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Dr. Ruby

@PaperWhispers

5 months

It is actually racism and not ethnicity that causes pregnancy healthcare disparities.....

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Ethnicity affects pregnancy healthcare, research suggests

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Dr. Ruby

@PaperWhispers

3 months

Greta was a media darling when she was framed as a quirky little white girl striking for climate. When it turned out she had some range and could engage with discussions on necropolitics, the role of capitalism and inequitable resource distribution, the media ran.

Greta Thunberg

@GretaThunberg

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Week 285. Today we are unable to have a climate strike. I’m one of 5 activists in a trial in London for peacefully protesting against an oil conference in October. The demonstration aimed to highlight the terrible consequence of the everyday business of fossil corporations. 🧵

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Dr. Ruby

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6 months

Ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. If you are able to, share this video widely.

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Channel 4 expose ethnic cleansing in West Bank. Hamas are not in the West Bank. It is not defence. It is genocide.

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7 months

Can you comprehend the level of evil required to see the coffin carrying the body of a journalist you killed as a threat. The Israeli govt lied about killing Shireen Abu Akleh (in her press vest), was forced to admit the truth, but still no justice as her killer was shielded.

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@PantiBliss

7 months

I’ve thought about the funeral of murdered journalist Shireen Abu Akleh a lot in the last few weeks

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@PaperWhispers

6 months

His grandparents are Indians who immigrated to Kenya and Tanzania, where his parents were born. They then immigrated to UK where he was born. Prior to his current unelected stint as PM, he was in the process of immigrating to the US. But yeah, migration is bad 🤷🏿‍♀️

Sky News

@SkyNews

6 months

"Levels of net migration are too high," says PM Rishi Sunak. The government is looking into where there are abuses of the system and tackling the number of legal migrants, Sunak adds. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, and YouTube

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Dr. Ruby

@PaperWhispers

3 months

Racism kills. UK calls it 'cultural bias' to avoid addressing the core issue, which is, persistent unaddressed systemic racism.

ITV News

@itvnews

3 months

Pregnant woman died after 'cultural bias' caused delayed care

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Dr. Ruby

@PaperWhispers

4 months

A Black woman dying by suicide at an HBCU and stating in her last emails that the president, who is a white man, had caused enough harm to her mental health. May her legacy be an honest, deep and thorough examination of power and systems of care in all HBCUs.

philip lewis

@Phil_Lewis_

4 months

Dr. Antoinette Candia-Bailey, vice president of Student Affairs at Lincoln University-Missouri, reportedly died by suicide from “bullying and severe mistreatment” in her role University President John Moseley is now facing calls to resign

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@PaperWhispers

2 years

We have not forgotten.

DW News

@dwnews

2 years

She was tortured with axes during Kenya's struggle for independence from British colonial rule. As Britain celebrates the Platinum Jubilee of its monarch, this old fighter wants to send her a message: "Let Elizabeth bring what belongs to me."

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@PaperWhispers

3 months

I have seen things in the 4 decades of my earthly life but today is the day I have seen the mutilated body of a child and lack of widespread condemnation of the murderers. It is a failure of humanity that I do not have the ability to comprehend.

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@PaperWhispers

2 years

I have been wondering, why Prof Anya was selected by Jeff Bezos. This is why.

Uju Anya

@UjuAnya

2 years

Y’all I met Chris Smalls! Extraordinary brilliant and powerful young man who unionized Amazon!! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

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@PaperWhispers

2 years

Can someone tell Prince William that Boris just had his seventh known child. Just wondering if the overpopulation argument applies here or is that only for the African babies?

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@PaperWhispers

1 year

I think Princess Diana's son actually may have a plan - to empty the entire clip so that there is no ammunition left against him. Strategy wise, the truth may set him free from Kate's roommate and them lot.

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@PaperWhispers

3 months

Racism not ethnicity affects pregnancy healthcare.

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@clearmind67

3 months

Ethnicity affects pregnancy healthcare, research suggests - BBC News

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@PaperWhispers

2 years

Irish Twitter had videos of people at a stadium singing , I repeat, singing.....'Lizzy's in a box'. But the dude with the rainforest company name that is killing the planet came for a Black woman who had facts and personal feelings about colonisation.

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@PaperWhispers

26 days

This is actually supremely creative.

