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Isabel Wilkerson

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3 years

Just now starting to realize the emotional toll, the psychic weight we have carried, what it does to the spirit to hold your breath for this long.

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3 years

We have seen caste in action with our very eyes.

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4 years

Just now returning to Twitter after years of hibernation, completing my book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. It’s an x-ray of our country. It drops on Aug. 11, 2020. I hope you will love it as much as you did The Warmth of Other Suns.

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And they carried themselves with the dignity that had been denied them and their forebears for 246 years.... Happy Juneteenth. In honor of the last of the enslaved people to hear that they had been freed.

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So this happened today. And I am overjoyed. Thank you, @ava , @netflix and all of the readers who have loved this book.

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4 years

Ava DuVernay Back In Director’s Chair For ‘Caste’; Netflix Adaptation Of Acclaimed Isabel Wilkerson’s Best Seller

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This review leaves me speechless, and grateful beyond words. A writer’s dream to have one’s work so completely understood. Just wow!

Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ Is an ‘Instant American Classic’ About Our Abiding Sin (Published 2020)

Wilkerson’s new book makes unsettling comparisons between India’s treatment of its untouchables, Nazi Germany’s treatment of Jews and America’s treatment of African-Americans.

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4 years

Overcome by the starkly humble, last crossing of John Lewis over the Edmund Pettus Bridge: the horse-drawn carriage, red wheels plodding over rose petals, casket draped by the flag. The horseman in top hat, rising at the crest of the bridge to hold his hat to his heart. #Selma

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Isabel Wilkerson

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4 years

So thrilled that Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents has been chosen by the incomparable Oprah as her next Book Club Pick. Her stunning praise of it warms my heart: “This book might well save us. Caste...is a must read for humanity....”

Oprah Winfrey

@Oprah

4 years

My next @oprahsbookclub pick, “Caste” by @Isabelwilkerson , should be required reading for humanity. It eloquently examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America. Download a copy on @AppleBooks here: #ReadWithUs

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2 years

Caste working exactly as designed.

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5 years

Michelle Obama became FLOTUS in country that did not see black women as ladies for centuries. My review of #Becoming

Isabel Wilkerson on Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ and the Great Migration (Published 2018)

The former first lady’s long-awaited new memoir recounts with insight, candor and wit her family’s trajectory from the Jim Crow South to Chicago’s South Side and her own improbable journey from there...

www.nytimes.com

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Isabel Wilkerson

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3 years

Trayvon Martin would have been 26 today had he been permitted to live.

Only two choices, Biden or Fascism! Ebony Noor ✊🏿

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3 years

Today is Trayvon Martin's birthday. This picture has always been a favorite of mine. Never once did the media mention the kid who went to Space Camp.

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7 years

"Removing the monuments should be part of larger project: mending the racial disparities that centuries of white supremacy have wrought...."

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4 years

This is the highest honor ever.

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4 years

Well put together and bright. Love the green shapes. Glass. Ceramics. 9/10 @Isabelwilkerson

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"We hope other descendants of Confederate generals will stand with us." --Great-great-grandsons of Stonewall Jackson

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6 years

Many of us have never known a world without Aretha Franklin. She is part of the firmament. Like Mount Rushmore. You may have never seen Mount Rushmore. And you didn't have to see Aretha Franklin in person to know that there was an essential steadiness in the universe.

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2 years

The forces behind this day played the long game while many Americans slept in denial. This day was sealed in 2016. And this is the start not the end. The question now, as it has always been, is: what kind of country do we want to be & what are we willing to do to achieve it?

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"There was a right side & a wrong side in the (civil) war, which no sentiment ought to cause us to forget." Frederick Douglass #manysideism

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A brilliant and impassioned description of how black communities end up subsidizing the very people who take advantage of them. Listen to this man....

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2 years

Caste in action, as if there’s an invisible playwright directing the conclusion.

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3 years

Now that the people have spoken, let the work of healing begin.

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3 years

Thinking of the decades of life denied this child. Emmett Till would have been 80 today, younger than Morgan Freeman.

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3 years

#EmmettTill would have turned 80 years-old today. Thinking of and praying for his family. Remembering the grief and courage of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. Devastating, still.

