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Feb 9 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
Y'all don't even realize how the right wing plays you. The right wing media put out the Biden-to-hand-out-crack-pipes narrative are you are falling for it. Why? #crackpipes means Black people. Did they use meth pipes? NOPE. Syringes? Nope. Then they added "racial equity." 1/3
Y'all gotta stop being easy damn prey and so gullible. RIGHT NOW, harm reduction programs are an accepted part of the public health program in America. Ask Arkansas @SenTomCotton about the Central Arkansas Harm Reduction Project. arkansasharmreduction.org. 2/3
Ask @SenJohnKennedy about the harm reduction programs in Louisiana. ldh.la.gov/news/5770 Ask @MarshaBlackburn about the harm reduction programs in Tennessee tn.gov/health/health-… These programs are in red and blue states. Y'all are GETTING PLAYED. 3/3

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Feb 8
I'm confused as to why @brianstelter and all of these journalIsts at @CNN are acting so damn confused. I know a Black woman who was fired by CNN for violating company social media policy. Jeff Zucker violated company policy on relationships. This ain't hard. 1/5
Didn't Jeff Zucker fire three @CNN employees who violated the company's COVID protocols? How can the CEO hold people accountable but he not have to follow the same company rules? These @CNN folks need to wake up in the real world. 2/5
Hey @brianstelter, in 2010 @CNN fired @MediaJonKlein as president/U.S. it was a shock to us. Jon was very supportive of me. I could meet with him at any time. Many of us were saddened, but we kept it going. We didn't need to be picked up off the mat. We WENT BACK TO WORK. 3/5
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Jan 24
I really hate awful and shoddy reporting. And this @TheRoot article, which is based on an equally shoddy reporting job by @isagutierreznbc, regarding HBCU funding. Let me first deal with the @NBCNews story by Isa. In it, she talked to three HBCU students about @JoeBiden's 1/20
Campaign commitment to spend upwards of $60B on HBCUs during his first term. Not first year, but first term. In the story, @isagutierreznbc talks to a @HowardU student about the lack of funding and the housing crisis. Nowhere in the story did Isa state how much Howard gets 2/20
From the federal government on an annual basis. Nowhere did she state the INCREASE @HowardU has gotten over the last 18 months. @isagutierreznbc also talked to an Alabama A&M student who complained about the need for more professors and buildings. Nowhere did Isa say that 3/20
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Apr 1, 2021
Hey @amandacarpenter, I've been reading your thread about boycotts and Georgia, and I really think you are completely not understanding the history of Black people in America and the African Diaspora. So allow me to share some things with you. 1/10
First @amandacarpenter, start with this book on the history of Operation Breadbasket. It started with Rev. Leon Sullivan in Philadelphia. He told MLK about it, presented to SCLC, and it was adopted and renamed Breadbasket. It leveraged boycotts for Black economic gain. 2/10
MLK put @RevJJackson in charge of it. Also, @amandacarpenter, read or listen to MLK's April 3, 1968 "Mountaintop" speech where he spoke of boycotts and the need to "redistribute the pain." 3/10
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Feb 6, 2021
If any reporters do a story on the downfall of @LouDobbs and how a once respected business voice turned into a conspiracy nutcase, you can trace it all back to him getting his syndicated radio show. I told folks at @CNN that was gonna be a bad mix. I saw it in his eyes. 1/
I used to always visit @loudobbs in his office. A lot of people were shocked that he and I would hit it off so well on TV. Even @MediaJonKlein was surprised at our chemistry. In fact, some of Lou's hated that I had was-in privileges to see him (one of his senior producers 2/
Left a note up on their computer desktop and made a snide remark about this, as well as me wearing one of my African outfits - I remember exactly what I had on. I dropped her her desk after meeting with Lou and I saw it on her screen). But @LouDobbs and I talked a LOT 3/
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Jan 26, 2021
This is the internal email share nationwide by CBS boss George Cheeks regarding the placement of Peter Dunn & David Friend on administrative leave: "CBS Stations Team – I know these have been a difficult few days. I wanted to reach out tonight with an update on a few 1/6
Important developments. Effective immediately, Stations President Peter Dunn and your Head of News David Friend have been placed on administrative leave pending an independent investigation of issues including those that were published in the recent Los Angeles Times stories. 2/6
Below is the statement that will be provided to the press. In addition, CBS Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer Bryon Rubin will assume interim leadership of the Stations group. Bryon is very familiar with your business and ready to support your efforts. 3/6
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Nov 7, 2020
So let me get this straight: some progressives are calling the @ProjectLincoln a failure for raising $67M. Yet progressives raised $200M for four Dem Senate candidates and they all got crushed. The Lincoln Project's aim was to move just 4% of the vote. They were very clear. 1/5
So are angry progressives saying it's @ProjectLincoln's fault that @SaraGideon lost in Maine and @GreenfieldIowa lost in Iowa? Were they thinking the LP was going to be THE savior and deliver a blowout victory on all levels? 2/5
This attack on the @ProjectLincoln is asinine. Polls show Trump was down 5 points with white men, the @GOP's strongest group. Who made that happen? Biden? LP? Who knows! Progressives need to stop trying to blame everyone because you wanted a blowout. 3/5
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