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@disappoptimism

27 days

I just believe we need to have a long think about what people are doing as a result of Tik Tok

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@PaperWhispers

3 years

95% of doctors who died from COVID-19 are not white.

Zoe Gardner

@ZoeJardiniere

3 years

Did they just say NINETY PERCENT of doctors who have died with Coronavirus are from ethnic minority backgrounds?? #r4today

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@PaperWhispers

2 years

This is the danger of representation politics. These people you laud are indeed non-white but are running on racist, anti-refugee, anti trans policies because they want the majority white vote.

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@PaperWhispers

2 months

UK is really done when it comes to consumer regulation. How do you sign up to a contract for a fixed price and fixed term BUT the prices rise during the contract? What is this nonsense?

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@PaperWhispers

9 months

I need you to pay attention to this. In so many workplaces those dinners, that pub jaunt etc are not just social activities, they determine who gets promoted and who is supported to succeed. It is wrong and needs to end.

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@PaperWhispers

2 years

So tell us again about the humans who do the programming for the tech industry ......

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@benphillips76

2 years

This video. Wow. Asking Siri what the time is in Palestine.

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@PaperWhispers

8 months

A school where half of pupils are homeless? UK is apparently the 6th richest country in the world? A parent in full time work but unable to have a home for their children, do we understand the importance of a living wage?

Daniel Hewitt

@DanielHewittITV

8 months

Temi, 6, and Mary, 5, have been homeless for six months. The family have been moved 10 times to different temporary properties. Their primary school is in Peckham, but they’re staying in a guesthouse an hour away. At their school, over HALF of the 300 pupils are also homeless.

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@PaperWhispers

1 year

Why are we being told about a personal loan for a personal reason? What is the purpose of this story? Why is British media so trashy?

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@PaperWhispers

4 months

This is what energy matching looks like 🤷🏿‍♀️

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@PaperWhispers

1 year

Since Kate's roommate and Diana's son want to tussle over Africa, let their first stop be Kenya to Muthoni's house with the money she is owed.

DW News

@dwnews

2 years

She was tortured with axes during Kenya's struggle for independence from British colonial rule. As Britain celebrates the Platinum Jubilee of its monarch, this old fighter wants to send her a message: "Let Elizabeth bring what belongs to me."

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6 months

A Kenyan academic with a permanent lectureship in the UK cannot bring her 6 year old child to live with her in UK. The Home Office’s letter, addressed to the six-year-old girl, stated, “It was your mother’s personal decision to depart for the UK.”

‘Unthinkable cruelty’: Kenyan expert working at Bristol University denied visa for six-year-old...

Furious colleagues denounce decision that there are ‘no compassionate grounds’ to allow the child to join her mother

www.theguardian.com

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@PaperWhispers

2 years

I repeat, racism in UK is to the extent that white people will not vote in their best interest. They will choose whiteness over money, health and life. You absolutely should believe the assertion of this caller that many white people in UK think and vote like him.

LBC

@LBC

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'Rishi Sunak isn't even British!' Sangita Myska eviscerates this racist caller who says Tory party member won't vote for Sunak because 'he doesn't represent Britain'. @SangitaMyska

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So who is going to fund my next paper where I talk about my work in white studies and becoming a white woman, after I as an African woman married a European man and now I know all about white people things. Oh does that sound ridiculous? Because the white people wrote this....

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@PaperWhispers

2 years

There was an audible gasp today from the response to my question about Wellcome disaggregating figures from BAME to Black. The response being Black people receiving research funding cannot be disclosed as the number is so low that to disaggregate would deanonymise the data. 1/n

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@PaperWhispers

2 years

@Jonno2018 @MCipriani_WTAE Make your mind up, is she powerful or powerless? Did she spend 2 hours a day reading government papers and then ignoring their contents except for the 160+ laws she changed for her personal benefit?

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@PaperWhispers

3 years

This is racism.

Alex Macheras

@AlexInAir

3 years

UK government confirm tonight that if a person has been vaccinated in Africa, or South America, or countries including UAE, India, Turkey, Jordan, Thailand, Russia… …you are considered “unvaccinated” and must follow “unvaccinated” rules ⛔️ = 10 day home quarantine & tests

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@PaperWhispers

4 months

As long as you remember that first means your elders were denied entry, deliberately unseen and purposefully excluded. A first in 2024 is an appalling indictment on the awards show and entertainment industry.