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8 years

Memorial Day started May 1865 by Af-Ams honoring Union soldiers who died for their freedom.

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Isabel Wilkerson

@Isabelwilkerson

4 years

Thrilled that the first glimpse of my new book appears in the pages of my alma mater, @nytimes . Appreciate the embrace of so many readers.

Jake Silverstein

@jakesilverstein

4 years

New @NYTmag : we’re honored to pub this amazing essay by the incomparable @Isabelwilkerson , adapted from her new book “Caste” (8/4), which so many readers have been waiting for. A profound meditation on the “unseen skeleton” that maintains racial hierarchy.

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3 years

Seemingly karmic that the eyes of the nation are on its birthplace in an election that confronts our history and decides our legacy going forward. #Philadelphia

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6 years

A single decision can change the world. It is an honor to have my talk about the power of Migration launch today @TEDTalks . Please watch and share.

The Great Migration and the power of a single decision

Sometimes, a single decision can change the course of history. Join journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson as she tells the story of the Great Migration, the outpouring of six million African...

www.ted.com

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4 years

John Lewis was the last living of the Big Six civil rights leaders of the 1963 March on Washington. “Freedom is not a state, “ he once said. “Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.”

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7 years

@VickiBrown19 @Lawrence Agree. It's easy to call out extremists, but moderates can break your heart. A different kind of dangerous.

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2 years

How unconscious bias works in our society: adolescence accorded a White gunman but manly accountability for an unarmed Black teenager.

🍉Prof. Thrasher is with our students🔻

@thrasherxy

2 years

Noting that in AP copy, 18-yeear-old Michael Brown was an “18-year old Black man,” while 18-year-old Payton Gendron is a “white teenager.”

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3 years

As we begin to reckon with the overlapping traumas of our era, to emerge from a collective foreboding, let us never, ever forget what brought us to the brink in the first place.

Isabel Wilkerson

@Isabelwilkerson

3 years

Just now starting to realize the emotional toll, the psychic weight we have carried, what it does to the spirit to hold your breath for this long.

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4 years

I worked so hard on this. Your kind words mean the world to me.

Lisa Lucas

@likaluca

4 years

I cannot overstate how extraordinary @Isabelwilkerson ’s forthcoming book CASTE is. I am in awe.

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2 years

I remember the exact moment I discovered each insane code of the caste system and the absurdities of Jim Crow while researching Warmth: the ban on checkers between Blacks & Whites, separate bibles in the courtroom. Even corpses in the morgue were segregated. It was a sickness.

Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

2 years

Laws prohibited Black people from playing checkers with white people. Using a parking space reserved for white people. Being buried next to a white person. Using the same telephone booth as a white person. Entering the same door as a white person. Marrying a white person.

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3 years

An absolute joy to chat with you about the painstaking act of writing. Writing, truly, is a wonderful thing to have done.

Barack Obama

@BarackObama

3 years

It’s always great catching up with @IsabelWilkerson , and this time we’re talking about A Promised Land and our mutual love of books with @BNBuzz . Take a look:

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9 years

Joan of Arc/ Statue of Liberty quality to this moment, so powerful after all that we have been through. #BreeNewsome http://t.co/0Mb8klOk76

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3 years

Oh my goodness, this means the world to me. Thank you so much, and my absolute best wishes to your father.

deray

@deray

3 years

the radicalization of my father over the past few years is one of the most magical things in my life. he has made me a believer in the power of political education -- the books, podcasts, etc all really matter. thank you @Isabelwilkerson , you've changed my dad's life.

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Isabel Wilkerson

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2 years

This is not ancient history. This was in the lifetime of people alive today. Our country is like a patient with a preexisting condition that we ignore at our own peril. And it’s time we look beneath the surface at the history we inherited if we are to understand our current era.

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2 years

I remember the exact moment I discovered each insane code of the caste system and the absurdities of Jim Crow while researching Warmth: the ban on checkers between Blacks & Whites, separate bibles in the courtroom. Even corpses in the morgue were segregated. It was a sickness.

