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Aug

Call It What It Is: 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

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

May

POTUS: Helping People Find Their Voice

By Nerdy Wonka 103 Comments

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Tags: #CentralParkFive, #WhenTheySeeUs, ava, Ava Duvernay, Barack Obama, CBS This Morning, Celebrities, Celebrity, Central Park Five, Community Organizing, Duvernay, hbo, interview, leadership, little, michael, movie, netflix, New York, Obama, Omar, police brutality, President, racism, The Wire, White Privilege, White Supremacy, williams

May

Abortion Saves Lives

By Nerdy Wonka 110 Comments

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Tags: abortion, alabama, donate, donations, georgia, healthcare, Mean Tweets, missouri, Ohio, Patriarchy, Political And Funny Tweets, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy

@ben_the_mof @YellowFund Give money to @AbortionCare, @AbortionFunds, @ClinicVest, and @SisterSong_WOC.
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Lauren Rankin (@laurenarankin) May 18, 2019

If abortion is your choice, then yes - I’m pro-abortion. Abortion is a moral, responsible choice, worthy of respect… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Lauren Rankin (@laurenarankin) May 16, 2019

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Things we're going to do: -Donate to @YellowFund -Call our local clinic to volunteer as a clinic escort Things we… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Lauren Rankin (@laurenarankin) May 15, 2019

I wanted to see if anyone from our industry would speak out about the abortion bill, but I guess people are too sca… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Héctor Bellerín (@HectorBellerin) May 17, 2019

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A long time ago an ex of mine got pregnant. We had used birth control but it still happened. We thought we were bei… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Kristian Bruun (@MrKristianBruun) May 17, 2019

it's weird how little we as men talk about how abortions have saved our lives...
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carvell (@carvellwallace) May 16, 2019

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when i was 22 my partner found out she was pregnant in the bathroom of the Tisch building. I did not know what to d… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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carvell (@carvellwallace) May 16, 2019

i went with her to a place in an office building in midtown. i remember people yelling at us as we walked in. I rem… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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carvell (@carvellwallace) May 16, 2019

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the point of this story is that we did not have a child until we were ready, which was about six years later. We tr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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carvell (@carvellwallace) May 16, 2019

who knows what my life would have been like if I, a skinny 23 year old aspiring artist and writer would have become… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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carvell (@carvellwallace) May 16, 2019

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who knows what my life would have been like if I, a skinny 23 year old aspiring artist and writer would have become… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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carvell (@carvellwallace) May 16, 2019

anyway i donated to yellowjacket and signed up to volunteer at PP. Instead of thinking about to say fellas i encour… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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carvell (@carvellwallace) May 16, 2019

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lol i meant YELLOWHAMMER. not yellowjacket. yellowhammerfund.org
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carvell (@carvellwallace) May 17, 2019

@feministabulous @yellowcardigan I was 20, my gf was 24. A broken condom was involved. I a college drop-out, she… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Honey Cakes (@CakesHc19) May 16, 2019

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A white woman wrote the law. A white woman governor will sign it. 62% of non-college educated white women voted Rep… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Alice Anderson (@AlicePoet) May 15, 2019

22 Senators voted against including an exception for rape or incest in Alabama’s new draconian abortion law. Noti… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Simran Jeet Singh (@SikhProf) May 15, 2019

Anne Hathaway calling out her white sisters https://t.co/9JBieHC4Li
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Oscammer Bin Laden (@THISisLULE) May 18, 2019

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I had an abortion when I was 19. It wasn’t traumatic or particularly interesting. I just didn’t have any money. My… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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mean girl regina (@mikaylaonline) May 17, 2019

I am the happiest, most authentic version of myself I have ever been. I learned vulnerability and patience through… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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mean girl regina (@mikaylaonline) May 17, 2019

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I wanted to share this because so much of the narrative surrounding abortion right now is that it must be under tra… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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mean girl regina (@mikaylaonline) May 17, 2019

We need to normalize abortion - it is nuanced and uncomfortable and sad and lifesaving and empowering and a of thes… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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mean girl regina (@mikaylaonline) May 17, 2019

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Remember the story of that guy who was upset because he knocked up a woman, forced her to have the baby thinking he… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Keep me anon (@Playapleathe_) May 17, 2019

@Playapleathe_ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 a whole Queen... we will never forget 🤣🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/QsuMOSYau3
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UnConstitutional Black (@BlackGalThinks) May 18, 2019

Mar

Standing Against Hatred

By Nerdy Wonka 113 Comments

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Tags: Barack Obama, Christchurch, death, Gun Violence, Islamophobia, mosque, New Zealand, Obama, Political And Funny Tweets, President, terrorism, tweets, White Supremacy, White Terrorism

Michelle and I send our condolences to the people of New Zealand. We grieve with you and the Muslim community. All… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 15, 2019

“You’ll have to forgive me, these won’t be my best words...” On this heartbreaking day, Waleed reflects and calls… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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The Project (@theprojecttv) March 15, 2019

Nov

Major Strides

By Nerdy Wonka 173 Comments

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Tags: 2018 Elections, Black History, Harris, Harris County, houston, Justice, Justice System, midterms, Political And Funny Tweets, texas, tweets, voting, White Supremacy

All 19 black women running for judge in Texas county win hill.cm/vVS2ZPY https://t.co/RPAwBgZ0Jp
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The Hill (@thehill) November 08, 2018

These two judges lost their re-election bids yesterday. twitter.com/helenprejean/s…
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Sister Helen Prejean (@helenprejean) November 07, 2018

Oct

A Nation Grieves Again

By Nerdy Wonka 126 Comments

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Tags: Anti-Semitism, death, gun control, Gun Violence, guns, Jewish, jews, Obama, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Political And Funny Tweets, Synagogue, trump, tweets, White Nationalists, White Supremacy

We grieve for the Americans murdered in Pittsburgh. All of us have to fight the rise of anti-Semitism and hateful r… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) October 27, 2018

Jun

The Gospel Truth

By Nerdy Wonka 135 Comments

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Tags: black, Black History, civil rights, civility, Political And Funny Tweets, racism, trump, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy

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, 2018

The 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

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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, 2018

MLK 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

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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

Some of you are incubators for fascism and don’t even know. You think that tolerance comes in infinite supply and i… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Broderick Greer (@BroderickGreer) June 25, 2018

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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

That white reporters can consistently ask minorities to find common ground with our oppressors debunks the myth of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Terrell J. Starr (@Russian_Starr) June 25, 2018

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I am a journalist. I am also black, which will always come first before my job. I cannot "objectively" ignore white… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Terrell J. Starr (@Russian_Starr) June 25, 2018

It's not that white journos are incapable of seeing white supremacy for what it is. Instead, they aren't forced to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Terrell J. Starr (@Russian_Starr) June 25, 2018

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Basically, white reporters can't harshly criticize Trump supporters because they likely eat dinner with them at fam… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Terrell J. Starr (@Russian_Starr) June 25, 2018

@secupp Bottom line is that I'm very comfortable with a non violent form of social censure being visited upon peopl… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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John Legend (@johnlegend) June 25, 2018

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@secupp Her boss is talking about an infestation and invasion by animals and rapists, etc. Intentionally dehumanizi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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John Legend (@johnlegend) June 25, 2018

@secupp If she doesn't want to be held accountable for the administration's evil, she can resign and denounce it.
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John Legend (@johnlegend) June 25, 2018

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