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Kim Crayton 🏢 💻🎙 @KimCrayton1
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THIS IS WHAT WHITE SUPREMACY LOOKS LIKE

It is just one example that whiteness and EVERYONE else is not having the same relationship with the criminal justice system by DESIGN

#causeascene
* Slavery and the origins of the American police state medium.com/@befountain/sl…
* Police militarization fails to protect officers and targets black communities, study finds pbs.org/newshour/scien…
* Slavery and the origins of the American police state medium.com/@befountain/sl…
* The Origins of Prison Slavery slate.com/news-and-polit…
* White mass shooters receive sympathetic media treatment news.osu.edu/white-mass-sho…
* 'He was a quiet and normal kid': The infantilization of young, white, male domestic terrorists m.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3…
* Seeing White @sceneonradio sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/
* How History Classes Helped Create a 'Post-Truth' America theatlantic.com/education/arch…
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KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

I wanted to take time today to address an issue related to how Black women continue to be targeted, with increasing intensity, online & how tech & its leaders facilitate it

Also, w/o context, ppl who speak out are being attacked

THREAD 1/

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I can admit that I have, until recently, spent a great deal of time, within the safety of the cocoon I created for myself as a Black womAn from GA in the U.S.

I've always known, even as a child, that my well-being was directly tied to white supremacy and racism... 2/
what I wasn't aware of until recently, was how intimately connected my well-being and that of Black women was now being impacted by the decisions of tech leaders

It took this conversation with @digitalsista on the @causeascenePod, to open my eyes 3/
hashtagcauseascene.com/shireen-mitche…
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There’s one thing that I can say about Twitter, there’s ALWAYS an opportunity for me to learn and to be challenged

I continue to grapple with the fact that ppl are complex and how to develop strategy that clearly defines where to draw my line

Here’s an example 1/

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.@shaunking retweeted @Amy_Siskind, a white woman who caused harm Black women this year & has yet to face any impactful [that I’m aware of] consequences for her actions & I’m reminded of the current #GDIStrike & the harm @girldevelopit has caused in much the same way 2/
Seeing this, I found myself wondering if this is a one off

Is “the work” more important than the messenger

Can we really detach the “movement” from the “mover”

And, I keep coming back to NO 3/
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White women, in large numbers, also refuse to own their role in maintaining & promoting white supremacy

They’re all for fighting the patriarchy to the point where they don’t lose the comforts and benefits of relational privilege

#causeascene
* How white women use strategic tears to silence women of colour theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
* WHITE WOMEN AREN’T AFRAID OF BLACK PEOPLE. THEY WANT POWER. damemagazine.com/2018/07/30/whi…
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Wow, that last #thread really took off. Let’s try another. I want to think with folks about how we can talk about #SurvivingRKelly outside the logic of the prison industrial complex.
Many of the people who responded to my last thread engaged in carceral logics saying some variation on “his ass should rot in jail” if not calls for his death. Are there other ways we can imagine justice, accountability and healing?
Prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba has said, as ppl raised w/ carceral logics it’s hard for us to imagine or desire alternatives. The #prisonindustrialcomplex has limited how we think about justice—even though other nations do things differently.
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Lynching is a message crime where the very public murders of Black Americans terrorized communities across the nation in the 20th century.

Today Congress passed a bill which makes lynching a hate crime. Watch highlights from @eji_org's summit for the opening of @MemPeaceJustice.
It is not an accident that many do not know about the horrific and very public murders of Black Americans. @Sifill_LDF recalls how a local newspaper did not cover a lynching that happened in front 500 people “for the simple reason that everyone [knew] what happened.”
The legacy of lynching is the foundation of the Black community's relationship with our criminal justice system. Today there is one key difference, “now you cannot unsee Walter Scott running through the park being shot or Eric Garner being choked to death to death by the #NYPD.”
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I’ve seen WAY too many white men talk about the so-called “slippery slope” of high school actions being held against people for 35 years. The entire criminal justice system is built on that act at its core. I’m tired.
One of my friends got married to the love of her life last month. He was jailed as a teen & because of his conviction they can’t adopt a child in the state they live in.
You know how many friends from my neighborhood were arrested for some weed in HS & now can’t vote among many other things... 30 yrs later? FOH.
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Everyone—even House Republicans—admits that the DOJ-FBI investigation first led by Comey, now by Mueller, was initiated when one of Trump's top NatSec aides got drunk in London and revealed that Trump's campaign had been offered stolen goods by the Kremlin and was considering it.
2/ Under these circumstances, had the DOJ and FBI *not* initiated an investigation, it would've been a scandal bigger than Watergate. Moreover, had the DOJ and FBI *not* used their usual investigative mechanisms in launching and conducting their probe, it would've been a scandal.
3/ SOP (standard operating procedure) for the DOJ and FBI is relying in part on informants to gather info. These informants don't *create* inculpatory evidence; they do not entrap; they do not manufacture new narratives. They tell DOJ and the FBI whether they should be concerned.
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White people who call the police on Black people for the most insignificant small reasons are fully aware that the police serve white interests and they're utilizing that awareness. This is an admission on their part that police are meant to uphold white supremacy.
White people who call the cops over any little thing aren't just being irrational and not thinking. It's intentional strategic violence. This isn't an accident, this is white power working. This is why the institution of policing as a whole is corrupted.
If the police as a whole were redeemable, then white people wouldn't have them at their disposal to utilize as a enforcers, local military, and executioners.

This goes for the rest of the “criminal justice” system as well. None of it is going to undermine white supremacy, ever.
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