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

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Part of your credit score calculates debt. So, simply being black—NOTHING ELSE —means you have a higher credit scor… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

Now car lenders might say that blacks have lower credit scores but we know why that is. Instead of looking at payme… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

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So you have a car, an education and you want to buy a home. In 2018, @reveal did a study. They didn’t look at a g… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

They found that black borrowers were denied at 3 times the rate of white borrowers and ALWAYS got higher interest r… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

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Add that with double the unemployment rate, fewer educational resources, higher car insurance rates and tithes and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

And white people’s advantages have nothing to do with their investment knowledge or hard work. It’s built into th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@michaelharriot) February 24, 2020

Feb

The Legacy Of Stop And Frisk

By Nerdy Wonka 107 Comments

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Tags: #BetweenTheScenes, 2020 Election, Between The Scenes, Bloomberg, cops, election, Noah, police brutality, racism, Stop And Frisk, The Daily Show, Trevor, Trevor Noah, White Privilege, White Supremacy

Feb

Reparations And White Privilege

By Nerdy Wonka 109 Comments

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Tags: #BetweenTheScenes, Between The Scenes, Black History, Black History Month, government, history, Jim Crow, Noah, Political And Funny Tweets, racism, Reparations, slavery, The Daily Show, Trevor, Trevor Noah, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy

Talking reparations and white privilege. #BetweenTheScenes https://t.co/snfdDr5qTv
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The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) February 08, 2020

Oct

A Dignified President

By Nerdy Wonka 129 Comments

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Tags: Barack Obama, GOP Obstruction, Obama, Political And Funny Tweets, President, racism, trump, tweets, white house

i just want to note that they attacked obama with racism, smeared his wife and kids, demanded his birth certificate… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Oliver Willis (@owillis) October 02, 2019

Aug

Call It What It Is: White Supremacy

By Nerdy Wonka 108 Comments

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Tags: Barack Obama, dayton, domestic terrorism, El Paso, gop, GOP Obstruction, gun control, Gun Safety, Gun Violence, guns, Obama, Ohio, Political And Funny Tweets, President, racism, racists, texas, trump, tweets, White Supremacy

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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 05, 2019

Until all of us stand up and insist on holding public officials accountable for changing our gun laws, these traged… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 05, 2019

Jul

We Refuse To Sit Idly By

By Nerdy Wonka 138 Comments

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Tags: Barack Obama, Obama, Political And Funny Tweets, President, racism, trump, tweets, Washington Post, White Privilege, White Supremacy

I’ve always been proud of what this team accomplished during my administration. But more than what we did, I’m prou… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 27, 2019

Jul

It’s Our America

By Nerdy Wonka 115 Comments

Categories: All Photos and Michelle Obama
Tags: america, diversity, immigrants, immigration, Michelle, Michelle Obama, Obama, racism, trump, tweets

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, 2019

Jul

#MandelaDay

By Nerdy Wonka 123 Comments

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Tags: #MandelaDay, Barack Obama, mandela, Mandela Day, nelson, Nelson Mandela, Obama, Political And Funny Tweets, President, racism, tweets

#MandelaDay reminds us that when things feel dark, confusing, or impossible—take a look back at his writings. There… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 18, 2019

Jul

The Cruel Realities Of Racism

By Nerdy Wonka 124 Comments

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Tags: 2020 Election, Biden, Brown v. Board of Education, Busing, education, Harris, kamala, Political And Funny Tweets, Racial Segregation, racism, SCOTUS, Segregation, tweets, White Flight, White Privilege, White Supremacy

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

White kids *never* bore the brunt of busing. It was black kids most of the time who were bused out of black neighbo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 29, 2019

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Funny how in this discuss no one ever brings up Charlotte (Swann v Mecklenburg Co) or all the places across the Sou… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 29, 2019

White journalists readily buy into this faux idea of busing because many of them would not enroll their kids in sch… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 29, 2019

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White resistance to integration occurred no matter what. And white flight occurred both in cities that implemented… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 29, 2019

Millions of white kids rode buses everyday to get to school and it was never a problem until it because a tool of d… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 29, 2019

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People often forget that Linda Brown sued for the right to attend her neighborhood school instead of the black one… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 29, 2019

White racism should not determine the constitutional rights of black children.
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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 29, 2019

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In NYC, for example, both pre- and post-Brown, white children were bused away from their neigh schools at the behes… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 29, 2019

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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Read. A. Book.
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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 30, 2019

White Northerners harassed black children, threatened black children, beat black children riding buses into white s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 30, 2019

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@nhannahjones Parents in mostly white Englewood Cliffs, NJ have been fighting to not send their kids to mostly Blac… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Tony Choi (@tonykchoi) June 30, 2019

@nhannahjones 1987/2017. https://t.co/xBK8a0pX3t
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Tony Choi (@tonykchoi) 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

@MorganJerkins I’ve interview black families who would trail the bus to the white school in order to make sure thei… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 30, 2019

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@nhannahjones I saw it. My red hair got me a front row seat in Southie. Mothers using baby carriages to hold rocks,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Jo-Ann Dwyer #DAT (@JoAnnDwyer5) 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

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@malikwashington @jbouie And the whites families in my Wilmington neighborhood sure don’t seem to mind travel time… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Jessica Scarane (@ohjessicamarie) June 30, 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, 2019