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@AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @AlsoACarpenter

@AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @AlsoACarpenter Anti-Asian?

"The late Harvard law professor Derrick Bell is credited as the father of #criticalracetheory. He began conceptualizing the idea in the 1970s as a way to understand how race and American law interact, and developed a course on the subject ...

@AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @AlsoACarpenter "In 1980, Bell resigned his position at #Harvard because of what he viewed as the institution’s discriminatory hiring practices, especially its failure to hire an Asian American woman he’d recommended."

#CriticalRaceTheory

theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

@AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @AlsoACarpenter "As with other academic frameworks before it, the nuances of #criticalracetheory—and the debate around it—were obscured when it escaped the ivory tower. It first entered public discourse in the early 1990s, when President Bill Clinton nominated the University of Pennsylvania Law

@AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @AlsoACarpenter ... School professor Lani Guinier to run the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Republicans mounted an aggressive and ultimately successful campaign to prevent her appointment, tagging her the “Quota Queen.”

theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

@AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @AlsoACarpenter Though if we want to get technical about it, African Americans have endured centuries of an ideology that was specifically birthed, assembled, and weaponized to break them: White Supremacy.

And, that same satanic monster; would later murder six million Jews.

@AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @AlsoACarpenter If we can discuss The Holocaust (and other things) without much trouble in our public schools; why can't we engage "the largest forced oceanic migration in human history" --- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?

@AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @AlsoACarpenter Why must African American history be censored, revised for "lily-white" Republican politics?

@AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @AlsoACarpenter But, there is another part of history that perhaps, Democrats need to put on the negotiation table -- a part of GOP history that Republicans have censored: "The Lily-White Movement" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily-whit… .

Why isn't this taught in schools?

@AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @AlsoACarpenter Why African Americans left the Republican Party

"This decline can be attributed to a general upswing in Lily-White challenges across the South – initiated with President Herbert Hoover’s blessing ."

https://twitter.com/blackrepublican/status/1378101365667422209

@AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @AlsoACarpenter In a world where black people are told to “get over” our history from lily-white DEPLORABLE monsters decked out in fucking confederate flags — we are obligated to defend the beautiful aspects of dissimilar narrative, and say, "diversity has value".

@AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @AlsoACarpenter Conformity isn't Diversity.

@AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @AlsoACarpenter And, that "envy" isn't new. That envy had been weaponized against African Americans before.

It was used to steal the Southern Republican Party from Black people.

@AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @AlsoACarpenter "The Negro troubles are resulting in the great masses of colored people shutting out WHITE #immigration. There is but one way to Republican success, and that is that the WHITE REPUBLICAN come forward and take charge.”

— 1884, Lily White Republican Leader

@AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @AlsoACarpenter Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968 amazon.com/dp/1107158435/…

@AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @AlsoACarpenter "In regard to being invited into the party we wish to say that the Anglo-African does NOT have to be invited into the Republican party. He has no doubt been too loyal. It was the Anglo-Saxon who was invited into the ranks of the party."

@AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @AlsoACarpenter "[The Lily-White Republicans] came in and took possession and shut the door on the Anglo-African."

Respectfully, S.H. VICK

@AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @AlsoACarpenter "Father characterized the promoters of the warfare as THIEVES."

"Father asked no quarter in the coming struggle and would give none. The White Republicans, angered, attempted to influence the colored delegates to split on the color question."