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2 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Had a former boss who occasionally emails me out the blue and tweets at people about how they don’t know why I blocked them on here.

Ugh. I used to cringe at the sound of the Mail app ping for years behind that person.
I still remember being out with @wyattcenac on a Friday night and that boss — who had just been demoted so was no longer going to be my boss the next week — emailing me a fresh assignment at 10pm that they wanted by noon on Saturday

“I’m still your boss until Monday,” they wrote
To underline the dysfunction at that place: when that person WAS demoted, guess who got promoted to be their boss?

So *now* this person is my direct report *and* making literally twice my salary?

A fucking mess.
Sometimes their work gets pitched to me and BAYBEE

the way i yam that shit in the trash
I should clarify: in news, quick turnarounds are a thing. bc, you know, news happens.

that wasn't what was happening when wassaname gave me that assignment on a Friday night. it wasn't timely or urgent. they just wanted to flex.

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28 Feb
If you want to understand elevated distrust of the medical establishment, don’t invoke Tuskegee. Look at what Black women *today* say about their routine encounters with the medical establishment.
this thing Zoé’s pointing to about how her pain wasn’t acknowledged or treated by doctors?

wbur.org/hereandnow/202…
Doctors treat Black patients seeking relief from pain as potential addicts, first.
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15 Dec 20
We had a conversation on the podcast about the racialization of dog breeds, where we talked to @BronwenDickey, the author of Pitbull: The Battle Over an American Icon.
In the 1930s, Pitbulls — which, as Bronwen pointed out to me over and over, don’t constitute a dog breed but a shape — used to be seen as the trusty sidekick of the proletariat, the Honda Civic of canines. (Think of “the Little Rascals” dog.)
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That began changing in the postwar years and the rise of the suburbs. A pedigreed dog became a status symbol for the burgeoning white middle class. And pitbulls got left behind in the cities.
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14 Dec 20
The Gallery. 10th and Market.
I worked at the Chick-Fil-A there.

I have *stories.*

Also, that probably planted the earliest seeds of my class consciousness. Working fast food is like observing capitalism in miniature.
One time i was working the weekend of The Greek Picnic, jfc

There were six lines, 20 deep all day, from open til close

People in line pausing to get orders from their friends who were holding down tables for them
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14 Dec 20
since i'm going on a lot about Black people and class, i've been thinking a lot about "Coming To America" thru the lens of @DrMChatelain's book "Franchise," which at this point i will reference for no reason
Doc writes that in the late 1960s/early 1970s, McDonald's corporate, previously focused on suburban expansion, realized how much money it could make putting franchises in Black, inner-city neighborhoods. (read: because of food deserts and the like).
A lot of those first/early Black McDonald's owners became millionaires.

(and millionaires who thought of their wealth as part of the ascendant Black capitalism wave of the post-civil rights era)
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14 Dec 20
been thinking a lot about that Jack and Jill conversation on CH the other day

one thing that struck me was how odd it was to hear folks be so uncritical of an elite org/institution they belong to

the critiques of J&J were "PR problems," "misunderstandings," etc
i said this in one of the replies, but there's nothing about belonging to an institution that precludes being able to critique it

the people in the room seemed to fundamentally not understand what the critiques of the org were
"what's wrong with being elite?"

"we're not elitist. we're invite-only."

"why don't you start your own thing?"

this is y'all Talented Tenth?
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This is it.

At least one of the officers on the scene at the time of Breonna Taylor’s killing was wearing a body camera in Louisville.

The NYPD had a decades-old chokehold ban in place at the time of Eric Garner’s asphyxiation at the hands of the NYPD.

Etc.
More diverse cops? At the peak of NYPD’s stop-and-frisk (2011), cops made *684,000* stops.

abt NINETY PERCENT of those were of Black + Latino citizens; there were more stops of Black teenage boys in NYC than there *were* Black teenage boys in NYC.

The NYPD? Mostly nonwhite.
2011 stats here:

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