Los Angeles Times

@latimes

4 months

“The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” made #Emmys history.

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@PaperWhispers

7 months

@tiandemi Is she actually ok?

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@PaperWhispers

10 days

In which place do you put the words 'sword' and 'lad' together to describe the murder of a child? How many journalists and editors saw this and thought it was ok? The racism in UK media is disgusting.

Nadine White.

@Nadine_Writes

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The Sun newspaper has been criticised for referring to Daniel Anjorin, 14 y/o schoolboy who was fatally stabbed in London, as "sword lad", in a tiny slot on its front page. Sun's coverage of similar, recent incident involving white victims was different. #HainaultAttack

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@PaperWhispers

3 months

I will forever remember the Black woman feeding her tiny baby on the station platform while the evacuation train for 'women and children' pulled out of the station.

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2 years ago I lived on the 16th floor of a high rise building in Dnipro, Ukraine. 2 years ago today, I woke up at around 6am and opened my twitter account to find out Russia had invaded Ukraine. (1)

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@PaperWhispers

11 months

The white woman who intervened was instantly believed. Tackling systemic racism does require white people to care enough to make these interventions.

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@notcapnamerica

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He put his bag down to go throw something in the trash and was accused of stealing his own bag when he returned to it. It wasn’t until a white woman stepped in that the police believed him.

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@PaperWhispers

8 months

Let me highlight more colonialism in tourism, this time, Jamaica.

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@ajplus

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You know who can’t access Jamaica’s white-sand beaches? Jamaicans.

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@PaperWhispers

4 months

Christopher Kapessa and Shukri Abdi are both young Black children who were drowned (not who drowned). CPS not prosecuting those responsible for their death is the output of systemic racism within the justice system in the UK.

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@BBCBreaking

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Boy, 13, died after being deliberately pushed into a river in "dangerous prank", inquest says

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@PaperWhispers

1 year

An interesting perspective of what happens when a white person gets angry about racism.

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@Natenoged

1 year

Hank’s Olde Irish / Love Thy Neighbour turning people of colour away if they aren’t “accompanied by a white person”??? Surprise, surprise another racist watering hole… @CapeTimesSA @mailandguardian

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In Sudan, 24 doctors who legally reside in UK but are not British have been denied boarding and instructed to make their own way out of a war zone. Contrast it with how Pen Farthing rescued 150 animals out of Afghanistan through UK govt contacts . Border policy based in racism.

Stewart Maclean

@stewartmaclean

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Newsnight learns at least 24 NHS doctors are amongst those trapped in Sudan - and have been told they aren’t eligible for evacuation on U.K. rescue flights. ⁦ @BBCJoeInwood ⁩ reports:

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@PaperWhispers

2 years

@AlHendiify Leah, I wish to take this opportunity to say, I know you have your reasons and that I am keen to hear your side of the story.

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@PaperWhispers

1 year

@triggerpod @LozzaFox @francisjfoster @KonstantinKisin Black children don't get to opt out of racism that starts when they are babies and picks up steam at age 4/5 when they begin school in UK. So if our kids experience it, then yours need to learn about it. They are not too young

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@PaperWhispers

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This UK govt is very deeply evil and lacks humanity.

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The UK Government is trying to pass new laws that would criminalise sleeping on the streets with a fine up to £2,500, or even prison.

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@PaperWhispers

10 months

The fact that this case was not treated as a hate crime is extremely concerning.

Nadine White.

@Nadine_Writes

10 months

NEW: Jamie Barrow, 31, has been found guilty at Nottingham Crown Court of the murders of Fatoumatta Hydara and her young daughters Naeemah Drammeh and Fatimah Drammeh, who died in a flat fire in Clifton in November 2022.

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3 years

Why is the race element routinely underplayed in UK? A police officer brutally hit a young Black girl 34 times with his baton. The girl had flagged down the police car to request help and had *told him* she was vulnerable with mental health problems.

Met police officer dismissed for hitting vulnerable girl ‘more than 30 times’ with baton

Metropolitan PC Benjamin Kemp used CS spray and baton on 17-year-old with learning disabilities

www.theguardian.com

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@PaperWhispers

3 years

Where is the CCTV of Richard Okorogheye or Blessing Olusegun? Where are the appeals for doorcam footage?

