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Founder & student of @enchanttheory . Join DOJO!, for 3-min daily quests that teach you how to love.

New York, NY via New Orleans

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Joined September 2011

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Definitions for what we believe at @enchanttheory Systemic Change Theory of Enchantment maintains that the most complex system in the known universe is the human being, so there can be no “dismantling of an unjust system” if you do not take into consideration the human system…

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One day the *take down the Grant statute because he oppressed Native Americans* folks will discover the *Many native Americans also owned slaves* folks. At some point we’ll see that the history of the world is all of us oppressing one another & maybe then we will discover grace.

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What if — just hear me out now —all of our heroes are flawed, and that’s actually okay?

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The term 'LatinX' strikes me as an attempt to reorient Spanish culture -- which is a culture that relishes the beauty of the masculine and the feminine -- into a hyper-cartesian, mechanical, disembodied paradigm. And as Spanish was my first love, that really saddens me.

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I don’t use the n-word out of respect for my elders. But the hip hop community brilliantly reappropriated it by turning it into a euphemism for “man.” You can’t exude the coolness of an art form & then act all surprised when people who don’t look like you want to be part of it.

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Mr. Kendi, respectfully, you have written that, “the heartbeat of racism is denial, and the heartbeat of antiracism is confession.” There is a very strong dogmatism that lies at the heart of what you teach and some of us sense that you also want a nation of loyal believers.

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Trump does not want a nation of critical thinkers. He wants a nation of loyal believers.

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In my view, this isn’t about diversity but about a lack of vision and imagination. When did we decide that if a person doesn’t look like us, we can’t see ourselves in their story?

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Universities removing portraits of top doctors, scientists, Nobel Prize winners of the past. Not enough diversity. From @NPR :

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@DrIbram Are you suggesting that any white family who adopts black children are colonizers and that interracial adoption is somehow evil? Please clarify because if this is your position, it’s an evil one.

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My God, Did Trevor not realize that this was precisely Rogan and Peterson's point, that this rule is stupid, and that blackness and whiteness are made up things? Did the Daily Beast not realize it either? Are all ya'll just doing things for clicks?? Sighhhh.

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Trevor Noah schools Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson on what it means to be Black: "In America, [whites] invented a rule that if you had one drop of Black blood in you, that makes you Black—which defined how you were treated by the government and by society."

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A white man may be privileged relative to me *in a given context* (let’s say being followed around in a store) but I may be privileged relative to him *in a given context* (let’s say I grew up in a stable 2-parent home and he grew up with abusive drug addicts.)

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These folks are unwell and I mean that literally. No one who is secure in themselves, who has the courage of their convictions, and who is content with what they stand for behaves in this way.

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1) In a scene that played out several times Monday, a Black Lives Matter protest that began in Columbia Heights confronted White diners outside D.C. restaurants, chanting “White silence is violence!” and demanding White diners show their solidarity. #DCProtests

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One of the things I've learned recently is that we are responsible for the things that trigger us. If something triggers me it's my responsibility to unpack myself and my relationship to that which triggers me and ask myself "why", "how come," etc; not attack the messenger.

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Don’t you just love when people who correctly claim you shouldn’t dehumanize an entire category of people with a certain skin color start going off on “whiteness”? I mean the irony would be poetic if it wasn’t absolutely terrifying.

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Prediction: some Dems still won’t understand that identity politics is killing them.

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The greatest revolutionary act that you can commit yourself to right now is to refuse to hate your fellow American.

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Beneath that black skin and that white skin, and that civilian uniform and that police uniform lies a human being. I know that this may be hard to hear my love but you've got to learn to hear it and learn to bear it and not allow your anguish to turn you into a monster.

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In 2008, @BarackObama pointed out that he could no more disown Jeremiah Wright than he could disown his prejudiced white grandmother who loved & helped raised him. He said they contained “the good and the bad.” And neither can we disown George Washington or Thomas Jefferson. ✨

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The statute of TJ is a sacred symbol precisely because it represents both the aspirations and follies of man. That's what a symbol (as opposed to a sign) is and that's what distinguishes the founding fathers from the confederacy: inexhaustible meaning.

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New York City to remove Thomas Jefferson statue from legislative chamber by year's end, signalling the end of a two-decade effort.

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I think I'm having one of the biggest aha moments I've had all year, which is that in many ways folks who belong to the "woke" left & those who belong to the "reactionary" right want the same things; & in this context, I mean it not as a critique, but an opportunity for hope.

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Why is it that only Jews have to explain that if over 40,000 people are screaming about murdering as many of them as possible and trying to breach a border to do so they will have to make sure that doesn't happen. I'm genuinely baffled. Like which part are people not getting?

