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FBT offers: The FBT podcast: The Journal of Free Black Thought: The Compendium of Free Black Thought, a topically arranged bibliography of heterodox black writers: Webpage:

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"I am black. I'm not oppressed. I'm free. Stop forcing on people to accept that they are oppressed! I am not oppressed!"

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Breaking news:

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"You ask me one-dimensional questions about...the Negro-ness of my life. I am artist, man, American, contemporary. I am an awful lot of things, so I wish you would pay me the respect due." #SidneyPoitier (1927 – 1/6/22 R.I.P.) on the press's reductive focus on his "blackness."

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Aaron Benner, a black teacher in St. Paul, MN, won a $525K settlement after his school punished him for objecting to "race-based" policies, such as lowering behavioral standards for black students & mandating $3 million in "white privilege" training. 🧵

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Note: If you think black students can't get into college now that SCOTUS has ended race-based Affirmative Action, then you probably have an extremely low opinion of black students.

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If you were a media company and your goal was to breed racial resentment and undermine a multiethnic society, this is how you would go about doing it.

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Rule of thumb: If saying it about MLK would be racist, then saying it about Clarence Thomas is also racist. You may think Justice Thomas is regressive, even evil. That doesn't justify responding in a way that is regressive, even evil.

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The penny is racist. How can we be sure? Because an Assistant Dean at an Ivy League school assures us it is so.

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"The average impact of corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training is zero and some evidence suggests that the impact can become negative if the training is mandated." —Roland Fryer (Harvard, Econ) 🧵

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C'mon LA Times. Criticize Elder's policy proposals all you want. Attacking him with racist insults only makes *you* look bad.

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The literacy rate among black students in Oakland is at 19% after the teachers organized to throw out the phonics-based method that had been working because it wasn't "progressive" enough.

Matthew Yglesias

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There is nothing better we could do for equity and social justice in education than to convince schools to use effective reading instruction methods even if teachers find them tedious.

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Barbara Fields on "white privilege": "Attacking 'white privilege' will never build...a coalition. In the 1st place, those who hope for democracy should never accept the term 'privilege' to mean 'not subject to a racist double standard.' That is not a privilege. (Con't...) 1/3

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“I don’t want to tell [my 7-yr-old son] there are people who will judge him because of the color of his skin, b/c right now he’s in a school with every race, and all these kids are in their purest form. When he describes his friends, he never defines them by race.” —Tyler Perry

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80% of progressive activists are white. 3% are black. Yet if you did a survey, many Americans would likely say that a high proportion of progressive activists are black, because these are the black people the media disproportionately spotlights.

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Racial tolerance around the globe.

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"I don't want my school experience to be based on my identity. I don't want you to make policies based on me being a black girl. I want you to make policies based on me being a student and holding me to the highest expectation." 10th-grade girl on 🔥 at a school board meeting!

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“essentially lynched me and my academic character” So now-fired FSU Criminologist Eric Stewart describes the grad student who uncovered how he fabricated data in his publications on systemic racism in the criminal justice system. Perpetrator casting himself as victim. Unreal.

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WHAT IF WHITE SUPREMACY ISN'T THE PROBLEM? "White supremacy used to be a meaningful term." Now it's "used to describe math, healthy eating, classical music, and hard work. Science fiction, SATs, air conditioning, and well-behaved children are all suddenly 'rooted' in it." 🧵

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2021. 1960.

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What is the real reason—the deepest reason—for which absolutely everything must be denounced and debunked as "white supremacy"?

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We used to be so much wiser about race before we bought into the religion of “implicit bias.”

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"What matters is not what passes across our minds; it's how we live our lives together." (The Jeffersons - S1 E1) Manages to be funny, sane, inspirational -- imagine that.

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That feeling when @nytimes —horrified anyone might think a thought not approved by the 20-something Grievance Studies majors who edit it—tries to do a hit on @elonmusk but instead finds that he: —Had anti-apartheid dad & school —Left SA to avoid military service in racist regime

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This is why they invented the term "gaslighting."

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2021. 1958.

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Never forget.