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3 years

Can we talk about the 5 other police officers who were in a WhatsApp group with Wayne Couzens who have been suspended for gross misconduct? Are those the ones who will be doing the verification of identity? @metpoliceuk

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@BBCNews

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Plain-clothes officers in London will video call uniformed colleague to confirm their identity when stopping a lone woman

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1 year

This is deliberate ignorance. I carry an English name because colonisers demanded it, I continue to ponder eliminating this name. Colonisation and enslavement changed our names by force, we can choose to rename ourselves.

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@PaperWhispers

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Perspective, 1 week ago, the Greek waters became a graveyard for hundreds of people - the coastguard inaction is under investigation. This story was scrubbed from the news in 48 hours. 5 people who have money are missing at sea and we get live rescue attempts updates every hour.

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The fact that this tweet is still up tells you how sexist and racist @Wimbledon is. Every winner was named individually (or as a set for doubles) in a tweet except the Girls champion for 2023 who was showcased alongside the previous winner, why?

Wimbledon

@Wimbledon

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The last two #Wimbledon Girls' Singles champions: 2022 - Liv Hovde 🇺🇸 2023 - Clervie Ngounoue 🇺🇸

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@PaperWhispers

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Kenyan women teaching the world about the true meaning of feminism and intersectionality.

K.Diallo ☭

@nyeusi_waasi

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Kenyans stood in solidarity with Palestine during the march against femicides, where women are being targeted and subjected to gender-based violence at a concerning frequency.

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I genuinely don't know why we are so quiet in UK. You know those quick little shop runs that would have cost £10/15 but are now £25/30. The fact inflation does not reflect this, bugs me.

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@SarahKSilverman We as Black people have warned the entire world for over a decade. The thing is, *you* ignore anti-Black racism, so *you* missed the multiple warnings.

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@PaperWhispers

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@ItsUnreal410 @ib_2cute I wish to state her physique is the source of her power. Black women like Angel and like Serena are strong and powerful because of their bodies not in spite of them.

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I blocked this person, but let it be known, many women do that uncomfortable smile in order to protect themselves. It is a smile of fear, because she is looking for a way to escape an ongoing assault.

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Daniel Anjorin deserved to live a full life and eventually grow old. This is a really fitting tribute to a young child, rest well #DanielAnjorin

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One thing academia loves is accolades. Prof Karikó was removed from tenure track at Penn because her research didn't attract the level of funding to be of "faculty quality". Look how Penn will claim her and her work as theirs because she has now won a Nobel prize.

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Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, Penn’s historic mRNA vaccine research team, win 2023 @NobelPrize in Medicine #nobelprize

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As all these racist things happen to Kwarteng, don't ever forget that he was a named stakeholder who participated in the Sewell report that basically collected a bunch of mostly Black people to lie that racism was no longer a big concern in UK. Make your bed, now lie in it.

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This is beautiful. Normalise naming racism for what it is, just like this child did. Bukayo is outstanding.

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This would be Kingston Hospital that in 2020/20211 received 418 applications from Black doctors, interviewed 65 and hired none*. I repeat, Kingston Hospital NHS Trust in London hired 0 Black doctors in 2020/2021. Systemic racism has serious consequences. *evidence in next tweet

iammisswilliams

@iammisswilliams

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So my sister went to @KingstonHospNHS yesterday afternoon with a Sickle Cell crisis, wasn’t admitted until this morning and was crying due to the pain, only for a Doctor to say she’s crying because she’s trying to score narcotics.

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@jojo_mac3 @ClockzAdonis @SholaMos1 Wasteman is a compound noun comprised of two words waste and man. Similar words exist like toothpaste or bedroom. So, with a little critical thinking, the meaning of wasteman becomes apparent.

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@gpdkaluma You went searching for these pictures, because......? Why are you minding the business of LGBT people so much?

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Black people were the canaries in the coal mine, telling you repeatedly about stop and search, misuse of power, excessive force and police violence. Those in power did not listen until a white woman was brutally murdered by a police officer. 1/2

Met police found to be institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic

Author of landmark report says Met can ‘no longer presume that it has the permission of the people of London to police them’

www.theguardian.com

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Defunding the police means investing in things that would prevent crime e.g career mentoring, youth centres, free sport, addiction support and things that police are not equipped to deal with e.g better mental health services. So less money for policing, more for the community

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UK is peculiar (pronounced foolish™) in that we could just wear masks and have social distancing so that we would be like our neighbours who have 2000 daily COVID cases instead of 40,000+ . However, we as a collective desire to be different (pronounced foolish™).