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You can tell that someone is a race hustler if they claim they can teach us how to fight white supremacy while simultaneously claiming that white supremacy is inevitable. That’s an obviously self-serving Kafka trap and it should never be taken seriously.

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Any philosophy that claims the central animating feature of life is power — not beauty, truth, love, or wisdom— but power will seek to gain power at all cost. This is one of the main issues with critical theory.

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It’s wild that people are actually on this platform like “oh Hamas is angry so it’s totally ok if they take their anger out by raping innocent women.” Girl, wut.

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This from the same man who believes that any outcome that doesn't fit his subjective understanding of the world is proof of oppression. You made this possible. You promoted the same framework of those you criticize. Mirror images. Stings, doesn't it? Look what you have wrought.

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Dear Trump voters:

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I know I’ve said this before but the 4th of July is coming up so I’ll say it again: I really, truly love this country. ✨

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yaaaaaass

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This. This is every interracial family in America. Every friendship across color lines. Every employer who hired an employee who she respects even with opposite politics. Stop telling us how much our parents & brothers and co-workers hate us. It’s untrue:

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There is no material difference between telling a room full of white men they're racist because they're white and telling a room full of black men they're thugs because they're black. Both actions are evil and unconscionable.

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Some of ya'll are not ready to discuss the correlation between what's happening to the Asian American community and Ibram Kendi's ridiculous idea that "discrimination that produces equity is antiracist."

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@neiltyson Sir, Santa is a fictional character.

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“The heartbeat of racism is denial” literally doesn’t even make sense.

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My very first piece in the @nytimes Please spread the love.

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Opinion | Why I Refuse to Avoid White People (Published 2017)

Hearing the words “white power” is deeply painful for me as a black woman. But it’s worse for the broken people chanting them.

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To the black people telling random white people on the street to kneel in front of them: Stop that. To the white people doing it: Stop that. This is a movement for justice + equality. If you kneel to me you're not my equal.

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Oh look, Jim Crow.

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I’ve been following @jordanbpeterson for a long time now, and I had the good fortune to read ‘Maps of Meaning’ this spring. I consider myself extremely blessed to have been born in a time where I get to listen to his lectures. He is one of the greatest thinkers of our time.

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Your race is not your virtue.

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Stop dehumanizing Trump supporters, that's partially how we got here in the first place.

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@eugenegu James Baldwin once said that the foolishness from liberals comes in the fact that they can understand black people as victims or as problems to be solved but never as actual human beings and I’m getting that vibe from this tweet.

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The contrast between what we just did as a country re Space X & what’s going on on the ground is almost poetic. Our existence is so vast, so transcendent, so utterly beyond race & other limiting categories & yet we often squander the possibilities & the meaning of existence.

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That Gillette commercial talking about taking responsibility and not being overly aggressive and being kind to others followed by a weekend of grown journalists saying we should punch children with maga hats in the face ooh child we have lots of work to do.

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It's kind of funny when folks wanna fight racial stereotyping by labeling certain things "whiteness," which is, of course, a form of racial stereotyping.

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If your pride, which is a synonym for “self-love”, comes from being oppressed (either real or perceived), you will have no incentive to end or transcend that oppression. You will need that oppression because you will be unable to feel self-worth without it. This is a pathology.

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Some of y’all keep trying to fight every monster except for the monster inside yourself and it really shows.

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Telling people of a certain color that they are irredeemable is not a good strategy for societal peace or racial harmony. It’s abuse. Please stop hiring Robin DiAngelo for your DEI trainings. The more I study human psychology, the more I realize how dangerous her teachings are.

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Bippity boppity boo.

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Black People Are Far More Powerful Than Critical Race Theory Preaches

My rejection of critical race theory stems not only from a wish to see no one—including white people—dehumanized but also as an affirmation of the enduring power, beauty, and triumph of black...

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Ideals will always be carried forth by flawed men and women. If you are unable to deal with this, it means you can’t handle flaws within yourself. You are utterly incapable of showing yourself mercy, and so you can’t show others mercy either.

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I’ve just learned that I’m trending Welcome to the Theory of Enchantment. 3 basic rules: 1. Treat everyone like human beings not political abstractions 2. Criticize to uplift and empower, never to tear down, never to destroy. 3. Root everything you do in love and compassion.

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When you start telling people that America was born only in sin, & that only people who look a certain way are the good guys, you might encourage people to start hating their country which never ends well & might even lead to them hating you. *Cough cough wink wink 1619 project.*

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I don’t want your allyship. I want your friendship.

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Wtf is “white literature”?

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The idea that you should see me, note my skin color, and then make a whole host of assumptions about my lived experiences is absurd, but entire institutions are now fully committed to exercising this incredibly dehumanizing practice in the name of my liberation.

