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Portia ♍️ McGonagal portiamcgonagal1619 on Insta Profile picture
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May 25 • 4 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
If you've never watched the anthology series "American Crime", I highly recommend it. There were 3 seasons, each featuring a different main story and related backstories. S1 is HIGHLY instructive in the "Karen" behavior we see from so many WW. 1/

imdb.com/title/tt348829…
Felicity Huffman gives a master performance as an already pre-disposed racist WW who goes what we'd now call full MAGA and given that the series aired before the #Karen term was even coined, it encompasses so much of what BW especially, experience on here. 2/
Regina King is also excellent in this series. I mention all of this to put this current event in context: 3/
theroot.com/stop-protectin…
Along with what the BW I've come to know on here describes in what we tell you every day. From ignorance borne of implicit bias to full-throated white supremacist hate, like I said...it's instructive. 4/4

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Portia ♍️ McGonagal portiamcgonagal1619 on Insta Profile picture
May 25
Another day...
"...principal Sharyn Briscoe told her the class was not one of the two second-grade classes designated for Black students..." 1/
rawstory.com/kila-posey-atl…
Let's set the stage. This school has a 10% Black population and has separate classes for Black students. 2/ Image
The mom requested a specific teacher for her child, a thing I know white parents do every day including when my son was in school. She was told the "Black classes were full" and I'm still wrapping my head around the intra-school segregation. 3/
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May 23
I may sometimes resent that proof points of lived experiences have to be provided (usually to satiate white people who will not have had them) but I also like having studies and data points because "facts is facts". 1/
france24.com/en/live-news/2…
My initial reaction was "No sh*t" but like I said, there's lived experience and anecdotal data, and there are data studies.

"Harvard study finds implicit racial bias highest among white people" 2/
"A team from Harvard and Tufts gathered data from more than 60,000 subjects who took part in 13 experiments that tested their implicit biases."

Too many white people think racism is wearing a Klan robe and/or saying the N word. Implicit bias is a more widely spread issue. 3/
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Apr 14
The recent "code-switching" episodes made me remember an episode of #NYPDBlue when Andy and Lt. Fancy were on a stakeout with another Black detective who Andy both despised but helped as a fellow alcoholic. 1/
Doing this from memory so may be fuzzy on some of the details but basically, Fancy, who challenged all of Andy's racism and biases, started "talking Black" to the other detective and Andy was confused. "Where'd you learn to talk like that? I thought you grew up middle class". 2/
"At my daddy's knee" said Fancy. Andy was aghast and thought because of Fancy's upbringing he always spoke how he spoke at work. Fancy made the point (and this is where I can't remember his exact words) that we do it for people like him. Which is the point. 3/
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Apr 13
Gym Jordan wants to try and gotcha Alvin Bragg on crime stats since he has nothing to challenge him in re: Trump's case. Let's look at some facts. 1/

"But when crime numbers are adjusted for population, in many cases Mansfield does not fare well in comparison to Manhattan."
"The hearing is intended to focus on “an increase in violent crime” in the city..." 2/
washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/…
"Crime in New York has increased since 2020 — though it remains far below 1980s levels — and city statistics show that of the seven severe categories of crime, five are down relative to this point in 2022." 3/
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Apr 13
So riddle me this. #Kacsmaryk used the #ComstockLaws to justify his decision. However: 1/ Image
Now, as I've said forever, their end game was never Roe, but Griswold. Yet:
"Kacsmaryk rationalized his opinion through a distorted reading of the long-dormant 1873 Comstock Law"

How does this hold up? 2/
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…
Even the original Comstock Act didn't support this: 3/ Image
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Jan 5
So...do yt folks who reach for a partial MLK quote or cite that Black people were originally Republicans really believe that actual Black people don't know our history? I know for some it's a cynical ploy, but honestly, I do think there are those who sincerely believe 1/
that we are that ignorant. That we don't know that yes, initially it was Lincoln's Republican party that was the party of "abolition". I wonder if they know that Lincoln himself however, didn't actually believe in Black equality? That he was a pragmatist of his time and 2/
while he may have issued the Emancipation Proclamation, that's a far cry from viewing Black people as full and equal citizens of these United States. 3/
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