Profile picture
Douglas A. Blackmon @douglasblackmon
, 4 tweets, 3 min read Read on Twitter
We must remember Juneteenth & the free future it heralded 158 years ago. But we must not forget that white America, north & south, turned its back on that future & rules an Apartheid state for 100 more years. Nothing explains our current crises more than that. @AnotherSlavery
2/ The intransigent white voters who today obstruct both the most reasonable/humane policies on left & at same time defile honorable principles of conservatism were born in opposition to #Juneteenth & the hunger to resurrect slavery. @MichaelEDyson @ava @RobertRaben @EricHolder
3/ The conviction that the supposed best interests of white Americans is more important that harm done to any other people is at the heart of why #Juneteenth & black freedom were suppressed for 100 years, why mob murder was applauded to stop black voting... @eji_org @splcenter
4/4 ...why killing black kids is "regrettable but unavoidable" rather than outrageous. It is why white supremacists felt free to march and chant "Blood and Soil" last summer. And it is why there is still indifference by so many to children screaming "Mami" & 'Papá' at our border.
Missing some Tweet in this thread?
You can try to force a refresh.

Like this thread? Get email updates or save it to PDF!

Subscribe to Douglas A. Blackmon
Profile picture

Get real-time email alerts when new unrolls are available from this author!

This content may be removed anytime!

Twitter may remove this content at anytime, convert it as a PDF, save and print for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video

1) Follow Thread Reader App on Twitter so you can easily mention us!

2) Go to a Twitter thread (series of Tweets by the same owner) and mention us with a keyword "unroll" @threadreaderapp unroll

You can practice here first or read more on our help page!

Related hashtags

#Juneteenth

More from @douglasblackmon see all

Profile picture
Security camera at church in Troy, NY records city worker tearing down 2,500 ribbons put up to protest Trump administration’s separation of children from parents at the border with Mexico. City says it was a misunderstanding...
Read about it in the local paper.
m.timesunion.com/news/article/T…
@timesunion
Read 3 tweets
Profile picture
It has taken a VERY long time for @UVA to finally begin seriously reckoning with the grotesque birthmark of slavery that has ALWAYS been obvious but until recently denied or ridiculously obscured.
But it has begun.

(1 in thread)
washingtonpost.com/news/grade-poi…
2/
 But what is most significant about UVA’s confession of its origins in slavery and culpability in its long denial is that it is the quintessential American story.
The moral failures of UVA, where I work, are the same moral failures of thousands of others places and people.
3/
UVA represents the banal “normalcy” of slavery as the American origin story. The way that the rape and looting of Africa is fundamental and inextricable to the origins and success of America.
Read 8 tweets
Profile picture
When Bill Clinton was impreached & disbarred for lying about an extra-marital affair, it proved how seriously our system takes its standards of honesty for presidents & members of the bar. We should expect the same horror for lies re Russian espionage & obstructing justice.
“Impreaching” would naturally be the homiletic process for attempting removal of a president.
But I suppose the word homographically ALSO describes the process of religious leaders attempting to *install* a new president.

(I meant “impeachment” of course.)
The more I think about “impreachment,” the more it strikes me that this is exactly what’s going on w/ evangelical pharisees like @FranklinGraham, who want to forcibly “impreach” their candidates into power even when it requires violating basic tenets of Christian morality.
Read 3 tweets

Related threads

Profile picture
Okay, are you ready for a tale of tragedy, comedy and mice?

We have another story, and you’ll be glad you came for the ride:
(if you’ve been following us for 2+ years you’ll have heard this one already. Sue us.)
A few years ago we realised the museum was – among many other things – ‘too brown’, so we had a makeover.

As in, rip-out-the-organs-dust-down-the-bones-and-start-again makeover.
Read 22 tweets
Profile picture
Here the Guardian defends Austin's abusive attack on an MP. He has a long record of this type of behaviour, yet the paper paints him, the abuser, as the victim.

This makes no sense unless you're aware they are fellow supporters of an #apartheid state.
theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
In this second piece of #ApartheidPropaganda in the @guardian today, Austin lies by denying he shouted abuse.

He and Hodge are acting abusively because they are furious their attempts to shut down debate about the apartheid state they support are failing.
theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/…
This is quite incredible and worthy of note.

This is the third #ApartheidPropaganda piece the Guardian has published today.

For a third time they provide PR for Austin, a supporter of an organisation which is a self-declared friend of an apartheid state.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Read 3 tweets
Profile picture
Trump: Day 553
-132nd Day at a Trump Golf Club
-175th Day at a Trump Property
-2 Year Anniversary of Call 4 Hack
-Invited 2 Moscow by Vladimir Putin
-35 Witnesses Filed 4 Manafort Trial
-Eliminating For-Profit College Rules
-Claims Families "Ineligible" 2 Comply
Add...
Day 658 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
Add...
Day 510 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #fakenews #TrumpLies
Read 63 tweets
Profile picture
Today is the Jayanti of P.V.Narasimha Rao, the man who liberalized the Indian economy, and opened it up. And more than anything else, provided the much needed stability for India in the turbulent 90s. One of the best PMs IMO.
The man who dismantled India's Licence Raj, opened up relations with Israel, adopted a Look East Policy. P.V.Narasimha Rao took over as PM, when India was faced with multiple challenges both on political and economic front in 1991.
Assasination of Rajiv Gandhi, Economic crisis, India was facing a bleak scenario, in 1991 when PVNR became the PM. It is to PVNR's credit that when he stepped down as PM in 1996,more people in India were optimistic about their future, more confident.
Read 30 tweets
Profile picture
LOOKING FOR LOST HEIRS
by Pastor Bertrand L. Comparet,A.B., J.D.

Have you ever stopped to question the intense hatred there is in the world for #white #Christians?
"The written intention of our heavenly Father #Yahweh is expressed in His prayer when we pray, Thy will be done on EARTH as it is in HEAVEN.
"In keeping with this, is #Yahshua's [Jesus'] statement that #Yahweh's servants have been on earth for thousands of years.
Read 66 tweets
Profile picture
Statistics on #FarmMurders and #FarmAttacks were released by the South African government for the first time since 2011, confirming an average of 510 attacks and 56 murders per year, that is more than one per week.
Farmers are being slaughtered in the most horrific, inhumane, sadistic, barbaric ways. They are tortured until they die, women raped for hours on end while their husband's are forced to watch, their heads are crushed and they are set alight.
#FarmMurders
>Tortured with electrical drills
>Finger nails pulled out
>Hands removed from bodies
>Drowned in boiling hot water
Torture which would have earned applause from Spanish Inquisition Torturers. ISIS style atrocities.
#FarmMurders
Read 87 tweets

Trending hashtags

#SilverOrLead #JesuitFuturism #Darby #MISSOURI #Gaza #anthropologists #Vatican #ukcourts #TrumpWorldTower #waitrose #United #fashion #OKLAHOMA #history #insurance #suffering #cyber #SRO #JFK #StrongerTogether #Grace #Preterism #ActionNotWords #race #empire

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just three indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member and get exclusive features!

Premium member ($3.00/month or $30.00/year)

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!