On the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, we remember all those who were killed and the survivors who bravely continue to share their stories so that we never forget this painful part of our history. Take a moment to learn about what happened: https://t.co/RiqrSpKGNz
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 31, 2021
Posts Tagged ‘White Terrorism
01
Jun
21
The Tulsa Race Massacre
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Tags: anniversary, Barack Obama, Black History, death, greenwood, history, murder, Obama, President, Reparations, stories, Survivors, tulsa, Tulsa Race Massacre, tweets, Violence, White Privilege, White Supremacy, White Terrorism
Tags: anniversary, Barack Obama, Black History, death, greenwood, history, murder, Obama, President, Reparations, stories, Survivors, tulsa, Tulsa Race Massacre, tweets, Violence, White Privilege, White Supremacy, White Terrorism
18
Mar
21
Hatred And Violence
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Tags: #CrimingWhileWhite, AAPI, Asian, atlanta, Barack Obama, Coronavirus, death, domestic terrorism, Fetishization, First Lady, georgia, Gun Safety, Gun Violence, Hate Crime, Michelle, Michelle Obama, misogyny, murder, Pandemic, President, racism, tweets, Violence, White Privilege, White Supremacy, White Terrorism
Tags: #CrimingWhileWhite, AAPI, Asian, atlanta, Barack Obama, Coronavirus, death, domestic terrorism, Fetishization, First Lady, georgia, Gun Safety, Gun Violence, Hate Crime, Michelle, Michelle Obama, misogyny, murder, Pandemic, President, racism, tweets, Violence, White Privilege, White Supremacy, White Terrorism
Even as we’ve battled the pandemic, we’ve continued to neglect the longer-lasting epidemic of gun violence in America. Although the shooter’s motive is not yet clear, the identity of the victims underscores an alarming rise in anti-Asian violence that must end.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 17, 2021
Yesterday's shootings are another tragic reminder that we have far more work to do to put in place commonsense gun safety laws and root out the pervasive patterns of hatred and violence in our society.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 17, 2021
Michelle and I pray for the victims, their families, everyone grieving these needless and devastating killings—and we urge meaningful action that will save lives.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 17, 2021
As if these things aren't related and based on centuries of sexualized and submissive stereotypes of Asian women. White supremacy is rooted in misogyny and racism. https://t.co/C42KyqTGIP
— Millie Tran (@millie) March 17, 2021
When men frame a murderer's actions in terms of him "having a bad day" I can't help but hear them telling the world that they themselves are one bad day away from murdering women, & demanding empathy & recognition for that fact.
— Amal El-Mohtar (@tithenai) March 17, 2021
He had a really bad day. Women die because men have bad days. https://t.co/E8Wn2qocva
— Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd) March 17, 2021
White supremacist classist patriarchy is dangerous because it insists on dominance. It leads white men to think we all have to pay for their “bad day.”
— brittany packnett cunningham is on extended break. (@MsPackyetti) March 17, 2021
Because apparently the racist, misogynistic fetishization and abuse of Asian women is just a white dude having a “bad day.”
It’s not economic anxiety, diabetes, or sex addiction. It’s racial hatred. Stop playing on my phone.
— Openly Black Studs Twerkel. (@thewayoftheid) March 17, 2021
17
Mar
21
Take Up Space
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Tags: AAPI, Asian, atlanta, black, chinese, domestic terrorism, georgia, Hate Crime, murder, tweets, Violence, White Supremacy, White Terrorism
Tags: AAPI, Asian, atlanta, black, chinese, domestic terrorism, georgia, Hate Crime, murder, tweets, Violence, White Supremacy, White Terrorism
We are shaken by the violence in our city that has left 8 ppl dead, including members of the Asian American community. We are gathering info about what happened & the needs of directly impacted are. Now is the time to hold the victims & their families in our hearts & with light pic.twitter.com/Hft5H7IZNW
— AdvancingJusticeATL (@AAAJ_Atlanta) March 17, 2021
I want to know their names, who and what they loved, the people they had waiting for them at home, everything they hoped for. I want to know the fabric of their days and the contexts of their lives.
— kat chow (@katchow) March 17, 2021
"Racism against AAPI Americans is not new.
— Dr. Michelle Au (@AuforGA) March 15, 2021
Otherization of AAPI Americans is not new.
But the motto of the United States is E Pluribus Unum: 'Out of many, one.'
Asian-Americans are part of our country’s plurality.
We are some of the many, and we’re part of that one."#gapol pic.twitter.com/o2lzNb4iIy
In less than 48 hours, we had a historic Asian Oscar moment with multiple firsts in 93 years—then a mass shooting targeting 3 Asian-owned businesses. This is how terrorism works—you’re not allowed to feel safe, accepted, or valued. We can resist. Take up space. Make noise.
