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18 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
"Our Exclusive Program allows you to adopt a Full Caucasian baby only." - @everlastadopt πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™€οΈ So many things wrong, not enough space in a tweet. #adoption Image
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Stephanie κ²½μ„  Drenka πŸ‡°πŸ‡· Profile picture
15 Oct
A brief history of racism in #Southlake @Carrollisd 🧡 #flashbackfriday #texashistory #HB3979 Image
"By the 1860s, there were lots of things around here for settlers to fight- illness, insects, hardship, Comanche Indians, and starting in 1861, the Yankees." (Images of America: Southlake by Connie Cooley and the Southlake Historical Society) Image
Early Southlake settler Spencer Graham is lauded by the United Confederate Veterans (UCV) for "citizenship, military service, character, and Christian qualities." (Images of America: Southlake by Connie Cooley and the Southlake Historical Society) Image
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Stephanie κ²½μ„  Drenka πŸ‡°πŸ‡· Profile picture
15 Oct
For the past decade - and especially in recent years - I've said just about all I can about Southlake. @CarrollISD's actions speak for themselves. Some have asked why I keep fighting. And, on days like this, it is beyond exhausting.
@Carrollisd Do I think @CarrollISD leadership will somehow develop moral fortitude overnight and fight HB 3979? Absolutely not. If there's one thing I learned during my time in the district, it's that White Supremacy and bigotry run deep there. And power and wealth usually prevail.
@Carrollisd But what I also learned as a student at @CarrollISD is how devastating it can be to feel like you don't belong. And think that what is taught within those walls reflects the outside world. That there is no hope.
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Stephanie κ²½μ„  Drenka πŸ‡°πŸ‡· Profile picture
15 Oct
#FBF 🧡: Found my old "Letter to the Editor" submission which was published (heavily edited) in the now defunct Southlake Times. Dated September 8, 2009. #flashbackfriday @Carrollisd #Southlake
@Carrollisd I wrote this piece after learning @Carrollisd would not allow teachers to show @BarackObama's address to students during class. Parents had to remove them from school if they wanted their children to watch it.
@Carrollisd @BarackObama "This decision is less about time constraints and more about the collective closed-mindedness of a community. It is about the fear of exposing children to different ideals than they have heard at home-- that they might actually form opinions according to their own free will."
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Stephanie κ²½μ„  Drenka πŸ‡°πŸ‡· Profile picture
15 Oct
So many thoughts, not enough coffee yet πŸ’†πŸ»β€β™€οΈ He's apologizing for this incident making the news-not that they've been scaring teachers & gaslighting the community. The fact that they are going to continue implementing HB3979 & not fight it is the real problem. (Among many others)
If they actually "understood" (cared) about historical facts in books- they would not have allowed the school board to reprimand @farah_dragons in the first place. They chose the district's path in that terrifying moment. This was an inevitable conclusion.
Let's not forget that while the meeting Ledbetter refers to was taking place, he was busy telling parents that no such instruction was happening πŸ˜’
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Stephanie κ²½μ„  Drenka πŸ‡°πŸ‡· Profile picture
21 Sep
Exploiting an adoptee's trauma for entertainment is no better than adopted parents using their children's stories for personal gain. When we say listen to #adopteevoices, we mean directly from the source. #BoycottBlueBayou
Statement from @adam_crapser πŸ—£ #adopteevoices #boycottbluebayou Image
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18 May
In 1874, J.L. Chow opened Chow Chow Laundry at 904 Elm Street. He was the first person of Asian descent to be listed in the city directories. By 1891, 41/49 laundries in Dallas were Chinese-owned.
Fueled by decades of bigotry, a propaganda campaign was initiated against Chinese laundries by White competitors.

The Dallas Daily Times Herald ran an editorial in 1894: Danger in Inferior Laundries: Dallas Customers Cannot Be Too Careful Where They Send Their Soiled Clothing.
"… the employees of the inferior laundries referred to, run the risk of contracting some vile disease… The people should give white laundries a chance" texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/met…
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