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Jul

Let It Sink In: 8:46

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #DefundPolice, #DefundThePolice, #GeorgeFloyd, Brooks, cops, Floyd, george, Gun Violence, history, lynching, murder, police brutality, Rayshard, Rayshard Brooks, slavery, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy

Black people have been wondering why white people and other non-black people have been riled so much by George Floy… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) June 17, 2020

America watched black men get shot and killed. America watched reporters get shot on camera. Twenty *white* chi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) June 17, 2020

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We sanitize our language and imagery around gunshot victims. Not many Americans see the damage bullets do to a body… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) June 17, 2020

The white officer who shot Rayshard Brooks in the back--- also kicked Brooks as he lay dying on the ground. There… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) June 17, 2020

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The lynchings of black people were public entertainment. White folks even made photographs and postcards of lynch… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) June 17, 2020

Perhaps now, what we finally see is a collective white shame and guilt about these cruelties. So white people, yo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) June 17, 2020

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In short, what Derek Chauvin and Garret Rolfe did to George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks was barbaric. Primitive. Th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) June 17, 2020

I will never forget that George Floyd called out for his late mother in the moments before he died. And the whole… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) June 18, 2020

Jul

white People Refuse To Handle The Truth

By Nerdy Wonka 105 Comments

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

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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

Jul

‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’

By Nerdy Wonka 120 Comments

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, 4th Of July, america, Black History, Colonialism, Colonization, Descendants, Douglass, Fourth Of July, Frederick, Frederick Douglass, history, July 4th, slavery, speech, United States, White Privilege, White Supremacy

Jul

Jane Elliot

By Nerdy Wonka 120 Comments

Categories: All Photos and All Videos
Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, Ally, Anti-Racism, Anti-Racist, education, elliot, history, jane, Jane Elliot, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy

Feel like this a good time to drop this on the TL again https://t.co/o7GiYSmfw6
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01 Allen Iverson (@JuggernautBG) June 03, 2020

@JuggernautBG Why not keep it going 🤷🏾‍♂️ #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/y6AUzP65Xd
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Son of a Panther ✊🏾💜 (@Rihannas_Crush) June 04, 2020

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Jane Elliot gone clear a mf, specifically somebody of her race twitter.com/juggernautbg/s…
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Sid Fleeks (@sidfleeks) June 04, 2020

#JaneElliot asked a great question, that I don’t believe she ever got an answer to.. #GeorgeFloyd https://t.co/VOaGDf89Kp
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❤3rika ❤️ (@REDTOPS112) May 28, 2020

Jun

Cops Are Evil

By Nerdy Wonka 141 Comments

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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

The System: Working As Intended

By Nerdy Wonka 137 Comments

Categories: All Photos
Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #DefundPolice, #DefundThePolice, Brooks, murder, police brutality, protests, Rayshard, Rayshard Brooks, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy

When I was 15, I was chased through a mall by police who were yelling “Stop thief!” I had thousands of dollars of s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Krista Vernoff (@KristaVernoff) June 15, 2020

When I was 18, I was pulled over for drunk driving. When the Police Officer asked me to blow into the breathalyzer,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Krista Vernoff (@KristaVernoff) June 15, 2020

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The officer laughed then asked my friends to blow and when one of them came up sober enough to drive, he let me mov… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Krista Vernoff (@KristaVernoff) June 15, 2020

When I was 19, I got angry at a girl for flirting with my sister’s boyfriend and drunkenly attacked her in the midd… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Krista Vernoff (@KristaVernoff) June 15, 2020

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When I was twenty, with all of my strength, I punched a guy in the face -- while we were both standing two feet fro… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Krista Vernoff (@KristaVernoff) June 15, 2020

The cop pulled me aside and said, “You don’t punch people in front of cops,” then laughed and said that if I ever j… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Krista Vernoff (@KristaVernoff) June 15, 2020

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Between the ages of 11 and 22, my friends and I were chased and/or admonished by police on several occasions for dr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Krista Vernoff (@KristaVernoff) June 15, 2020

If I had been shot in the back by police after the shoplifting incident - in which I knowingly and willfully and so… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Krista Vernoff (@KristaVernoff) June 15, 2020

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I’m asking the white people reading this to think about the crimes you’ve committed. (Note: You don't call them cri… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Krista Vernoff (@KristaVernoff) June 15, 2020

Defunding the police is not about “living in a lawless society.” It’s about the fact that in this country, we’re no… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Krista Vernoff (@KristaVernoff) June 15, 2020

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The system that lets me live and murders Rayshard Brooks is a broken system that must change. Stop defending it. De… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Krista Vernoff (@KristaVernoff) June 15, 2020

@KristaVernoff The system isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as intended when it was created by racist white people… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Mani 🌸 (@imanialicia) June 15, 2020

Jun

Defund The Police

By Nerdy Wonka 109 Comments

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Tags: #DefundPolice, #DefundThePolice, atlanta, Brooks, Chicago, cops, Fulton County, murder, police brutality, protests, Rayshard, Rayshard Brooks, tweets, Wendys, White Privilege, White Supremacy

did you ever go into the office kitchen and find someone stole your coffee or popcorn? did you ever consider that… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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wikipedia brown wants a refund on the police plz (@eveewing) June 11, 2020

"all this looting of Black businesses shows that we NEED the police now more than ever to defend us" police: https://t.co/G2KGttJLfB
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wikipedia brown wants a refund on the police plz (@eveewing) June 11, 2020

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you can't make this up https://t.co/jIpC0d8yaa
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wikipedia brown wants a refund on the police plz (@eveewing) June 11, 2020

I want my money back. that's all i'm saying. I want it back. I want a refund. is that clear? does that get through… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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wikipedia brown wants a refund on the police plz (@eveewing) June 11, 2020

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I WANT A REFUND twitter.com/eveewing/statu…
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wikipedia brown wants a refund on the police plz (@eveewing) June 11, 2020

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@eveewing @KenTremendous Also. They did this in a Black Congressman’s office. One who has a history of civil rights… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Hima (@HimaKS22) June 11, 2020

I WANT A REFUND twitter.com/Chicagoist/sta…
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wikipedia brown wants a refund on the police plz (@eveewing) June 11, 2020

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Howard says this is the 9th time his office has prosecuted a case against officers related to a homicide. Nine case… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) June 17, 2020

Fulton County DA Paul Howard: For 41 minutes and 17 seconds Rayshard Brooks followed all instructions. He was also… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) June 17, 2020

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Fulton County District Attorney Paul L. Howard, Jr. says one officer kicked Rayshard Brooks and another one stood o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) June 17, 2020

The DA just said that the taser Rayshard Brooks took from the officers had been fired twice and was thus unusable. And the cops knew this.
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Ellie Hall (@ellievhall) June 17, 2020

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Fulton County DA Paul Howard says former officer Garrett Rolfe is being charged with 11 charges including -- felony… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) June 17, 2020

The Guardian: Garrett Rolfe, the Atlanta police officer who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks, was accused of coverin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 18, 2020

Jun

Take Me Out Of It

By Nerdy Wonka 114 Comments

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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

Racism: In Every Corner Of America

By Nerdy Wonka 130 Comments

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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