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Ibram X. Kendi

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Historian • Director @AntiracismCtr • Founder @The_Emancipator • National Book Award Winner • 10x NYT Best Selling Author • MacArthur Fellow. 🐍

Boston, MA

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Ibram X. Kendi

4 months

Big announcement 📣 More cities have been added to my #Barracoon book tour that begins next week! Come out and join us and secure signed books in Brooklyn, Baltimore, DC, Charleston (SC), Gainesville (FL), New Orleans, Atlanta, Buffalo, Detroit, Denver, and Houston! See you…

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3 years

This is the American criminal justice system in a nutshell.

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Kalief Browder died by suicide after facing traumas in jail as he was held without trial for 3 years for allegedly stealing a backpack. He spent 2 years in solitary confinement. Kyle Rittenhouse murdered two men and people rallied to help him make a $2 Million dollar bail.

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I want the love of Black voters right now to transform into the love of Black people.

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3 years

I can safely say I’ve now been cancer free for 3 years. My doc told me last night. It’s a milestone year after stage IV colon cancer. I feel fortunate, lucky and determined to not waste the days I’ve been given. In a time of so much death, I wanted to share a small note of life.

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2 years

I am in London and Boris Johnson is resigning. I am shocked. A leader of a Conservative Party is being held accountable by his own party. As a U.S. citizen, I was entirely cynical that he could be forced to resign. And I think every American knows why.

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He's gone. And now, it is up to us to drive out what he represents. He is lies and bigotry and injustice and tyranny embodied--and the work is only beginning to drive him out of our body politic. Joy, today. Resolve, tomorrow.

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No, not RBG. What a colossal loss. What a lioness. She taught us all how to fight, how to fight cancer, how to fight for justice, how to fight for our lives.

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White privilege is on display like never before in the U.S. Capitol. If these people were Black. . .well, we all know what would be happening right now to them.

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4 years

Seven shots in the back. Seven shots. Seven. In the back. For breaking up a fight. I'm undone. Shot in front of his children. I'm undone. As #JacobBlake fights for his life, his kids are fighting off their trauma. I'm undone.

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4 years

Perhaps the greatest anti-slavery speech ever uttered is “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” by Frederick Douglass, in 1852. I wanted to make the speech more accessible. Here’s a thread with an abridged version of the speech we should reread every #FourthofJuly . 1/

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4 years

This is what Republicans mean by law and order.

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Any return to normal is a return to the normality of racism.

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I’m imagining what would be happening if it were Black people across the nation defying stay-at-home orders and demonstrating in large groups against the law. Riot units would be breaking up rallies. Tear gas would be flying. Jails would be filling up. Trump would be raging.

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4 years

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

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This.

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2 years

“I think the tragedy is that we have a Congress with a Senate that has a minority of misguided senators who will use the filibuster to keep the majority of people from even voting.” —Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1963

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4 years

They have compiled more than 400 videos—documentary evidence of the law and order of brutal policing in the United States of America.

Activists Create Public Online Spreadsheet of Police Violence Videos

The videos from around the country during George Floyd protests illustrate the magnitude of police violence.

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Today, I’m delighted to begin a new chapter in my academic life as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities @BU_Tweets . The first and only holder of this endowed professorship was Elie Wiesel, the late Holocaust survivor + Nobel Peace Prize winner.

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Ibram Kendi Awarded Andrew W. Mellon Professorship

Honored as historian and author helping reframe conversation on racism, racist policies, and racial injustice in America

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What Trump calls "patriotic education" is racist education.

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4 years

The Democrats now have a presidential ticket that reflects the American people better than the GOP ticket and every presidential ticket in US history. It’s not everything. It’s not the crushing of racism + sexism. It’s not the freeing of Black womanhood. But it can be the start.

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I have the great honor to announce that I’ve picked @KamalaHarris — a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants — as my running mate.

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4 years

I am a full of thanks on this day, my 38th birthday. Two years ago, I didn’t know whether I’d see another birthday. I was dealing with stage 4 cancer, facing down a daylong cancer surgery with two different surgeons. 1/9

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4 years

As soon as Pence started denying the existence of systemic racism, the fly got him! #VPDebate

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4 years

It is empty when politicians call for healing and peace without stating antiracist policies they want to institute. Words bring momentary healing and peace. Policy change brings lasting healing and peace by rooting out the racism suffocating so many people. We want to breathe.

