@ErinBurnett@j_g_allen@EricTopol 1/ Thread on int'l school re-opening comparisons from a teacher: I am going to focus on effective reproduction rate (R_t), a measure of intensity and "direction" of disease spread. <1.0 it shows a virus is still gaining ground; >1.0: improving
@ErinBurnett@j_g_allen@EricTopol 2/ Yes I am a h.s.l history teacher. But one who has communicated and dbl checked my work with experts as much as possible. History teachers know research-- but, by all means, double check my work. One thing we like to do is give sources.
May 30, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
@JYSexton 1/ They haven't even been waiting. They have tried it before when the opportunity presented itself. In 60s. Repeatedly. Not picking a fight because we are on the same team. But this is not new.
@JYSexton 2/ Tommy Tarrants, 1-time chief terrorist for the Missisisppi White Knights: "Our hope and dream was that a race war would come." "Part of the strategy was to create fear in the black community- but it was more important to produce racial polarization and eventual retaliation."
May 30, 2020 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
1/ Much has been made about the late 60s and how the present situation does not resemble that. I wrote a piece saying the same thing abt the situation a few years ago, in light of civil unrest at that time. I am updating it, and I am not as optimistic... shorturl.at/uwGH72/ Is it 1968? 1968 was not even 1968. By that I mean it was the byproduct of years of frustration with a lack of socio-economic opportunity-- and ongoing racial oppression-- in *spite* of the civil rights movement. The VRA and CRA did very little for AA outside of the south.
Apr 28, 2019 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Thread, Post 1\: So I have probably dug as deeply into the history of anti-Semitic terrorism in the United States as anyone, having written a book that deals extensively with it. The history is important for understanding the context and motivation for what we are experiencing.
2\ So my book digs way back to the early 20th century and attempts to document every major act of anti-Semitic violence possible. I explain how I do that in the book. But observation #1 is this: while anti-Semitic sentiment was common, serious anti-Semitic violence is not.