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Beware the counter-dependency trap: It is the trap where your identity becomes gradually dependent on countering other's. As you fall into this trap, you will begin to imitate the very person/ideology/movement you're countering. A spirit of vengeance will blind you to this.

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So you decided to respond to your own suffering by adding more suffering to the world. And the powerful play goes on.

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Stoppppppppppp

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@DrIbram @darth_leveon @MD_Ed_Memes Dr. Kendi, this is really silly.

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I look forward to the day when people stop separating themselves via race and realize that we are all one.

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If any author, black or white, portrays their people as nuanced, complex, multidimensional, and multifaceted, and portrays other people as reductive, simple, flat stereotypes, STOP TAKING THEIR WORK SERIOUSLY.

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The left doesn’t understand that it is partially responsible for the right’s distrust. The right doesn’t understand that it is partially responsible for the left’s distrust. Round and round and round we go; where we’ll stop, nobody knows.

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The cruelty behind the concept of “whiteness” lies in the fact that its proponents deny that an internal life — the life of the mind and of the spirit — exists which transcends and defies such shallow abstractions; in doing so, they evacuate life of all its magic & meaning.

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Coming soon 😏

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The problem with wokeness lies in its casual denial of the depth of the human being.

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Disney plays a sacred role in our society. It is tasked with transmitting the values of fairy tales, both old and new, to generations. This is a holy task. Fairy tales are not trifles. They are symbolic myths, representations of the collective consciousness of our culture.

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We must remember that people who actually thought the world was a simple heuristic ie. black people good, white people bad, or brown people good, non-brown people bad, are having their entire MAP OF MEANING completely upended right now; and the first automatic response to that…

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The collective amnesia I've seen on this site today has been astounding. From people claiming that "only whites would not be shot" when an entire multi-colored coalition of individuals in Seattle literally got rid of the police for nearly a month in June in the name of BLM...

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I’m realizing the difference in the education I received & the education that projects like the 1619 project pushes. History lessons in 1st grade were about how my ancestors overcame what was done to them. The focus was not on the oppression; the focusing was on the overcoming.

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Me reacting to the Aziz Ansari piece:

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To be able to hear other people's viewpoints, totally disagree, but have no need to try to convince or persuade them otherwise: this is such a skill set which is both difficult and liberating and I am only now beginning to learn how to practice it.

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Our nation’s collective unconscious is wrecked. We perceive each other as algebraic formulas, as bit characters playing manufactured roles instead of human beings beset by insecurities, fears & anxieties, — all shadows we’re feverishly projecting on to each other.

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There are those on the left who wrongfully believe that America is all evil. There are those on the right who wrongfully believe that America is all good. We must learn to grapple and live with paradox. We are both good and evil.

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I just finished 'The Wire'. Firstly, shout out to Bubs, he did that shit. Secondly, at this point, I find it very difficult to take anyone who has a political opinion seriously who hasn't watched this show. Hot damn.

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That part in DiAngelo’s book where she says “But I...always knew that I was white, and that it was better to be white” is really the dead giveaway that the book is trash. Say it loud, I’m black and I’m proud. ✊🏾

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Which part of "you cannot fight dehumanization by dehumanizing others" is so hard for folks to understand? Come on, let's do better.

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Refuse to hate your enemy. Refuse to hate your enemy. Refuse to hate your enemy. Refuse to hate your enemy. Refuse to hate your enemy. Refuse to hate your enemy. Refuse to hate your enemy. Refuse to hate your enemy. Refuse to hate your enemy. Refuse to hate your enemy. Love.

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There are some so-called social justice movements within the country that have borrowed certain Puritanical streaks from Christianity, but have not internalized the Christian teaching that, “we are all sinners.”

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There is at any given time an infinite number of counteracting priviliges in any given context so it is nearly impossible to account for it or use it as a matter of shaping policy. It is too crude.

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The idea of "whiteness" in addition to being racist, is an example of the Essentialist bias: Treating a category as pointing to an essence shared by all the members of that category. Stop using the term.

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What too many do not understand is that to allow yourself to descend into madness, rage, and bitter violence, is also a form of slavery.

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People don’t realize that the tactics of the Civil Rights Movement created a systematic hack against our base human instincts to respond to racism with vengeance and self-righteousness. It remains the model to mimic today because it helps us avoid vengeance & scapegoating.

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@FredTJoseph I mean this respectfully: what are you talking about?

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This platform is designed to hack into your fight or flight response system. It rewards you with dopamine hits whenever you're snarky, mean-spirited, cynical, or divisive. The only way you can change the algorithm is by changing yourself.

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Was reading something recently that gave me such joy and inspires me to share. The purpose of diversity training should be to get you to fall in love with humanity. That's a big deal, a massive project and a massive goal. But that is the goal.

