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3 Nov, 5 tweets, 3 min read
If you're not already watching it, #colininblackandwhite is FANTASTIC.
Seeing where he started, especially the lack of racial awareness in his home, makes his journey all the more remarkable to me.
Seeing how hard Colin Kaepernick worked for his lifelong dream to be a quarterback - knowing what he was willing to risk later for his ideals, and what he lost...WHEW.

#ColininBlackandWhite has me in my feelings.
Besides the story itself, #ColininBlackandWhite is just so immaculately told, blending his personal story and history. Congrats @Kaepernick7 and @ava for bringing this story to such vivid, stinging, triumphant life.

I may be able to find joy watching the NFL again.
But not yet
"shut up and play" =

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My 16-year-old son, who is on his high school football team, FINALLY acknowledged to me that he knows I'm the one who taught him how to throw a football spiral! He has been disputing this for years.
No, his team is not playing during Covid. But they do have no-contact practices now.
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I’m reading @Stephen King’s THE STAND as a part of #thestandpodcast & and I’m close to the end, where the Free Zone characters (the Good Side) are meeting the fear-motivated followers of Randall Flagg (the Bad Side)…and I'm again struck by parallels in our true-life plague 1/ Image
Covid isn't Captain Trips. We lucked out. But this "shambling zombie" virus is having a devastating impact in the U.S. because of Covid denial and Tr*mp's epic failure to lead.

This week, one of my RTs drew a bunch of trolls & I visited denier profiles as I was blocking them...
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About to see CATS.

I don’t often see movies because they’re supposed to be terrible...but when I do, I make it a movie that’s supposed to be EPICALLY terrible.
I just hope I won’t traumatize myself like I did the time I saw the last Alien movie TWICE because I’d promised I’d see it with Steve...and I’d already seen it without him.
y'all

y'all

CATS is so bad. It broke me.

I literally had tears streaming down my face. I was still laughing like a lunatic in the bathroom stall afterward.

Me in the third act trying not to laugh so I wouldn't "ruin" the movie for someone near me who might be enjoying it
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Please follow and amplify the #JoshuaBrown hashtag.
This courageous witness was found shot to death after testifying against former police officer Amber Guyger for murdering #BothamJean.

Please learn about this story and share it.

dallasnews.com/news/crime/201…

#BlackLivesMatter
UPDATE: This #JoshuaBrown story gets more troubling as I learn more:

"Merritt wrote in a Facebook post Saturday night that the medical examiner told him Brown was shot in the mouth and chest."

cnn.com/2019/10/05/us/…
Remember that we still do not have an official report on where #JoshuaBrown was shot.

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Please don’t expect the people who have sacrificed and fought white supremacy for generations to do your work now that it has come to your attention.
First, retire the sentence “This is not our country.” Read the history books. Watch some documentaries.

Of course we can be better, but not if we can’t acknowledge what we have been. This history is tied to the guns. How Tr*mp rose to power. Why so many are complicit.
White supremacy only felt like it had “gone underground” to people it wasn’t affecting.
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