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Ida Bae Wells
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It was quite literally founded on the genocide of indigenous people and the chattel slavery and forced bondage of one fifth of its population, with a Constitution that denied black people citizenship based on their race, following a bloody Revolutionary War. WHAT.
In all seriousness, this is why we learn so little about the histories of Native people and of slavery -- because these stories reveal the lie we tell ourselves about American exceptionalism and destroy our entire mythology about ourselves.
This is just weird.
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Ida Bae Wells
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I think this shows, more than anything, how much the framing of the question matters. Asked differently, in a way that deals with racism and inequality, I promise, you’d get different results.
I mean, the way this is framed, a black person could think race is being used against them in college admissions.
No way in hell I believe most black people oppose affirmative action in college admissions.
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Ida Bae Wells
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You know, I think a lot about the black people who were willing to put their dignity, and often their lives, on the line to bring about equality for their people, and then I think about this in the context of the choice movement now that values the individual over the whole.
Abon and Lucille Bridges had been sharecroppers when they moved to New Orleans for a better life. They sent their 6-year-old child through a white mob everyday in order to challenge segregation in the South for all black children.
When white politicians shut down the entire school system in Prince Edward's County to avoid letting black kids sit in classrooms with white kids, to break the resistance they offered black parents vouchers to pay for private school. Those parents refused.
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Ida Bae Wells
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Poverty is a lack of money, no more no less. So, by definition, giving poor people more money and resources would solve poverty. But also, I am somewhat shocked you actually tweeted this out loud. What's delusion is you thinking blaming poverty on drug addiction was a hot take.
I mean, to simultaneously argue that folks asking for the 70% marginal tax rate CLEARLY haven't spent time with poor people by proclaiming poor people are poor because they do drugs is the height ridiculousness.
But also, are you REALLY tryna argue that rich folks don't do drugs? That rich folks don't go on benders? Like, that's your argument? Difference between poor folks and rich folks who do this is, get this, money.
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Clint Smith
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Any meaningful conversation about reparations absolutely must include space for a public national reckoning w/ what this country has done & continues to do to black ppl. W/o that ppl will keep talking past one another & our sense of what is necessary won't be grounded in history.
It's essential to have a deep, public examination of what chattel slavery, Jim Crow, lynching, redlining, housing/school segregation, mass incarceration, etc have done to the black community. It allows for a more honest conversation about what's necessary to make amends for that.
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Brad Gallant
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@NigelBiggar And if you were the only country writing the history of English civilization that would be the case. But you are not and English acts can no longer be differentiated from those of Germany. True, the acts may be done in small concentrated acts, like enslaving Beothuks
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Nonlawyers: read this for background on how Trump and other Rs’ attacks on birthright citizenship are literally attacks on the constitutional achievements won via the U.S. Civil War.
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