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Jeff Yang
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“Not being a racist” doesn’t mean you “don’t have a racist bone in your body.” We live under systemic racism—all of us are shaped by it.

Joe is a decent guy who doesn’t hate black people. He also literally thinks that he, a white man, is the best-equipped person to fight racism.
If Biden REALLY wanted to fight racism in a way that disrupts rather than reinforces our racist, white-supremacist system, he’d go to @KamalaHarris right now and offer to be *her* VP. “It would be my humble honor to be part of making history again,” he could explain.

They’d win.
I would love to see a moderater or someone in the campaign press corps ask Biden point-blank if he would be willing to serve as Vice President on a @KamalaHarris led ticket.

I think the answer would be highly educational.
And of course I mean moderator

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Jeff Yang
@originalspin
Are you also going to “try to figure out” how Kamala Harris’s Black father married her Indian mother
Attention Doctor Watkins:
Please note that he is also quite deliberately suggesting that Kamala Harris, a black woman US Senator and our potential next President, is a gold-digging whore
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Jeff Yang
@originalspin
Amazing viz of world population change and implicitly, inequality. Even today the vast majority of humanity is black and brown—but that’s not who holds a majority of its wealth and power. Will things change by 2100, when 10 of the 12 biggest countries are African and Asian?
Important side note: As you can see, the one—the ONE—Western country that maintains its position in the top 12 indefinitely is the US.

That’s entirely due to immigration and the knock-on effect of immigrants having higher birthrates for a few generations.
The white nationalists who call immigration “cultural genocide” (by which they mean pluralist dilution of white supremacy) don’t get that their recipe for permanent apartheid represents a dead end for America—or any country clinging to monoracial identity.
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Jeff Yang
@originalspin
“I don’t believe you’re a racist” is almost as devastating a thing to say to someone as “I believe you ARE a racist.”

It is distinct from “I know you’re NOT a racist.” It’s a statement that says “I don’t have the evidence to prosecute, but something’s fishy here.”

It’s a shiv.
As we know, Kamala Harris is a damn good prosecutor.
The silent “but...” is always there
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I'm not saying that saying "I hate white people" is entirely rational or helpful, but if someone says it around me, a white person, I have the privilege to just go "eh."

Black people cannot be "eh" around the sort of guy who says "I hate black people." He might try to kill them.
The chance of a black person expressing the thought "I hate white people" or a woman saying "I hate men" actually getting violent with me is tiny.

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Victoria Brownworth
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I lost over 100 followers this week standing up for WOC being attacked by white women.
I'm sorry to have lost them because it means those folks missed the point.
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The hardest words in any language are "I'm sorry."
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I know I am a strong person with strong Socialist politics.
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