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26 Jan, 12 tweets, 4 min read
Truth: and this is going to hurt.

There are some of you who think that if Biden’s administration didn’t address your issue yet- that nothing has been done for black people.

The problem is you refuse to acknowledge black people that are not just like YOU.
How many of you ACTUALLY paid attention to the executive orders issued before you pontificated about how you knew this administration wasn’t going to do shit?

What black folks are you referring to?

You’re not talking about black folks in college.

forbes.com/sites/adammins…
You’re not talking about black folks who pay rent or own homes and are struggling to pay because of job loss or illness. Are you?

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/20…
You’re not talking about black folks in who are LGTBQ and being subjected to assault in their communities are you?

washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/…
You’re not talking about black folks who are transgender in the military are you?

washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
You’re not talking about black folks who live in communities that have poor quality of air due to the former administrations rampant abuses of our climate and rollback of basic climate rights right? Not those black folks?

pbs.org/newshour/amp/p…
You’re not talking about black folks who need racial equity in the healthcare system right?

Not those black folks either right?

nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1…
Y’all were not referring to all those BLACK immigrants who come from Nigeria and other African nations and go to medical school to save the whole entire world right?

Not those black people either right?

time.com/5932143/biden-…
I could go on. But my point?

This administration is 6 days old. I’m certain we will get our fair share of disappointment but the last 6 days have been glorious to watch a functioning government resume footing and address the needs of the nation.
I see myself, I see my children and I see people who’s lives look nothing like my own represented in the executive orders over the last 6 days...

I see black men in the representation of these signed orders and policies and I believe there is more to come.
And if this pace continues- I believe we may actually see more done for people of color than in the last 50 years.
Ooooh and today, another one!!! Addressing the private and for profit prison population? Wow. What poor leadership. (Rolls eyes and goes back to work.)

cnbc.com/2021/01/26/bid…

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29 Aug 20
There are few things black people agree on universally.

I have black friends who don’t and will never believe in God or heaven or hell.

But we ALL unanimously believe that there is a Wakanda. And the person who made us ALL believe in its possibilities has left us.
Weighing this loss is nothing short of a cultural mourning. Our experiences in this world were highlighted brilliantly by this brothers art. I watched Da Five Bloods and watched my fathers war experience come back alive.

That’s who Chadwick was. He gave us pain, brilliance and
Black excellence. On repeat and in overflow and in excess and on purpose and I for one couldn’t get enough.

He embodied Black Boy Joy. A joy that we all know too often gets stamped out by society and by circumstance.

He illuminated light and so the world feels darker today.
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17 Aug 20
Listening to two (53%’s) as I sit in the hospital, discussing how you can’t trust mail in ballots. Finally, I had my fill. I said- Do you get your bills in the mail? Do you send checks in the mail? Do you receive invitations- greeting cards, new debit cards, prescriptions?
Now they’re staring at me like who is this tribal looking chick with these braids and a mask.. I persisted. “Have you ever voted by mail before?” One answered- I did. I said “ Did you question back then if your vote was counted?” She answered I didn’t really think about it.
So I asked “What changed? I don’t need to know you who you’re voting for because that’s really not my concern but by the tone of your discussion it’s clear. My question is when you really think about voting fraud and cheating to win- who’s face do you honestly see behind that?”
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30 Jul 20
When I was 14, my mom took me out of private school and moved us to the suburbs of Maplewood, NJ. It took me a couple years to adapt to our new life & chief among that adaptation was the racism I experienced walking home from school & in neighborhood stores.

1.
I was triggered today by the comments of the man baby who lives in the White House. It reminded me of the many times I was stopped by police for just walking home in a large group of black teens. Teens whose family made the sacrifices to move them to a “better” neighborhood.

2.
We all know what he meant. He meant that those neighborhoods are protection for white lives. And we “others” do not belong. It’s the kind of language that has supported violence and stoked racialized terror of minorities in those communities for 60 years.

3.
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7 Jun 20
@SRuhle Stephanie I love you, but this is problematic.

Defund the police means employ policy to demilitarize the police departments AND stop assigning the bills to taxpayers for police offenses.

Why should the taxpayer hold the bill for civil settlements for rampant police abuse?
@SRuhle Defund the police means hold police unions accountable for their members. Defund the police means civil settlements should be handled out of the police pension budget and NOT taxpayer dollars. I’m willing to BET I’d cop pensions were levied in these settlements- they’d find a way
@SRuhle to speak up against the bad cops in their departments. If you don’t make it a financial hardship to them- nothing will change and you know this. We absolutely mean to disrupt their salaries and their damn pensions if it means saving black lives!
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