Roland Martin and Maggie Haberman are both subjects in a conversation I want to have about how candidates spend their time and money.

But will put a pin in it until Nov 4.

What I will say now is funny that National press complain when local press is afforded too much attention
One of the best, thoughtful and deep conversations President Hillary Clinton had in 2016 was with “ urban radio”

She was able to go deep on subjects like mass incarceration, answering in a way that connected with voters.

The National media framed it as if she dodged real media
The same national media that had thousands of email stories but failed to fully review Trump’s financials although known

But Habberman, Sam Stein and random jokers from low circulation outlets want to frame it as not being transparent if Biden isn’t chained to them 24/7
Its rent seeking to define transparency in media as only their media

When we have seen very tough and hard hitting questions come from local press.

God forbade regions of the country with press that look like America get some quality time w/ ppl who will represent them
People got mad when President Obama stopped by to talk to Ellen

But if 65% of -‘Americans get news from social media and sources other than news outlets - politicians will indeed need to meet people where they are
This gatekeeping has the “unintended” consequences of white washing news

National media frankly isn’t as diverse as America

Local outlets tend to be where the rainbow of ideas/viewpoint lives

Do you think its really pressing to ask Biden to denounce violence for 1,000thx
In 2016 it was rare to hear a question about k-12 education.

12 million people have lost their healthcare since the pandemic

Flint still doesn’t have drinking water

Puerto Rico still doesn’t have consistent power

Go local and raise the question
i guess I did have a few thoughts fit for consumption today.

I see a lot of media and ad buys. I hope that same focus is spent with the penny-savers, morning shows, Noticias, Desi blogs, and get the money into the communities

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One of the things I do on this app is to try to interject in the conversation a sense of political reality in a place that political bubbles can exist

Here is a reality- nothing these students are doing helps or even could help the reality in Palestine or Isreal
We are dealing with two sovereign nations and a large geopolitical ecosystem that have large weight

The Egyptians, Qatar what matters and what will make a difference is different in this case than 1980s South Africa
The college students are not the new civil rights- foremost some of those people are still alive and working in the background.

Two - they embody none of the organizational discipline and commitment to the outcome that guided their movements.
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Karen Attiah is completely wrong in her interpretation of the Civil Rights movement

I didn’t quote tweet to say that- I quoted tweeted to say its odd I have to say it.

The CVM activists explicitly explained the how and the why.
These people wrote books

There are documentaries capturing their living testimony on the who, the what, the how and the why

Some are still alive

Others wrote extensively in their own words a play by play
For ex.

I attended a lecture in the 1990s where Bobby Seale former co- founder of the Black Panthers was the main speaker.

20 minutes of his 60 was spent on blasting the Mario Van Peebles flick Panther

Because it depicted the Panthers as non strategic
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Said- but not said.

I think so many of you - think so little of black people - that you don't want to give them the strategic credit of orchestrating the civil rights movement.
It fits within your world view - that it was this tribal spontaneous movement of anger that rose to the top and shocked the conscience of benevolent white people

So that is what you seek to emulate. And despite that never yielding a positive outcome, you are going to continue
The first step in learning organizing tools, and truly apply learned lessons in tactical resistance is to first accept that black people are:

Intelligent
Disciplined
High thinking
Self-sacrificing

You would rather get screw up your life - than counter your ingrained biases.
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Each watermelon activist sees themselves as Rosa Parks while engaging in these actions, which are the least Rosa Parks-esque things one could do. 🧵
People do things in the civil rights fight to gain a specific outcome.

See citation
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If the Rock choose not to endorse this time, I don’t think anybody would’ve noticed

But to say you sitting on the fence after J6 after other Republicans have decided that was a divisional line and reset to neutral takes a special kind decision making ie “like a steer”
You are basically saying

I heard of Project 25 as a black man and that has nothing todo with w/ me

I am okay as long as people like me enough to buy tickets
I cannot unsee that

He is big enough to be a producer - but I can’t believe him taking on the bag guy

He embodies a different character in those movies

The kill everyone else but save me dude
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This type of help =no help

I’m going to tell you why.

Countless daily decisions shape climate policy, yet rebellious climate activists are missing from each one.
State assembly meetings on how much investment into renewable energy, the timetable and how equitable implementation

Are these guys there- no

We often lose these fights daily

With utility pushing to slow down the timetable

And “affordability” advocates helping fhem
HOA management companies enforce restrictions on putting up solar panels

Are these ppl their to give cogent arguments on the need for alternative fuels

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