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A lynching! A lynching? I’m thinking about the lies, the kidnapping, the rope, the torture, the cheering crowd, the death portrait, the people walking away with body parts of my ancestor. THAT IS WITNESSING A #LYNCHING . The audacity of this White male supremacist.

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Donald J. Trump

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So some day, if a Democrat becomes President and the Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the President, without due process or fairness or any legal rights. All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here - a lynching. But we will WIN!

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3 years

"White Americans are not afraid of the cops. White Americans are never afraid of the cops. Even when they are committing insurrection." --Just a few words from @JoyAnnReid moments ago on @MSNBC , in one of the most powerful statements I've ever heard on television.

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Historic Fenway Park is right around the corner from Boston University. And tonight, I walked over and threw out the first pitch at the Boston Red Sox game. Never thought I’d do this. This thing we call life is something. ✌🏾 🎥 @RedSox

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I feel sick. And I suspect I'm not alone. #Debates2020

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We should be drawing a straight line of racist terror from #AmyCooper to this Minneapolis cop. Too often, she is the beginning. He is the end. #BlackLivesMatter #ICantBreathe

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Video shows Minneapolis cop with knee on neck of motionless, moaning man who later died

The video shows the man, identified as George Floyd, groaning and saying repeatedly, "I can't breathe."

www.cbsnews.com

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4 years

Proud of my brothers in the NBA. Like their sisters in the WNBA, they refuse to shut up and dribble. How can they? They are in pain, too. They are angry, too. They want justice, too. They want the American nightmare over, too. They are us.

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3 years

The GOP will lose the Presidency, and may lose the U.S. Senate, but if Americans commonly start using the term “legal vote,” as if there’s a horde of “illegal votes,” then the GOP would have won the narrative war to defend the voter suppression that allows them to retake power.

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4 years

I want to make some things plain. Police violence has historically been the source of the violent rebellions of Black people and their allies. Police violence begets violent resistance. If you want to end the violent resistance, then end the police violence. 1/5

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3 years

Guilty on all three counts. My only wish: The jury should have only deliberated for 9 minutes and 28 seconds. #DerekChauvinTrial

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The term “legal vote” is as fictionally fraught and functionally racist as the terms “illegal alien” and “race neutral” and “welfare queen” and “handouts” and “super predator” and “crackbaby” and “personal responsibility” and “post racial.”

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Ibram X. Kendi

4 years

To not indict the officers for murder is to claim #BreonnaTaylor killed herself. Racist America constantly kills Black people and then tells Black people we killed ourselves. Racism extends past death. But we’ll never stop declaring that our lives matter, that our deaths matter.

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4 years

Have you ever wondered how so many people could allow thousands of Black people to be publicly lynched week after week, year after year in the 19th century and 20th century? Have you ever wondered how so many people could blame the victims of lynchings for their own deaths? 1/

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"The African American community stood up for me. You always had my back and I will have yours." --President-elect Joe Biden says, pounding the podium

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4 years

This is striking: "On the most recent New York Times list of best-selling nonfiction in e-books and print, five of the Top 15 titles address racism. . .The week before, there were none."

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People Are Marching Against Racism. They’re Also Reading About It. (Published 2020)

Books on the subject have soared up best-seller lists as protests continue across the country.

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In 1865, Black people all over the South were saying this Union officials: Do not abolish slavery and leave us landless and disenfranchised. Do not force us to work for our former masters and call that freedom. Do not allow the law replace the master. 1/3

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Ralph Paul Yarl was picking up his two siblings. He went to the wrong house in Kansas City, Missouri. The White man who opened the door did not see a lost 16-year-old boy. He saw a threat. Shot Ralph, twice. Once in the head to kill him. Somehow Ralph survived. 1/

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There was a time in this nation’s history when slaveholding politicians blamed abolitionists for the deaths of all those illegals resisting slavery. Abolitionist policies were allowing slaves to think they can break the law, slaveholders said. History is rarely history.

