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16 Dec, 3 tweets, 2 min read
One of the underreported stories of 2020 is just how much Black Mayors have fought against #BlackLivesMatter by covering for and covering up police abuse. Chicago voters deserve better
m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f…
Police brutality doesn't always result in death. Cops raided the WRONG house and handcuffed a woman naked - then fought for two years to keep the footage of abuse from going public. And mayor #Lightfoot tried to stop local press coverage of the video
Take a look around the country at some of the most brutal crackdowns on #BlackLivesMatter protests, which mayors quietly called on Trump for help supressing protests and which were willing to actually address the issue of police brutality. It's quite revealing

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16 Dec
"He/She/They are better than the terrible person Trump had in the position before" is NOT a rationale for being complacent about any cabinet picks by in the incoming Biden administration. In fact that attitude could lead to major electoral backlash in 2022 and 2024
Unless they are demonstrably corrupt or have a history of breaking the law, I generally feel that an incoming administration should be able to pick their team. The public has the right to see the White House rise or fail with their full squad.
There were Trump picks that were TERRIBLE, Betsy DeVos being a prime example. But he had a right to pick her, and Democrats at least put up a fight because they knew she'd be terrible
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Polling has consistently showed that African Americans are more skeptical of taking the #Covid_19 vaccine than other groups of people in America, but the reasons for this aren't just based on "older" instances of poor medical care. A thread.... fiercepharma.com/marketing/blac…
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11 Nov
Democrats have often failed to address the needs of their most important base of voters : African Americans, so when organic black centered movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #DefundThePolice arise Dems fail to act which makes it easier for Republicans to define the issue
Remember "progressive" candidates like Sanders and moderates like Clinton were essentially saying "All Lives Matter" throughout much of the 2016 campaign
vox.com/2015/7/20/9001…
So when even the 'progressive' wing of the party ignores or dismisses discussions of reparations and #BlackLivesMatter for YEARS and now in 2020 #DefundThePolice it's not hard to see why there are challenges engaging young black voters and activists
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2 Nov
The amount of violence and intimidation going on before election day is enough of a sign that Trumpism can't be defeated at the ballot box, but it's the small examples of intimidation that aren't caught by the news that concern me as well : A story from a friend in Nashville....
Friend of mine texted to tell me that for weeks in her suburban Nashville neighborhood two white men in a pick-up truck have been driving through the community and taking #BlackLivesMatter and #BidenHarris signs off of people's yards
At first I doubted this, thinking "Maybe this was just a few jerks who were taking down signs" but she showed me several screenshots of her community bulletin board of people photographing these men driving through and taking down signs.
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30 Oct
Go out and vote everybody #Vote started my drop of early ballot journey 👍🏾
The one reason to take off your mask? Licking the envelope with your vote #MaytheVoteBeWithYou #VOTE
Get your friends absentee ballots to the polls if you can!!!
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28 Oct
Started watching #kobraKai - Less than 3 minutes in and Johnny's character is throwing racist comments at his Latino neighbor. Is there a point to this? Because the "Racist white guy who eventually reforms" is a really tired trope I don't care to invest my limited TV time in
Finished 1st #kobraKai episode. Johnny is an angry white guy spouting racist one liners at a teenage Hispanic neighbor (Miguel) who for some reason doesn't tell him to kick rocks or cuss him out. Then this same kid accepts help from this old racist because ? Plot convenience?
#kobraKai isn't TERRIBLE but the lone Hispanic and African American (the nurse) characters in the 1st episode are repeatedly yelled at and disparaged. I guess I'm supposed to stick with Johnny until he learns the error of his ways? Maybe EP2 is better
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