Fellow Americans, late last night Trump lawyer, #AlanDershowitz claimed the President has the legal power to do LITERALLY ANYTHING HE WANTS, as long as he thinks it will help his re-election and believes his re-election is in the public interest. 1/ washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01…
In the presence of Chief Justice, a legal hack literally stood at the mic and claimed the Constitution of United States grants the President the power of a King! And worse—GOP Senators contorted themselves trying to find a way to back it!! 2/ apple.news/Ang4dcAdTSqCmR…
I have a very sinking feeling. America is not America without its Constitution. Ethnic minorities have no recourse without Constitutional expectation of the rule of law. A vote for Trump’s acquittal on Dershowitz’s basis would lift protections for minorities. #ImpeachmentTrial 3/
This is SERIOUS. And it is IMMINENT. Today is NOT a day to joke, sip cappuccino at the cafe, or just hope! WE ALL MUST ACT. Call your Senators at (202) 224-3121 and tell them to #LetBoltonTestify !!! 4/4 vox.com/2020/1/29/2111…
@mashagessen, expert on the rise of totalitarian governments, warned us this moment would come. She also told us how to survive it. Read her prescient plea here. 5/4 nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/…
1/ On @MSNBC Michael Beschloss just told the story of Gandhi sending the Queen a wedding present—a piece of cloth that he spun himself. Gift was downplayed at the time. Beschloss said gift was sign of how Queen made everyone feel special. 😧 #Queen#funeral
2/ I usually love Michael B’s take on everything on @MSNBC. But this is a GROSS oversimplification of that moment. #QueenElizabethII
3/ When the British colonized India they outlawed the spinning of Indian tapestries. Britain’s Indian “subjects” (non-citizens) were only allowed to grow the raw cotton. Then it was exported to Europe, spun in similar style and sold back to Indians at a profit. #queensfuneral
2/ While I have reflected that my relationship with Jesus has moved from boyfriend-ish to brown liberator, Bob reminds where the whole evangelical lovey-dovey image of Jesus comes from. #churchasbrideofchrist#bethmoore
3/ So, why did White Evangelical’s pounce on a reference to crushing on Jesus that any one of us could find at ANY church Women’s conference? And why now? #bethmoore#loveydoveyjesus
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1/ I recently spoke on the intersections of race/gender oppression in US. The very first RACE Law in the nation’s foundational history was passed in VA 1662. It was also the very first GENDER-based law and the first CITIZENSHIP law passed on this soil.
2/ That 1662 law created race-based slavery, by locating citizenship in the womb of the mother. Citizens could not be enslaved. So, if your mother was enslaved, she wasn’t a citizen and you were not a citizen. So, you could be enslaved. Plus, they outlawed interracial marriage.
3/ The 1662 law was in full force for 200+ years until passage of 13th and 14th Amendments, which ended race-based citizenship and outlawed slavery. Interracial marriage wasn’t legalized until the Loving v. Virginia (1967) Supreme Court ruling 305 years after VA’s 1662 race law.