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4 years

One of the biggest riots in US history occurred this week in 1951, after a black couple, the Clarks, tried to move into Cicero, IL. A white mob in the 1000s destroyed the whole apartment building, keeping them or anyone else from living there. #twih

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9 years

This is the day the Montgomery bus boycott began, Dec. 5, 1955. Rained all day. Still they walked. 40,000 people for 381 days.

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4 years

A privilege to receive such a deeply perceptive review of this book. 🙏🏾

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@JoshundaSanders

4 years

My privilege to review one of the most significant works of our time.

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9 years

Every 4 days an Af-Am was lynched during Jim Crow era. Every 3 days an Af-Am killed by police today. http://t.co/kkXsgT4dvu

Mike Brown’s shooting and Jim Crow lynchings have too much in common. It’s time for America to own...

Isabel Wilkerson: The ‘savage’ of history has become the ‘thug’ of 2014. Injustice is so banal that we hardly notice it happening

www.theguardian.com

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8 years

A Florida motel manager threw acid in pool where black people were swimming in 1964.

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3 years

Inspiring to see a historic equilibrium in the decisive turnouts in a receiving station of the Great Migration -- PA, and its dispatch in the South -- GA.

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7 years

@nytimes Love this photo. @nytimes #Harvey #Houston

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Isabel Wilkerson

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4 years

Don’t vilify the majority of actual protesters over the actions of saboteurs, drunken opportunists and overzealous wannabes. Hear the pleas of this black woman protester in Baltimore as she begs two white rallyers not to use violence that could get black people killed.

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It took 40,000 black ppl walking to work for 381 days in Montgomery bus boycott, & Rosa Parks, to make history. http://t.co/dCd69ilBxR

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4 years

John Lewis risked his life so that all of us could be free. His passing is monumental, the heartbreaking end of an era. He leaves every American the responsibility of continuing his courageous mission of justice, equality, and love in action. #RIPSir

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6/19/1865 The last enslaved people set free 2 1/2 years after Emancipation Proclamation. #Texas #Juneteenth http://t.co/Vfqup9uGRE

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Isabel Wilkerson

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4 years

Next, I want to thank @theferocity from the bottom of my heart. Just want to hug you for all of the times you shouted out Warmth’s name. Hopefully, one day after Covid is a memory, I will get to thank you in person. Congrats on all of the accolades that have come your way.

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8 years

Barred from pools historically, African-Americans were then subjected to the myth that they were incapable of swimming. @simone_manuel

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10 years

I believe 50 years from now people will look back at #Ferguson as we now look back at #Selma & wonder what kind of country we were.

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8 years

African Americans were prohibited from public swimming pools well into1960s. Excellent overview by @GeeDee215

Who Gets To Hang Out At The Pool?

An ugly incident at a Texas pool party in which a police officer drew his gun on several unarmed black teenagers sits against a long history of racialized conflict over who can swim where.

www.npr.org

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#BreeNewsome scaling the pole, removing the confederate flag in SC. http://t.co/mQp1FkrhL5

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4 years

Anyone with a book coming out now or the months ahead poured the very best of themselves into a project that takes years of gestation. None of us could have imagined that by the time we finished, the world, all of us, would be in a live-streaming catastrophe.

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But first, I want to applaud @nhannahjones on her long-deserved Pulitzer Prize and the glory of her 1619 Project. She is the fiercest defender a people could ever have and she always comes with receipts! Congrats and love to you!

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Isabel Wilkerson

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3 years

Devastating. An arrest for this offense was not necessary to begin with.

Katie Phang

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3 years

Chief Arradondo: passing a counterfeit $20 bill does not rise to the level of a "severe" crime. Typically, the person isn't taken into custody b/c it isn't a violent felony.

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3 years

Tragically beautiful in the time of Covid.

Eric Feigl-Ding

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3 years

💡AMAZING—those “HAND OF LOVE” gloves with warm water to comfort ICU #COVID19 patients are real. Invented by two nurses in São Paulo Brazil 🇧🇷, they bring real results too. Heart warming and hand warming.

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The thought of Toni Morrison no longer being in this world is incomprehensible. She was our oracle, a transcendent fact of life for any writer. We were not worthy and can only be grateful that we overlapped with her time on this planet.

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4 years

Thank you for your very kind words.

