Foreign Cargo ship accidentally crashes into & collapsing bridge, killing immigrant workers

None of the crew or workers were Black

Republicans blame Black mayor & Governor & DEI

Mass & Social media pushes the message, even asking mayor & Governor if DEI caused crash

I just.. Disasters happen, there’s a national effort to rally around the locations affected. The cities, businesses, states, the people

This disaster in Baltimore?

Nah, fuk them, republicans and online mostly WP loudly yell.

Black people are in proximity so.. its gotta be their fault

For *me I don’t care if you’re a democrat, if you join the racists in talking points about N E Thing anti-Black

You deserve the dragging you get. And I won’t support you ever. Period.

Too many white democrats, mostly men, quickly side with republicans over the base of the party

https://twitter.com/myronjclifton/status/1773083005503803608

Then their supporters come to their defense with “But they’ve done good work” …as if the “now” of their racism is excused by their past works

Nope. There’s too much at stake to give passes to democrats more interested in appeasing repubs than supporting Black & brown voters.

Still can't believe a man tried to overthrow a presidential election, had help from numerous federally elected & state elected officials and widely known political operatives

And was supported by multiple foreign agents and heads of state

Is allowed to run for president Not a single leader of the insurrection is in jail or even tried.

Justice takes time
This is complex
Justice Department has to get it right
They only get one chance to get him/them

Those excuses are white supremacy talking points.

You know another vile thing about those anti-Biden folk MSNBC (and other cable news) continue to platform?

They talk about hurting Biden/democrats by not voting for him, but the real people they'll hurt are the people *only democrats help.

Black people

The producers know this They tell their viewers those folk are the base of the party, knowing that is a lie. They don't tell them their sordid history - one is a communist/DSA stooge, the other a mulism anti-democratic criminal, & another just got a huge grant due to Biden/Harris policies.

I remember going to welfare office with my mom and watching her have to justify being poor to the white lady who would decide if we could have food stamps. Her sneering questions about why my mom had 3 kids, why she only had seasonal work, and why she didn’t sell her wedding ring Mom calmly answered every question for herself and my disappeared father who was out on the streets somewhere

The lady’s supervisor, a white man, came to punctuate the insults by telling mom she was pretty enough to keep a man so he couldn’t understand why she needed food stamps

I honestly don't understand why republicans run & elect such awful men.

I am 59 and know, worked with, & lived by wonderful white men & women who could be good candidates

There are millions in the country like them but the gop goes to Trump, Lindsey, Gaetz, Mitch, Tuberville Why does that party go so low to elect those guys?

We always hear about democrats appealing to rural white voters, soccer moms, and blue collar white men..

But rarely hear why repubs don't appeal to regular Black & brown folk by running a reasonable candidate that appeals to us

Nikki Haley is destroying the republican party and it is wonderful to see.

She raised $50M in the 2nd of of 2023-outraising trump, and so he is threatening her donors.
(screenshot by @ cwebbonline).

What will happen as we move closer to the election?

A complete GOP breakdown. Last election republicans tried to stop the counting of votes in key states and districts. Simultaneously they were working the courts to stop counting democratic votes, and telling state republican officials to declare trump the winner

They held the election and nation hostage

The other thing about that lady whining about her “nephew” not getting into an Ivy League school..

So many Americans just can’t do simple maths.

97% who try don’t get in.

You are competing against American and foreigners. That’s why there are, surprise, other schools. Some of the anger really baffles me.

Like, the realization that you bought into superiority then got rejected really makes them hate…

Black folk even more.

Why?

Why is the default for these folk always to hate BLACK folk, specifically, more?

Okay

My response to anyone telling me they won’t vote for Biden

I’m not gonna proselytize to grownups who know exactly what’ll happen if republicans win

I don’t care about your religion race gender your country of origin

Campaign against democrats? you are dead to me

Okay Half the folk saying that aren’t even eligible to vote in this country.

A quarter won’t bother to vote.

Stop wasting my time and playing in my face.

You know what’s right to do but if you choose to follow idiots off the cliff that’s on you, you big dummy.

I’m really proud how so many folk are educating Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar (Cardi B) on why it’s not President Biden’s fault NYC mayor Adams is a fuck up. And speaking out against her definitive statement saying she isn’t voting for POTUS.

Her statements are misguided & harmful Cardi B, Killer Mike, Kanye, and other entertainers spouting anti democratic misinformation and nonsense, along with Black male rappers paying their way out of abuse accusations-Sean Combs being just the latest- reminds me that millionaire entertainers aren’t voting guideposts.

