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13 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
I received the sad news late last night and was hoping it wasn't true.

Earl Harvey was an incredible man who created inclusive spaces for all people in local media and walked the talk that so many people in this industry rarely do.
When I first started getting citywide attention for my journalism five years ago, he invited me to what has been his legendary holiday party. I was exposed to some of the most influential and prominent Black leaders in Philly and began to build a network from there.
I used to get locked out of spaces like that because I was considered too young, gay, and outspoken. Earl didn't care and wanted me in the room. He was always opening doors for newcomers and embraced young people in a town that often tell us to "wait our turn."
He was a compassionate, selfless, leader. Someone who just gave without question and supported without hesitation. He was a Black entrepreneur and media owner before it was trendy and cool, and I admires his hustle and advocacy beyond the business.
I'm seriously going to miss him. He was truly a role model to so many emerging Black media professionals in this town.

Rest in peace. ❤️

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Here's how I did.
I am always going to find humor in the irony of white people going after each other on the things that Black people been saying for years.

I'm aware that Bill Burr has a problematic history of racist/homophobic jokes. Therein lies the joke within himself.
For me, I didn't find Bill Burr a hero or exempt or "woke" for what he said -- I found it comical that another white person was basically ranting about how a subset of their demographic was being seen anything less than.

His rant reveals more about himself, than white women.
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THREAD: Y'all, @NABJ has a LGBTQIA problem.

I wasn't going to speak on this given the current politics, but it's hard to ignore at this point.

Over the past week, several LGBTQIA members of NABJ have reached out to me about experiences they've faced with the organization.
To be clear, I'm not using this space to campaign, but to share experiences & concerns. Several that I've already made clear to the organization in the past and recent issues that continue to persist.

For starters, NABJ hasn't done a sufficient job cracking down on homophobia.
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THREAD: Now that it's a week since #Hamiltonfilm came out -- can I just say that after watching it three times and digging into it -- that it is perhaps one of the most overrated Broadway musicals of all time.

Before we dive into the ahistorical elements, quality wise, it's a 7.
So the "good things": The performances by its supporting cast and ensemble is strong. The cast can sing, dance, and their costumes are appealing.

The energy and enthusiasm is there, but the concept is where things go South. Many have spoken on this, but watching it stung.
If Lin understands the origins of hip-hop, there is no way he could have thought this was ok. As a non-Black person of color, he completely drops the ball here.

Conflating Black music with an American Dream narrative that is rooted in slavery is not just wrong, but fucked up.
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REAL TALK: Telling a dark-skinned person that "Blackness is not a monolith" in conversations about colorism, only perpetuates the problem.
Time and time again, I find the conversations and concerns of dark-skinned Black people to be dismissed and treated as exclusionary towards light-skinned people.

Just like there is no reverse racism, there is no reverse colorism.
We need to stop perpetuating this false equivalency that light skinned people feeling not "Black enough" is the same as dark-skinned people being socially, culturally, and institutionally marginalized by everyone.
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7 Feb
THREAD: LET ME TELL Y'ALL SOMETHING.

So some of y'all have reached out to me given the high volume of buzz I've gotten on Twitter yesterday defending Gayle King and criticizing Snoop Dogg for his misogynistic attacks launched at her.
As a journalist, as a Black man, as an advocate for fairness -- no Black woman should be threatened for doing her job, whether you agree with it or not. Grieving a death doesn't make one a sexist, violent, pig towards women if they weren't one already.
Right now, this death is showing who y'all really are. They are using this moment to defend others who have done far worse. And they are turning this conversation into a defense of any and all Black men, when there is a clear distinction.

Let me be very clear: Not on my watch.
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Defending Snoop Dogg and other men engaging in misogynoir against Gayle King for being a journalist who discussed rape in an interview further proves the point that we live in a culture where Black women aren't allowed to have a voice or an opinion about anything.
Y'all fave is conflating Kobe, Michael Jackson and yes, Bill Cosby in the same statement.

The hoteps don't see nuance and clearly is using this to defend any Black celeb who has been accused of sexual abuse.
Oh look! An interview by Gayle King about Harvey Weinstein...because y'all forgot to use Google today.
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