— Min Jin Lee (@minjinlee11) March 17, 2021
Last night's shooting & the appalling rise of anti-Asian violence stem frm a sick society where nationalism has again been stoked & normalized. Anti-Black & anti-Asian racism & violence run in tandem in the U.S. Both grps were brought here for labor but never meant to be citizens
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 17, 2021
Even as this country was recruiting Chinese men to come do the labor white workers would not, they barred Chinese women from entering the U.S. in order to ensure the men would not settle and start families in America.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 17, 2021
Then this nation passed the Chinese Exclusion Act to prohibit Chinese laborers from immigrating to the U.S. altogether. This nation's most egregious racist laws and racist Supreme Court rulings targeted Black and Chinese people because of the believe both were unassimilable.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 17, 2021
We had to get an amendment to the Constitution to guarantee Black Americans citizenship in their own country, and Chinese Americans had to take a case all the way to the Supreme Court in order to have their own citizenship recognized. https://t.co/7qY7M4f6ln
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 17, 2021
If you look at racial real estate covenants -- provisions placed on homes that restricted ownership by race -- they almost always restricted two races: Black and Asian.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 17, 2021
And, of course, during World War II, Japanese Americans were placed in internment camps but German Americans were not. And German prisoners of war were allowed to eat in restaurants in the American South that Black Americans soldiers home on leave were barred from.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 17, 2021
Because of the Chinese Exclusion Act and explicitly racist immigration policy, the Asian population in the United States stayed relatively low until after the Civil Rights Movement and then we saw large numbers entering the U.S.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 17, 2021
And what has followed -- in reaction to the Civil Rights Movement and Black demands to dismantle white supremacy -- has been an enduring an attempt to use Asian immigrants and Asian Americans as a wedge against Black Americans.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 17, 2021
But the truth is that Asian Americans are only held up as a model to justify inequality and injustice visited upon Black Americans, but are seen by many white Americans as a problem and forever foreign otherwise. In other words, our struggles have always been tied together.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 17, 2021
I stand with my Asian-American brothers and sisters, just as so many of you have stood with us. I grieve. We must own all of this history -- ALL OF IT -- and determine to fight for a truly multiracial democracy where we all can be free.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 17, 2021
The reported shootings of Asian American women on Tuesday in Atlanta is an unspeakable tragedy – for the families of the victims first and foremost, but also for the AAPI community — which has been reeling from high levels of racial discrimination. https://t.co/rBVPnrEBps
— Stop AAPI Hate (@StopAAPIHate) March 17, 2021
A statement from the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum makes the important point of how anti-Asian violence disproportionately impact women #StopAsianHate pic.twitter.com/npEpv31Oy1
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) March 17, 2021
09
Feb
21
The Past Is Prologue
Traveling while Black: Never pay with a $20 pic.twitter.com/6Ym8kWy0bW
— The Black Detour (@theblackdetour) January 25, 2021
It’s actually unbelievable how Black people in America aren’t more angry at all times. https://t.co/hlxlD8prYx
— m. (@tweetlikemaya) January 26, 2021
27
Jan
21
Racism Is All Across America
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Tags: #CrimingWhileWhite, capitol, Capitol Hill, Coup, District Of Columbia, Insurrection, racism, treason, trump, tweets, washington, Washington DC, White Privilege, White Supremacy, White Terrorism
Tags: #CrimingWhileWhite, capitol, Capitol Hill, Coup, District Of Columbia, Insurrection, racism, treason, trump, tweets, washington, Washington DC, White Privilege, White Supremacy, White Terrorism
It’s cute how y’all want to believe the guys who stormed the capitol live in their mom’s basement snorting Cheeto dust pissing in Mountain Dew bottles because you don’t want to believe it’s your retired colonel neighbor and your realtor and lawyer and your sister’s cop husband
— Lauren Hough (@laurenthehough) January 14, 2021
That's a word. But it's part of the narrative that poor Southerners are to blame for everything so we can pretend that's the only place racists live and not really evaluate the larger national problem.
— Sally Kilpatrick (@SuperWriterMom) January 14, 2021
One turned up in a $1,300 Burberry jacket and others travelled there in a private jet. The white privilege excuses are going to be EPIC!
— Fiona B (@Feebeekiwi) January 14, 2021
When Black and PoC told White folx to talk to their racist relatives during the holidays past four years, they were all like "we don't wanna ruin the mood" over their dry ass unseasoned turkey. And now it's all "let's reach out to them in love." Bye.
— Rebecca Theodore-Vachon (@FilmFatale_NYC) January 14, 2021
...I don't care how progressive you are as a White adult, or that you voted for Obama twice - if you stayed silent around friends and family racist rantings and beliefs YOU ARE COMPLICIT. PERIOD.
