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13 Dec, 3 tweets, 3 min read
In the 1870s, thousands of newly freed Black Americans were shut out of Mexico's campaign for immigration because the country's officials desired "civilized" white immigrants. #juancrow #ADOS

When Mexicans Feared [Black] American Immigration
politico.com/magazine/story…
"Civilized white immigrants"
Most enslaved people in Texas were brought by white families from the southern United States. A smaller number of enslaved people were brought via the international slave trade, though illegal since 1806. #juancrow #ADOS thestoryoftexas.com/discover/campf…
Mexican-Americans attempt to conflate any kind of discrimination with the Jim Crow era is a horrific revision of American history. Especially when Mexico refuses to officially acknowledge the existence of Afro-Mexican descendants of slavery in their country. #juancrow #ADOS

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End of wk 2 - I've exchanged emails with #lilyiep team all week. To no avail. In 3 of those emails I asked for another meeting to discuss lack of progress reports and adherence to her schedule but at this point it seems like they refuse to meet again until after the 6 wk mark.
I found a couple more resources which I'll link in my #iep source thread. There's a thing called IEP Advocates. Apparently we need one bc the team at Lily's school is a mess. I feel like I started out overzealous and wrong in thinking this wouldn't be a hard process.
However I did finally see the reports from her teachers used in the initial decision to deny an evaluation. Which, I must add, the details of weren't discussed in the 1st two #lilyiep team meetings.
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10 Dec
37 million Black or African Americans lived in the United States in 2019. 12% of the population at the time. Yet they were overrepresented in high-risk populations. Approx 40% of the homeless, 50% of prison inmates and 45% of children in foster care. columbiapsychiatry.org/news/addressin…
According to U.S. Department of HUD the number of homeless people increased to 567,715 in 2019 – the highest level since 2014. At 40%, Black people accounted for over 225,000 of the total amount. statista.com/statistics/727…
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Source: US Bureau of Justice Statistics. statista.com/statistics/203…
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2 Dec
MUST READ THREAD!!!

We've come to a time in the United States where any non-historical, stagnant analysis of the racial wealth gap is outdated in 3-6 months. White wealth has been growing at lightening speed for years.
@tonetalks provided an excellent breakdown of the Federal Reserve's "Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. Since 1989"

Wealth 101: From Biden to Obama - the Truth about Boomer Wealth Transfers to Millennials #ADOS #ADOSAF
It inspired me to go back thru the chart & I took note of a few patterns. From 1990-2001, white wealth grew at about $1 trillion/yr, with exceptions in 1997 & 1999. 2002 is 1st yr in over a decade where whites had a loss of $0.88 trillion. federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/da…
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30 Nov
10 days have passed since the reparations coalition panel w/o another peep from them or any local media coverage of the event. Why is that? #kansascity
Black Americans in Kansas City AND across the nation are having increasingly specific discussions about what reparations should be yet those discussions are rarely reflected in media. Next to never in Kansas City's local news coverage. Again, why is that? #reparations #ADOS
Asking rhetorically, of course. I KNOW why. Although I thought were supposed to expect more from the likes of @cvoiceks @kcur @kcbeacon #thecall @KCDefender @TheFastPitch
Our city government is no better. They have yet to publicly advocate for targeted redress to Black Americans.
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21 Nov
Can we have an honest discussion about risks migrating parents put their kids thru when they illegally cross into the United States?

How should the U.S. react to parents who put their kids in such danger?

Here's an ABC news article abt the Darien Gap. abcnews.go.com/International/…
More horror stories of what migrants experience as they attempt to come to the United States, illegally.

The Darién Gap: "A nightmare with 1,001 demons" doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/new…
It's not just Panama.

An account of illegal migration thru Veracruz:

MOST DANGEROUS JOURNEY: WHAT CENTRAL AMERICAN MIGRANTS FACE WHEN THEY TRY TO CROSS THE BORDER
amnestyusa.org/most-dangerous…
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Today I've seen a few threads about mental health in the ADOS community. I have some thoughts. Last year the pandemic took a toll on everyone BUT ADOS were set up to be hit especially hard. We always are. We already endure yrs & yrs of untreated trauma from racism.
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Over the last yr, my daughter & I went thru the pandemic schedule changes, loss of friends, rearranged custody, divorce, deaths in the family. A LOT. I honestly didn't have the capacity to deal (alone) I didn't know what to do about how life was affecting us. I sought counsel.
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