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A new racial category? I'd like to hear more about why creating a new racial category of Northern African makes sense. These are geographic regions, and create a false divide between North Africa and I guess Black Africa?
Just shows once again how race is a sociopolitical construct to order power relations. Watch the RACE episode of #1619hulu on @hulu
Please stop trying to educate me on why people from the Middle East may not want to be counted as white. I am aware. My problem is with the creation and labeling of the category.
Blacks people were enslaved in this land longer than we've been free. And our constant plotting for liberation led white Americans to develop a fear of Black people as an "internal enemy" that remains embedded in our national psyche. #1619hulu Ep. 5 FEAR. Out now. @lesliemalex
In #1619hulu FEAR, Historian @lesliemalex tells us how the surveillance, policing and vigilanteism that Black Americans experience daily have their roots in the slave patrols, which deputized all white people to stop, question, and search Black people they thought suspicious.
The FEAR episode of #1619hulu shows the white men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery were acting out a long America tradition. And how policing in America for Black people has largely been about social control.
I am not giving oxygen to the rightwing media frenzy against the #1619hulu docuseries because I know they use the #1619Project for clicks, but I am so aghast and offended that the National Review would print this about this child just to make digs at this work. 
The #1619Project has broken some people's brains. This is not ok.
And the misogynoir is not even veiled. "Homegirl wiles"? I've been a journalist for more than two decades.
Big announcement yesterday, today I indulge my inner petty. To all those "NHJ hasn't written an article for the NYT in 2 years" trolls: You're right! I just helped create two #1 bestselling books and a 6-part docuseries for the NYT. What have YOU done? nytco.com/press/1619-hul…
As I said before, imagine thinking you know more about what I'm working on then the people who pay my salary. The NYT is not just a newspaper, it's a media company. Folks can search my byline but not find major press releases about what I'm working on for my employer. Ok.
And, by the way, I cannot wait for you to see what we've been working on when it premieres on @hulu Jan. 26. #1619hulu #1619Project
