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Ida Bae Wells

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Apr 23

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Interesting choice by @CBSSunday -- my favorite news show btw-- to do an entire segment in book bans that didn't feature one POC, that didn't mention the racial makeup of Moms of Liberty, and that erased the role the targeting of 1619 Project has played in all of this.

There is just one book targeted by federal legislation, and one book that Florida has specifically prohibited being taught in all of its public schools.

I'll also say this, allowing Moms for Liberty to frame this as a "parents rights" issue is akin to when segregationists were allowed to frame opposition to desegregation as parents rights. Black parents exist. Parents of LGBTQ children exist. White parents who oppose this exist.

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Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

Mar 31

I've been using all the conversations leading up to Trump's indictment, the hand-wringing, the deference, the political considerations, to teach my students about power. It is a near-tangible ex. of this thing we know exists but sometimes pretend we don't understand how it works.

Regular Americans get none of this treatment. Everyday we lock people up with no consideration of their circumstances, no concerns about the larger ramifications for their lives or anyone else's.

People who commit crimes out of poverty and desperation get none of the consideration we give wealthy, prominent people who commit crimes out of greed. That the definition of power.

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Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

Mar 30

My daughter's school is offering SHSAT tutoring to help students on the specialized h.s. admission test. My daughter's friends all signed up then the other day she said they all changed their minds bc they looked at admit stats for Black kids & decided they wouldn't make it.

Seeing how few Black students were successful enough to gain entry to these public schools, these smart, studious Black girls from an unscreened, regular Brooklyn middle school decided it was better not to try than to be set up for failure. A system operating as designed.

We send powerful messages to our children and what we believe them capable of, and too many of our babies get that message perfectly.

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Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

Mar 28

https://twitter.com/brenonade/status/1640512268927418368

THEY DON'T SAY THIS ABOUT ANY OTHER TYPE OF CRIME. But when it comes to the ability to use weapons of war against civilians, they say nothing can and should be done, because people who want to shoot up schools are going to shoot up schools, so let the chips fall where they may.

https://twitter.com/brenonade/status/1640512268927418368

In a nation where gun death is now the #1 cause of death for American children, the day after a mass murder of school children in his city, a lawmaker says, "We're not going to fix it" because if someone wants to kill kids they will. We are truly an exceptional nation.

https://twitter.com/brenonade/status/1640514384735739904

https://twitter.com/brenonade/status/1640514384735739904

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Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

Mar 17

Anti-woke is just that: They hope we won't be paying attention as they literally work to erase this country's racist history. Until 1968, we were a nation where anti-Black racism, racial apartheid,discrimination were built into law/society.That's just fact nytimes.com/2023/03/16/us/…

A "publisher created multiple versions of its social studies material, softening or eliminating references to race — even in the story of Rosa Parks — as it sought to gain approval in Florida." The law Rosa Parks challenged explicitly prohibited BLACK people from riding in front.

These laws explicitly ordered societal relations, access to public and private goods, ability to serve in juries, exercise democracy by white and Black. It was not vague. It was about granting rights and privileges to entire race and depriving an entire race from them.

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Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

Mar 9

Re-re-re-reading Du Bois's Black Reconstruction." And, damn, this brilliant man was also such a gorgeous writer. Like, we know this, but still. Damn.

"And then some unjust God leaned, laughing, over the ramparts of green heaven and dropped a black man in the midst." Just, whew.

"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back toward slavery. The whole weight of America was thrown to color caste...Democracy died save in the hearts of black folk."

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