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Sep 11 20 tweets 5 min read Read on X
I’m sure someone is probably fact-checking the debate… maybe… perhaps. But who’s gonna call out the dog whistles and white nonsense?

Lets Blackcheck the debate

A (live) thread:
By “They” he means Haitians

Why does Trump mention “Springfield Ohio?” What does it have to do anything?

He’s repeating a racist theory conspiracy about Haitian immigrants eating cats

He’s running for president. Image
Trump did go to Wharton….

on white affirmative action Image
Trump doesn’t seem to know that taxpayers pay tariffs, not foreign countries.

Harris should point that out.

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/09/09…
This might be the only truth Trump tells tonight.

Yes, Kamala Harris’s father taught Marxist economics at Stanford.

Why?
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By the way, the “Marxist” “communist” smear is also a dog whistle used to discredit Black movements by the FBI, segregationists the and the people who wrote Project 2025

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The reason why the man who wants to be president is using the peer reviewed research of “The people on television” to allege that HUMAN BEINGS WITH JOBS AND GROCERY STORES are eating dog is BECAUSE WHITE PEOPLE BELIEVE IT Image
“Immigrants are criminals.”

Literally no one.
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“It’s called weaponization. Never happened in this country.”

Nixon v Fitzgerald, the SCOTUS ruling that created civil presidential immunity, was about “weaponization” Image
“Transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison” is the greatest dog whistle ever uttered

Bravo.
“No one on the other side was killed (on Jan 6)… It wasn’t done by me, it was done by others. Nancy Pelosi was responsible for security. What about the people streaming in our country? When will the protesters in Minneapolis going to be prosecuted? ”

Always playing the victim
Moderator: Mr. Trump, what is 2 x 2?

Trump: what about the people coming across the Southern border two-by-two?
Maricopa County, AZ
Fulton County, GA
Harris County, TX
Philadelphia, PA
Milwaukee, Wis
Nevada
New Mexico

White voters were the minority in single place Donald Trump challenged election results
A summary of the entire conversation on Israel:

“I’ll let them kill more Palestinians than you”

“No, I will!”
In case you were wondering why Trump keeps saying “Our country is going to hell”
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Kamala Harris 2019 autobiography actually reveals when she turned Black Image
Nothing about the racial wealth gap or affirmative action or reparations or criminal justice or education or maternal mortality.

They really just used Trump’s stupidly racist comment to frame the ENTIRE CONVERSATION ABOUT RACE.
So Ukraine paid Hunter Biden $3 million to change the climate from his laptop?

At this point, we’re just playing conspiracy theory madlibs
I think we all know who won this debate:

The dogs of Springfield Ohio
Make America great just ONE TIME…

Please?

Good night.

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Sep 2
I'll take this one.

A Black Barbershop is actually a church>
It is also a political headquarters
It is a secret hideout and gathering spot.

The Black barbershop is 1 of the most important, most revolutionary institutions in Black history.

A (relatively short) thread.
First of all, Black barbershops have been in America as long as America existed. While we like to think that race-based chattel slavery only benefitted slaveowners, many white businessmen built fortunes from the slave trade, even though they didn't own slaves.
For instance, there was an entire industry around appraising, examining & "cleaning up" enslaved people to fetch the highest price at auctions. White barbers didn't own slaves, but they would essentially rent "barber boys" & girls from slave owners to cut hair in their shops.
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Aug 22
I should clarify some things about this:

A thread.
Let me start off by saying that I won't cop out by saying that what I wrote has been "misconstrued" or "misinterpreted."

I wrote this. It's MY FAULT if anyone took a different meaning from what I wrote than I intended. There ARE some things I got wrong or didn't clarify
Specifically, I should have made it differentiated between the actual UNCOMMITTED movement's legitimate aim to have a voice at the DNC by organizing people committed to stopping a genocide vs people who chastise Black people for their political choices
Read 20 tweets
Aug 17
I didn’t say “EVERY white person”

But I should have.

A thread
He’s technically right - every white person didn’t get the GI Bill.

But that’s not how an economy works. And every white person benefitted from it.
First of all, the GI Bill wasn’t the only New Deal policy that helped build the whites-only communities that we now call the suburbs. Black Americans were excluded from MANY post-Depression New Deal polices.
Read 17 tweets
Aug 11
What the Raygun memes have to do with Black history:

A thread
I’m sure you’ve seen Black Twitter’s reaction to Dr. Rachael Gunn’s performance for Australia in the Olympic breakin’ competition.

Here’s my favorite

instagram.com/reel/C-eJFaEtl…
While it was objectively hilarious, for some people, it was also kinda cringe.

I thought it was beautiful.

To understand why, you have to go back to the origin of hip hop, dance and American art in general.
Read 33 tweets
Aug 9
Fun fact: if you combine the crowd for the Jan 6 rally AND Trump’s inauguration, he STILL wouldn’t make the top 5 biggest Mall crowds.

A (short) thread
1. While everyone knows the “I Have a Dream” speech, the March on Washington was not MLK’s idea, nor was he in charge of it. In fact, he was 12 when A Phillip Randolph came up with the idea for it.

MLK represented 1 of 6 groups in the coalition of organizers

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2. They ONLY expected about 100,000 people. And, while the MOW is often described as “multiracial,” it wasn’t. About 190,000 of the estimated 200,000+ attendees were Black.

While it wasn’t the biggest, it is STILL the most policed event in US history. Image
Read 12 tweets
Aug 1
A thread
I was homeschooled until I was 12, so when I started going to school, I was one of the worst students.

For instance, I got a lot of zeroes for not turning in assignments. To be fair, I was TERRIBLE at math. And sometimes, I'd just get up and leave class without saying anything.
I was always running some kind of scam. I got in trouble for selling my lunch and selling contraband at school. Plus, I got in a lot of fights all the time.

My teacher finally gave up on me and asked the school to remove me from the classroom.
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