#Slavery

Kerry

kerry62189

Police as we know them are a product of modern cities, where there are so many people, most of whom do not know each other, that volunteer community-enforcement becomes untenable.

Ann Coates

setoacnna

GCs are getting "upset about Brenda is a sheep" But have the considered the ACTUAL SAFEGUARDING nightmares present in so many popular children's stories? Thread.... Rapunzel. Twelve year old imprisoned

El Cops Are Bastards

ElSandifer

A point that's not made often enough in response to white or straight people going "where's our holiday" is that Juneteenth and Pride commemorate endings and turning points in struggles

Stephen Punwasi

StephenPunwasi

Paying 2 month’s salary for an engagement ring is dumb, and not a real tradition.It’s one of the many successful strategies one single (predatory) company used to capture a series

Tim 🔰🌺🌍

Morosoph

Those whom believe that sex work is *inherently* exploitative would rather not know stories of liberation through sex work. This kind of narrative is impossible given their worldview.https://twitter.com/rosewithth0rns/status/131753749289206

Abubakar Suleiman

suleimana

You will never hear anyone say ‘my neighbors are better parents so I will send my children over’. Never.I have the same attitude to food, to education & to health.

Zoé

ztsamudzi

The affective power of the mothers’ group singing lullabies and standing before the police relies on white women’s innocence and the sancitity of white motherhood as its driving force. It’s

Fiqah Is Openly Cat

sassycrass

I was just thinking about this.One of my in-laws had his own general store in the Jim Crow South during the First Great Depression. Black people patronized it exclusively.He extended

Louis Allday

Louis_Allday

"Slavery was not genocide, otherwise there wouldn't be so many damn blacks in Africa or in Britain would there?"David Starkey, one of the most widely known popular 'historians' in the

K. 🪐

lockinwithkeyz

As great as this is for them, I find it funny how a recent incident in Atlanta made this legislation so swift, meanwhile Black people have been getting murdered on

Dr Sarah Taber

SarahTaber_bww

YEPWhen I say "mgmt needs to do their job instead of just trying to witch hunt out all the 'problem employees' (that let them know problems exist)"this is exactly what

Osaretin Victor Asemota

asemota

The greatest power a parent has over offspring is bestowing an identity with a name. It is a power Africans don't take lightly as they believe it is a daily

Allie Beth Stuckey

conservmillen

Read your piece, and I wish you would have consulted with a Christian pro-lifer before writing it, because there are some glaring misunderstandings. Here to help:1) "The Bible never directly

M. Simone Boyd

MSimoneBoyd

We know that, #COVID19 is amplifying inequities for POC. Here’s a few reasons why from The Color of Law:1. Coordinated efforts from state, local & federal governments sought to MAINTAIN

Rachel Shelden

rachelshelden

It's #JUNETEENTH2020 and Black scholars, writers, and activists are providing so much wonderful context for this important holiday. Here is a thread of the articles, threads, and podcasts out

Grace Mallon

GraceMallon3

If I have to read another weepy political thinkpiece by a historian who wants us to know that Joe Biden will rescue the founders’ vision for America, so help meWouldn’t