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4 years

Halfway through @Isabelwilkerson ’s masterpiece “The Warmth of Other Suns.” Essential for understanding Black Experience & its centrality in the founding & shaping of America. There is immense anguish & pain but also incredible fortitude & dignity. #4thofJuly #independenceday2020

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This is one for the ages: a Black woman in SC takes down the Confederate Flag. #BreeNewsome http://t.co/hNHMuwOHzH

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4 years

A fitting end to a monstrous legacy....

Tristan Cork Post

@TristanCorkPost

4 years

It's now being rolled towards the floating harbour. Colston opened up the transatlantic slave trade to Bristol merchants & around 20,000 people, incl 8,000 children, died on his ships before they even reached the Americas. Bristol became Britain's leading slave trading port.

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It's official! @shondarhimes and Dee Rees are adapting The Warmth of Other Suns into an FX miniseries. http://t.co/UxooI8r1vd

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@Isabelwilkerson

4 years

Can’t help but think of Botham Jean in Dallas, and Atatiana Jefferson in Ft. Worth. Should be seen as a national emergency.

Jemele Hill

@jemelehill

4 years

This is Breonna Taylor, an EMT who was gunned down by Louisville police after they incorrectly executed a drug warrant on her home. They fired more than 20 rounds into her apartment.

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This was the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott, 1955. http://t.co/t7JlqBSJpL

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8 years

#Prince . Michael Jackson. Whitney Houston. Soundtrack of a generation. How is it possible that they left us so early?

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"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” -- Rosa Parks http://t.co/2SJYfTdkCu

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This did not come out of nowhere. The ppl of the Great Migration were met with hostility from the start. Never resolved. #EricGarner

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9 years

150 years ago to this day, the last enslaved people were freed in Texas. Honoring #Juneteenth as we grieve for Charleston.

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@Isabelwilkerson

7 years

The great-great-grandsons of Stonewall Jackson say the Confederate monuments must go.

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Protest cities were places of refuge for Af-Ams fleeing Jim Crow. Still living w/unmet promises of ancestors' dreams. http://t.co/cAmain0BRQ

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To see a human being suffocated in cold blood, in broad daylight, before our very eyes. Again. Our hearts are broken. Our souls are exhausted. #GeorgeFloyd #EricGarner

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People are stunned because they had come to believe that the Struggle was over, that it was all taken care of in 1964. #EricGarner #JimCrow

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3 years

This is how the programming of dominance and subordination gets passed down through the generations.

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I wonder if the kids who pulled their eyes at me and mercilessly yelled "ching chong" at me on the bus even remember doing it. The two worst offenders are both parents now. I wonder what they teach their children. I feel ill today. #StopAAPIHate #StopAsianHateCrimes

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Handcuffs on a 5-year-old. Unbearable to see the treatment of Black children at the hands of a society where people in every background, at every level, are programmed to devalue them.

AJ+

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A mother in Maryland is suing the Montgomery County govt, school system and 2 police officers over their treatment of her 5-year-old son. Police yelled in the child's face, insisted he should be beaten and put him in handcuffs.

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The trauma of that day radiates beyond imagining.

Yamiche Alcindor

@Yamiche

3 years

The next four witnesses, who watched George Floyd plead for his life as Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck, are not being shown on camera because they are so young. Let that sink in. Too young to be shown on camera but witnesses in a murder trial.

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Our spirits so needed this. Houston riders arriving like they’re defending Helms Deep. #LOTR #GeorgeFloyd #BlackLivesMatter

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@ZackBornstein Added the background music to it!!

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@Oprah @ava Thank you for bringing us all together!

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8 years

In short, @simone_manuel made history by defying it.

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Tamir Rice & Emmett Till both tragic symbols of search for freedom in America.

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4 years

How gorgeous. My wish, too.

Rachel Peric

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4 years

I wish instead of fireworks this #July4th , this piece by Isabel Wilkerson could light up the night sky and find a watchful crowd of Americans everywhere nodding their heads saying, yes, I see it now.

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7 years

Driving force of Trumpism is not money: median household income of his primary voters = $72k /yr, $16k > nat median

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4 years

I feel the need to thank every single person who has continued to follow me despite my silence. Must forewarn you, that, over the next few days, I will be thanking a lot of people who have been saying very kind things about Warmth in my absence.

