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American Author|OPINION Columnist|CNN|Global Speaker|DEI Curator|Varner Vitality Academic Lecturer Honoree|Award Winning Journalist @Essence
Mar 27 9 tweets 3 min read
White women and #DEI a very important fact based thread 🧵because I have had enough of the racist lies being spewed about "unqualified, meritless, undeserving, plagiarizing" blacks and browns taking what rightfully belongs to qualified whites. It is not acceptable in 2024. 1/ You have to start at the "Bakke vs. Regents" case in 1978, to understand the long march toward undoing affirmative action in 2023 by #SCOTUS. It all started with a white med student named Alan Bakke. He didn't get into med school, he sued on "reverse discrimination" and won. 2/
Mar 20 6 tweets 2 min read
Just sharing a 🧵on #Trump voters--met this lovely couple at a VA Beach resort. He's a surgeon. She former RN mom of 5. Good Christian people. Raised great kids. They were celebrating 25 years. They recognized me, asked could they buy a drink, we chatted. I learned a lot: 1/ these are Not your usual #MAGA voters. High income. Highly educated. Christians. Immigrants (the husband). But they actually made the case to me for why they support Trump despite his "troubling flaws".
I am sharing because it's a red flag we should heed. 2/
Mar 5 6 tweets 2 min read
A few thoughts on #SuperTuesday a 🧵

1.) Dear Democrats who are trying to drag @Potus for his age and fantasize about a replacement. Get over it. Get on Board. He is going to be the DEM Nominee. Period.
2.) Dear#NeverTrumpers #NikkiHaley cannot save us. Or our former Party. 1/ 3.) Dear #NikkiHaley sure wish this version of you that we have seen since New Hampshire had shown up years ago, and been building a coalition to defeat Trump and STOP him from making a comeback in 2024.
4.) Dear @VP you are the bright light in all of this mess, keep shining. 2/
Jan 3 16 tweets 3 min read
Some thoughts on the narrative against powerful, accomplished black women in America like @VP and #ClaudineGay the first ever black president at #Harvard University and first WOC president. Now disgraced and forced out by modern "twitter" mob violence. A thread. 🧵 First, let's all agree on what we should agree on--President Gay along with MIT, and Penn's female presidents all failed badly on December 5, 2023 before the US House of Rep. Workforce & Education Committee. They failed to call out #JewishGenocide for the vile hatred it is. 1/
Oct 17, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
I wrote an OPINION piece on @VP SAT and why I feel she is marginalized, under utilized and disrespected as our first woman & WOC Veep. Some said it was a "hit piece" that's nonsense. Here are my receipts on my views on the Veep BEFORE she was VP. thedailybeast.com/no-seat-at-the… 1/ Pay attention to my language in these two graphs. This was written in Dec 2019 as Harris was leaving the presidential race. Looks like I accurately predicted she would become VP and with Joe Biden as the nominee. I was attacked then. Looks like I was pretty insightful. 2/
Aug 17, 2022 9 tweets 4 min read
A thread on our great Republic: I spent yesterday @TJMonticello the author of the #DeclarationOfIndependence our 3rd president #ThomasJefferson and standing in his study, his bedroom, reading his words, touching his papers, I found myself reflecting on the state of our nation. 1/ Jefferson was no doubt a complicated, conflicted man. He wrote "all men are created equal" and yet, he owned African slaves. He fathered 4 living children with his 15 year old slave #SallyHemings and kept her as his concubine until his death. A period of over 35 years. 2/
Mar 25, 2022 10 tweets 2 min read
As a professional Black woman, a former attorney and now in my 50s like the judge, I felt physically unwell at how the Republican senators spoke to her—yelling at her and demeaning her—because I have been there too many times. thegrio.com/2022/03/24/lif… 1/ #ConfirmKJB Not in public at a job interview. But definitely in the boardroom or conference room or on the college campus. I simply spoke my mind like all the men in the room. Or like the white women in the room. 2/
Nov 10, 2021 8 tweets 4 min read
My thoughts on the new #UniversityofAustin
1.) I get why people are concerned about what's happening in academia. I am too.
2.) I am not sure starting a new school is the answer
3.) the answer is for good people to come together and TALK about #DEI. #cancelculture #University 1/ The reason there is such a backlash is because people do not know how to talk about race, racism, and the intersections with gender and sexuality in America. So, instead they go on the attack. They demean. They harass. They marginalize. They deny reality. #CancelCulture 2/
Nov 8, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Tweet About Superman’s Bisexual Son Has Professor Fighting Against #CancelCulture:
“I asked a question about a comic book character. Nobody thought my tweet was hateful. I did not get put in the jail by Twitter. I did not get my tweet flagged.”

LISTEN dailysignal.com/2021/11/08/twe… I reacted to @DCComics as did, by the way, millions of people on Twitter had the same reaction I did, which is, first, “Wait a minute. What?” Then the second thing I asked was, “OK, how do Christian parents tell their kids about this?