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We juxtaposed these 2 pics in order to provoke. We wanted to suggest that there are 2 routes, driven by very different intentions, by which you can get government to promote separating people by race: (1) old-fashioned racism and (2) fairly new ideas about "anti-racism"/"DEI." 🧵

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If your kid's school, your college, or your employer assigns one of the books in the left column—and let's face it, they've either done it already or they will—then just politely request that they also assign one of the books in the right column.

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Say a prayer for Chicago Police Officer Areanah Preston, murdered at 24 after getting off work by 4 teens on a crime spree. Preston had been with the force for 3 years. She was set to graduate with an MA from Loyola U. Chicago School of Law on Saturday.

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JUNETEENTH was NOT the day when enslaved people in TX learned they were free, but the day in 1865 when the Union Army arrived to enforce emancipation. "We knowed what was goin’ on all the time. We had papers in them days jus’ like now." —Felix Haywood

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No matter how "woke" you are, no matter how many witches you've burned at the stake, you yourself are always one Google search away from dying by the sword that you lived by. We need to recover the lost virtue of 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙚, even if only out of sheer self-interest.

The Daily Show

@TheDailyShow

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“When Joe Rogan says, ‘I wasn't being racist. I was just being entertaining.’ - No, Joe, I think you were using racism to try to be entertaining.” -Trevor unpacks Rogan's N-word and Planet of the Apes apologies

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New oppressor class just dropped:

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Schools should NOT "encourage students to change their behavior or families to do more things that were like white families do, like reading to their children or adopting a growth mindset" There's no way to overstate how destructive progressive neo-racism is for black children:

Mythinformed

@MythinformedMKE

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“Things that white families do, like reading to their children” Woke k-12 teacher is opposed to schools promoting positive activities like families reading to kids, because that’s what white people do. She thinks they should instead be focused on “oppressive and racist…

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Chuck D—𝘵𝘩𝘦 @MrChuckD , of Public Enemy—retweeted FBT. Our mission here is complete.

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Most racist country on earth? Given a list are various groups of people, respondents were asked: "Could you please mention any that you would not like to have as neighbors?" 3% of Americans selected "People of a different race." World Values Survey ( @WVS_Survey ) 2017-2020.

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There goes the narrative: "Speaker after speaker sounded the same note, calling for an increased police presence. Further, they want to require homeless drug addicts to get treatment and prevent them from camping on the street."

'X-Rated Acts' And Syringes: Black Leaders Demand Police Action

The Safeway parking lot of a historically Black district has become an epicenter of drug dealing and ‘X-rated acts.’

sfstandard.com

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"I’m not only concerned about the black poor. I’m concerned about the white poor. I’m concerned about the Mexican American poor. We are going to grapple with the problem of poor people. And we are going to do it...black and white together." —MLK, Birmingham, AL, Feb. 15, 1968.

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@seerutkchawla These stats also help drive home the point:

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We must be doing something right.

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This is one of our greatest fears about the new woke racialism. If you compel white people to identify as a group, and tell them that whiteness means power and supremacy, how long before they embrace—rather than feel guilt—about the identity you've backed them into?

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God help us here in the US should the ordinary Joe and Jane who happen to be "white" start to think about themselves primarily in terms of their "race". Why then are we encouraging them to do so?

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3/3 "...decline in life expectancy among white Americans, which the economists A. Case & A. Deaton attribute to 'deaths of despair,' is a case in point. The rhetoric of white privilege mocks the problem, while alienating people who might be persuaded."

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"White people can not give us equality. We actually have to earn equal status. Equality of dignity, of standing, of honor [are things] we have to wrest from a cruel & indifferent world with the hard work of our bare hands, inspired by the example of our ancestors." — @GlennLoury

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"Black American life has been sold to the American people as a state of constant oppression. We are portrayed as living in constant fear, living with permanently unfair treatment. The actual concerns of Black Americans are ignored & even erased b/c of the Black victim narrative."

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Roland Fryer (Harvard, Econ) has been "banned from interacting w/ grad students, subjected to Title IX surveillance, & demoted to teaching undergrads. Hard not to conclude that Harvard is more concerned with protecting its ideological codes than with the future of black America."

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"We are not persuaded by the new wokist religion, we who are African, because we know what Africa means. We do not come along out of Africa in search of wokists who can kindly woke-splain to us all about 'whiteness' and the meaning of colonialism." Just discovered @WanjiruNjoya !

