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Clint Smith
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As part of the deal that's been reached, each school in LA will now have a nurse, which is great. It's also a shame that it took this strike to achieve such a basic need. As teachers have pointed out, it reflects what some people think black & brown children do & don't deserve.
I have a difficult time imagining that in an affluent white school, having a single nurse available would ever be something that was up for debate. And yet when it comes to certain children, some think that the most basic services are things to be haggled over.
Grateful to the teachers in LA for fighting so relentlessly for their students.
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When I was in Mississippi this week, I looked up & saw the state flag waving above me, the confederate flag embedded in its top corner.

It remains so appalling that such a flag is allowed to exist at all, but *especially* in a state w/the highest % of black ppl in the country.
We’ve been over this before, we know the Confederate flag represents treason, we know it represents white supremacy, we know it represents a lie about this country that has been told over & over again.

And yet, in 2019, it still sits conspicuously within the Mississippi flag.
We can’t disentangle a decision to wear blackface from a story this country has long told about black ppl.

And we can’t disentangle the story this country has long told about black ppl from a Confederate flag flying in a state w/the largest % of black folks.

It’s all connected.
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Clint Smith
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Nobody writes about hip-hop the way @NifMuhammad does. There’s such a profound sense of love & generosity for the culture, the art form, & those who are a part of its lineage. This passage on Phife Dawg is case in point.
As is the case with any book Hanif writes about music, it’s about so much more than music.
I am here to inform you that @NifMuhammad has done the damn thing once again. Three books in three years & all of them are bangers. How lucky we are to have be alive at the same time he’s writing.
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Clint Smith
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I’ve spent the past year interviewing black ppl who were sentenced to life w/o parole when they were children, as young as 13, many for crimes they didn’t commit.

I don’t want to belabor the Covington thing, but it’s distressing to see who public empathy is & is not extended to.
What’s come up in every conversation is that they felt like ppl in the system didn’t care & didn’t even see them as children. There’s extensive research on the adultification of black youth, but it’s been quite another thing to see it result in a child sentenced to life in a cage
Anyway, this is for my dissertation, which I should be writing instead of tweeting. Time to get back at it.
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