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Ida Bae Wells
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I think we need to vote on a new rule. No one can quote or reference Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. unless they’ve read more than that one line from “I Have a Dream” and most certainly if their understanding of him ends at 1963.
Just reading the entire “I Have a Dream” speech would blow most folks minds.
There are SO many. If the people who quote him actually read him, they’d be absolutely scandalized. As most white people were when he was actually living.
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Um, there have been entire investigations into this. Google can bed powerful, friend. propublica.org/article/machin… nytimes.com/2017/10/26/opi…
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Ida Bae Wells
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More than two years in, we're just going to keep pretending that wearing a MAGA hat is simply a non-racialized choice to voice support of the U.S. president, and not about making a very explicit statement about one's racial views? Ok.
Oh, that's right -- and the Confederate flag is about heritage not hate. My bad.
If I know something is associated with a certain thing or viewpoint, and I do not hold that viewpoint, I do not wear that item. This is not a controversial understanding.
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Ida Bae Wells
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Whew. Boy. So, when I was in Ore. I started reporting a story on transracial adoption, specifically looking at w parents/b kids. You wouldn't believe some of the things that white parents told me. Or maybe you wld. I was shook. Realized was no way I cld be objective. I killed it.
I met a woman who breastfed her adopted black children as a form of reparations for when enslaved black women had to be wet nurses for white children. She used to post photos on her web site until she got a lot of backlash.
One white couple, who like almost all these parents, did not have any black friends or relationships with any black people, would arrange "black" time for their child by inviting other white parents of black adoptees for African-themed parties.
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