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31 Dec 21, 5 tweets, 2 min read
One of the most memorable moments of 2021 was definitely when I was arrested at the US Senate offices during a voting rights demonstration.
There are no “good old days” to go back to. The machines in Black neighborhoods never worked the way they do in white ones. The voting lines in Black neighborhoods have always been longer.
And voting has always been inaccessible to so many who can’t afford to take the day off work, access childcare and more.
But so much of the progress we have won happened because of people who expanded our idea of what was possible. And I believe we can win by growing our numbers and making our voices too loud to ignore.
That starts with demanding our elected leaders to #AbolishTheFilibuster and pass critical voting rights legislation. Sign the petition. jimcrowfilibuster.com

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30 Nov 21
Tomorrow, I’ll be testifying in front of the House @EnergyCommerce committee about #Section230 — talking about how to make #BigTech liable for the problems they cause instead of making all of us pay for it.
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I want to thank the Committee of Energy and Commerce for holding this hearing and introducing the Justice Against Malicious Algorithms Act, the Safe Tech Act, and the Civil Rights Modernization Act, each one of which is crucial for addressing the harms wrought by #BigTech.
The tech industry doesn't get to have its own rules. Like with any industry: self-regulation always turns out to mean no regulation, and unregulated corporations makes our problems worse, not better.
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19 Nov 21
The #RittenhouseVerdict is not just wrong, it’s dangerous. Rittenhouse represents a type of violence that is only going to target more and more people over time.
Every day, movements for justice lead efforts to reduce violence — to change all the rules in society that incentivize it. But white leaders must confront the white people whose decisions create this violence.
This system was built by many people and it will take many people to dismantle and rebuild it. White leaders must step up. Everyone has a role to play — no one can say, “this is not my problem.”
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19 Nov 21
I'm disappointed but not at all surprised

Kyle Rittenhouse went to an active protest with an AR because he wanted conflict. He found it, and he killed people. And because the American justice system wants people like him to be able to do things like this, he now walks free.
The #RittenhouseVerdict is the result of an entire system designed to prop up white supremacy. Starting from the moment police officers let Rittenhouse walk away from the scene, to charitable media framing, to Judge Bruce Schroeder displaying obvious bias, up to this decision.
At every point in this saga, America's systemic commitment to white supremacy has shone through.

2020 challenged America to finally meaningfully deal with its history of racism and the ways racism still dominates our present day.

The response from many has been defiance.
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26 Apr 21
I’m sitting down to watch (and live-tweet) the #Oscars, and Black talent and stories may take the night. Like a lot of things happening right now, signs of progress are also signs of just how far we have to go. (1/6)
For every #Moonlight that illuminates the breadth and depth of Black lives, and for every #JudasandtheBlackMessiah that tells the truth about racism in law enforcement and politics, there are a hundred movies and TV shows doing just the opposite. (2/6)
Tonight, I’m looking forward to celebrating Black art and artists like @ViolaDavis, #JudasAndTheBlackMessiah, and of course the late, great Chadwick Boseman. But in addition to celebrating the best, we must also challenge the rest. (3/6)
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7 Jan 21
I don’t know who needs to hear this but Trump officials shouldn't be able to rehabilitate their reputations just bc they resigned two weeks before his term is over or put out a milquetoast statement.

The media has a responsibility to name them as the violent enablers they are.
Mick Mulvaney was the architect of some of the worst parts of the Trump administration, including its willfully negligent #COVID19 response, and has been using his ties to Trump to raise money for his hedge fund.
John Kelly was the DHS Sec who first enforced Trump’s #MuslimBan and is on the board of a company that runs for-profit immigrant detention centers. All of a sudden he wants to decry Trump’s conduct toward “women and minorities”? Opportunism at its lowest.
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28 Aug 20
Today marks the 15th anniversary of @ColorOfChange, formed in the wake of the government's violent neglect of Black people during Hurricane Katrina. Ever since we've remained committed to fighting the barriers holding Black communities back & creating solutions to take us forward
I'm proud of what we've accomplished. We used #NoBloodMoney to get corporations to sever financial ties with white nationalists. We got COPS canceled for their "copaganda". We got Twitter to suspend David Duke and we continued working on tech accountability campaigns.
None of this would have been possible without the people who have taken action with COC, 7 million this year alone, whose activism fuels our work and have allowed us to hold elected leaders accountable with @votingwhileblk. Through it all, we've centered Black joy.
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