— Rebecca Theodore-Vachon 🇭🇹 🇩🇴 🇺🇸 (@FilmFatale_NYC) January 14, 2021
24
Jan
21
We Been Knew (x100)
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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #CrimingWhileWhite, #DefundPolice, #DefundThePolice, Biden, capitol, Capitol Hill, cops, Coup, District Of Columbia, Harris, Insurrection, riots, terrorism, terrorists, treason, trump, tweets, washington, Washington DC, White Privilege, White Supremacy, White Terrorism
Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #CrimingWhileWhite, #DefundPolice, #DefundThePolice, Biden, capitol, Capitol Hill, cops, Coup, District Of Columbia, Harris, Insurrection, riots, terrorism, terrorists, treason, trump, tweets, washington, Washington DC, White Privilege, White Supremacy, White Terrorism
Every black person in America: https://t.co/fjPMDsLIOW pic.twitter.com/WEybTX5yMM
— The Last 🔝 (@JuSLIKEMIKE911) January 12, 2021
22
Jan
21
TESTIFY!
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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, capitol, Capitol Hill, Coup, District Of Columbia, domestic terrorism, Economic Anxiety, hill, inequality, Insurrection, Jemele, racism, terrorism, terrorists, treason, tweets, vote, voting, washington, Washington DC, White Privilege, White Supremacy, White Terrorism
Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, capitol, Capitol Hill, Coup, District Of Columbia, domestic terrorism, Economic Anxiety, hill, inequality, Insurrection, Jemele, racism, terrorism, terrorists, treason, tweets, vote, voting, washington, Washington DC, White Privilege, White Supremacy, White Terrorism
Black people have been under the boot of racism, white supremacy, economic anxiety, inequality and so much else. Despite it all, we somehow didn’t vote for a racist and didn’t storm not nary a U.S. capitol. But sure, let’s keep centering everything around aggrieved white people.
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) January 18, 2021
19
Jan
21
Interconnectedness
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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #CrimingWhileWhite, Biden, capitol, Capitol Hill, Civic Engagment, civil rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Movement, Community Organizing, Coup, democracy, First Lady, Harris, Insurrection, leadership, Martin Luther King Jr., Michelle, Michelle Obama, mlk, MLK Day, MLK Jr., Obama, Oval Office, racism, riots, Social Justice, terrorism, treason, trump, tweets, Washington DC, white house, White Privilege, White Supremacy, White Terrorism
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With so much going on, Dr. King’s leadership is as steadying a force as it’s ever been. I’ve been reflecting a lot on his example, and how it might help us move forward after these last four years. #MLKDay pic.twitter.com/oGCF2wbT18
— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) January 18, 2021
Dear politicians/political influencers:
— Be A King (@BerniceKing) January 15, 2021
When you tweet about my father’s birthday, remember that he was resolute about eradicating racism, poverty & militarism.
Encourage & enact policies that reflect your birthday sentiments.
Here’s the authentic #MLK:pic.twitter.com/eCJWCVnD1k
If anyone had a right to question whether our democracy was worth redeeming, it was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Because in the face of billy clubs and lynchings, poll taxes and literacy tests, he never gave in to violence, never waved a traitorous flag or gave up on our country. pic.twitter.com/TCmbuiXkUa
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 18, 2021
On #MLKDay, we celebrate his life but we’re also called to live out his values through service of our own. Here are some ways you can get involved in your community: https://t.co/r9IGEW5dpD
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 18, 2021
I always look at the quotes that people choose to post today on #MLKDay. When I see white folks post the "Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that" I cringe a little. B/c that's one of the top ones used out of context to scold us for our anger at white supremacy.
— Luvvie is the #ProfessionalTroublemaker (@Luvvie) January 18, 2021
As you honor my father today, please honor my mother, as well. She was the architect of the King Legacy and founder of @TheKingCenter, which she founded less than three months after Daddy died. Without #CorettaScottKing, there would be no #MLKDay. #MLK #BelovedCommunity pic.twitter.com/cLvgTjeUwE
— Be A King (@BerniceKing) January 18, 2021
“We must face the hard fact that many Americans would like to have a nation which is a democracy for white Americans but simultaneously a dictatorship over Black Americans.”
— Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) January 18, 2021
Dr. Martin Luther King, 10 May 1967, Atlanta. pic.twitter.com/OKih9OANzt
#MLKDay "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." – Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pic.twitter.com/s2A6YzSL63
— Morgan Freeman (@morgan_freeman) January 18, 2021
We can’t skip justice and get to peace.
— Be A King (@BerniceKing) January 13, 2021
“True peace,” my father said, “is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.” pic.twitter.com/WsOHjBnXY5
black people every single day: “we?!”
— nadirah (@hinadirah) January 11, 2021
Uncle Jr entered the chat 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/UeGb0R66Wv
— TheRealDuchessOfTailwind (@oswhytecodes) January 12, 2021
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