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26 Feb, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Could barely get through one episode of #ginnyandgeorgia . I swear sometimes you can look at the casting alone and realize nobody who looks like you or has any cultural knowledge about you was in the writers room for a show
OMG thank my spidey sense that told me to stop watching #ginnyandgeorgia after EP1. If I had invested in this show long enough to watch cringe worthy idiotic racially insulting scenes like this in later episodes I would've damn near canceled #Netflix
Who writes this stuff? And where were thier black and Asian friends and co-workers to tell them to stop?
Tomorrow I'm launching #AWord a new podcast on race, culture and politics from @Slate (Sign up below) - Happy to have anybody from #ginnyandgeorgia reach out because honestly EP1 is everything that's wrong with race writing in TV right now
slate.com/briefing/2021/…

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Brady is the best football player in the modern Era if you control for racism, coaching and division competition. Doesn't mean he's not the greatest but context matters
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Growing up watching political news there were very few black political analysts on television. I remember seeing @Eugene_Robinson @drjlastword and Carl Rowan mostly, but black people being asked strictly about politics, economics or culture on news programs was rare
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I was a kid when this happened but this is the first time I remember seeing the national press talking heads develop a completely ridiculous narrative about a candidate and push it until it became reality. Nobody cared about that scream except D.C. insiders
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Similar to 16' Sanders, 04' Dean was the true believer that the GOP privately feared could win, but that Democrats were CONVINCED would be a disaster that fall.
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I was pretty bored w/ the #NFC playoffs this year because once #Seahawks and (ahem) Goff / #rams were out, there really weren't any amazing stories to tell because almost nobody's legacy is going to change going forward, now #BucsvsSaints almost gaurantees it
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The consequences of breaking rules of conduct on social media are not applied equally or consistently. So forgive me if I don't cheer when it finally happens. These bans amount to taking a gun away from a mass shooter, when they're down to their last 12 bullets
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