Theyhe SC Dept. of Education canceled AP African American Studies, @thegrio spoke with teachers, school administrators & superintendents to find out why SC essentially canceled the ONLY accredited HS course in Black History.

THey all had the same answer.

A thread. FIRST we must acknowledge that SC is central to ANY study of Black Americans.

Scholars estimate that 40% of America's race-based human trafficking cargo disembarked in the "slave capital of the new world."

There are a few problems with Byron Donald’s idiotic statement, notion of Black “conservatives,” and even how WE THINK of Jim Crow

A thread

https://twitter.com/repjeffries/status/1798376217642742077

Byron Donald’s statement isn’t that uncommon. Every Black person has heard a version of this, whether it is “integration was the worst thing that happened to us,” or what Donalds said.

Those people are dumb

The conversation about Caitlin Clark reminds me of one of my favorite stories about of basketball’s forgotten GOATs and a strange NBA stat

A thread. Regardless of how you feel about WNBA player’s treatment of Caitlin Clark, it is INARGUABLE that she is expected to be a generational talent.

Whenever someone is expected to dominate their sport, teams & player often use a common strategy:

“What if we beat them up?”

Hypocrites

A thread. Hypocrite @BasedMikeLee

Sure.

A thread

https://twitter.com/bizupcoachrob/status/1790826426112888892

After the French Revolution, people who supported the old monarchy, feudalism and a heirarchal sat on the right side of presiding officer of French Parliament and the liberal, non-aristocrats and members of the third estate usually sat on the left.

This is not true. It has never been true. It is based partly on a misunderstanding FBI data and partly based on a widely perpetuated lie.

A thread.

https://twitter.com/bluegrassrabbi/status/1787630391538380963

First of all, let’s get this out of the way, NO ONE deserves hate. It is wrong

Yet, year in and year out, there are more anti-Black hate crimes than any other category.
And according to the latest FBI data there, are nearly 3 times more anti-black crimes than anti-Jewish crimes.

A few years ago, while working for one of the greatest sports franchises of all time, I learned a very important life lesson.

A thread Every summer, my hometown's recreation department hosted a "stop the violence" summer league to keep kids "off the street."

It eventually became so competitive that teams would recruit out-of-town ringers, leaving local basketball players shut out of their hometown's tournament

Many people don’t know that the phrase “crabs in a barrel” comes from an old Geechie Gullah tale.

A thread: A long time ago, it was impossible to catch crabs. They were too crafty. Even when they got caught in a net, other crabs would come and free them. Then, one day, a fisherman found a crafty old crab in his net one morning. He was just about to eat it when the the crafty old crab said:

“Please Mr. Fisherman, don’t eat me. Please don’t eat me!”

7 years ago, I wrote a small piece about a man who was falsely accused of a crime.

A few days later, I got an anonymous telling me to look up the woman they called “the evilest white woman on earth.”

What happened next is the absolute wildest story you’ll ever hear

A thread The story begins in 2017, when an editor asked me to fill in for a coworker and do a quick write-up about Lamonte McIntyre, who spent 23 yrs in prison for a double murder he didn’t commit.

I thought it was weird his conviction wasn’t actually overturned

theroot.com/lamonte-mcinty…

Good question.

A BETTER question is why is Youngkin so determined to give Klan-affiliated white women welfare by stealing money from Black kids?

A thread.

https://twitter.com/GovernorWilder/status/1779926979254579422

Contrary what people who don't read things say, the Virginia legislature is not "targeting" the Klan-affiliated, pro-Confederate hate group that is responsible for the "lost cause" by taking the tax-exempt status from the KKK's little sister.

One more thing:

In 1924, lawmakers tasked the census bureau was tasked with figuring out the “national origins of the white population of the US.”

If white people were from a certain country, that country was considered “Good.” Nonwhite people were from “bad countries.” To preserve the country’s racial composition, they created a formula. Ppl from good countries could immigrate based on the % of pop. in the formula. Immigration from bad countries was limited.

And no Asians

This was why we call it the Asian Exclusion & National Origins Act

I'll take this one.

The idea that affirmative action or diversity, equity & inclusion policies equal lower standards is something that a lot of people believe.

