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28 Jul, 7 tweets, 2 min read
THREAD: It's become clear to me in these recent conversations about Lil Nas X, Naomi Osaka, and Simone Biles, is that a lot of y'all are scared to see this generation of young Black people prioritize themselves above institutions and the gaze of whiteness.
Seriously, there are so many Black people who can't fathom what it means to simply say "no," to walk away, or not give a fuck.
To have the power to simply say no -- to prioritize your peace of mind, to say these "things" don't matter more than myself -- is something a lot of Black people have never had the opportunity or privilege or confidence to do.
I need for some of my elders and older folks who are passing judgment on BIles and others who are prioritizing their mental health above trying to be another "first" to reconsider course.

Black people deserve the right to be "on" and "off" at their own accord.
What we are witnessing now is a generation of Black people who have seen their parents and others give their all and still not be enough. How many Black queer people stayed in the closet only to end up lonely and disposable? How Black athletes "never gave up" and are now broke?
Black millennials and Gen Zers are saying fuck destroying myself to public consumption and they are proving they gone still be alright in the end.

It's okay, Boomers. Learn from this.
I dive deeper into this on my latest podcast episode of #ErnestlySpeaking.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ern…

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23 Jun
Watch Helen Gym use this in her mayoral campaign ads in 2023.

Save this tweet, remember it, because the pandering is going to reach all heights at this point.

She would rather pose as an activist than do more in City Council.
Of course white progressive Philly and Gym's paid staffers would flood my thread. I said what I said.

Gym got arrested and then turned around and chilled at Pork & Fork in Harrisburg right after.

Go chase headlines, not my tweets.
If you're an "urbanist" in Philly and you spend more time trying to out-woke Black people who are critical of your favorite progressives...you've failed the assignment and have turned into the very problem last summer's uprisings should have taught your white savior asses.
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23 Jun
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
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23 Jun
Shaun King's Real Justice PAC's momentum in trying to flip D.A. seats across the country is fading.

Their backing of Tahanie Aboushi did more harm than good as she's expected to lose big.

It's important to note that King tried act as though they got Krasner in Philly elected.
As I had tried to note in May, Krasner was going to win without the Real Justice PAC. Shaun King's behavior during the campaign has now gotten them both tied up in a lawsuit that has exposed questionable campaign spending.

King has tried to capitalize off of Krasner's win.
Shaun King spent time days after Krasner's campaign harassing journalists on social media trying to guilt trip them into shouting out Real Justice PAC.

He would later delete several of those tweets and many of them on his page as the lawsuit would be made public.
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22 May
ATTN: Y'all, Shaun King and his Real Justice PAC is now being sued and the receipts from this lawsuit are wild.

Some of these names look very familiar and some of these tactics do to. 👀
The part of this lawsuit that took me out was when it says that Krasner's campaign paid $91,000 to a Real Justice PAC co-founder's company called The Social Practice, LLC -- which operates from the SAME ADDRESS as Real Justice PAC.

The money was literally going in circles.
BASED ON THESE RECEIPTS: Krasner's campaign was paying EVERYBODY through the Real Justice PAC: Co-founder Becky Bond, political director Brandon Evans, Philly elected officials who endorsed him -- this shit is crazy!
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17 Mar
FYI: The fetishization & eroticization of people of color is ANOTHER FORM OF RACISM.

Some of y'all are watching porn so much that you have normalized this shit.

From BBC and Black bucks, to docile Asians and muy caliente Latinos -- the oversexualization is killing US.
When they try to say that this white man isn't racist -- but was driven by a sex addiction -- his sex addiction to Asian women was a fetishization. That sex and racism can't go hand-in-hand is ignorance.
As a Black queer man, I know what it's like to be fetishized for presumed sexual attributes that I don't personally invite to be violated.

But I have also heard Asians be erroticized in certain ways as well. It has and continues to be a form of racism society let's slide.
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17 Mar
THREAD: It's important for people to understand that these concerns around Tamika Mallory aren't new or unwarranted.

There's one particular incident during the Breonna Taylor protests in Louisville, Kentucky that a lot of people aren't talking about enough that raised red flags.
In July 2020, Tamika Mallory's Until Freedom organization rolled up in Louisville without coordinating and strategizing with local Black activist organizations on the ground, notably BLM Louisville.

She brought several of her celebrity reality TV star friends along the way.
Their plan was to stage a protest outside Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron's home.

During the protest, which featured outside camera crews and lots of social media traction that would later be used on reality TV shows like RHOA and Love & Hip Hop, it was a vanity fair.
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