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Mar 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
CONGRATULATIONS Ariana Debose on being awarded Best Supporting Actress by the four major film award associations, effectively sweeping the 2022 award season
Mar 30, 2022 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (UCLA ‘69) writes:
"When Will Smith stormed onto the Oscar stage to strike Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife's short hair, he did a lot more damage than just to Rock's face.
With a single petulant blow, he advocated violence, diminished women, insulted the entertainment industry, and perpetuated stereotypes about the Black community. That's a lot to unpack. Let's start with the facts: Rock made a reference to Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith,
Jun 27, 2018 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
C/p from a friend on the front lines:
if you’re genuinely unable to be involved in organizing-activism-protesting-whatever, or anything related, either for a time, or at all, here are some ideas for things you can do to help anyway, because it all matters, and it’s all needed—
• be loud: amplify what you hear and learn, loudly proclaim what is right and what is wrong, engage and challenge the people around you, on social media and in your physical life, whenever and wherever you can. this is base minimum, you should be doing this no matter what.
Feb 16, 2018 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
From Mike Adams
Another thing to consider.
Actually the shooter was a member of a white nationalist group and attended at least one of their paramilitary training sessions.
If the shooter was a Latino and member of MS-13 we would be talking about Latino immigrant gang culture being a threat to decent society and pushing to stop it.