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3 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Watching Summer of Soul on @hulu and so hyped. It took place in 1969, the same summer as Woodstock. But was forgotten like so much of our history. Searching for my mom and my Auntie Dolly, who were living in Brooklyn then, in those crowds.
And can we just talk for a moment about how accurate Stevie Wonder’s chosen name is??
Thank you @questlove for bringing us this treasure, summerofsoul 🙅🏿‍♀️❤️
We weren’t yet free in 1969, but we gave freedom HELL. 🙅🏿‍♀️✊🏿❤️

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Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 Profile picture
3 Jul
It’s just one of the delicious ironies of life that the Star Spangled Banner, which became the National Anthem because one of our most white nationalist presidents liked his daughter’s recorded version, commemorates the war of 1812 that produced the first sacking of the Capitol.
And the people screeching the loudest against the “Black National Anthem” — Lift Evry Voice And Sing — written first as a poem in 1900 to commemorate Abe Lincoln’s birthday, probably are cool with the 1/6 Capitol Siege, and Lincoln wouldn’t even recognize them as Republicans.
Here’s a good history of the National Anthem (which has only been that since Congress ok’d it in 1931, affirming Woodrow Wilson’s 1916 executive order. Of course, the Daughters of the Confederacy make their usual appearance... washingtonpost.com/history/2020/1…
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1 Jul
There's a symmetry between the Republican push to remove the Voting Rights Act's protections of voters of color and the frantic drive to protect the whitewashed history that has prevailed since the confederate generals dictated how we would remember the civil war & its aftermath.
Taken as a whole, the moves by the six Roberts court conservatives and Republicans in statehouses, localities and congress would banish all memory of America's abuse of nonwhite people and then freeze in place every advantage that this historic abuse created for white citizens.
It all goes back to this fear of demographic change and the drive to protect a constituency that John Roberts and Alito seem to be as focused on as McConnell and Trump: white conservative Christians, who they seem to believe deserve the advantages, as the "real" Americans.
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30 Jun
You’re embarrassing yourself, Kevin. Your party has embraced authoritarian white nationalism as a “base strategy,” defended treasonous confederate monuments and absorbed the old Dixiecrats. Teaching accurate history is what a mature country does. And you have no clue what CRT is.
Query your members. Kevin.
And read a book. This quote should help get you started:

“White Democrats will desert their party in droves the minute it becomes a black party.”
Kevin Phillips, The Emerging Republican Majority, 1969

forbes.com/sites/chrislad…
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29 Jun
Important read by ⁦@JRubinBlogger⁩ —“The most authoritarian-inclined Americans tend to be over age 45, live in rural areas and don’t have a college degree. This is the profile of the GOP base, not coincidentally.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
A Morning Consult poll finds that “26% of the U.S. population qualified as highly right-wing authoritarian, Morning Consult research found, twice the share of the No. 2 countries, Canada and Australia.”
And the core of the authoritarian movement on the American right, (which frankly is tipping into fascist territory per folks as ideologically disparate as @BillKristol & @mehdirhasan) is among conservative white evangelicals, as @PRRIpoll researcher @robertpjones explains:
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28 Jun
Ok SO THIS IS MY JAM. Ladies First. Come on Queen Latifah and Monie Love!! 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿 #BETAwards
For those unaware…
Iconic. 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
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24 Jun
Defund the police? Republicans at this stage refuse to DEFEND the police who fought the insurrectionists in hand-to-hand combat, and they want to defund the FBI and the military over a made-up, twisted version of an 80s legal theory, because they hate the idea of anti-racism.
And their media is hiding these facts from their captive audience…
“Defund the military” is literally the Trumpist right’s new thing. And they’re using this fake but ugly war against anti-racism as their cudgel. Take that in for a moment. Fight anti-racism by defunding our troops! politico.com/news/2021/06/2…
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