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It is a monstrosity of the highest order to dismiss men simply because they are men. It is unconscionable. In recent years I've seen an increase in straight white men in particular internalizing messages they've received in corporate settings by speaking of themselves…

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The gaping hole at the heart of some of Kendi’s and DiAngelo’s writings is simply this: They do not seem to believe in the notion that there is something sacred about the human being that transcends race. That sacred thing lies within the heart of every being, regardless of race

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Hence both the left & the right are wrong on this issue (and talking past each other.) The left thinks all of life can be boiled down to white privilege vs black suffering (the ideologically possessed) & the right thinks that there’s no such thing as privilege (the blind tyrant).

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I literally could not finish the first chapter, it gave me a migraine.

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Correct. Instead, they are often fired from their jobs, harassed by twitter mobs, & have their livelihoods threatened. And so since they cannot speak up, we who have a platform choose to use our power responsibly to speak up on their behalf. You should do the same. Join us, AOC

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People who are actually “cancelled” don’t get their thoughts published and amplified in major outlets. This has been a public service announcement.

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People don’t realize that when they start to dehumanize their political opponents they’re also dehumanizing themselves.

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@WajahatAli I feel like maybe delete this?

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Do not defund the police.

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Police in Denver released a surveillance photo of 3 people in full face masks who are suspected of starting a house fire that killed 5 family members, including an infant and a 2-year-old.

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John Lewis believed in the sacredness of every human being, regardless of skin color. Remember that. Honor that.

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Fomenting racial resentment among poor whites has never served communities of color. Instead of undermining the status quo, this perpetuates it. If you believe that Black Lives Matter, don't foster conditions under which envy can be more easily directed toward those very lives.

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"Our priority will be Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American owned small businesses, women-owned businesses, and finally having equal access to resources needed to reopen and rebuild." — President-elect Biden

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Chloé S. Valdary 📚

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For the love of all that is good and just, we must be willing to look at ourselves in the mirror, to hold ourselves accountable for our actions, and to do better. I am calling on all of us, begging all of us to do better. Our future and the future of our children depend on it.

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Chloé S. Valdary 📚

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I’m watching @AndrewYang ‘s interview with @joerogan . He’s a good man.

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Chloé S. Valdary 📚

3 years

I agree with all ya'll calling out the woke paradigm for generalizing about minorities but some of ya'll also generalize about the left as if it's a monolith and need to engage in some self-reflection.

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Chloé S. Valdary 📚

4 years

Here is Frederick Douglass’s eulogy of Ulysses S. Grant.

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Matt Bateman

4 years

Found the full eulogizing of Grant by Frederick Douglass that I’ve seen excerpted. His praise is damning for the desecrators of Grant’s statue. Douglass fought villainy *and* honored heroism. He saw the latter as critical for emancipation. Where lives that sentiment today?

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Chloé S. Valdary 📚

4 years

Nope. Nope nope nope nope we are not doing this. Absolutely not.

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Yascha Mounk

4 years

A member of a NYC Community Education Council to a colleague: "It hurts people when they see a white man bouncing a brown baby on their lap." "I would like to know how having my friend's nephew on my lap was racist." "Read a book. Read White Fragility."

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Chloé S. Valdary 📚

4 years

@TwitterEng This is so idiotic.

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Chloé S. Valdary 📚

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I need to say more about this. This reflects an ignorant understanding of America. The flag literally represents your right to disrespect it. That’s baked into the American ideal. If you punish someone for burning it you’re actually desecrating the meaning of the flag, not them.

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Candace Owens

5 years

If I were President, the punishment for burning the U.S flag would be the renunciation of citizenship. No jail time, no fine— simply one year to liquidate your assets and get the hell out of our country. In exchange, we’d extend citizenship to a hardworking LEGAL immigrant.

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Chloé S. Valdary 📚

4 years

Police reform demands that the police treat the people as *people*, deserving of dignity and honor, and also that we treat police in the same way, since, after all, they too are people. It’s a two-way street. And we need each other.

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Chloé S. Valdary 📚

4 years

Jemele, one day I pray you will learn that we are all one.

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Jemele Hill

4 years

No one. Absolutely not a fucking soul. Nary a person. Adele:

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Chloé S. Valdary 📚

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When you stop and think about how Robin DiAngelo has been walking around with racist-ass ideas about black people & just made a fortune telling every white person, "I'm having these thoughts, so obvs you must be having them too!" you have to just say to yourself, Wooooow.

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Chloé S. Valdary 📚

4 years

This is what happens when we have an ignorant, narcissistic, empty populace.

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Robert P. George

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Now the statue of Ulysses S. Grant in San Francisco has been torn down by the mob and defaced. Yes, that Ulysses S. Grant.

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