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@DrBryanLeyva

May 24, 2021 • 15 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X

Tomorrow marks one year since police killed George Floyd.

Just in 2021 alone, police have killed 414 people.

So you tell me, how much progress have we made? 🧵

In 2020, police killed 1,127 people.

Black people made up 28% of these cases, despite being only 13% of the population. 2/14

Officers were charged with a crime in only 16 of these 1,127 cases. 3/14

Police are on track to kill as many people this year as they did last year. 4/14

Police kill Black people the most. 5/14

From 2013-2020, Chicago police killed Black people at 22x the rate of white people.

Read that again. 6/14

Police kill people everywhere, not only in urban centers. 7/14

Police kill people almost every day of the year.

Literally. 8/14

People who police kill are not bad people. 9/14

Most police killings start with traffic stops and mental health checks.

Yes, you read correctly: mental health checks. 10/14

Police kill people and get away with it.

But you know this already. 11/14

Police kill people in every state. No state is exempt. 12/14

Permissive gun laws and police shootings go hand in hand. 13/14

Today, the U.S. collectively spends $100 billion a year on policing and an additional $80 billion on incarceration.

Defund the police.

Invest in communities.

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Mar 9, 2023

Many Latinos have an identity crisis when they’re asked to comment on their race. Like most countries outside the U.S., Latinos tend to identify with their nationality, and when asked to comment on their race they either say Latino (even though that’s not a racial category), 1/13

they say they are white (since many are white presenting, 80% of US Latinos are lighter skin), or they rather not answer (bc they feel don’t know their racial background/composition/heritage and that creates cognitive dissonance I.e identity crisis). This ‘not knowing’ is 2/13

a direct result of slavery, colonization,and deliberate policies of blanqueamiento (racial whitening practices to “improve” the race towards whiteness) and mestizaje (planned racial mixing with the purpose of minimizing the nonwhite part of the population) in Latin America. 3/13

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Mar 8, 2023

Did you know that there is a proposal to stop the counting of AfroLatin@s?

It is true that both race and ethnicity are social constructions; however, Latinos/Hispanics are comprised of many races! Pretending that Blackness exists outside of the Latino/Hispanic ethnicity 1/11

would contribute to AfroLatin@ erasure and anti-Blackness in this country.

Help us oppose this proposal!

Here are 5 ways you can take action RIGHT NOW 👉🏾 2/11

1. Get educated - Join us TOMORROW for an important bi-lingual conversation moderated by Dash Harris with Dr. Nancy López, Dr. Tanya Katerí Hernández and Dr. Zaire Dinzey-Flores as they discuss how proposed changes to counting AfroLatin@s could have dire implications. 3/11

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Jul 22, 2022

Pediatrician here. I’m seeing a lot of misinformation about the polio vaccine so I wanted to clear a few things up. Ninety nine out of every 100 people who get the polio vaccine series will be protected from polio, which is why doctors recommend everyone get vaccinated. 1/10

The polio vaccine was available in the U.S. in 1955. Thanks to widespread use, the U.S. has been polio-free since 1979. Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) is the only polio vaccine that has been given in the U.S. since 2000. IPV is given by shot in the leg or arm. 2/10

Oral polio vaccine (OPV) is used in other countries where polio is more of a threat. It uses a weakened live virus that is given to children as drops in the mouth. In rare instances, the weakened virus can mutate into a form capable of sparking new outbreaks. 3/10

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Jul 21, 2022

Here’s my critique of the U.S Latin dance community. My Colombian friend who grew up dancing salsa all their life shouldn’t feel “out-of-place” at your Salsa night. My Dominican friend who grew up dancing bachata shouldn’t feel out-of-place at your Bachata night. 1/8

Yet, this happens all the time.

And it’s not bc y’all have some formal training and they can’t keep up. Or bc you dance better.

You don’t.

I have yrs of training and can reassure you of that. Yet, I go to these places and see how y’all move and don’t want any part of it. 2/8

Many of you whitewash our dances and water down our culture, and in your quest towards “mastery” fail to create spaces where real people from those communities feel included/represented. It’s wild to me to go these spots and see folk from every other ethnic group except ours. 3/8

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Jul 21, 2022

Bachata

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Jul 21, 2022

Somebody had to say it. Stop making a distinction between Dominican #bachata and other forms of bachata. Bachata IS #Dominican 🇩🇴
🎯 Melanie Centeno

@melanymovez: “MAKE BACHATA DOMINICAN AGAIN!!! 🇩🇴

CAUSE THIS IS NOT BACHATA!!

Nothing against these dancers because how they moved was absolutely beautiful. And they also are not aware of their participation of the white washing of our culture.”

“But I watched that video and I saw a fusion of about 4 or 5 different styles of Latin partnering with a Bachata basic here and there.

Can we vote on calling this something different?

Because Bachata is a cultural style that belongs to a people. DOMINICAN PEOPLE.”

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