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Making it illegal to bring food and water to people standing in long lines that are only long because of policies you created to specifically and intentionally limit the electoral power of Black people is honestly more egregious and abhorrent than I have the words for.
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There are members of the United States Congress who are afraid to vote to impeach Trump due to concerns about their families’ safety.
This is how terrorism works, folks! This is a textbook example of terrorists succeeding with efforts to coerce decision makers in a government.
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Just so we’re all clear, Trump committed impeachable offenses from the time he was sworn in. What changed is he became a mortal threat to figures of the white elite.
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Many have said that what transpired on Wednesday was not America. They are wrong. This is the America that Black people know.
My latest op-ed:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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Since it appears GOP leaders need a reminder:
There is no “healing” from this without accountability.
And there is no “unity” with white supremacists.
You know the President’s state has devolved dangerously. If you’re too weak to do anything about it, you’re too weak to serve.
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When Josh Hawley was Missouri AG, he refused to charge the jail guards who murdered Tory Sanders, a Black man, by kneeling on his neck.
@HawleyMO didn’t just get blood on his hands now—it’s been there. White supremacy allowed him to go on without consequence.
Not on my watch.
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You fist-pumped insurrectionists and baselessly attacked our elections. Your actions fueled a riot and you fundraised in the chaos. Five people are dead.
Even your GOP colleagues have distanced from your acts.
Yet here you are crying over a book deal. You should be expelled.
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don't know who needs to hear this but there are several orders of magnitude between "smashing a starbucks window in general mayhem" and "breaking into the u.s. capitol while congress is in session because you believe the ongoing election certification is fraudulent"
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20/ Bc THAT would have been a rebellion to challenge the race/class order. The reason Black folk are more likely to be brutalized in that scenario is bc Black folk are more likely fighting for justice and democracy, while whites are more likely fighting against it...
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19/ And now the 3rd piece: to say 'if they'd been black they'd have been beaten or shot' ignores that if they'd been white but storming the capitol as allies, fighting for Black lives, reparations, the end of capitalism, or any significant left goal they'd have been brutalized...
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18/ That's why we got to see that sickening video of that Qanon terrorist chasing that Black cop up the steps. Because the Black cop -- the CAPITOL COP -- was powerless in that moment. His job, whether he knows it or not, is to defend white domination, NOT THE CAPITOL...
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17/ That is the second element of white supremacy: the alignment of institutional power with the maintenance of white (and male) hegemony. Which is also why BLACK cops can't treat white people the way cops (of all colors) treat Black people: it would upend the system...
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16/ This is an important realization: it puts the problem on the system of policing, not individual biases that can be "trained away" or something. Law enforcement has NEVER been about protecting and serving all equally, and this shows where their institutional sympathies lie..
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15/ Law enforcement has always been about protecting the dominant group from subordinate groups. They would mass for Black protesters bc those protesters would likely be taking aim at the hierarchy, not defending it. For whites, cop culture says that defending Trumpism is fine...