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Donald J. Trump

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Any deaths of children or others at the Border are strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally. They can’t. If we had a Wall, they wouldn’t even try! The two.....

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3 years

A Black and Indian American woman named Kamala will be our Vice President. We are the first generation of Americans who will be able to respectfully say Madam Vice President. Now let’s be the first generation of Americans to root out sexism and racism.

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4 years

“Some protesters” is the key phrase. The bill is not for those White people demonstrating for the freedom to infect us, to own assault rifles, to keep monuments to White supremacy. When they demonstrate, they’re within their rights. When we demonstrate, our rights are taken away.

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JUST IN: Tennessee governor signs bill that would punish some protesters with loss of voting rights

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4 years

This is jarring because my enslaved ancestors were literally human capital stock. No matter what, they were always told to go back to work. This could be 1820.

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White House adviser Kevin Hassett: "Our human capital stock is ready to go back to work." #HumanCapitalStock

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Ibram X. Kendi

5 years

It goes without saying that #IStandWithIlhanOmar . And anyone who does not stands with @IlhanMN stands with Islamophobia, with racism, with politicians deploying lies to inflame racial and religious terror in the country. There is no middle ground in this struggle.

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3 years

Cowardice: The inability to gather the strength to do what’s right in the face of fear.

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4 years

Two years ago, I was in surgery. All day. Literally. I went back at around 6 am. My family did not see me in the ICU until after 6 pm. The surgeons removed the tumors—or what was left of them after six months of chemotherapy. Now, I see August 28th as my second birthday. 1/

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1 year

On #PresidentsDay , it is important to recall that at least twelve U.S. presidents enslaved Black people, eight while in office. Two-thirds of the first 18 presidents collectively enslaved nearly 2,000 Black people. We know what largely built this nation, and it wasn’t freedom.

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The same reason why the police routinely kill Black people is the same reason why the police are routinely unprepared for White domestic terrorists.

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4 years

During this trying time, I wanted to share some good news. I’ll be joining the illustrious faculty @BU_Tweets and working with the BU family to build the BU Center for Antiracist Research. 1/4

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Ibram X. Kendi, Leading Scholar on Racism, to Join BU

Will launch the BU Center for Antiracist Research

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4 years

I am crushed. Beyond crushed to wake up in the middle of the night to this nightmare, to the passing of Chadwick Boseman. Of colon cancer! What tried to kill me! It’s too much. It’s too much. Chadwick gave us so much. So much. And now he’s gone. 1/

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How do you turn racist comments by Latinx members of the LA City Council into an attack on me? Ask @nytdavidbrooks who in his recent column misrepresented my scholarship, which the @nytimes routinely allows its columnists to do. This is what happens when accuracy is nothing. 1/

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4 years

“When you see something that is not right. Not fair. Not just. . Do something. Get in trouble. Good trouble.” —John Lewis The opposite of engaging in #goodtrouble is doing nothing out of fear we’ll get into trouble. We must amass our courage and overcome fear like John Lewis.

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Americans are deeply divided—and we’re deeply divided over why we’re deeply divided. To be antiracist is to recognize and challenge racism as the source of the racial divide. To be racist is to deny racism and frame those challenging racism as the source of the racial divide.

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3 years

So the man who said the deadly pandemic is rounding the corner, climate change is a hoax, racism doesn’t exist, all criticism is fake, Mexico’s paying for the wall, and there’s mass voter fraud claimed he won before all votes were counted. That’s fitting. Lying is his language.

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10 months

It's often said: White kids, upon being taught the history of racism, will feel guilty or bad about being White. In fact, White kids who receive antiracist history lessons exhibit fewer racist ideas about Black people while their attitudes about White people are unaffected.

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3 years

The greatest domestic terrorist threat of our time are White male supremacists who adore Donald J. Trump. But Americans are too blinded by their own racist ideas to see these terrorists for who and what they are. Will today be the day the denial finally ends?

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Ibram X. Kendi

2 years

Someone killed 14 children and 1 teacher at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX. I’m wholly devastated. We live in a society where power absolutely refuses to protect our children. How many more kids have to die before power makes radical changes to these horrific conditions?

