I have stayed away because I really don’t care about anything revolving this woman but to say you were diagnosed with autism when having not actually been diagnosed with autism is a very destructive and trash thing to do I understand barriers to get testing. But don’t say you got diagnosed when you actually didn’t.

The Orangeburg Massacre is one of the darkest tragedies in this country’s history. And its story has been buried. 🧵

https://twitter.com/pablotorre/status/1629119063161962496

In 1968 a group of HBCU students protested against a bowling alley that was refusing Black patrons. There was unrest for days with many students arrested.

Yeah man the Rihanna inclusion feels really intentional by Jay and the NFL to close the loop on players who have spoken out against them.

https://twitter.com/JustinTinsley/status/1575865504870240257

Rihanna was the most famous holdout and now all these years removed has her looking like Jay and Goodell are trying to make sure those who are still out on the NFL look like pop culture outsiders compared to all the cool kids

Woke up sick over Tua. The NFL is its own oligarchy of 32 billionaires lording over thousands of players and putting their lives at risk. The NFL hasn't bothered to pretend caring about women it harms, players it puts in danger and the anti-Blackness it often weaponizes

I’m getting honored Saturday and I’m at a hotel 2 blocks away from where I lived when I was my brokest and lowest point in my life. I’m overwhelmed right now. I used to eat Oscar Mayer sammich meat quesadillas every night. Sodium thru the roof lol

So only my day ones for the most part know this about me but my favorite thing in the world is and has been stepping. I think it’s my best talent lol. No but for real. This is from 15 years ago almost to the day. I’m not confident about a lot of things I do but I’m confident that I was good as hell at this lol. We won that year too. And I’ve been thinking a lot about this freedom of expression with my body and how to get it back at my big age.

I've been writing about this for literally a dozen years: but you want to talk about why newsrooms are full of "both sides" trash and people who don't understand what we're going thru? It goes back to the era of unpaid internships. Most of the young people in most newsrooms came from unpaid internships which means they weren't paid to be there and had to sustain themselves without any income from 9-5. Only a small population can live like this. And that population is rich and often white.

Today marks day 5 into a Covid infection. My first. Thankfully it’s been mostly mild. One exception: the worst night sweats I’ve ever experienced. I change my clothes 4-5x a night. This is my pile of clothes from 4 nights. All soaked. During the day I’ve felt mostly fine. Slight throat ache and a cough. But at night? Waking up multiple times with my clothes soaked thru. The first night I thought my grown ass peed on myself lol

Ok. Starting P Valley szn 2. And I gotta remind y’all that we can love this show and understand why MS folks feel these accents are egregious as hell lmao Don’t nobody in MS talk like this in 2022 lol

Thread: I was traveling yesterday but I want to make sure I acknowledge August 7th as the 58th anniversary of my father delivering the eulogy for James Chaney in Meridian, MS.

A pivotal moment in American history. And a key moment in The Movement Made Us. barnesandnoble.com/w/the-movement… as I've mentioned before in this thread, my dad was supposed to be in the car with those three men when they were killed. But there was more behind my dad's rage that day

https://twitter.com/DavidDTSS/status/1539245346802614273?s=20&t=fUzeA9CW5pwXYuvpZEmJLg

The Deshaun Watson situation is a failure by a lot of entities - the NFL, owners and fans - but also none of these male players object to having this dude in their locker rooms?

(and, yes, I already addressed what you're going to say in my mentions)

andscape.com/features/why-a… Point 1 - "it's a risk for players to speak out against a star like Watson."

Counterpoint 1 - yes it's a risk for one singular player. But not an entire locker room. And why isn't an entire locker room opposing Watson being on their team?

On this day in 1964, Andrew Goodman, Mickey Schwerner and James Chaney were assassinated in Mississippi.

This killing, 22 years before I was born, left a scar on my family that I’m not sure has ever healed.

Because my dad was supposed to have been on that trip with them. Schwerner and Chaney had become well-known in Neshoba County for organizing and getting people registered to vote. Schwerner, whom the Klan called “goatee” had been seen as particularly problematic as he represented the worst enemy of the Klan: a Jewish ally to Black people

Some of the best feedback I’ve gotten about The Movement Made Us is the way it’s brought fathers and their kids closer together. I don’t want to be biased but I think it’s a fantastic Father’s Day gift!

harpercollins.com/products/the-m…

If you don't come out of this Uvalde tragedy with a concrete understanding of the actual function of policing in America then I don't know what will make you realize that saving lives isn't part of the job I think framing their inaction and the way they enabled a massacre as "incompetence" is too small of a characterization. Those officers are completely competent at carrying out their jobs which is mostly terrorizing Black and brown people, which they did expertly all afternoon

Today, The Movement Made Us is finally out in the world. I want you to read about my dad’s story and our relationship. But I want you to know and feel the people who made the Movement and who made us. A 🧵

harpercollins.com/products/the-m… Doris Castle was such an integral force in the NOLA CORE. The woman who recruited dad to CORE and along with her sister, Doris, were two of the most important people in CORE.

I met @JustinTinsley in 2009.

A 🧵 We were pretty much in the same boat. Struggling like hell to get these dream careers off the ground with not a lot of people believing it was possible. We kept writing (and arguing about sports and Beyoncé) for years. And years. And more years.

So honored to have an adapted excerpt from The Movement Made Us in the June Issue of @TheAtlantic about the aftermath of my dad trying to make sense of a world without his best friend, Medgar Evers

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… @TheAtlantic This was one of the hardest chapters of the book to write. It takes place in the week after Medgar was assassinated in front of his home.

I wrote about Pusha T and the idea that he doesn't grow or evolve and how we should frame the idea growth in rap music

andscape.com/features/pusha… I wanted to push back on the "Pusha just raps about drugs he needs to evolve" takes. The idea that he hasn't grown over 20 years is pretty misguided

1. Ok so boom, new story. A few years after my dad left CORE and the south, he went up to University of Michigan for law school. He’d spend most of his time at the library. While he was there one day, a white lady, let's call her Martha, came over to him

https://twitter.com/DavidDTSS/status/1514293034271313928

2. “Dave? Dennis? Not sure if you remember me. I was down there with you all in ’64.”

Martha was one of the hundreds of young white volunteers who had come down to MS to help with Freedom Summer. Dad remembered her. He couldn't forget her.

1. Okay so boom. As promised Here’s the story of my dad and George Raymond hiding from the Klan and the police who were trying to kill them in Pearl, MS.

https://twitter.com/DavidDTSS/status/1513300178249437192

2. Dad and George were driving to Jackson from *somewhere* late at night (maybe Meridian, MS) when they got sideswiped by a truck, causing them to run off the road. They were stuck and had to wait for help. “Help” came. In the form of police.

If you know me then you know this is a dream story for me: I did a super deep dive on the state of the Black wrestler in 2022 from WWE to AEW the Indies and AR Fox's WWA4 school here in Atlanta. dig in.

andscape.com/features/black… I talked to Bianca Belair, Montez Ford, Carmelo Hayes, Jade Cargill, Keith Lee, Tony Khan, Trish Adora, AR Fox, Big Swole and more. It's a complex story with a lot of layers and a lot of (mostly bad) history to pull from.