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Feb 20 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
A new racial category? I'd like to hear more about why creating a new racial category of Northern African makes sense. These are geographic regions, and create a false divide between North Africa and I guess Black Africa?
Just shows once again how race is a sociopolitical construct to order power relations. Watch the RACE episode of #1619hulu on @hulu
Please stop trying to educate me on why people from the Middle East may not want to be counted as white. I am aware. My problem is with the creation and labeling of the category.
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Feb 16
I reviewed two beautiful children's books that enter the literary landscape this #BlackHistoryMonth with a particular urgency as Black histories are being banned and contested. nytimes.com/2023/02/16/boo…
"With my own work often at the center of the legislative bans, I’ve thought a lot about how the word “white” in front of “students” is implied in these laws. What about the discomfort of Black children that results from what isn’t taught."
"...the distress the Black children experience when searching for themselves in an American story from which their people are largely absent, a story in which they learn about the great white men who lived in the White House but not the enslaved Africans who built it?"
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Feb 14
Uses #1619Project as political prop in a video that opens with growing up where railroad tracks (not white people) divided the town by race. Talking about being the child of immigrants without acknowledging that the rights she had in SC were won by Black resistance. Just peak.
Talking about how governments in China and Iran kill their own citizens while from a state where in 1968, four years before she was born, highway patrolman -- govt agents -- opened fire on 200 unarmed Black citizens protesting apartheid in South Carolina. history.com/.amp/topics/19…
Nikki Haley's family was able to immigrate to the US because the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act finally ended the racist immigration quota system designed to keep out most non-white immigrants. americanprogress.org/article/the-im…
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Feb 9
Blacks people were enslaved in this land longer than we've been free. And our constant plotting for liberation led white Americans to develop a fear of Black people as an "internal enemy" that remains embedded in our national psyche. #1619hulu Ep. 5 FEAR. Out now. @lesliemalex
In #1619hulu FEAR, Historian @lesliemalex tells us how the surveillance, policing and vigilanteism that Black Americans experience daily have their roots in the slave patrols, which deputized all white people to stop, question, and search Black people they thought suspicious.
The FEAR episode of #1619hulu shows the white men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery were acting out a long America tradition. And how policing in America for Black people has largely been about social control.
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Feb 2
I am not giving oxygen to the rightwing media frenzy against the #1619hulu docuseries because I know they use the #1619Project for clicks, but I am so aghast and offended that the National Review would print this about this child just to make digs at this work.
The #1619Project has broken some people's brains. This is not ok.
And the misogynoir is not even veiled. "Homegirl wiles"? I've been a journalist for more than two decades.
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Dec 16, 2022
Big announcement yesterday, today I indulge my inner petty. To all those "NHJ hasn't written an article for the NYT in 2 years" trolls: You're right! I just helped create two #1 bestselling books and a 6-part docuseries for the NYT. What have YOU done? nytco.com/press/1619-hul…
As I said before, imagine thinking you know more about what I'm working on then the people who pay my salary. The NYT is not just a newspaper, it's a media company. Folks can search my byline but not find major press releases about what I'm working on for my employer. Ok.
And, by the way, I cannot wait for you to see what we've been working on when it premieres on @hulu Jan. 26. #1619hulu #1619Project
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Nov 27, 2022
Reporting on race WELL requires expertise in race/racism. Because too little understanding abt how race structures our society, you know, history, sociology, economics, passes for authoritative reporting. Imagining thinking structural inequality has nothing to do w credit scores.
brookings.edu/research/an-an…
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