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I suspect countless people who've been relentlessly bullied or verbally abused are being triggered right now. #Debates2020

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I want a new world where humans accept the hard truth as routinely as they accept the easy lies in this world.

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This doesn’t happen everyday. It is fitting it happens on the day we are Blacking out for Black lives and hopefully supporting our local independent bookstores, too. The #1 and #2 overall bestsellers @amazon right now are two books challenging racism. This is you. 🖤🙏🏾🖤🙏🏾

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This impeachment trial is becoming like a Jim Crow trial. Deep down everyone knows everything. Everyone knows the racist defendant is guilty. Everyone knows the all-White jury is going to quickly acquit. Everyone knows the exonerated defendant will continue to break the law.

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"I'm not trying to pretend to be a fair juror here": Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham predicts Trump impeachment will "die quickly" in the Senate

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Fascist power doesn't care about consistency, rules, fairness, precedents, truth. Fascist power does not respond to appeals to its hypocrisy, its lies, its unfairness, its destruction. Fascist power only responds to power. Fascist power only cares about power. #GOPfascism

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The clarity of young people. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

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He lost much more than he won. I constantly worry about how much Black people have to lose in order to win in this society.

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The referee wouldn’t allow him to wrestle with dreads. His coach stepped in with a last minute haircut. He went on to win in OT.

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The last time I felt this way was before my cancer surgery. It could go either way: the new beginning of life or death. All I remember telling myself was no matter what, I’m going to fight because no matter what there will be a fight. This steeled me then. This steels me now.

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"I'm not a racist. I did not mean to harm that man in any way," Amy Cooper said. "I think I was just scared." Why were you scared? Why did you fear the Black male? Fear harms. The heartbeat of racism is denial. The sound of denial: "I'm not a racist."

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3 years

Locking arms with Asian Americans facing this lethal wave of anti-Asian terror. Their struggle is my struggle. Our struggle is against racism and White supremacist domestic terror.

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Vivian Ho

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On the day @StopAAPIHate released a report documenting nearly 3800 incidents of anti-Asian hate during the pandemic - nearly 70% against Asian women - a man killed 8 in shootings targeting Asian businesses. Six of the 8 killed were Asian women.

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"I'm the least racist person in this room," Trump said. The heartbeat of racism is denial. #Debates2020

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It is amazing that Andrew Yang said we can eliminate racism by giving people of color "buying power." As if buying power will prevent me from being killed by racist cops. #DemDebate

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Ibram X. Kendi

1 year

From our family to yours, have a very Merry Christmas and a refreshing New Year! 🎄

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3 years

Dear Trump voters:

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"The law" is lawless and it has been ever since "the law" replaced the master.

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"For American educators, it's a great day for you all. You are going to have one of your own in the White House." --President-elect Joe Biden talking about the new First Lady, Jill Biden

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4 years

During tail end of the enslavement era, private citizens were empowered and trained to violently “arrest” runaways. Our unjust present is our unjust past. Our unjust past is our unjust present.

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Shannon Watts

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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is launching a class for private citizens on how to arrest undocumented immigrants. The course will train *non-agents in firearms* and how to make “targeted arrests.”

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I can’t tell you how many Black people in history were whipped, beaten, or lynched because they “didn’t comply” and then blamed for their own injuries and deaths since they “didn’t comply.” Racial violence has changed clothes but still demands what won’t come: Black compliance.

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Julián Castro

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Army Lt. Nazario was driving his new car home. He was pulled over, pepper sprayed, and arrested without explanation. This is racism. It’s about the domination and humiliation of a Black man because he asked questions and “didn’t comply.”

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4 years

I wrote this book for this moment, for this moment to become a movement, for the movement to transform us as we transform this country. Thank you to the folks reading + recommending #HowToBeAnAntiracist . Use it as springboard into antiracist action. Justice needs you, all of you.

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On this #Juneteenth , 155 years later, Americans are celebrating the abolition of slavery. But Black people are not celebrating as if we are free. Chattel slavery is no more. But the descendants of enslaved people are still not free. 3/3

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Racism has been a dealmaker.