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I asked my daughter what is 6+6 and she paused, took her socks off, then counted 3 fingers on each hand and 3 toes on each foot and then answered 12. I mean the methodology is sound but still....what is this?

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Zadie Smith Katharine Birbalsingh Bernadine Evaristo There is a very specific reason why British establishment selects these women. Noting, establishment will never select anyone who will quake the foundation.

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Black UK PhD applicants wanted! ANY discipline 10 positions available Fully funded (fees+stipend) The James McCune Smith Scholarships scheme comes from @UofGlasgow and is specifically for UK domiciled people of Black Heritage. Please tell everyone!

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I note that the palace statement omits the word racism and replaces it with sensitivities/discrimination. It may seem to be a tiny little thing but I assure you, it is not and it is huge and absolutely intentional.

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Husband: So the plural of mouse is mice, louse is lice, why is house not hice? 5 year old: English does not make sense Papa, you just learn it.

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Statistically in UK 95%* of Black children have heard or witnessed racist language at school. If your child tells you the teacher is being racist, back your child. * reference in the next tweet

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@EBurke_5 Go find your people, they are not here.

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Feminist organisations in UK, where is your action on frank hester's racist hate speech against Black women and his desire to see a Black woman shot?

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This thread is bothering me because I didn't know about this. @The_MRC was experimenting with radioactive salts on pregnant Punjabi women in the UK in 1969.

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@LouiseRawAuthor

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You can’t believe how kind the British are. Every morning, a van pulls up outside your house in Coventry. A friendly man brings you a freshly-baked flatbread to eat. It’s just for you,not anyone else in your family. Every afternoon he comes back to make sure you’ve eaten it. 1/

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Congratulations to Prof Sharifah Sekalala at Warwick. We are now at 43 Black women professors out of a total of 22855!

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So going forward, I am going to write all the facts, figures and analysis of everything I know about UK research funding and exclusion of Black academics. I also realise the power of asking questions, so please do tell me about the meetings, I will ask! 3/n

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@Roger__McCarthy Look at you shouting, "Why won't you believe my lies?" Because even you don't believe them. A bigger goat is coming, bye troll.

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Lots of follows after my tweet about the dismal state UK media. Please be aware, this is a super Black account. I celebrate Black people, Black thoughts and Black voices. It is very Black Blackity Black here, intentionally.

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I have never watched the video of George Floyd's murder, and it profoundly changed my life and work, I have not been silent about racism since 2020. I informed myself through reading. You don't have to watch videos to be informed or take action.

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There is *something* about South Asians living in UK whose parents came from Uganda, Kenya and Mauritius.

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@Jonno2018 @MCipriani_WTAE Let me add a reference here because *I* need the British people trying to claim the queen was powerless, to see that they now have a king who will likely continue what dear mama taught him

Revealed: Queen’s sweeping immunity from more than 160 laws

Guardian investigation finds monarch enjoys extraordinary exemptions in laws ranging from animal welfare to taxation

www.theguardian.com

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My tl is full of bell hooks tributes and once again I am certain that I am in excellent company.

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Congratulations to Prof. Kingori. We now have 38 Black women Professors in the whole of UK out of 21000+ Professors. Remember, if you are part of the academy and you are not speaking about systemic racism, you are enforcing it.

Full Professorship for Patricia Kingori: A Historic First for Oxford - Somerville College Oxford

Our Senior Research Fellow Patricia Kingori has, this term, become one of the youngest women to be awarded a full professorship in Oxford’s 925-year history and the youngest Black professor at Oxford...

www.some.ox.ac.uk

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White feminism centres whiteness including deriding the achievements of Black women in the quest to achieve parity with white men. True feminism is acknowledging Venus and Serena are two of the greatest athletes in the world. (Intentional omission of Black and female).

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@weinberg1968 @jordana_s_ If everybody who was present and has witnessed a series of events tells the same story but you say that they are telling a lie, perhaps you should consider if the actual problem is you who disregards their evidence and experiences.

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@LateefSaka Please let them cook him, as an African I will help them, he is such a scammer in my view!