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Isabel Wilkerson

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4 years

Thank you for noticing. That was exactly the intention.

Sarah Smarsh

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4 years

The most powerful move by this @Isabelwilkerson essay, for me, is the terms and names it doesn't rely on or use at all--liberating the reader toward new and less clouded thinking.

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@sarahkendzior Thank you so much. Congratulations on your masterpiece and what you are doing for democracy.

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This is just makes me tired. This level of obliviousness to basic history and the lives of fellow citizens is how we got to where we are. Ignorance is what keeps the hierarchy intact.

Dr. William Horne

@wihorne

4 years

I, a historian of racial capitalism, explained redlining to my white neighbor today, who responded "but how was that legal?" in literal disbelief. Always amazed at how little white ppl know of the system designed to benefit them at the expense of everyone else.

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The country was founded on revolution. Protest not always pretty, but American as the Bill of Rights. #Chicago

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4 years

8 minutes, 46 seconds #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd

NBC News

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4 years

Chauvin criminal complaint: "Defendant had his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck for 8 mins and 46 secs in total. 2 mins and 53 secs of this was after Mr. Floyd was non-responsive. Police are trained that this type of restraint with a subject in a prone position is inherently dangerous."

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Thank you so much. Means the world to me....

Nicholas Kristof

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4 years

. @Isabelwilkerson has always been one of the best writers around, and now she turns her pen and intellect to caste and race in America and produces this wonderful and provocative essay:

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Isabel Wilkerson

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Gwen Ifill represented the best in journalism, the standard of integrity and fairness. So generous of spirit. An honor to have known her.

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Isabel Wilkerson

@Isabelwilkerson

7 years

Frederick Douglass had to remind winners of Civil War that they had been on right side of it. Not surprising people lose sight of it now.

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Isabel Wilkerson

@Isabelwilkerson

8 years

"We are not fighting for freedom of the Negro alone but freedom of the human spirit, a larger freedom encompassing all mankind." Ella Baker

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Isabel Wilkerson

@Isabelwilkerson

7 years

Heartbroken over the death of the brilliant Gwen Ifill. A loss to our country when we needed her steadying presence most.

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Isabel Wilkerson

@Isabelwilkerson

8 years

"Why are black people not good swimmers? Because they don't have the buoyancy." -- Al Campanis to Ted Koppel, 1987

Al Campanis Racist Remarks on Nightline (April 6, 1987)

Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's Major League Baseball debut (April 15, 1947). Campanis, who had played alongside Robinson and was k...

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Isabel Wilkerson

@Isabelwilkerson

7 years

Thomas Jefferson: Were I to choose govmt w/out newspapers, or newspapers w/out govmt, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

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Isabel Wilkerson

@Isabelwilkerson

8 years

NYT says what country needs to admit: "Tamir Rice would be alive if he were white."

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Isabel Wilkerson

@Isabelwilkerson

8 years

“This is the charged, dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, when nothing at all can be taken for granted." --James Baldwin

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Isabel Wilkerson

@Isabelwilkerson

4 years

Many of us with new books have devoted ourselves to the very phenomena that led to the current crises that threaten society — and now even our attempts to shed light on it. So there is both hope and mourning as we release our literary babies into the world.

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Isabel Wilkerson

@Isabelwilkerson

8 years

OTD 1951: 4,000 rioted, among worst in US history, when black family moved into Cicero, IL

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Isabel Wilkerson

@Isabelwilkerson

8 years

After Brown v Board of Ed, a Federal judge upheld segregated pools in 1950s Baltimore because pools "were more sensitive than schools."

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Isabel Wilkerson

@Isabelwilkerson

9 years

Map of #Ferguson protests looks like map of the Great Migration: DC, Phila, NY, Chicago, Oakland, LA, Seattle http://t.co/SZm7OZCkIv

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Isabel Wilkerson

@Isabelwilkerson

4 years

@byjoelanderson Thank you! Agree, kind of like how being black and middle class is made different from white middle class due to chasm in generational wealth. To say nothing of how the black working class (the majority) is virtually erased from public consciousness.

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