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Tomasz Szelazek / Zmora Profile picture
@szelazek
Jan 9, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
1 // (#rkelly #SurvivingRKelly)

To @RKelly,

When I was in high school I played your music so much that my discman wore down my copy of TP-2.com. I thought "I Wish" was the most beautiful song in the world.
2 // (#rkelly #SurvivingRKelly)

I haven't listened to your music since your trial but I want you to know that you've deeply disappointed the teenager in me, and disgusted the adult in me.
3 // (#rkelly #SurvivingRKelly)
Your music once had the power to heal, but instead of being our generation's Marvin Gaye you chose to degrade and damage young girls. You are a coward of the highest order, and I will no longer sit idly while you ruin families in the name of music.
4 // (#rkelly #SurvivingRKelly)

Your old fan.

PS: @S_C_, your silence is noted.
5 // #MuteRKelly

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Jul 30, 2020
The “Suburban Lifestyle Dream” is inherently racist because it relied on the displacement of millions of mostly Black and Brown people to construct freeways, as well as the legally-structured disinvestment from those communities. The scars are still visible today. ImageImageImage
The three images are of the area around Hollenbeck Park in Boyle Heights, LA before and after the construction of two freeways in twenty years connecting to the suburbs. The communities that experienced disaplacement were also experiencing severe housing shortages following WWII.
Displacement in the neighborhood formerly known as Sugar Hill in Los Angeles. ImageImageImage
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Jul 2, 2020
1| Here is the #Covid19 situation in LA County prisons:

The number of incarcerated men and women in prisons in LA County was 20,402 as of March 2020. That is 25% over capacity for the eight County (Sheriff), State, and Federal facilities in #LACounty.
2| Over 3,500 or 17% of incarcerated men and women have been infected; 13 have died.

Over 50% of the infections originate from the North County Correction and the Pitchess Facilities in Castaic; both Sheriff facilities. Over a 100 staff have been infected as well.
3| Infections in @LACoSheriff facilities:

North County: 1 in 3 infected
Pitchess: 1 in 5 infected
Men's Central: 1 in 9 infected
Twin Towers: 1 in 11 infected

To put it in perspective, in LA County there is 1 person infected for every 100 people.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
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Jun 29, 2020
1 / Capitalism requires inequality and racism enshrines it. Ruth Wilson Gilmore is helping me connect the dots during these times of education. These two photos are of Hollenbeck Park in the southwest portion of the Boyle Heights community in Los Angeles; 1941 / 2020. ImageImage
2 / Built nearly 10 years apart, the construction of US 101 on the left, in the late 1940s, and I-5 on the right, in the late 50s, would create decades of impacts that significantly degraded the quality of life and disrupted communal economic activity vital to this community.
3 / Even if a resident wasn’t displaced, the construction impacts alone degraded quality of life. The community in the 1940s through the 1960s was culturally dense and self-sufficient, made up of Black, Chicano, Japanese, and Jewish people, including immigrants and White people.
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Jun 14, 2020
1 || I had no idea to what extent @uscensusbureau policy dictates how the incarcerated are counted or not counted, not only in the Census but in all things legislative which includes equal rights. This also feeds gerrymandering.

npr.org/sections/codes…
2 || Prisoners do not get the right to vote while incarcerated, yet that inability to vote is used against them. They are never counted in the place of residence, pre-incarceration. They are counted in the place of their incarceration which skews all sorts of stats including C19.
3 || While combing through COVID-19 data in LA Communities, I noticed that @lapublichealth demarcates communities with prisons in their community, and includes cases from correctional facilities in the community totals.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
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May 28, 2020
1_ #Covid19 inequality in #LA County:

Out of the top 20 communities that have the most cases per capita, only two have majority white populations, two. Little Armenia has the highest rate; 1 confirmed case for every 40 people living in that community.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
2_ Latino / Latinx communities have been impacted more than any other group, but communities with large black populations have per capita rates far lower than the LA County per capita rate:

Vermont Square
Willowbrook
Vermont Knolls
Harvard Park
West Vernon
and more...
3_ LA County, with a population of over 10,000,000 has 306 Cities / Communities / Neighborhoods with #coronavirus cases for a total of nearly 50,000 cases.
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May 23, 2020
One of my closest friends recently lost two aunts to #COVID19 in a period of 14 days; one in Philadelphia, one in Corona, Queens.

One of those aunts was the maternal constant throughout his life. She lived in Corona where 1 in 26 people have been infected with the coronavirus.
This disparate per capita rate is not just unique to Queens, NY. The coronavirus is having a profound generational impact on black families across the US. It is decimating an older generation of black women and men, and it’s not a coincidence.
The health and education systems in this country have been structured to disadvantage the poor, and our judicial and legislative systems have been structured to dehumanize any one who is not white. These unequal structures have left unequal impacts from the virus in all cities.
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