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Soledad O'Brien @soledadobrien
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People—If you want to learn about strength and courage in the face of indifference and injustice, I encourage you to study the men and women of the Civil Rights movement. Their fight was long, life-threatening, dehumanizing and constantly disheartening. And yet they perservered.
They were lynched, their children were sprayed with fire hoses and set upon by dogs, crosses were burned in their yards, their churches were firebombed, they often relied on their oppressors for their jobs, they were kept from the polls.
So—a little perspective. If you’re angry then use your time and your money and your vote to make change. ❤️
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Here’s my prediction: CNN will open with a big, dramatic animated graphic. With music. There will be a pre-game: talking head panelists talking about the wall. It will not include experts on immigration. The President will speak. There will be no timely fact check. 1/
Then there will be the post-game. Again: political pundits, not immigtation experts. It will be framed as yes wall/no wall. Oh, everybody will be white—including the anchors. Much of the conversation will center on “how the President did”, and less on the content. 2/
Even if it’s lies: the big question will be: how was the delivery? Did he seem Presidential (and likeable?). They will drag a short speech into the 10p hour where it will lead the 10 and 11p shows. No immigration experts will appear. Few or no Latinos. That’s my prediction. 3/
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So: my @SpeakerRyan story this morning. Takes place this past summer. I was driving into work when I get a call from one of his staffers that he is trying to reach me. I assume this is a prank bc the few times I’ve tried to book the Speaker for @matteroffacttv : crickets.
@matteroffacttv doesn’t focus too much on political talking heads. They’re often, um, not super honest so we keep them to a minimum and report on actual people across the country. (It’s why out ratings are very good. No joke). Anyhoo. I take the call. But I think it’s a prank.
The Speaker eventually hops on the phone—and it’s him. He has a pretty recognizable voice. He is very friendly even though I tend to call him out on twitter. A lot. He informs me that we are in fact related. Cousins in some way. (I THINK thru my mom’s afro Cuban side).
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White college-educated lady who voted for Trump says she’s tired of scorn for her support of Trump. She is not a racist, she insists: “Do you know I traveled to Africa.. and every year send the kids holiday gifts... do you know probably 75 percent of my friends are gay men?”
I find these words from people who protest to not be racists but support the overt bigotry of the President to be so interesting. ‘I send gifts to Africa. I cannot be racist.’ *Big Giant Sigh*
If you support, embrace and condone a bigot—embrace it. Let everyone know who you are and thr racist rhetoric you condone. No amount of gifts to Africa can ease that, so stop trying.
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LIBERALS ARE ATTEMPTING TO REVERSE THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT!

Think about it!

And who’s leading them?
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So.

Time for something a little different, and an idea I’ve been toying with—a look at how #transphobes try to frame their narrative within a claim that they are only “concerned” about trans people existing.

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Spent hours last night studying/refreshing on history of US Immigration Law. We can’t begin to understand what has happened and is happening on Immigrants/refugees w/out recognizing major factor that Race and Racism/Xenophobia has played in how we’ve fashioned Immigration Law.
2) For example, Mexican Repatriation was mass deportation of 400K to 2M Mexicans & Mexican-Americans from U.S. from 1929-1936. Up to 60% of those deported were birthright citizens. Effectively ethnic cleaning b/c of Great Depression and they had jobs other Americans wanted.
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25.King also knew his audience. Though he certainly hoped to change hearts, he wasn't expecting to change the hearts of Birmingham’s white elite. He was trying to defeat them. He wasn’t relying on changing the hearts of white people across the northern states.
26.The moral clarity of his cause helped, too. At some level, many white Americans understood that, even if they also nitpicked the civil rights movement’s confrontational tactics+consistently preferred the slower, less decisive+discomfiting path to dismantling official racism.
27.(King+others had markedly less success dismantling other, less bald+official forms of racism+segregation. That story haunts us to this day.) epi.org/publication/th…
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I've made the point several times myself that the NRA didn't defend the rights of Philando Castile b/c racism. Yet I find it problematic if folks mention Castile only to criticize the NRA & not also to challenge the idea that gun control is a color-blind issue 1/
When I say "idea that gun control is a color-blind issue", I'm referring to efforts to "all lives matter" the issue of gun violence in USA & to push for gun reform in a way that doesn't require the power establishment to confront issues of racism, poverty & militarism... 2/
The idea that gun violence is a color-blind issue affecting people of all races equally and therefore racism need not be a central focus in any discussion of gun reform is dangerous. 3/
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I’m often told, “Forget about the rhetoric, look at the policies.”

But it really should be the other way around.

Policies come and go, from president to president, from one party running Congress to another.

But rhetoric can transform, even define generations. /1
Some leaders use hope and positivity to unite people. “I have a dream...”

Others use fear and negativity to polarize and divide them. “Many, many sides...”

Both can win elections, but only the first wins the future. This has been shown historically, over and over again. /2
As Obama said in a recent interview with Prince Harry:

“If you had to choose a moment in human history in which you wanted to be born...you'd choose today, because the fact is the world is healthier, wealthier, better educated, more tolerant, more sophisticated,

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