I am disappointed that media outlets, including where I write, pushed articles that say “the left” celebrated the killing of Israeli Jews, especially ones without examples, nor acknowledgments of great grief from the left for Israelis & Palestinians alike. Here's what I've seen: In the last five days, I’ve been in meetings with radical Palestinian organizers to figure out how to affirm their resistance and mourn Israeli lives lost, all while Netanyahu bombed their neighborhoods in the besieged Gaza Strip.

i just really, really wish that we knew, named, and perhaps honored the various traditions of the formerly enslaved instead of projecting onto them a singular, narrow desire to be included in US Empire. it’s as narrow + as ahistorical as “they fought and died to vote” as someone with no directly traceable lineage to anyone beyond the US, i know there is a real fear of erasure of Black American access to US institutions, privileges, university seats, holidays, etc. i know that i was one of the few black americans at harvard law, etc etc

i mean, i hear you, but i don’t like simply calling my ancestors “Black Americans,” especially because so many tried to leave or destroy America and did not want to be Americans. it also ignores the cross border insurrectionary activity that lead to uprisings on US soil

https://twitter.com/raindidthepr/status/1670443452893372419

US cities and territories tried banning white people from bringing slaves from the caribbean with them because they found out that they were sharing resistance tactics with slaves in the US. That’s not the hill i’m finna die on

a #Juneteenth reminder that the enslaved people in Texas were not the last people to receive the news about their freedom. Thousands of Black people didn’t know they were free, or knew they were free and their owners forced them to stay. Black people were kidnapped and abandoned literally locked up and sleeping in jails and prisons across the south for years following “emancipation”. Disabled slaves particularly were left behind in bondage and suffered further exploitation by being sold and hidden between networks. Children, too.

Can someone let me know whether any of the politicians who were crying & taking a knee & pushing the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act are condemning what's happening in Atlanta? Where are the people who had Black Lives Matter banners at the Democratic National Convention? No where are they? Where are the politicians who were marching? Who held the hands of Black mothers and said we gotta stop this? Where did they disappear to while Atlanta is building a facility that will guarantee the deaths of more Black children?

on my flight from dc to atlanta today there was a mom trying her best with two *screaming* babies who were clearly terrified of planes. an older black man in front of me, across from her, leaned over and started to console the kids. he pretended he was on a roller coaster then he started clapping, then all of us in the back started clapping and followed his lead. the babies calmed down and started playing with him. when they made a few noises, everyone just started clapping lolol