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Congratulations @MensahTamStock ! Your country loves you in return.

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"We hold this truth to be self-evident, that God created all men equal. This idea embraces the Indian & the European, the white Man & the African, & whatever measures are adopted subversive of this inestimable privilege, are in violation of our Constitution." James Forten (1813)

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Policies like this—increasingly common—seem unlikely to create a harmonious, pluralistic society, free of racial resentments and divisive political movements that depend on them.

Coleman Hughes

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NY Dept. of Health authorizes antivirals for all people of color regardless of risk factors, but only for whites w/risk factors. The innocent idea that "racism is prejudice plus power" (so whites can't suffer racism) may not be so innocent after all.

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Chimamanda Adichie on how wokeness is destroying the very possibility of literature and art: "There is a new liberal political orthodoxy that I believe will stifle art, particularly literature, in America." 1/

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How did we go from Jon Stewart to Trevor Noah, not just as hosts of the @TheDailyShow , but 𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚?

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TRUTH ABOUT THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP You often hear that the *average* white household has $900K and the *average* black household has $140K—a wealth gap of $770K. But this is grossly distorted. Almost the entire gap—77.5%—is between the TOP 10% of white & black households. 🧵 1/4

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Nov 14, 1960: Six-year-old Ruby Bridges desegregated 1st grade in William Frantz Elementary in NOLA. It took four U.S. Marshals to keep her safe. Things are not perfect today. But the fact that the US is now so very different reminds us that change is both real and possible.

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The heartbeat of antiracism is the Kafkatrap.

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The heartbeat of racism is denial. We can hear the heartbeat clearly.

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@realchrisrufo Imagine being such a virulent racist that you think your black employees are so fragile and lacking in resilience as to be "exhausted, mentally drained, frustrated, stressed, barely sleeping, scared and overwhelmed" just as a result of clocking in at the office.

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Remember the Central Park "Karen" & the birdwatcher Christian Cooper, victimized by her racism? Mr. Lockett, who's black, also had his dog threatened by Christian. He says: "If I wasn’t who I was, I would of called the police on that guy too." Our race discourse is broken. 🧵

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INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE IN THE USA: —94% APPROVE marriage between black & white people (only 4% in 1958) —93% white & 96% non-white people APPROVE —93% Southerners APPROVE: ~ no regional diff. —20% of black newlyweds marry non-black partner —1/6 new marriages = interracial 🧵

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Ethnic Studies "tells kids of color they are stuck in a caste system based on race. It tells kids that 'institutions chronically favor white people & disadvantage people of color.' This curriculum will not help kids of color succeed. All it does is remove any reason to try." 🔥

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"Never woulda happened to a white man."

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2/3 "It is a right that belongs to every human being. Moreover, white working people...are not privileged. In fact, they are struggling & suffering in the maw of a callous trickle-up society whose obscene levels of inequality the pandemic is likely to increase. The recent...

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Africa Brooke: "I can no longer be an active participant in any culture or movement that encourages groupthink,...revamped segregation, fabricating history, cancellations masked as accountability, the disempowerment of black people masked as social justice..." 1/2

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"Brown bags" and "brown bag lunches" are racist. That's according to the University of Washington @UW and its pathological fantasies of black fragility.

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3/ Con't: "The students are being used in some sort of social experiment where they are not being held accountable for their behavior. This is only setting our children up to fail in the future, especially our black students. Who would conduct such an experiment on our kids?"

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So revealing that any black person who thinks outside of received narratives—and that doesn't mean "is a conservative"—is met, not with substantive arguments, but with "You're a charlatan!" and "You've been co-opted by the right!" from the gatekeepers of authentic black opinion.

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• @coldxman 's appearance on The View "There's no evidence that I've been co-opted by anyone. I have an independent podcast, I work for CNN as an analyst, I write for The Free Press, I'm independent in all of these endeavors and no one is paying me to say what I'm saying"

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In 1800, nearly everyone on earth is well below the international poverty line of $2 per day. By 2015, most people on earth are well above it. THIS is what some insist we "dismantle" or "burn down."

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"Only 34% of students are proficient at reading, 25% for math, and 25% for science. These are dismal numbers. The focus on Critical Race Theory won't improve these numbers. Teach our kids in an uplifting and unifying way. Raise your expectations and theirs. You owe it to them."

