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Elie Mystal

6 Jan, 8 tweets, 2 min read

*Some* people seemed confused about my rage at Garland for AG, so let me put this where the goats can get it:

When you are in power BECAUSE black people put you there, then you pick an AG with a RECORD OF HOLDING POLICE ACCOUTNABLE. Not a milquetoast compromise white prosecutor.

@Sifill_LDF

You LISTEN to voices in the Black community, like @Sifill_LDF and @TheRevAl, when they meet with you and tell you to pick somebody who will SIGNLE to the Black community that you have their back against these police terrorists.

You understand that of ALL your cabinet picks, your AG is the one who has to HONOR the desperate protests in the streets that Trump spent the past year denigrated.

YOU PAY IT THE FUCK FORWARD

Garland. Does. NONE OF THIS. His nomination, right on the heels of Black people GIVING HIM THE POWER to nominate ANY AG available, is a slap in the goddamn face to... THE ACTUAL BASE of the Democratic Party.

Put another way: LOOK AT WHAT REPUBLICANS DO. Their AG picks are almost ALWAYS the most spitting racists they can FIND. They're AGs are always a base pick. Somebody to excite the base and prove to them that the GOP is on their side of the culture war.

The Garland pick is the EXACT OPPOSITE of that. Instead of rewarding the base, Biden is using it to placate moderates and institutionalists. He has no record on civil rights, and no record on standing up the police... who I'll remind you SHOOT US IN THE BACK AND FACE NO CHARGES.

Also, while we're here, I really don't appreciate people telling me to give Garland "a chance" when those people haven't actually READ HIS OPINIONS on issues with the police.

He's deferential to police power, almost uninformedly. WHICH IS NOT WHAT THE MOMENT DEMANDS.

ANYWAY... I like Gupta and Clarke and the rest of the team. This is how it's going to be with Biden for four years.

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Literally every Black person who has ever protested right now: ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? They're gonna let white people take over the Capitol but will shoot me to protect a fucking TARGET?

I ONCE HAD THREE COPS SURROUND ME FOR BLOCKING A WALKING PATH ON CAMBRIDGE COMMON

How many of these white people will even be arrested??

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Elie Mystal

@ElieNYC

6 Jan

https://twitter.com/Reddy/status/1346866950144712705

COME THE FUCK ON

https://twitter.com/Reddy/status/1346866950144712705

@JoeBiden

Black people: We delivered
@JoeBiden: Great. Also fuck you.

We're in a moment where *real* accountability for police terrorism is DEMANDED, and this is the shit we get?

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Here are the states with the most Black people as a %age of the population (%age)
Washington DC (45.99%)
Mississippi (38.40%)
Louisiana (33.43%)
Georgia (31.47%)
Maryland (31.23%)
Alabama (27.19%)
South Carolina (26.91%)
Delaware (23.08%)
North Carolina (21.97%)
Virginia (20.48%)

The only reason the GOP is a nationally viably party in its current overtly bigoted form is that they keep Black people demobilized and suppressed through gerrymandered control of state govs and keep white people in lockstep with the white supremacy agenda in many of these states

But if there is any slippage in either of these factors. If white people do even *slightly* better than they have historically and you can register and mobilize black people, you destroy the GOP map.

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I felt awful.

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This stopped the crying at least. But now he’s CONVINCED that I’m a fucking idiot who cannot be trusted with money.

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I thought Johns Hopkins was an abolitionist. Now we've come to find out that the was a slaver?

WHAT THE FUCK, WHITE PEOPLE? What in the actual FUCK? Y'all didn't even do your research on who held people in bondage and who was AGAINST DOING THAT?