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Jan 27 • 13 tweets • 1 min read
So re: Thomas Jefferson book
Context
Context
Context
Its from 2003. Things weren't so great in the interpretation of American slavery. Exhibits&language u see now wasn't as common. Its so important to realize that our societal mood matters..like the moment we are in right now.
GO TO PLANTATIONS AND KEEP THEM HONEST
PUSH BACK AGAINST LITERATURE THAT INAPPROPRIATELY WHITEWASHES HISTORY.
REMEMBER SLAVERY WAS COLLOQUIAL AND DISCRETIONARY. ONE SIZE DID NOT FIT ALL. NO SINGLE NARRATIVE IS APPLICABLE TO THE WHOLE.
ALLOW THE ANCESTORS THEIR JOY, FAILINGS AND TRIUMPHS.
MAKE NO ASSUMPTIONS FROM A CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE.
ASK WHAT YOU WOULD DO IF YOU WERE IN THE SHOES OF THE PEOPLES OF THE PAST.
REMEMBER THE COUNTLESS HUMAN BEINGS ENSLAVED RIGHT NOW AND ASK HOW YOU CAN AID THEIR LIBERATION.
LEAVE ROOM TO HEAL.
BE THE DREAM YOU KNOW THEY WANTED.
The end.
SORRY NOT THE END.
And you shall tell your child in that day, saying, ‘This is done because of what the LORD did for me when I came up from the Narrow Place,(the House of Bondage)’ Exodus 13:8

TEACH THE YOUNGER GENERATION TO TEACH THE GENERATIONS TO FOLLOW.
NOW...
THE END

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Jan 30
Oh yeah...
If you teach about us, the Jewish people in the context of the Shoah/Holocaust you have to admit:
1. White supremacy is evil and has affected the human race, the planet and the fulfillment of the American promise.
2. That America turned away Jews from sanctuary.
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3. That there is no hierarchy of religions. It is personal and private to decide to be a part of or not be a part of a religious community.
4. That Jewish peoplehood stands on its own terms not in relation to the story of Christianity.
5. That Jews had lives before our traumas.
6. That Hitler's Germany drew both on their colonial practices and racial science atrocities in Africa and Jim Crow in America along with millenia of European anti-Semitism.
7. That using nationalistic and scapegoating tropes and logical fallacies against groups is anti-American
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Jan 29
Conservative white evangelicals are overrepresented in the voting demographics because they participate at higher rates&have easements to vote at higher rights given them by legislatures that know they will get what they want by making it all abt them.
Vote. Do not be apathetic.
17 percent of the population determines over a quarter of its election results.
And you must vote local, state and national.
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Jan 28
#SupremeCourt the responses of the hypocrites on Fox News...aren't just disappointing&enraging,they are sad&if I may, cruel. If u are not Black, consider me one of your Black neighbors. This drivel hurts to hear.they are talking abt my Mother, Grandmother, sisters, cousins&aunts
My late Mom was the smartest person I think I ever met. She had so many dreams and ambitions but many were stolen by racism&deep sexism inside&outside her world.If people shit on Black women for having an overdue moment of representation they are not Americans to me.
No, we've had enough dehumanizing and knocking down of Black women. I am tired of people taking it lightly. The most valuable commodity in this country was once our mothers wombs &150 years after that value was canceled the likes of Janine Pirro (I don't care) ? competency
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Jan 27
I want to thank Chloe from GWU...but....wow..
@mimva @MuseumLara @HistoryGonWrong @old_line_plate get ready
1. This is not an "outrage," tweet.
2. Those of u who know my work interpreting the food culture of the enslaved know how important this is to me.
3.are you ready for this?
Whats wrong with this picture?
1. He had enslaved labor& indentured Scotsmen doing his gardening until retirement.
2. James Hemings, was a young master chef. A "bright mulatto," who shared a father with Jefferson's wife.
3. Jefferson only entered the kitchen to change the clock.
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Jan 27
Hey everyone...important notice. A thread: We have been in contentious times for a while. I know some if u vigorously disagree w/each other. I don't cosign 100% on other people's stuff just bc I follow them or them me. If you have an issue w/someone DM me rather than pull me in.
I have never gone into somebody's profile&done that to them. Its like being at a party&pulling someone on stage and saying, "And this is the company you keep? Explain yourself." You wouldn't do that in public but apparently its a tactic on here. I prefer DM if there's a problem.
One time someone shamed me out of unfollowing a local account bc they disagreed w/a post. "Why is Koshersoul following them?" "Whats going on with that?" It took me some time to realize that I was being policed& manipulated...not everyone does that, but its left a bad taste...
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Jan 27
#InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay I want acknowledge that part of my dedicated interests in traditional Jewish foodways drew inspiration from Joan Nathan's recipe adaptation of the Beigel family challah. Its my favorite and it was saved by a family decimated in the Shoah.
So for me, I understood what it meant to grasp onto these culinary memories because they represented people and life beyond trauma. People living from day to day. It was this inner dialogue that fertilized my work interpreting the food and lives of the American enslaved.
u know, this isn't a brag. Its hard to confess that u are already complete but u also feel this urge to belong& share&adapt&be a part of something only exceptional when practiced right--America. The jewelry, the prize is to tell the story better than when it was told to u.
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