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3 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I’ll say this: of course rising gun violence is a concern. But why is gun violence only seen as a liberal/Democrat problem when mass shootings are up and Republicans continue to block any and all gun control legislation? That is called framing and is not about the reality.
Our job as journalists is not to stoke hysteria or parrot political talking points, but to provide facts, context and nuance.
I live in a city of more than 8 million and tv news in the largest city in the nation dedicates two-minute segments top of the hour on someone who got beaten up outside of a bodega.
Why does this matter? Because bad policy gets made that ultimately hurts the communities suffering the most from the violence.

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25 Jun
Worth the read. “Concocted right-wing panic about ‘critical race theory’ —which is actually a (mostly college-level) field concerned with systemic and institutional racism—has been weaponized by conservative activists as an amorphous, won’t-someone-think-of-the-children?”
“As with all right-wing panics, this one has come to assume the form of a media feedback loop: right-wing outlets have blown up outrageous-sounding anecdotes, driving attention as conservatives kick up a fuss at school-board meetings.”
“All the while, state-level Republican politicians are pushing restrictive education laws—just as they used Trump’s lies about the election as cover to push restrictive voting laws. As Hannah-Jones noted on MSNBC last week, the two types of legislation go “hand in hand.”
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24 Jun
This by @SidBedingfield gets at the heart of it: The tradition of the Black press has been to fight for and save democracy. No neutrality. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
I’ve spoken about this repeatedly. We’ve never had an objective press. And Black people could not pretend to objectivity in a nation that was actively legislating against their rights.
My only quibble here is that this wasn’t just happening in the white Southern press. White Northern newspapers advocated Northern Black Codes, segregation, keeping Black children out of public schools, and the expulsion of Black citizens. They also were complicit w Southern media
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20 Jun
All the writers who keep repeating as fact that the line in my #1619Project essay about slavery and the American Revolution is an error, are going to be really, really surprised when they see all the evidence and citations backing it up in the book when it published Nov. 16.
I've repeatedly listed the evidence, and the historians and historical texts backing up this assertion. The NYT issued a response of its own. I've posted essays and Twitter threads by other historians backing this assertion. Folks remain impervious to this, and that says a lot.
*when the book publishES Nov. 16.
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15 Jun
"1000s of educators & others gathered at historic locations in more than 20 cities to make clear that they would resist efforts in at least 15 Republican-led states to restrict what teachers can say in class about racism, sexism and oppression in America." washingtonpost.com/education/2021…
"In Iowa, where Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds this week signed legislation banning the teaching of “specific defined concepts,” including critical race theory, teachers say the law is already a chilling effect."
“I will say it’s already playing out,” sixth-grade teacher Monique Cottman said in an interview with Jesse Hagopian, a Seattle high school teacher and co-founder of Black Lives Matter at School."
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15 Jun
Powerful U.S. senators, in seeking to defend American freedom and values, are again trying to prohibit the teaching of the #1619Project, a work of American journalism protected by the First Amendment. cotton.senate.gov/news/press-rel…
@SenTomCotton: “Activists in schools want to teach our kids to hate America." My essay: I wish that I could go back to the younger me & tell her that her people’s ancestry started here, on these lands, and to boldly, proudly, draw the stars and those stripes of the American flag.
Only if one believes that the Black Americans fighting to force this country to live up to its founding ideals, who died expanding democracy and rights for all, are not real Americans, can one treat the #1619Project as teaching anyone to hate America.
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9 Jun
It's a failure of journalism if stories on the critical race theory "controversy" do not include the factual and contextual reporting that this is a well-planned Republican misinformation strategy and that nearly nothing being labeled critical race theory actually is CRT.
Like, basic reporting would demand that we make Republicans define critical race theory, and then we fact check that against what CRT actually is and whether CRT is actually being taught where and how Republicans claim.
Almost none of this reporting actually defines critical race theory, a clear indication that the reporters reporting on it do not actually really know what it is, nor does it question why everyone is "suddenly" talking about a legal theory that has been around for decades.
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