Share this page!

Darlene McDonald Profile picture
Twitter logo
Aug 5 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
We are the company we keep. CPAC featured speaker was Viktor Orban. He doesn’t believe in ‘race-mixing’. Loving vs Virginia wouldn’t exist. He doesn’t agree with immigration. The Statue of Liberty would be returned to France. He’s a white nationalist, racist authoritarian. #utpol
Viktor Orban is anti-semitic who doesn’t believe in America’s ideals or democracy. He believes in ethnic-states and that countries like Russia and China should be world’s leaders. #CD4 voters, @RepBurgessOwens shares a stage with Viktor Orban. washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08…
Are these your beliefs, too? If not, then you cannot cast another ballot for Burgess Owens. It’s time to stand up for our beliefs and for democracy. Burgess Owens does not represent my beliefs or ideals. #utpol
CPAC’s Speakers from Utah

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Darlene McDonald

Darlene McDonald Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @VoteDarlene

Darlene McDonald Profile picture
Aug 7
Before Obergefell vs Hodges there was Loving vs Virginia. Receiving a warm welcome and ovation at this year’s CPAC was Viktor Orbán, who’d earlier gave a speech against ‘mixing’ European and non-European races. His speech echoed the speech given by Va. county Judge Leon Bazile
when he ruled against Mildred and Richard Loving in 1964, who were sentenced to a year in prison for committing the crime of getting married in Virginia. Image
The organizers of CPAC didn’t rescind Prime Minister Orbán’s invitation after making his incendiary comment. Nor did members of Congress such as @RepBurgessOwens who have mixed-race members of his own family, refuse to attend. When Owens had an opportunity to speak on protecting
Read 7 tweets
Darlene McDonald Profile picture
Jul 1
This is a lie. The anti-abortion movement didn’t begin with the 1973 Roe v. Wade Decision. Sen. Graham is a lawyer from the state of South Carolina, home of Bob Jones University. BJU fought to maintain its tax-exempt status by arguing the First Amendment protected their religious
freedom to discriminate and deny admission to African-American students. BJU in SC and North Carolina’s Goldsboro Christian Schools [GCS] were crusaders against the 1971 federal order declaring private schools that practiced racial discrimination couldn’t be considered charitable
organizations under IRS 501(c)(3). Sen. Graham most definitely knows that the anti-abortion movement didn’t begin in 1973. It began with the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Decision that desegregated schools in America.

Do you want to know more? Good. Keep reading.
Read 19 tweets
Darlene McDonald Profile picture
Jun 22
Congratulations on receiving this award, @RepBurgessOwens. Joseph Rainey was a revered man. Yet, when you know & study the history of Rep. Joseph Rainey, one must question why @RaineyCenter would debase the name of whom the organization is named? Mr. Rainey was a Republican. That
is the only thing that connects him to the people this award was given. Most, if not all African-Americans were members of the Republican Party following the Civil War. The Party of Lincoln. Providing for the newly freed men and women meant, Rainey and cohort worked to uplift his
community, while in Congress and as a business man. Mr. Owens’ entire political career is antithetical to that work. Mr. Rainey worked with the Freeman’s Affairs, which was a failed attempt at reparations for the enslaved people. @BurgessOwens adamantly oppose reparations.
Read 13 tweets
Darlene McDonald Profile picture
Jun 21
I’m going to say this, not to be pedantic, but because I’m seeing and hearing people get it wrong.
#EmancipationDay is a celebration of when the slaves were freed. ❌WRONG

The 13th Amendment made slavery illegal in the U.S (with a caveat). ✅CORRECT
#Juneteenth is the
celebration of when the last REMAINING slaves in the REBEL state of Texas were told they were free. Too many people incorrectly believe Abraham Lincoln’s Executive Order, the Proclamation 95 freed all the slaves. It did not. The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in
seceding states. June 19, 1865 - 2.5 years after the Order took effect, the enslaves people in Galveston, TX were told they were free. This is important, because if people get this wrong, they will believe something that’s not correct about our country’s history. Why is that
Read 5 tweets
Darlene McDonald Profile picture
Sep 2, 2021
Here we go again:

Tomorrow (Friday 9/3), the @UTBoardofEd is considering banning teachers from using trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, and gender nonconforming students' correct name and pronouns "without parental consent." The new rule the USBE will be debating #utpol #utleg
"requires permission from a legal parent or guardian to use a different name/pronoun (even a nickname) other than the given name/pronoun on record for all students regardless of gender identity."

This means teachers and counselors, could risk losing their job just by calling
some students their preferred name without parental consent. There are great resources available here from Salt Lake Community Mutual Aid on how to help.
schools.utah.gov/board/particip…

You can:
Sign up to make a public comment at the meeting: September 3rd, 9am-12pm,
Read 4 tweets
Darlene McDonald Profile picture
Jun 27, 2021
I’m blocked by @BurgessOwens. So friends get screenshots of posts they believe I should see. Like, this one. To @spidadmitchell I admire your talent as well as your courage & willingness to use your voice & privilege to speak truth to power about racial & social justice. #utpol Image
You know enough about Utah politics to know that the only two things you and @RepBurgessOwens would share if you’re ever in a conversation about racial justice is that you are both Black and men. The only one to have an “unique perspective” on Critical Race Theory is him. As
Congressman @RepJeffries has said about Burgess Owens, “He lives in a warped reality.” We would all be in great debt, if you were to have a conversation with Rep. Owens that you would inform and educate him that the way he‘s chosen to use his voice and

essence.com/op-ed/rep-burg…
Read 5 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

:(