I think so many folk say something like "It's too complicated" when talking - or not talking -about the middle east/war between Israel & Hamas is because in this country we're socialized to see our issues in black and white, literally.

The truth here is far more complicated. Black people long ago became the 2nd largest minority but you'd never know it because all social advancements, battles, laws, school books, and elections are presented as binary - Black vs. white.

The speed at which TikTok “influencers” & social justice warriors, movie reviewers, & makeup artists reflexively and in unison turned Anti-Biden/saying they won’t vote, then started repeating Russian propaganda is making me rethink laughing at the gop for wanting to ban TikTok So many of them have posts calling out white supremacy, advocating for Black folk, indigenous folk, and the lgbtqi community… but the war between Israel and Hamas is their “launch point” for anti-Biden rhetoric.

I say this with the utmost respect for my friends.

White men in America are destroying every piece & part of this country with methodical precision.

Every institution, government office & department, the judiciary, business, public schools, healthcare, military and diplomacy. It’s not unions. Or migrants. Or Black folk, Latino, gay, lesbian, transgender, or Jewish folk. It’s specifically white men and the power they hold in every facet of American society.

They are the forced main character we all have to step aside for, tolerate, fear, work for.

I don’t think most folk can fully appreciate or understand how attacks on Jewish folk is scary to the core of all Jewish people. When there’s only roughly 16m of you, recent memory when dozens of nations worked to exterminate you, and you are always top 2 target for hate attacks. In any country where you have diaspora. It’s truly frightening. Nowhere is truly safe -in that Black folk can identify- not even in this nation that always have spreading antisemitism. This app is a cesspool of antisemitism and there’s nothing Jewish folk can do to stop it.

I keep thinking of this scene. It captures america & our history horribly perfectly.

I think all Black folk connected in the moment we saw this in that Rodney King memory. In Emmet. In strange fruit. In lynching postcards. In photos of whites at picnics celebrating our deaths. I think about Michael Brown left lying in the street for hours. Of that knee to George Floyd’s neck, Trayvon’s back, Sandra’s hanging, and Breonna waking up to gunfire from police.

Our cultural norms are not the same as white cultural norms, especially Black church words which simultaneously speak against the “devil” & racism. The genocide attempted by white Christians against Jewish people is distinctly white, but antisemitism can come from any Christian Jaime foxx spoke common Black church words & tagged #fakefriends to further specify who he meant. But his online following are t just the Black community. Many Jewish friends necessarily are always on guard against attacks -we both have that in well earned measures -and spoke out

🧵/Ron/Florida are saying Black enslaved folk “learned skills that later benefited them” & of course they are being called out for whitewashing american history. What they are saying isn’t *completely inaccurate but it is extremely limited & only a very small part of the story. They are purposely reducing enslavement to a few years or a single generation. But we all *should know American chattel slavery lasted 400 years -or ~20 generations. theguardian.com/news/2019/aug/…

“Pardon him”

The same energy that allowed the confederates to return and expand their racist power that to this day harms indigenous & Black folk.

The call for pardons-coming from left and right.. white people and media rips off the facade of equal justice under the law. We really need to self-interrogate why the calls for justice are so strong for, say, Jussie Smollett or Will Smith but not for Donald Trump. Or killer Kyle Rittenhouse, Brock Turner, or <insert name killer cop>.

Would love to see the energy the media wants us to have for the election in Turkey 🇹🇷 and the war in Ukraine 🇺🇦..

Be reciprocated w/energy for voting rights in Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas etc.

Because that’s my top priority: Black & brown folk in *this country. Help them out. Be concerned but I just gotta say.. white Europeans aren’t the end all be all to “everything.” There are millions of disenfranchised Black & brown Americans who live under dictatorships disguised as governors.

TW Grief.
Lamenting that I lost my mom to colon cancer when she was only 39 and I was 20. She lived a full life of joy, pain, abuse, success, depression, and fun. I never stop thinking about and feeling her and I wish for just a moment more of her time. I think about her every day in some way. And I miss her every minute. The grief.. It never passes and I am thankful for that.
Grief anchors me to her memory & life & I hold it like I used to hold her hand in the park. And hold her hand in the middle of night as she cried in pain.

I remember by mom finally freeing herself from my abusive father after years of horrific abuse and even after all that there were members of his family saying she should have stayed. And when his life spiraled gutter into drugs they blamed her for that, too. There’s many lessons and one I’m thinking of is how my mom literally putting her life first upset her in-laws/family. How her self preservation was an affront to so many. And how her taking responsibility for her life meant to them her not taking responsibility for HIS life.