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Bishop Talbert Swan
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Remembering those soldiers who fought in the war against white supremacy and injustice in America:

Denmark Vesey
Nat Turner
Harriet Tubman
Fannie Lou Hamer
Martin Luther King Jr
Malcolm X
Medgar Evers
Fred Hampton
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Rev James Reeb

#MemorialDay
Remembering those soldiers who fought in the war against white supremacy and injustice in America:

Sojourner Truth
Marcus Garvey
Rev George Lee
Lamar Smith
James Chaney
Andrew Goodman
Henry Schwerner
Viola Liuzzo
Adam Clayton Powell
James Baldwin
Vernon Johns

#MemorialDay
Remembering those soldiers who fought in the war against white supremacy and injustice in the world:

Nelson Mandela
Muhammad Ali
Fred Shuttlesworth
Ralph Abernathy
Ida B. Wells
Ella Baker
Hosea Williams
Dorothy Height
Dick Gregory
Eldridge Cleaver
Steven Biko

#MemorialDay
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Bishop Talbert Swan
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In the early part of my career as a social activist, fresh out of college, I used to visit young Black men who were incarcerated. Many of them were sentenced under @JoeBiden’s CB.

I worked with a friend, a Jewish lawyer, on a program for them called “The Learning Tree”...
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We worked with local organizations, employers, and colleges to give them opportunities at a second chance.

So many times, even when judges wanted to divert young man to our program, mandatory minimums prevented them. First time youthful offenders, sent away for 10 yrs...
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I watched families torn apart, marriages dissolved, children become fatherless, and communities ravaged because Biden, and people like him, failed to see the same humanity in young Black men that they saw in young white men who made the same mistakes in life...
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Bishop Talbert Swan
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Wypipo,

Resist the urge to tell Blacks who lost fathers, sons, spouses and loved ones to mandatory minimums and draconian, racist laws, resulting from @JoeBiden’s crime bill, which targeted our people, that we must “forget about it” and vote for the father of mass incarceration.
Don’t you dare sit in your ivory white towers of privilege and dismiss our pain, like Trump is the worst thing that’s ever happened to us.

Your families & communities weren’t destroyed. You weren’t at the jail every weekend visiting a 1st time offender doing a mandatory 10 yrs.
You didn’t deal with the father who fought depression and alcoholism because he was unable to secure employment to take care of his family after being tagged with a criminal record and spending a decade in prison for a nonviolent 1st offense.
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Bishop Talbert Swan
@TalbertSwan
“Every life is precious”

- @GovernorKayIvey

Except victims of rape and incest.

#AlabamaAbortionLaw
“Every life is precious”

- @GovernorKayIvey

Except school aged youth. Alabama education funding is 15% below pre-recession levels.

#AlabamaAbortionLaw
“Every life is precious“

- @GovernorKayIvey

Except those of children. Alabama is ranked number 42/50 in overall in child well-being.

#AlabamaAbortionLaw
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