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Marcus Arbery, Ahmaud's dad, is an admirable human being. It's a shame he had to suffer this tragedy for us to learn that. We should listen to him.

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Black Dems/Americans are out of step with the "woke" left: 66% of Black Dems: sex is immutable & assigned at birth. 62% of Black Americans: race SHOULDN'T be a factor in college admissions. 38% of Black Americans: police funding should INCREASE; 38%: remain as is; 23%: decreased.

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Racial gamification of college applications: "Chinese and Korean kids wanted to know how to make their applications seem less Chinese or Korean. Rich white kids wanted to know ways to seem less rich and white. The Black kids wanted to make sure they came across as Black enough."

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This is what a florid patriarchy looks like:

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Mike Tyson carrying a copy of Thomas Sowell's 𝘽𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘𝙨. Good taste, Mike!

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Let's heal our society's wounds by training people to be paranoid about and traumatized by normal, healthy social interactions.

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No matter how sweetly you ask it, “Where are you from?” is not a polite question.

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This thread *perfectly* exemplifies the theory & practice of the woke, Professional-Managerial-Class elite: "Everything about America is evil & started in slavery & needs to be destroyed...but till then, I'mma exploit the system for my own personal enrichment & aggrandizement."

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2/ From Aaron Benner's op-ed: "I saw students cussing at their teachers, running out of class, yelling and screaming in the halls, and fighting. Out of 375 students, only 14.3% were proficient in Reading, 9.6% in Math and 9.3% in Science. These test scores are not acceptable."

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2/ Kareem Weaver ( @KJWinEducation ), an Oakland teacher fighting to bring back phonics, says that 81% illiteracy “can't be maintained in the society. [The progressive new method of teaching reading] has been an unmitigated disaster.”

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Cornell removes Gettysburg Address, bust of Lincoln, after "a complaint." How can a nation that has come to hate even the redemptive episodes in its history then expect to stir itself to redemptive action? What moral vision of our future does this serve?

Cornell University removes Gettysburg Address, Lincoln bust from library after alleged complaint

The Kroch Library at Cornell University removed a bust of former President Abraham Lincoln and a bronzed Gettysburg Address plaque that were on display since 2013.

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Restore your faith in humanity in under a minute: Dad: "How we treat people is based on who they are and not what color they are." Girl: "And if they're nice, and smart." Dad: "Children do not see skin color, man. They love everybody." ( @koryyeshua on Instagram)

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Someone give this young brother my regards. This brightened my spirit.

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"I couldn't give a sh*t what race someone is. I don't 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 to care. Of course, I'm going to see what race you are if we're interacting. But your race tells me absolutely f*cking nothing about you." Africa Brooke on her "Unfiltered" podcast:

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The fact that many on the left "can’t see just how badly this exchange went for their side shows what a big mistake it was to let academia and media institutions turn into left-wing monocultures."

Opinion | A Berkeley professor’s Senate testimony didn’t go how the left thinks it did

Progressives pay a price for dominating elite spaces so thoroughly that their thinking doesn't get the benefit of being challenged.

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UCSD hosts a racially exclusive orientation called 'Black, Latinx, & Native American Family Orientation.' "Only students from those racial backgrounds may apply." "Racial segregation of educational programs is illegal [since 1950] and immoral." More:

[UPDATED] UCSD must open segregated orientation to all students, regardless of race

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Standardized testing isn't "racist." It *defeats* racist biases to which talented black kids might otherwise be subject, and is an escalator up and out of poverty.

Thomas Chatterton Williams

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As a young black kid with no family connections or intergenerational wealth, I had a father who instilled the value of study. I can look you in the eye and say that standardized testing changed the course of my life. Measuring how hard someone is willing to study *does matter.*

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FBT is non-partisan, but we respect @WinsomeSears ' win—the 1st black person & 1st woman elected to statewide office in VA. @MichaelEDyson 's take: “a black mouth moving" "a white idea" "a figure who justifies and legitimates white supremacist practices” *Not* healthy, folks!

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@ClassicalCritic @jemelehill The queen's role in colonialism? There's probably no single human being who has ever lived in human history who oversaw more DEcolonization and reparations for past wrongs than Queen Elizabeth II.

