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This @AaronBlake report on the Census scandal currently enveloping the Trump administration does well to explain just how serious all of this is. One question about citizenship could help calcify white minority rule in America. Attention must be paid. wapo.st/2Keh1Gr
This was @AOC today critiquing the attempts to use the Census to secure white political advantage. Her key observation: new questions typically require five years of testing before implementation. Trump and @SecretaryRoss just wanted to slap this on there.
The House Oversight Committee voted today to hold Wilbur Ross and William Barr in contempt of Congress for withholding key documents about why the Trump administration added a racist citizenship question to the Census. You should read @AriBerman’s report. bit.ly/2IQg7wL
I wrote recently about the discovery that the Trump administration’s citizenship question was an effort to use the Census to help white people become even more politically powerful, and why racism in public policy should be recognized as American sabotage. rol.st/2MwRc66
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Joe Biden called Cory Booker to talk things over, which is well and good. But even if he didn’t have some of the demerits in his record that he has, the very last thing that we need after Trump is a President too proud to apologize when he makes a mistake. nyti.ms/2XsjSl9
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Jamil Smith
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This is tough to look at, but this is where I’m from. Cuyahoga County is where I was born and raised. We have to tell the truth about what is going on inside our prisons in jails, starting with our own communities.
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@AdamFerrise Someone on Tuesday threatened to kill Cuyahoga County Jail officers if another inmate died. Eight inmates died in the county jails in 2018; one died in May. The deaths sparked an FBI investigation and a criminal probe by the Ohio Attorney General’s Office. cleveland.com/metro/2019/06/…
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Jamil Smith
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Read @AsteadWesley’s latest dispatch on white identity politics—this one from St. Cloud, Minnesota, where a group of Trump-supporting, xenophobic “concerned citizens” are targeting Muslim immigrants who are, as one angry lady put it, “just walking around.” nyti.ms/2WVTQY0
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Hey, guess what happens tomorrow? Supreme Court hearing on whether 2020 federal census form can include a question asking whether each member of a household is a US citizen.

Department of Commerce, et al., Petitioners v. New York, et al.

supremecourt.gov
U.S. Code: Title 13. CENSUS

law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/13
Department of Commerce v. New York

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Only in U.S. is it controversial to have a citizenship question on the #census—one we’ve had consistently since 1820 (and census still asks it today on the annual American Community Survey): dailysign.al/2Dmw2kU
Even the UN—the left’s favorite model institution—recommends a citizenship question in its manual on how to conduct a census.

Countries like Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico all ask. Are they problematic? bit.ly/2K2kpVm
On 4/23 #SCOTUS is hearing arguments on the citizenship question for #2020Census—common sense and the Constitution say the question should be allowed. dailysign.al/2Dmw2kU
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