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17 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This is why the late Derrick Bell, ⁦@sandylocks⁩ and other Black legal scholars created the REAL critical race theory: because the criminal “justice” system in America has never been blind to race. Indeed, quite the opposite. nytimes.com/2021/11/17/nyr…
These men were robbed of their lives, not by accident: but rather, on purpose.
And this sacred system of ours, also failed to protect the life of Malcolm X.
But tell me again how the REAL problem is that Ruby Bridges’ story doesn’t show enough “redemption” for the people who tried to shout, bully and terrorize her out of going to school… or that Toni Morrison’s books are too descriptive of enslaved people’s pain and misery.

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Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 Profile picture
17 Nov
People seem shocked, given how craven they have been in bowing before the likes of Donald Trump, how eagerly they have embraced misogyny, bounty hunting women, book banning, anti-immigrant hysteria, anti-Blackness and even fascism, that Republicans remain so politically viable.
The idea that so many people would ignore all of that, and even shrug off the potential end of democracy and its replacement with fascism and autocracy simply because they are annoyed by late Amazon deliveries or sick of wearing masks or angry about price hikes seems off to some.
It shouldn’t. The truth is, Democrats are almost always at a disadvantage because they are the party of government, while Republicans are the party of messaging and memes and feelings. They don’t really DO government; they do tax cuts for the rich and complain about government.
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3 Nov
Dunno who needs to hear this but McAuliffe’s problem wasn’t that Dems didn’t pass Manchin-Sinema’s infrastructure bill. Had that passed, the people who would disproportionately benefit: white guys who work construction & owners of big contract firms, would still vote 65/35 GOP.
It’s the OTHER bill — the one they nuked parental leave, college debt repayment and a major climate provision out of — that actually would help the people who mainly vote for Democrats: minority, young and single women, working class POC, white collegians… you know: their base.
McAulliffe’s problem was that A) the overall mood narrative is bad for Dems & Biden, and B) Youngkin, like the Republican he is, filled the vacuum with inchoate fear of threats to the cherished historical narrative of a glorious history of unbroken white Christian great/goodness.
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30 Oct
A thread. The "activist parents" fighting the bogeyman they have named "critical race theory" object to the teaching of history that paints anyone white in a negative light. They demand a version of U.S. history that uplifts white historical figures as both innocent and heroic.
They claim that they must have this because it's the only way to salvage the self-esteem of white children, whose spirits would be utterly broken were they to discover that there were mean white people in America's history. This isn't much of a vote of confidence in their kids...
So how do these supposedly grassroots "activists," allegedly completely unsullied by astroturf political organizations posing as intellectual outfits like the Claremont Institute, propose to teach slavery or the civil war, presuming they want them taught in public schools at all?
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Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 Profile picture
29 Oct
.@CoriBush w/ a crucial point tonight: w/o BBB, the infrastructure bill crafted by an all-white group of Republicans & Democrats leaves behind the Black, brown, indigenous and AAPI voters, especially women, who put Biden and that Senate majority in power.
msnbc.com/the-reidout/wa…
It's pretty simple: picture the side of a road where the work crews are, or the big infrastructure jobs in your community. Who gets those huge, lucrative contracts & jobs? Now ask yourself: who largely does elder care, works in daycares and gets hit hardest by the climate crisis?
Here's a hint: the latter are overwhelmingly women... commonwealthfund.org/blog/2020/invi…
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23 Oct
Slavery in the Americas was an unmitigated evil. Everyone who indulged in it, ok’d it or went to war to preserve it was a villain. Period. That fact shouldn’t hurt anyone’s feelings. But it should make you feel a certain way about how American institutions evolved because of it.
If you have slavery-based wealth, you have slavery-based wealth. You can’t expect the descendants of those who your people exploited to create that wealth to manage the emotional toll that fact takes on you. They aren’t required to make you feel better about that. Not their job.
And the descendants of the despoiled have no obligation to coddle and cuddle the descendants of the spoilers, or to make excuses for them, or to laud fake “heroes” (who in reality were villains) or preserve their statuary to boost your self-esteem. It’s literally not on them.
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21 Oct
To be very clear: the coal industry is dying. Joe Manchin can’t save it any more than Donald Trump could. Worse, West Virginia politicians are propping the rotting husk of that industry up by pushing higher electric bills on widely poor West Virginians. mountainstatespotlight.org/2021/03/11/wes…
And he’s not alone. You know why Manchin thinks “bipartisanship” is real? Because in his state there is a bipartisan determination to artificially prop up coal by any means necessary, even at the expense of capitalism and common sense. Of course socialism for Big Coal is cool 👍🏿
And it’s not like there isn’t another choice. West Virginia could get off the mat by leaning more into the very clean energy alternatives Manchin is demanding be stricken from the Build Back Better bill. West Virginians would benefit, but not coal companies. So…
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