@blkeducator

Professor, father, painter, writer, activist, and first-rate troublemaker

 Nashville, TN
Joined July 2010
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Regard and Honor Black History Month by Relearning Black History @TEDTalks @blkeducator ted.com/talks/david_ikard_th…

The real story of Rosa Parks -- and why we need to confront myths...

Black history taught in US schools is often watered-down, riddled with inaccuracies and stripped of its context and rich, full-bodied historical figures. Equipped with the real story of Rosa Parks,...

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My new EP Bridges is here! I'm so proud of it and so very happy to finally be able to share these songs with you all. 💜 strm.to/MGBridgesEP
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Jemele Hill
@jemelehill3 Dec 2020
I’m old enough to remember Colin Kaepernick explaining exactly why he was protesting, only to see his message sabotaged by performative patriotism. Bad slogans/messaging isn’t the problem. There will never be a nice way to sell progress to people who actually don’t want it.
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Dr. Lisa B. Thompson@DrLisaBThompson20 Nov 2020
Replying to @DrLisaBThompson
We are also asking way too much from ourselves every single day. It’s a demonstration of stunning denial and a crippling dedication to a capitalist system that values profit over human life. A pause will allow us to make a true assessment of our values. We must pause.
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bittersweet bby@hernamesmaria22 Nov 2020
Needed
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Replying to @costareports @TheRealHoarse
We don't need convos with any Rs to know this last battle in GA will be McConnell's only focus - he'll get as dirty and ugly as is needed. He wants to remain leader more than he wants oxygen. He will fight to the death on this. Dems MUST increase the GOTV game in GA
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Stacey Abrams
@staceyabrams7 Nov 2020
Georgia, thank you. Together, we have changed the course of our state for the better. But our work is not done. Join me in supporting @ReverendWarnock and @ossoff so we can keep up the fight and win the U.S. Senate➡️GASenate.com #LetsGetItDoneAgain #gapol
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My pic with the real superstar of this election
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The ‘eloquent rage’ of Brittney Cooper over Black men voting for Trump washingtonpost.com/opinions/…

Opinion | The ‘eloquent rage’ of Brittney Cooper over Black men voting for Trump

'For a lot of Black men, their racial freedom aspiration is to just be equal with White men, which is to say they wanna be patriarchs or male-dominant in the way that White men are.'

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Jemele Hill
@jemelehill9 Oct 2020
Net worth avg white family: $171K Net worth avg black family: $17K The boot has been on black folks’ neck forever and yet we still didn’t vote for a racist (Trump), and haven’t plotted to the overthrow the government. It’s the whiteness that radicalizes them, not the poverty.
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NCAA rules allow White students and coaches to profit off labor of Black ones, study finds washingtonpost.com/business/…

Analysis | NCAA rules allow White students and coaches to profit off labor of Black ones, study...

Although sports revenue nearly doubled during the study period, the players "risking their health and safety” have not seen a comparable increase in benefits, data show.

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Better speech by Melania this year than in 2016. But then again, it was a very low bar. All she had to do was not crib Michelle’s speech, this time.
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where’s the lie?
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Greg Carr
@AfricanaCarr25 Aug 2020
If the white nationalist party manages to maintain their current level of control after November, we will have experienced, for better or worse, the event that accelerated the dissolution of the United States as we now know it.
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Read this. Read it again. We arent imagining racism. We arent overly sensitive. We live it everyday. Racism impacts every facet of life. Racism can kill, maim, wound, brutalize, and steal. It has to stop.
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Powerful statement by Doc Rivers tonight: "All you hear is Donald Trump & all of them talking about fear. We're the ones getting killed. We're the ones getting shot. ... It's amazing why we keep loving this country & this country does not love us back."
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4,634 people died of Covid in China. Total. We're at 177,000 and climbing. Don't call it the "China virus". This shit is the "Trump Mumps".
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1/This is Jacob Blake's sister Letetra Widman. Here is her powerful statement. "I am my brother's keeper."
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Every single person who has ever told me: “My mom whipped my ass, and I turned out fine”... Did NOT turn out fine.
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Folks arguing that Black people must comply with police in every circumstance or be killed are the same ones saying mask mandates are a tyrannical overreach of gov’t that entitles them to throw tantrums in public & storm the capitals with guns.
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