"As an African-American woman, Lythcott-Haims wrote, she was taken aback that he would say this to her "with no facial affect." She went on to say that Thiel made "no effort to even acknowledge the pain the concept of apartheid could possibly raise for me, a Black women."
“One day I heard a rumor that Peter defended apartheid (which was then still the law of the land in South Africa), which I found morally repugnant.”
A GlOBAL pandemic wherein African American voters (the one ethnic group that will determine the American election) are dying disproportionately -- #KanyeWest ( pro---Trump surrogate) decides to run for President.
Do you have a relationship to The Berkeley Institute or to Peter Thiel? It’s been alleged that Thiel has funded individuals aligned with the alt-right?
The allegations: Would a gay immigrant who was educated here, made his billions here -- using his coins to wage war on diversity; would he know how to use diversity to set diversity on 🔥 fire?
These articles seem to imply that Theil might be stealthy employing diversity to sabotage and create new and misleading narratives about diversity — perhaps even question its value.
@kanyewest Does Peter have access to Candace Owen's doxxing machine?
“the first-ever search database that compiles and allows the public to easily access the digital footprint of individuals and companies." nbcnews.com/news/us-news/y…
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@AlsoACarpenter "They don't see race, but they benefit from racism."
— Charisse C. Levchak
@AlsoACarpenter "In other words, the problem is not that Justice O'Connor does not see race, but rather that she sees race in a particular way. Her decision to see Bostick as a man and not as a black man does not ignore race; it conStructS race."
-- The Michigan Law Review
@AlsoACarpenter "The Constitution is color blind and color conscious. To avoid conflict with the equal protection clause, a classification that denies a benefit, causes harm, or imposes a burden must not be based on race. In that sense the Constitution is color blind.
The numbers show that most people see the pro-life and pro-choice identifiers through their own unique prisms, says Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute.
Large majorities of African-Americans identify both as “pro-life” (71%) and “pro-choice” (75%), according to a Public Religion Research Institute survey released Thursday. Hispanic Americans harbor similarly complex views on abortion, ....
“Since it is so likely that [black] children will meet cruel enemies [white supremacist, bigots, and racist] let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.” — C. S. Lewis
"Black children must be allowed to be children, regarded as children, protected as children, and forgiven for mistakes children will make."
Presbyterian Minister, Rev. Francis Grimke, on the Republican Party (speech delivered on Oct 12, 1902):
1/ “A party with such men, as it had in it years ago, may well be called, "The Grand Old Party." I take the term, grand, to apply to the old party— ...
2/ ... the party as it used to be, not to the party as it is today, with its petty little programme of a White Republican Party in the South; the elimination of Negro office-holders in the South, out of deference to white southern sentiment; white supremacy in the Philippines ...