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In 2018, I was diagnosed with stage IV colorectal cancer. Only 14 percent of people receiving my diagnosis are likely to be alive five years later. Today, I can officially say I am a cancer survivor. 1/3

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5 years

People are not trained to diagnose their own racism. People are trained to deny their own racism.

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Ibram X. Kendi

4 years

Why has Biden outlasted all those more talented moderates and progressives? It’s not his ability, feats or campaign. Here are the 3 reasons Biden is the front runner. 1. He’s a White male. 2. He’s a centrist White male. 3. He’s a centrist White male who served as Obama’s VP.

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To be Black in America is to walk in the valley of the shadow of pain and death. The fact that Black people still manage to carry on and create and find joy and love in the valley is nothing short of a miracle. And right now, our love of #BreonnaTaylor is filling us with rage.

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Ibram X. Kendi

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“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” —Zora Neale Hurston A word for us on the birthday of this legendary writer and thinker.

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To assume merit is the reason White people are overrepresented in positions of power and influence is to assume White people are superior. To assume peoples of color in positions of power and influence are unqualified and unmerited is to assume peoples of color are inferior. 1/

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I am a product of a HBCU, where I learned how to think and write and be me. It is tearing up my heart seeing all these bomb threats. Our HBCU family is resilient. But we shouldn’t have to be.

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"Nobody has done more for the Black community than Donald Trump." Nobody has lied more about the Black community than Donald Trump. #Debates2020

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Today Elijah McClain would have turned 25 years old. In August 2019, police officers in Aurora, Colorado, approached Elijah as he walked home from a convenience store. A 911 caller framed him as a "suspicious person." Like Trayvon, like so many, Elijah never made it home.

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3 years

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

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3 years

Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country.

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4 years

Looking at the @nytimes bestseller lists this week, and I don’t know if it has ever had more books on racism. I’m heartened to join these incredible writers with 6 entries and 3 books, including #HowToBeAnAntiracist at #1 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list; 1/3

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One thing should be crystal clear after watching last night’s debate: the Trump campaign is hardly focused on winning over voters. The Trump campaign sees only one path to victory: Voter Suppression. #Debates2020

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10 months

This #PrideMonth , it is important to recognize non-binary and gender nonconforming people have been here from the beginning of the U.S. Here is a thread on one of the most influential such persons in early America. An abolitionist minister known as The Public Universal Friend. 1/

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2 years

Here I responded to the argument that teaching young children about the history of racism is going to make White kids feel bad. Thank you @colbertlateshow for having me. #HowToRaiseAnAntiracist

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Two years ago, Elijah McClain, who loved playing the violin, was walking home from the store carrying iced tea. He never made it home. Now, the officers who put the 23-year-old in a chokehold and the paramedics who injected him with ketamine are facing charges.

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Ibram X. Kendi

4 years

“It is what it is.”

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In 2000, I graduated from a VA high school named after a Confederate General. Now, there’s talk of changing the name. There’s campaign for Ibram X. Kendi High School, and I’m in shock. But I’m happy old Stonewall Jackson is probably raging in his grave.

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2 years

This is emblematic of the systemic disrespect and disregard for teachers.

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No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen

2 years

JUST IN: An arena in South Dakota is holding a “Dash for Cash” where teachers get on their knees and fight for one dollar bills that they can use for classroom supplies while spectators watch and cheer. (h/t @AnnieTodd96 )

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It has been magical this year to witness our daughter learn to read and fall in love with books and libraries. Full of gratitude for the people who defended our new readers—and their books and libraries—from the book banners in 2022.🙏🏾 Right now she’s digging the 🌈 magic!

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3 years

Wow. She came out to Mary J.

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Ibram X. Kendi

4 years

People who see the Confederate flag as symbolizing service, and sacrifice and heritage have hijacked history.

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Nikki Haley: Dylann Roof "hijacked" the Confederate flag from people who saw it as symbolizing "service, and sacrifice and heritage"

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We should take it as a compliment when people attack us personally or when people misrepresent our work. Because that means they can’t challenge what we are actually saying or writing or meaning or doing. Take the compliments with grace and move on.

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