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18 Apr, 7 tweets, 3 min read
People are only NOW beginning to recognize @TuckerCarlson’s white nationalist dog whistles.

Remember when the dude who rails against “cancel culture” told viewers to cancel @TheRoot because we criticized the “It’s Ok to be white” movement?

theroot.com/why-fox-news-l…
Or remember when he tried to start a race war after Joy Ried called him a white nationalist?

I wonder how she knew 3 years before everyone?

theroot.com/tucker-carlson…
Remember when he said white people weren’t “designed” to live around immigrants.

It’s almost like no one cared!

theroot.com/tucker-carlson…
Or when he went full white?

Never go “full white.”

theroot.com/the-caucasian-…
And lest you think I don’t really watch Fox News, unlike the “fake news media” who only like to report facts, I’ve actually watched Fox News

theroot.com/why-i-decided-…
And not just for a night

theroot.com/what-i-learned…
Of course, when Black people say “This dude is racist,” it doesn’t count until white people see it.

But NOW now that his ideas have been mainstreamed, we wish someone would’ve said something.

I’m sorry,

I was too busy “race baiting.”

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Michael Harriot Profile picture
19 Apr
Actually, they are.

But I'm willing to believe you are right if you can disprove all of the facts.
First, let's get 3 things out of the way.

1. Police disproportionately kill more Black people. That's just a fact. Between 2013 and 2020, police shot and killed Black people at a rate of 6.6 per million. They killed white people at a rate of 2.5 per million.

Prove me wrong. Image
2. It has nothing to do with crime or violence

Most police killings occur during traffic stops, mental health wellness checks or a nonviolent offense. Plus the rate of police killings don't correlate to violent crime rates in 49 of 50 major cities.

Again, prove me wrong ImageImage
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Michael Harriot Profile picture
17 Apr
This shouldn’t matter... But let me show you why it does:

A thread.
First, let’s see what some of the people who dismiss the idea of systemic racism were up to to today:

Take race scholar @CarmineSabia for instance. He predicted that the shooter couldn’t possibly be white. Then again, he has a history of knowing a lot about racism
A lot of people said the cops were protecting the mass murderer because he was a person of color.

Now I don’t think that’s quite how America works but, who am I to judge geniuses soothsayers like @BuzzPatterson, who also predicted the shooter’s race

He is a noted racism expert
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Michael Harriot Profile picture
10 Apr
This is a incident is terrible but this reporting is wrong.

When cops tells someone they’re gonna “ride the lightning,” it means they’re gonna get TASED, not executed.

abc11.com/virgina-police…
It’s also why you should have a few more Black people in your newsroom instead of watching Tom Hanks movies.
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Michael Harriot Profile picture
3 Apr
I love this tweet.

Always remember the technical term for cowboys like Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill is: "white cowboys."

The first cowboys were Africans in South Carolina...

Until white South Carolinians panicked.

A thread:
First, you gotta remember that the first English colonies like Jamestown were basically a failure. It turns out, the rich aristocrats who came over weren't good at doing stuff.

"Stuff" includes farming, hunting, and even getting here.

The only reason they survived is welfare.
That's right. They basically depended on the indigenous natives for food for the first few years. It got so bad that the white people started eating their belts, their clothes & each other.

So who were the savages?

smithsonianmag.com/history/starvi…
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Michael Harriot Profile picture
1 Apr
Under the new law, 40% of NY’s marijuana revenue would go to “minority” communities, which seems GREAT.

That ain’t enough.

One of the untold stories is how cops use weed laws to target Black people. You might THINK you know, but you don’t.

A thread:
nytimes.com/2021/03/31/nyr…
Let's get this out of the way:

Young white people use more ILLEGAL drugs than damn near anyone in 'murica. I know. It seems like it CAN'T be true. It always was.

Now, of course, you might have read that Blacks and whites use drugs "at about the same rate. "

That's WAS true
But now that a MAJORITY of states have legalized and decriminalized some form of marijuana, weed is no longer technically an ILLEGAL drug.

And weed was the category where Black people kinda kept up with whites. In the other categories, whites were running away with the race
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28 Mar
Before Brian Kemp...
Before Reconstruction
Before America
Even before 1619

Black people were fighting for liberation and equality in Georgia.

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In 1521, Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón landed on the present-day SC coastline on a land-stealing reconnaissance trip for Spain. While looking around, some of his crew stole one of the indigenous people and loaded him on a ship.

Of course, they gave him a white name – Francisco.
They took him to Spain so they could get the Spanish King to grant them exclusive rights to the land that neither of them owned.

Frank assured the King that his people would welcome the white colonizers with open arms because he was willing to vouch for them, so they returned.
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