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5 May, 4 tweets, 3 min read
We just discovered @cricri42 and are excited to share her heterodox views with you:

"Black. Woman. Uneducated, working-class background. These are some of the identities that are supposed to define me, that are supposed to give me a particular perspective in life."

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 "If we insist that all ideas are determined by identities, if we cannot transcend these identities thru the exercise of reason, if we cannot think beyond identity-prescribed interests, then there's no room for collective action & solidarity w/ others."
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And check out Christine Louis-Dit-Sully's new book, available later in May of this year:

*Transcending Racial Divisions*

"Identity-based anti-racism has become more of a hindrance than a solution for a better and freer world for us all."

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"The climate today is becoming increasingly restrictive for our own ideas & autonomy. I receive more abuse today from anti-racist activists than from racists because I do not follow the script my identity has laid out for me."

More by @cricri42:

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WE HAVE NEVER BEEN WOKE, due in 2023, should make *all* readers uncomfortable:

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25 Apr
The *2nd* poem published by someone of African descent in the future US, Jupiter Hammon:

AN Evening THOUGHT. SALVATION BY CHRIST, WITH PENETENTIAL CRIES: Composed by Jupiter Hammon, a Negro Belonging to Mr. Lloyd, of Queen's-Village, on Long-Island, the 25th of Dec., 1760.

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SALVATION comes by Jesus Christ alone,
The only Son of God;
Redemption now to every one,
That love his holy Word.
Dear Jesus we would fly to Thee,
And leave off every Sin,
Thy Tender Mercy well agree;
Salvation from our King.
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Salvation comes now from the Lord,
Our victorious King;
His holy Name be well ador’d,
Salvation surely bring.
Dear Jesus give they Spirit now,
Thy Grace to every Nation,
That han’t the Lord to whom we bow,
The Author of Salvation.
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20 Apr
👉 POWERFUL & timely essay by @JohnRWoodJr. Read the thread. It's may not be what you expected:

"We do need unity in America. We need peace & order. We need justice & the correcting of genuine social inequities. There is a path to this kind of unity. It is a painful path."

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"There is a price to be paid for what we sometimes call 'unity.' Sometimes, consciously or not, we use 'unity' to fashion societal arrangements that bury legitimate grievance and social dissent beneath consensus, where they may be comfortably ignored."
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"We may feel polarized in America along the axes of left and right, Black and white. But the core division that must be identified and spoken to in American life is the divide between the privileged and the marginalized—in ways that go beyond what you might think."
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"A case can be made that the correct narrative to adopt today is one of unabashed black patriotism—a forthright embrace of American nationalism by black people."

@GlennLoury's latest for @CityJournal

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The very first writing by a person of African descent in the future United States was "Bars Fight" (1746) by freedwoman Lucy Terry, c.1730–1821.

August, ’twas the twenty-fifth,
Seventeen hundred forty-six,
The Indians did in ambush lay,
Some very valient men to slay,

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The names of whom I’ll not leave out:
Samuel Allen like a hero fout,
And though he was so brave and bold,
His face no more shall we behold.

Eleazor Hawks was killed outright,
Before he had time to fight –
Before he did the Indians see,
Was shot and killed immediately.
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Oliver Armsden he was slain,
Which caused his friends much grief and pain.
Simeon Arsden they found dead
Not many rods distant from his head.

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"Robin DiAngelo has made a pretty penny insisting that white people should infantilize black people—and that black people should embrace victimhood (their own fragility)—to coax a racial reckoning."
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