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Feb 15 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
And @RepBurgessOwens voted NAY on American Rescue Plan that included money to address the systemic racism against socially disadvantaged farmers. Owens then turned around and called it “reverse racism,” and sponsored a bill to not allow it. Never-mind, the USDA admitted #utpol
discriminating against Black farmers.
And, never-mind that the MAGA hat wearing @BurgessOwens never acknowledged that Black farmers received almost no money during the Trump Administration.

thecounter.org/usda-trump-tra…
Donald Trump’s tariff war with China cost many farmers their livelihood. So Trump jumped in to bail them out. The farm bailout was between 23-32 billion dollars. Of that money, Black farmers received just 0.1%.
politico.com/news/2021/07/0…
Owen’s Agriculture Civil Rights and Equality Act, would’ve prevented the USDA loan forgiveness plan for socially disadvantaged farmers that was authorized by Congress. He did this despite the racist history against black farmers.
agriculture.com/news/business/…
And despite the fact that his own father was a farmer and likely faced many of the same challenges as other black farmers.

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Feb 15
Digging into this VERY confusing bill reveals how dangerous it is. We know that African American women are 3-5 times more likely to die of pregnancy or delivery complications than white women. #HB451 would make it illegal to gather that data. #utpol #utleg
le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/st…
If my understanding of this bill is correct, we know that financial institutions have charged minorities higher interest rates on home loans despite having the same down payment and credit score than their White peers. This bill would make it illegal to capture that data.
If this bill is an attempt to defeat Affirmative Action, because they believe it gives advantages to undeserving minorities, the biggest benefactors of affirmative action are white women. vox.com/2016/5/25/1168…
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Ironically, before the Southern states started voting Republican, they were Democrats. Why? Because they hated Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans. One of them was the TX Congressman and Speaker, Sam Rayburn. Rayburn held the Speakership in 1940. Rayburn was said to have
been an honest man, who could not be bought. He hated the railroad, tariffs, banks, and utility companies because they took from farmers. He was also known for hating the rich, and Republicans because they “fooled ... the farmer into supporting the tariff to take from the poor
to give to rich to fatten their already swollen purses. He also hated Republicans for Reconstruction, too. He was the son of a Confederate cavalryman who "never stopped hating the Yankees." It is said that for years after he being elected to Congress, all the pictures that hung
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Feb 13
The Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction and also eliminated all political gains made by black voters in the South, which included electing black politicians. After Republican President Rutherford B Hayes withdrew federal troops from the South, they moved to implement
restrictive voting rights laws such as Literacy and Jelly Bean tests. All of these men had short political careers due to the disenfranchisement of Black voters after 1877.

Take The Near Impossible Literacy Test Louisiana Used to Suppress the Black Vote.
openculture.com/2014/07/litera…
Each of these men have fascinating stories that don’t align well with the narrative from Black conservatives like Donalds and @RepBurgessOwens. Almost all blacks were Republican because it was the party of Lincoln. One of the first to support a Democrat was Hiram Revels, who was
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Feb 13
Super Bowl LVII was historic. It was the first time two African American quarterbacks started in the Super Bowl. That's a big deal. The American Professional Football Association began in 1920 and immediate integrated with 4 Black players. Fritz Pollard was one of the 4 players.
However, in 1933, he and 8 others were quietly removed from the teams, never to return. The now-NFL remained segregated until 1946. It would be another 12 years before the league would allow a Black man into the coveted, 'thinking' position nflpa.com/posts/meet-the….
of quarterback. Quarterbacks are are usually considered the leader of the offense. The racist policies of the NFL is believed to had been started by Washington Redskins owner George Marshall. When he died in 1969, his estate started the Redskins Foundation. He stipulated that the
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Feb 13
Thank you for asking. Allow me to explain. The Equal Protection clause under the 14th Amendment was defined by the Brown v Board of Education decision. All of the civil rights protections that we enjoy today, meaning…all of the rights and privileges that allowed married women to
use contraception, and the unmarried women to use contraception, women to decide to be pregnant or terminate the pregnancy, black and white couples to date and marry, gay couples to have a sexual relationship and to be marry…all of these came AFTER the Supreme Court used the
Brown v Board of Education to define the Equal Protection Clause. Note, I did not include the Due Process Clause because that’s been a subject of legal conversations.

concordlawschool.edu/blog/constitut…
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Feb 13
I seriously believe there are people like this 👇🏾 who watches one football game a year just to see a POC doing something to offend the perceived virtue of White women so they can feign outrage and now must spend the next year deprogramming their innocent children. Never mind,
this is one of the most violent games outside of hockey and lacrosse that literally shows men slamming into each other, some suffering concussions resulting in CTE, broken bones, and bent bodies. This is an age old racist trope that led to racial segregation, the rape of black
women not even considered crime, and responsible for the literal lynching of black men. Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, Janet Jackson, Rihanna’s dancers, Beyoncé…it doesn’t matter. Seriously, why do they even bother to watch the show? Clicks and attention at the expense of women
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