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13 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The crazy thing about this video is how the camera man just decided he was gonna film Toni and NO ONE ELSE.

But I really want to know what these four guys were doing. Did they plan this? Was this the first case of white swag surfing? I need answers!
I’m also interested in these 3 in the pink & white.

I know they got this from a mall kiosk but we need to know how many times they called each other to make sure they were “coming correct” (you know they said it). But, as usual, Sheila messed it up by wearing gray sweatshorts!
Did y’all know that was me rapping on this track?

Nah, I’m just kidding.

Or am I?

How would you know?

Also, I’m 96.4% sure that the man wearing the mustard-on-mustard suit in the background is an undercover cop.

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13 Nov
Warning: Graphic content

Last night's @ambermruffin show featured a segment on Alabama's prisons. Of course, we couldn't talk about everything but you should know it's crazy AF

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First of all, Alabama runs the deadliest prisons in America. The mortality rate in Alabama prisons is higher than cancer. Suicides are common. I got involved after I read a report by @eji_org and said WTF?

Soon, I was in contact with ppl on the inside.

theroot.com/everyone-knows…
When COVID first hit, I received a call from a family who hadn't heard from their incarcerated loved one. It turns out that he had caught COVID and was hospitalized.

He was Alabama's 1st inmate to die from COVID.
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28 Oct
I am big enough to admit when I am wrong

According to the new definition in some of the recently passed legislation, I found a few examples of schools and textbooks that promote Critical Race Theory in schools.

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First, let's agree that we shouldn't even argue about the 1800s. According to the CDC, the average life expectancy in the US is 78 years old, which means a 78-year-old would've entered school in 1949. But let's skip the 40s. In fact, let's skip the 1950s too.
Instead, every one of these examples of CRT is from the 1960s forward, which means the people who learned these lessons are statistically still living, most are still in the workforce, in fact, NO ONE who learned any of these CRT lessons are even old enough to get Social Security
Read 17 tweets
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26 Oct
Angela Bassett is Simone, a upper crust widow who rents out rooms in her New Orleans mansion

Samuel L Jackson is Bo “the Jokeman” Jones, a foul-mouthed comedian whose career is declining

Keke Palmer is Lizzy, a scammer-turned-hairstylist competing in the Bronner Bros convention
Damson Idris plays Simone’s nephew Herman Kittle II, a music prodigy who grew up in New Orleans’ Black Elite.

Simone hasn’t seen Deuce in years when he pops up in town and asks if his production company’s “artist” —a rapper named Trap Nigga the Plug—can crash for a few days
They’ll all be living in the same AirBnB for a week but they don’t sweat it because they each have different daytime missions.

The 4 eventually begin sharing their stories in the common room every night when they realize they share 1 mutual love:

Spades
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26 Oct
Ok, let’s not call it Critical Race Theory. We won’t even call it “Black History.” Instead, let’s accept the premise they propose.

So, how does American history look if K-12 social studies & history teachers don’t teach kids about racism white supremacy.

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In 1607, 104 Englishmen arrive in North America and almost starve to death.

Why did they come here?

Umm… We can’t let kids read the Jamestown Charter because they might see the ACTUAL WORDS describing the natives who already had a government & religion here as people who:
In 1619, some more people arrived. They weren’t quite indentured servants and they weren’t free.

What was the difference?

Well... If I showed you the ACTUAL LAWS, you might start to believe that America started out as a racist country. So let’s move on.
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12 Oct
I wonder what would happen if this story was told another way?

Like this, for instance:

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One time, there was this guy named Jon who was a coach for the Oakland Raiders. He was not racist. He worked with an executive named Bruce. Bruce was not racist, either. They were part of the NFL, which is also not racist.
But then Jon left and moved to Tampa and won a super bowl with the players from the previous coach’s team. The previous coach was Black.

When Jon started coaching his own players after the Super Bowl, his team was terrible. So he hired his executive friend who was not racist
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8 Oct
As someone who was in an G&T program, here’s what’s wrong with this take and MOST gifted and talented programs:

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First of all, we have to understand the difference between what these programs are SUPPOSED to do and what they actually do.

If there was a program that identified and challenged students who are actually gifted and/or talented, that would be a great thing… MAYBE
But these programs don’t do that. What they actually do is take a set of privileged kids and give them an educational advantage that lasts their entire life.

How?

First, let’sask ourselves: “who are these so-called ‘gifted and talented’ students?”

Good question: Image
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