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"'In an academic environment committed to exploring a wide range of differing viewpoints, as the Governor's School claims to be, no teacher should be fired for offering a reasoned critique of critical theory. But that's what happened to Dr. Phillips.'"

North Carolina professor files lawsuit after firing over CRT criticism

(The Center Square) – A teacher at the North Carolina Governor's School recently filed a lawsuit against state officials who he claims fired him for questioning the school's critical race

www.thecentersquare.com

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We're all one search function away from the guillotine. Let's check the beam in our own eye before canceling our neighbor for their mote.

Wokal Distance

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1/ So, @donwinslow tried to get @joerogan cancelled for saying the N-word. It turns out that in his books Don winslow has used the n-word a lot... and I mean a **LOT** So here is a **VERY** long thread of times Don Winslow has used the N-word in his books.

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We've all been living through Robin DiAngelo's psychic breakdown for the past several years.

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Honest question: Will rhetoric like this help us work together or accomplish anything as fellow citizens?

Bishop Talbert Swan

@TalbertSwan

2 years

Whiteness is an unrelenting, demonic force of evil.

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Free Black Thought

@FreeBlckThought

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CREATE A RACIST BABY w/ an "antiracist" guide used in Pre-K thru 3rd grade in a DC public school. 1st: Teach kids that skin color is a Big Deal. They won't naturally assume this: YOUR job is to racialize them & teach that people w/ different complexions are deeply "other." 🧵

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Free Black Thought

@FreeBlckThought

2 years

Look for the follow-up article next week: NUCLEAR WAR WOULD DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPACT PEOPLE OF COLOR AND LGBTQIA+

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Free Black Thought

@FreeBlckThought

11 months

Saying "that the only way for a young African-American kid to be successful in this country is to be the exception and not the rule, that is a dangerous, offensive, disgusting message to send to our young people." Whatever you think of Tim Scott's politics, he's correct on this.

Tim Scott

@votetimscott

11 months

Yesterday’s exception is today’s rule. The concept of America is we will become a more perfect union.

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Free Black Thought

@FreeBlckThought

3 years

"Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT." Frederick Douglass, Fourth of July Oration (1852)

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Free Black Thought

@FreeBlckThought

10 months

Oldie but goodie.

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Free Black Thought

@FreeBlckThought

2 years

"Whether you are an immigrant from Asia or a sharecropper’s grandson, America is a place where you can accomplish whatever you set your mind to. This stunning trait—the dispensing of opportunity regardless of the hue of your skin—is what makes me most proud to be an American."

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Free Black Thought

@FreeBlckThought

1 year

9/ "This curriculum will not help kids of color succeed. All it does is remove any reason to try." "You want to tell my kids & other kids of color that they can't succeed? It's shameful, it's terrible. I ask that you please vote against this bill." Watch the EXTRAORDINARY vid:

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Free Black Thought

@FreeBlckThought

2 years

HETERODOX BLACK WOMEN YOU NEED TO KNOW The other day, @JohnHMcWhorter & @GlennLoury asked why there were no prominent heterodox black women, apart from @cvaldary . There are! Some on this list of 10 are less & some more well-known. Let's make them all world-famous. 🧵

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Free Black Thought

@FreeBlckThought

1 year

"These people don't care about the homeless. Upper-class NYers treat homeless people like bears in the wild: Don't make eye contact and they won't bother you. When this strategy doesn't work, they gaslight you into accepting rampant squalor as not only normal but progress!"

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Free Black Thought

@FreeBlckThought

2 years

Sinatra & Sammy Davis Jr meet late '40s, Harlem. S. invites D. to his show, but they won’t let him in, so S. tears up his contract. When Copacabana won't let D. play, S. refuses to play there. When LV hotel refuses D. a room, S. gives him his. Why? S. says, “He’s my brother.”

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Free Black Thought

@FreeBlckThought

3 years

SHOULD WE CALL IT "CRT"? An urgent 🧵 We know "CRT" properly refers to a movement in the legal academy that began ~40 yrs ago. The pedagogy that's appeared in K-12 ed, w/ its focus on "oppression" & "privilege" & its moralizing of identity, has been called CRT too. But is it?

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