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THREAD: Here's the definitive list of over 40 names you can call Shaun King that are spot on.

1) Talcolm X
2) Thurgood Partial
3) W.E.B. Du Blanc
4) Martin Luther Cream
5) Hueless P. Newton
6) Fraudrick Douglass
7) Mayo Angelou
8) Stevia Wonder
9) Scamuel L. Jackson
10) Honkey Kong
11) Snow J. Simpson
12) Jaleel White
13) Bet-He White
14) Thurgood Marshmellow
15) Richard Dolezal
16) Whack Panther
17) Ghost Malone
18) Martin Luther Keyboard
19) Iggy Apalea
20) Chalka Con
21) T'Chalka
22) Pale Revere
23) Powder Ranger
24) Harriet Taupeman
25) Nelson Manyellow
26) Stevie Wonderbread
27) Cream Abdul-Jabbar
28) Tupac Sugar
29) Crooker T. Washington
30) Milk Chamberlain
31) GoFundMe Washington Carver
32) Reverend Jesse Fraction
33) Django Uncolored
34) Count Chalkula
35) James Pearl Jones
36) Alexander Scamulton
37) Albino Sharpton
38) Blankson Hughes
39) Neil DeGrasse Youwhiteson
40) Taupe Bruh Winfrey
41) Louis Fairaskin
42) Samuel L. Nonblackson
43) James Fraudwin

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Jul 23
After last night via #WinWithBlackMen, I'm not participating in these over-indexed, over-embellished, anti-Black, bad faith, and inaccurate depictions of Black male voters in the press.

I haven't seen in my adulthood Black men mobilize so rapidly to fundraise for a presidential candidate like I saw last night. And I know they've never done so with the same rigor for a Republican presidential candidate in the modern era.
So to those still trying to divide us, knock it off. The grifting has got to stop. The conflation to fit your desperate narratives to create reaching think-pieces for a slither of relevance has run its course.

For every outlier some detractors would like to use to falsely paint a generalization of Black male voters -- let last night be a big joker in the game of spades they won't win on.
I don't care what that random rapper, blogger, podcaster, got to say. Last night, I saw Black fathers, husbands, teachers, college students, pastors, politicians, union leaders, entertainers, fraternity brothers, scholars, service workers, get on a call and help support a Black woman's campaign to the White House.

Some will spend all day dismissing this effort with conflation about what other things we could have done with our money -- but at the end of the day, we showed up with the same energy as Black women voters did the night before with passion.
Read 4 tweets
May 19, 2023
THREAD: As the dust begin to settle, and people begin to truly accept the reality of the results -- it's become clear that White Progressives (and their apologists) were the real problem.

They went from being Bernie Bros rooting for Helen Gym into Karens whining -- here's why.
For starters, there's been a lot of racist rhetoric used to try to make excuses for why Gym has lost.

No, it wasn't because Cherelle Parker had "low-information" voters -- it's because she won the Black vote -- something that other candidates didn't truly invest their time in.
Black voters made the difference in this election. Whether they were rich or poor -- the vast majority of them backed Cherelle Parker over everyone else.

There are more Black Philadelphians than any other race of people in this city.

Some of y'all have forgotten this.
Read 24 tweets
May 17, 2023
THREAD: Right now, as these results continue to come out one thing is for certain -- these far-left progressives are taking a massive ass whooping at the polls.

The national appeals, social stunts, nasty tactics, attacks on the local press did more harm than good.

As I knew.
Philly politics is local, you can't run a citywide race as a national candidate.

I tried to tell folks that races will be won on the ground, not online solely.

Some spent so much time pushing moral platitudes than strategic campaigning.

They didn't read the room at all.
While progressives were divided, the establishment got tighter -- capitalizing off of the division to galvanize around pragmatic candidates.

They banked on low voter turnout and it paid off for them in an already tight race.

Congratulations, y'all played yourselves.
Read 8 tweets
Jul 3, 2022
Getting to the point of your career (and life) when you feel like you don't have anything to prove anyone -- but yourself -- is awesome.

The shit that used to irk you years ago, simply become less contentious.

People will talk. Let them. Shit isn't moving anything over here.
I've used this "July 4th" weekend to simply reflect and relax.

Not in celebration of this joke ass holiday, but to be still and process things altogether.

The one constant variable was that shit got done IN SPITE of the noise.

That's really the key.
The older I've gotten, the more I've resisted the urge to explain myself (personally) or my "plan."

90% of those who don't get it, still won't get it -- and I've come to accept that many are just seeking answers vicariously.
Read 6 tweets
May 10, 2022
In an impressively surprising move, @PhillyTrib, the oldest-running Black newspaper in America, has endorsed @JohnFetterman for U.S. Senator.

The primary is one week away. Sparks continue to fly.
phillytrib.com/commentary/in-…
As a Black journalist in Philadelphia who has been covering this senate race, I'm not surprised by this endorsement.

If people focused on the data, and not the negative campaign attack optics, Fetterman had been polling well with Black voters throughout this campaign.
I've tried to explain to national observers throughout this race that if you're not talking to Black voters on the ground (and those who are covering it) you won't understand what's really going on.

Lamb hasn't garnered enough traction with Black voters over Fetterman.
Read 5 tweets
May 5, 2022
Kevin Samuels has made a career off of shamelessly disgracing Black women for profit.

He emboldened the most toxic individuals to project tired and harmful narratives about Black women.

Dead or alive, what a disgraceful life to live.

That's all I've got for that misogynist.
We are entering a moment in time when the most marginalized are tired of "getting along just to get along" with our oppressors.

We're throwing hands, we're cursing them out in real time, we're shaming them for all of the violent things they continue to do.

Bring it on.
Black LGBTQIA people, Black women, and Black people who protect and defend us don't own any Black person within our community who afflict us any solidarity, care, consideration, respect, and/or grace.

You're no "family" of mine if you are actively trying to come for us. Period.
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