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Colonialism in Kenyan tourism is crazy! Majority of camps inside Mara are white owned and those outside are Asian owned. Tangulia which is one of very few Black owned camps is $3752 per night (and it is in demand!). I am not in that tax bracket so.... 1/2

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@PaperWhispers

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Current search - a Black owned safari company in Kenya.

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The fact that many white people seemed to be hearing this for the first time is sad. Virtually all research funders in UK would give the same answer. I realise I am sitting on a ton of information that I thought everyone knows but in fact, they actually don't know. 2/n

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This part! If 7 consultants can have their concerns quashed by hospital management, the system is not fit for purpose.

Lorraine King

@lorrainemking

9 months

Lucy Letby has proved that whistleblowing in the NHS does NOT work. So what next?

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Remember who classified these vegetables as weeds. Remember how your great grandparents lived well into their 90s, hardly any serious ailment. Decolonise your knowledge.

mmnjug™

@mmnjug

7 months

Y'all eating weeds in the name of eating healthy 😄

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Truth is a bit more sinister, majority of Kenyan Asians, especially in Nairobi deliberately don't learn or master Swahili because it is a 'Black language'. I have met only one fluent speaker in my entire life, Paras from Mombasa!

Lalkaar

@Lalkaar_

1 year

The British Raj era saw the migration of many South Asians, especially Punjabis to colonial territories like Kenya as part of colonial schemes or for economic opportunities Today, Kenyan-Punjabis speak their own variety of Punjabi that has been influenced by the Swahili language

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UK does not treat Black children and especially Black boys as children. Our children do not have equal lives. I have witnessed adults label Black babies as aggressive at toddler groups. It starts that early and only gets worse. Stop the racist adultification of Black children.

Channel 4 News

@Channel4News

1 year

The mother of two teenagers stopped by police at a train station in South London claims they’ve been traumatised by the event. Exclusive footage shows one boy being restrained against a wall by train staff while another is seen having his handcuffs removed. @RiaChatter reports.

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This violence, oh no, what if it was Betty White who was punched? What am I going to tell my kids who have no access to Twitter and never saw this? What does this say about white people? Shall we ban them for 10 years?

Bleacher Report

@BleacherReport

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WE’VE GOT PUNCHES… at a NASCAR race? 😳 (via @NASCAR_Xfinity )

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While we are at it the German royal family who were invited to rule UK was called the Saxe Coburg and Gotha family. They renamed themselves to Windsor as part of the process to Anglicise themselves.

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Representation matters but it also doesn't. Black and other minoritised people seating at imperial tables are selected as they are not a threat to the imperial foundation and will actually uphold and maintain it. The first African judge? Please, learn to disrespect firstism.

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I read this tweet as - 'I am very worried about my popularity especially as many white people who supported me despite my known misogyny and racism, have complained. Don't abandon me, I realise that you need me to make blurry deniable references rather than be blatant.'

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So apparently the Tory government has solved racism by denying it exists. Meanwhile in UK less than 1% of Professors are Black, Black women are 4 times more likely to die in pregnancy, 95% of doctors who died from COVID are not white. Denial of racism IS racism.

Dr Addy Adelaine

@AddyAdelaine

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The .UK race Commission inquiry is out now. It says the UK is a model of racial equality. This is the inquiry that emerged after the death of George Flloyd and Breonna Taylor led to BLM protests and numerous acts of transnational solidarity last year.

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UK is in an especially cruel Oliver Twist phase. If you are writing the articles about how to live without housing, heating, food, joy....m̶a̶y̶b̶e̶ stop.

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63 Black women professors in the UK, out of over 23,000 others. Congratulations Prof Pamela Ugwudike

Professor Pamela Ugwudike

@PamelaUgwudike

10 months

It’s official! I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been promoted to Professor at the University of Southampton. I’m honoured to add to the small number of black female professors in the UK. Many people supported me & I will pay it forward! #RepresentationMatters @TheSBAAcademia

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There is video circulating of a young Black girl being assaulted outside her school, what really should stand out to you is that grown white people do this *knowing* they will be filmed. Black children in UK deserve so much more care and protection of their childhood.

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1 year

What did that thing yesterday cost?

Professor Lucy Easthope

@LucyGoBag

1 year

Government ‘to cut £250m from social care workforce funding’ in England | Care workers | The Guardian

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