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@Yehuda sorry to hear of your family trauma. That trauma is repeated in all communities in that region, yours as well as others. Also, since the labor movement late 1890s forward provocateurs have infiltrated many movements to cause division. I can't image this would be different. Are some liberals racist...yes. Are some antisemitic? yes. Some anti-black? yes. Anti-indigenous? Yes. This is not "the left" as a unit. That's all I'm saying, Your paint brush is seems very broad. That's all I got.

@SallyStrange @histodons @blackmastodon Thanks for bringing up Jackson State. The lost ones there were rarely mentioned by white media.

@inthehands all three were hilarious. Thanks for posting. These videos answer so many questions.

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #ECOWAS #WestAfrica #DMV For folks in the DMV who are interested in the political/economic reasons for much of the chaos in West Africa (Senegal, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso), you have to know about the currency imposed upon them by the French at independence. This film is fantastic. Saw it during the New African Film Fest and there is a special showing April 8 at Sankofa book store in DC. Q&A with the director:
https://www.sankofa.com/events/money-freedom-a-story-of-the-french-cfa-with-director-katy-lena-ndiaye

#Jan6 #Eastman OK this is rich. You know the CA disciplinary process against John Eastman ended with the judge recommending he be disbarred because he was unethical, showed no understanding of his obligations as an attorney, etc. Eastman filed a motion today to stay disbarment so he can practice law and earn $ to pay for his criminal case!!! I don't think he understands what the judge said.😆 https://discipline.calbar.ca.gov/portal/DocumentViewer/Index/MjXyo7GFmHysKGW3IJCy_TczKFOL58guI2amH2gC5pHoX5_h4bBW1LPdDN-JQn0uhRBEGxeRetHL27c4zDwsVC-sf6pB_exccGIVEiCCwuo1?caseNum=SBC-23-O-30029&docType=Pleading&docName=RESPONDENT%20S%20MOTION%20TO%20STAY%20THECOURT%20S%20ORDER%20PLACING%20HIM%20ON%20INACTIVE%20ENROLLMENT&eventName=Motion&docTypeId=269&isVersionId=False&p=0
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@tillshadeisgone Agreed but we all have to take responsibility. I started assigning SCHOOL HOUSE ROCKS to my law students because they didn't know how a bill got passed! They were almost all white. I couldn't let them leave me without correcting that....its everyone's responsibility to help close that knowledge gap.

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Election2024 #politics
This post is for the Black and Brown people who post on Mastodon. Other people can read it but this thread is to open a dialogue with our community specifically. I was traveling in Chicago for most of this week and I had an opportunity to talk to quite a few working class folks during my stay. When traveling I usually try and take the temperature on what is happening in Black communities locally so politics comes up often. 1/5

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Politics #FaniWillis @blackmastodon
Did you notice how they referred to her savings as her "hoard of money" rather than her savings and then try to imply criminality because she used CashApp and cash to pay. How many people today use Zelle or Venmo rather than checks? But what? CashApp is something black criminals use? Is that what we are supposed to infer? And what black woman in her right mind does not keep emergency cash where she lives? 3/5

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Politics #FaniWillis @blackmastodon
Remember when Stacy Abrams ran for Gov the first time and how everyone made a big deal about the fact she had debt, like that made her unworthy in some way. Then reflect on the fact that Kavanaugh who presently sits on SCOTUS had 100 of thousands of dollars of debt until he was nominated? And somehow that debt disappeared? Did anyone ask if he took a freakin vacation while he owed that money? 2/5

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Politics #FaniWillis @blackmastodon
So while I was up in Canada scouting out safe places to whisk my family to in case white people start acting up again this fall, I missed Fani Willis testifying. A friend sent me a link to the full testimony while I was in the airport Sunday. Just watched it last night...so I am compelled to point out...again...the hypocrisy of white America and how they still don't know a damn thing about how black folks live. A thread...1/5

#ThoughtExperiment #politics #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter @blackmastodon They want a world where women don’t get to talk and die in childbirth like it used to be so they can get the next model. Do you see it? Are you prepared to frame that issue and talk about it? If someone were to ask me how I see the fight ending, I wouldn’t be able to answer. I think there’s a 50-50 chance we go fully and openly to Jim Crow 2.0. And when I look around sometimes I wonder..which side are you all on? 7/7

#ThoughtExperiment #politics #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter @blackmastodon A large swath of white America does not want a new world order. They are desperately fighting for Jim Crow 2.0 where people of color know their place, don't look them in they eye and step off the sidewalk when they walk by. They want a world where they can work black and brown children to death, and kill their parents with impunity if they complain. 6/7
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#ThoughtExperiment #politics #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter @blackmastodon The root of the MAGA angst is the fight for the American White Identity. The fight is over whether "White America" will join a world order where they are not on top and where their voices are not always considered the most important one or will they enter a world where there are equals who don’t look like them, don’t speak their language, don’t eat their food or pray to the same gods. 5/7
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#ThoughtExperiment #politics #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter @blackmastodon Reagan continued those polices as did both Bushes. And frankly, Bill Clinton signed some of the most repressive legislation that has ever been wielded as a hammer against poor people and people of color. What Nixon and Halderman and the others have been worried about was a population of free black and brown people, who were educated, employed and able to participate in the so-called American Dream. 4/7

#ThoughtExperiment #politics #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter @blackmastodon And just as with the first experiment results were not surprising. Less than 10 people offered a guess as to the underlying root complaint of the MAGA. Let me offer one. You’ll need to remember some history but I promise I’ll only ask you to go back as far as Richard Nixon. I won’t traumatize you with a connection to Reconstruction (!) 2/7

#ThoughtExperiment #politics #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter @blackmastodon The second part of the ThoughtExperiement asked you all to assume Trump was a distraction and to indicate what you thought the underlying root complaint is for the MAGAs. I asked Europeans not to reply, because their underlying causes of right wing discontent are different from ours AND because they are more willing to critically look at systems than Americans are. I wanted to hear from the people who live here. 1/7

#ThoughtExperiment #politics #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter @blackmastodon Just recently someone on Mastodon re-posted the interview with Nixon’s man Halderman where he proudly admitted that they created the war on drugs to negate any forward movement that was created by the civil rights legislation of 1964/65. This happened within the lifetimes of you old heads on this site and for the young people when your parents were already adults. 3/7
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#politics #trump #fascism #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter @blackmastodon
Can you participate in a thought experiment with me? The posts warning about fascism are good, but I'm wondering what you think fascism actually looks like. Give a thought, and list what it looks like. Don't just say "the end of democracy." List what the concrete changes will be and make it local. "In my town/city/county/state the following will happen......" Think about it before replying. Not just for #BlackMastodon .

@inthehands There is also the People's CDC, which tracks waste water and hospitalizations. You can search for your local area. https://peoplescdc.org/

@inthehands her salary.....