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Robert #Resist Sandy @frodofied
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If I wrote "My Love Story," then @LoveTinaTurner would be at dead center of that story.

Anyone who knew me from 1983 on knew one thing for sure: I loved Tina Turner.

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This is an amazing interview, and watching Tina get her groove on at 78 with @GayleKing is as inspiring as it has always been.

I always tell people that I've seen @LoveTinaTurner 65 times all over the world, but the truth is I've probably seen her more times than that.

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I stopped counting at 65.

Because even I knew it seemed a bit much.

But I was never a creepy fan, and Tina always appreciated that.

When I would follow along on her European tours I was always afforded early entry & Tina always found a way to acknowledge me.

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She is class defined.

Indomitable. Honest. Uncompromising.

And funny as hell.

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Tina Turner's new memoir is called "My Love Story." I finished it earlier and it's wonderful.

Buy the Kindle editio and Amazon.com is offering 40% credit for your next book.
Get it here:

My Love Story Atria Books amazon.com/dp/B07CMLQ5Z7/… via @amazon
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I'm going to address a couple points & then mute this comment thread.

If you don't think that @HillaryClinton or the people around her, many of whom were brilliant & socially conscious POC, didn't know of or understand the data you're referencing then you know nothing of HRC.
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You certainly don't seem to recall the finer details of 2016 and, despite your claims to understand the particular pressures she was under, refuse to give those pressures their proper due.

In an election filled with fake news & populist hyperbole from the far right & left..

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...an election that was overwhelmed by such virulent misogyny it actually started to feel normal, where Clinton was mocked for being too prepared, and was lectured for being too wonky, and where she was already offering some pretty nuanced and in depth arguments on race...

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Not understanding your point. You expect that Clinton would come out on the losing end of such a comparison?

I totally disagree.

I've listened to @HillaryClinton speak passionately about race for three decades.

Race and racism were a central focus of her 2016 campaign.

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She didn't speak about it just every once in awhile @amikegreen, she spoke about it every single day of the campaign.

In fact, race and criminal justice was the topic of her first policy paper for the campaign, which she presented in April 2015.

sipa.columbia.edu/news/hillary-r…

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She continued making major speeches on the topic of race throughout the campaign.

Here again from June 2016.

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It gives me hives. My blood pressure starts to climb. My mouth will sometimes go completely dry.

It's crazy I know, but there it is...

The thought that after everything we have been through, that she's been through, that another woman will get recognition as "First."

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2020 gives me a sour stomach, and it's only 2018. And yet from this distance I can see that @TheDemocrats are going to get the tone wrong in two years.

Nothing new.

In my dreams 2020 would be a taking back of 2016. It would be an acknowledgment that we / #SheWon.

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The convention would be as much about thanking @HillaryClinton as it would be her leading the mantle to whomever we nominate.

She would be introduced as the legitimate President of the United States, and she would introduce the nominee and pass the mantle to her / him.

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