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@nhannahjones
May 17 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
On this day, the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, I reflect on the fact that 75 percent of Black children learn in segregated, unequal schools today. And that a decade after I told our profession that our failure to cover segregation meant we were failing to cover education, our reporting has shifted to covering ideological battles about how Black history is taught instead of the inequality that most Black children still experience. So, let me re-up on some of my past coverage. propublica.org/article/segreg…
“Segregation Now” theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Lack of Order: The Erosion of a Once-Great Force for Integration
propublica.org/article/lack-o…
“The Problem We All Live With” thisamericanlife.org/562/the-proble…
Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City nytimes.com/2016/06/12/mag…
The desegregation of Jefferson County nytimes.com/2017/09/06/mag…
And as @POTUS gives a speech on Brown at @NMAAHC : It was never about busing. nytimes.com/2019/07/12/opi…

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Mar 13
I began working on this essay even before the affirmative action ruling came down. It is a warning. We are in the midst of a radical abandonment of the compact forged by the CRM that cynically coopts the ideal of colorblindness to attack racial justice.
nytimes.com/2024/03/13/mag…
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"Over the last 50 years, we have experienced a slow-moving, near-complete unwinding of the idea that this country owes anything to Black Americans for 350 years of legalized slavery and racism."
"But we have also undergone something far more dangerous: the dismantling of the constitutional tools for undoing racial caste in the United States."
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Jan 24
What we’re seeing with the LA Times is the result of an ethos that sees newsroom diversity as about feeling or looking good, and not about ensuring the accuracy and trust needed to produce high-quality journalism in a multiracial democracy.
The anti-DEI backlash is being loudly fomented by the right but is also quietly embraced by many so-called progressives. When we talk about eroding trust in news, seldom mentioned is the distrust that occurs in majority non-white communities covered by heavily white newsrooms.
Like I say again and again: Too often our daily report reflects power and not truth. How a newspaper in a majority Latino city sheds that number of Latino journalists and expects to maintain community trust says a lot to me about how its leaders define their community.
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Jan 24
I sleep well at night knowing that every white man who ever held an important job was most definitely, 100 percent, without question, the most qualified. I mean, they never get fired for incompetence, jailed for corruption, let go for poor performance.
They’re never given jobs or opportunities because of who their daddy’s are, or who they know, or the school they went to, or well, because folks would rather have a white man at the top of their organization because it makes them feel better. It’s only POC we need worry about.
Imagine the sort of victimology and delusion leads one to believe the only time you need to question if someone was qualified enough for the job is if that person isn’t white. Like, what about 400 years of American history would give one that confidence?
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Dec 20, 2023
Are we going to talk to all the 1619 references in “Leave the World Behind”??
Super market in town is called Point Comfort, which is the landing spot of the first Africans sold into slavery in Virginia.
At the fork in the road, they can go to Point Comfort, or they can go left to Fort Mose. Fort Mose was the first sanctioned town of free Black people, founded by enslaved Africans who had escaped the British and passed into Spanish territory. floridastateparks.org/parks-and-trai…
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Dec 13, 2023
It’s not well known that when LDF attacked segregation in Brown v. Board of Ed it didn’t just argue that segregation made Black people feel inferior but also that it made white people feel a false sense of superiority and the truth of that is so clear in this Pres. Gay discussion
The # of white people who attack every successful Black person as an unqualified diversity hire reveals a desperate need to believe that the only way any Black person — and I mean any — can be more successful than they are is because they didn’t deserve it. This is racial caste.
What they can never explain is how if folks are just giving out prestigious jobs, prizes, leadership roles to Black folks just for being Black, why are Black people under-represented across every field in all of these things? The data refutes the lie.
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Sep 28, 2023
Imagine being Black and running in a political party where you believe you need to disgrace your ancestors to have a chance.
Tim Scott, the Second Middle Passage ALONE broke up about 1/3 of Black marriages. But, yes, anti-poverty program are the problem. wams.nyhistory.org/building-a-new…
Also, just to be absolutely crystal clear, NOTHING Black people have experienced in this country is worse than slavery. Like, it’s not even close. So obvious that the only reason it needs to be said is to counter trolls and Black men trying to win MAGA voters.
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