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15 Oct, 9 tweets, 4 min read
Standing in line to get my ballot.... I can't describe to you just how much more practical this is for some people than same day voting. Line is 100% African American as far as I can tell mostly older folks
I requested my ballot online and in my state you can get your ballot EMAILED to you. Print it out and take it back. For some reason the BOE (which I've called a good 4-5 times since my application) had me listed as mail in. I don't trust it'll arrive on time OR that l I'll see it
So I'm standing in line. Do I worry about #covid? Yes but we're outdoors and no closer than you get to people in a grocery store. You do what you gotta do 🤷🏾‍♂️
Starting the process #VoteEarly
Lines not too bad #VoteEarly
I had my bag packed. But forgot the most important items for #WaitingtoVote
Extra Battery for Phone
Long Book to Read
Water.... Lots of Water
The line dwindles #VoteEarly
And then there were two. The line was almost silent. Nobody wants to talk during #COVID__19 voting. About 40 people showed up after I got in line
It's official #ballot in hand #VoteEarly 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

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15 Oct
There's been a name trending on twitter today that I'm not going to amplify but (name) highlights something about how sports news is presented & sports analysts are hired. AfAms face discrimination in hiring & promotion in sports journalism like many other professions
For MANY decades, local sports were dominated by white men, in print and on television and Black people were lucky to get jobs as play by play announcers during games.... IF they were former beloved athletes of that team. That has changed slightly in the last 30 years or so
While @NABJSports and @NABJ have fought to open opportunities for black men and women at the local sports coverage level, national opportunities are still few and far between and reflect a certain hiring pattern that's impossible to miss ......
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If the nominees are simply allowed to lie during hearings, even when the lie is easily proven with documents, recordings or witnesses, then what is the point? #SCOTUShearings
If #BidenHarris2020 somehow manage to get into the White House despite a concerted effort by Republicans to thwart the popular will they will have to start a generations long battle to shore up the constitution when it comes to voting rights and SCOTUS
Trump has exposed the constitution as nothing more than a gentleman's agreement between rich white guys, that isn't worth the paper it's written on when faced with a criminal who just doesn't care about tradition or decorum. It needs to be re-booted for the 21st century
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9 Oct
The foiled terrorist attack on #GretchenWhitmer is another example of what's left of our justice system still working despite the best attempts of Trump. He is a terrorist sympathizer and has been for years. He cares nothing for Democracy, but that's not what this thread is about
The co-opting of comic book hemes, names and titles is one of the more disturbing recent trends in America and it's not addressed enough as one of the ways the Alt-Right recruits and targets young disaffected white, Asian and Latino men (Afam men are rarely Alt-Right recruits)
Right Wing groups have been using the gaming world to recruit angry white men for years. It's been covered, and most online systems like Playstation and XBox have done little to stop it, because frankly it's hard to censor
npr.org/2018/11/05/660…
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6 Oct
This weekend I spoke to a black who claimed she wasn't going to vote for Trump, but that he had done a great job "With human trafficking" . I thought this was strange for a lot of reasons, but it ended up exposing yet again Facebook's failure to stop disinformation
First, it's patently not true, Trump has done no better battling "Human trafficking" than previous presidents & that's before you consider children who've gone missing from border interment camps
politifact.com/factchecks/202…
But this narrative plays into the conspiracy about #pizzagate & child abuse that bots & hate groups have spread online. Here's the catch though, many of you have probably never actually SEEN any of these memes or stories pop up on your timeline on Facebook. Why?
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5 Oct
In class I took all of my @morganstate students to the @StateMaryland website to check on their voter registration status. Several of my students pleasantly surprised me by showing they actually had their paper ballots in hand already. Which brings to mind something
Maryland is a blue state in presidential elections but has bounced btw Dem and GOP governors for the last 20 years or so. Registering to vote is very easy, keeping up w/ your registration is easy and there are several ways you can vote
The state is also 29% African American. I point this out because voter suppression doesn't happen automatically because the GOP is in charge or there's some critical mass of black people. It takes generations of policy and reinforcement
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The reflexive X Y axis of being turned off by Trump's behavior being directly correlated to education and class is why so much of the white left is ignored by actual activists and Black organizers.
Trump's behavior is problematic to many "working class people" assuming your definition of working class isn't exclusively white. In fact many white working class people have plenty of bad experiences with rich bosses/landlords who treat then like crap just like Trump
The whole thread above is a fancy grad school way of dressing up economic anxiety, which was NEVER Trump's appeal but an idea that the white left refuses to abandon.
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