Instead of citing what "I believe" like Elon did, let's use facts & a something I like to called "math"

A thread.

https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1769842544425279898

First of all, there is a good reason why Elon referred to Duke. It's part of a discussion began by Ben Shapiro and some other white people after a white girl said some things about Duke Medical School's DEI program

By its own admission, the school has a DEI program.

Three years ago, I realized one of my lifelong dreams that reflects the racial progress this country has made throughout its history.

I became a diversity hire.

A thread. Growing up, I ABSOLUTELY LOVED stand-up. As a kid, I watched episodes of "Evening at the Improv) & once got in trouble for listening to Richard Pryor (Even worse, I dubbed it over my grandma's James Cleveland album).

And I LOVED Late-night TV.

Three years ago, I realized one of my lifelong dreams that reflects the racial progress this country has made throughout its history.

I became a diversity hire.

A thread. Growing up, I ABSOLUTELY LOVED stand-up. As a kid, I watched episodes of "Evening at the Improv) & once got in trouble for listening to Richard Pryor (Even worse, I dubbed it over my grandma's James Cleveland album).

And I LOVED Late-night TV.

Here’s an interesting #BHM challenge:

You get to choose any three people, living or dead, to answer 1 question:

Who is responsible for saving the most lives in all of human history?

I’d argue than no one can beat my team.

A thread. The first 1 is easy. You probably already know her name:

Henrietta Lacks

Although her cells were harvested without her consent, its possible that we’ll EVER KNOW how many lives were saved because of HeLa cells.

hopkinsmedicine.org/henrietta-lack…

I know I tweet about history a lot, but for Black History Month, let's talk about math (OK, there'll be a little bit of history involved)

A thread: The first thing you should know is that after the fall of the Roman Empire, there was so little intellectual & scientific progress, that historians later referred to this period as "the Dark Ages."

To be fair, that term only refers to white people

Today, a lot of old Black men will be rooting for the KC Chiefs.

It has nothing to do with Taylor Swift, a Black QB or Travis Kelce's pioneering haircut. It's about HBCUs, Black history, a kidnapping & white affirmative action.

How Racism Invented the Super Bowl

A thread. Pro football existed before the NFL. Independent football teams played each other & they even crowned a "national champion."

Remember, many colleges were segregated, which meant a lot of the BEST football players played at HBCUs, Ivy League colleges & on the West Coast.

Too often, when talking about the violence of Reconstruction, we focus on what whites did to Black people.

But what about the white community?

Well on this day, 150 years ago, SC finally addressed a problem that had plagued the state for years.

White on white crime

A thread It was 1872 in SC and Black people were doing great.

SC was ~ 60% Black. The legislature was majority-Black. The Lt Gov was Black. SC had America’s 1st Black Secretary of State, 1st Black Supreme Court justice & the 1st Black state treasurer.

BUT white people were NOT ok

This could literally be the definition of whiteness.

Or white supremacy.

Or any variation of the specific brand of Christian nationalism that has been weaponized and used to justify white supremacy since the beginning of America history.

A thread:

https://twitter.com/davidpollack47/status/1753061053053768101

1606 - The first Charter of Virginia granted with a goal of “propagating of Christian religion to such people, as yet live in darkness and miserable ignorance of the true knowledge& worship of God & … bring the infidels and savages, living in those parts, to human civility”

“a recruit reported hearing him describe his day by saying to someone on the phone, ‘Oh, just another day with the old boot on the n****r’s neck’ … a dozen troopers confirmed they heard Allison use the slur.”

This isn’t the wildest part of this article

oregonlive.com/crime/2024/01/… There was the cop who killed someone and wanted to keep the gun as a keepsake

Little known fact:

Although much has been written about America's PAST treatment of Black veterans, few people are aware that tens of thousands of Black people who served in the US Armed Forces are technically and legally excluded from Veterans Day.

A thread (and a story) First of all, the mistreatment of Black veterans dates back to the beginning of America. Many enslaved people who fought in the American Revolution were promised their freedom.

America reneged.

Don't trust my version of history. Ask a little organization called the US Army.