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Prof., Harvard Kennedy School V. Prof., Harvard Divinity School 18th NAACP president & CEO Attorney & 4th Generation Minister For speaking: http://unitedtalent

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Amen!

21.11.2025 04:37 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

So now US Border Control is monitoring your milk trip to the grocery & suburban commute❓How can some be against big government because of taxes, but okay with big government for surveillance? It is not irrational to want to pay fewer taxes, but who wants to have fewer rights❓

22.11.2025 23:45 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Coast Guard Says Swastika and Noose Displays Are No Longer Hate Incidents

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The #CoastGuard describing swastikas as “potentially divisive” is as asinine evil as describing Nazi soldiers firing the ovens as “potentially rude.” Watch the White House say “oops” we didn’t mean to say what we do & mean. #Antisemitism
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

21.11.2025 03:49 — 👍 12    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 1

THE AUTOCRACY
CON GAME

This administration is deporting nonwhite immigrants,

intimidating nonwhite citizens,

to lull all white citizens into accepting a #whitesupremacist #autocracy

—with ALL OF US paying sky high prices for food AND their corruption all at the same time. SMH

16.11.2025 13:06 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

So now US Border Control is monitoring your milk trip to the grocery & suburban commute❓How can some be against big government because of taxes, but okay with big government for surveillance? It is not irrational to want to pay fewer taxes, but who wants to have fewer rights❓

22.11.2025 23:45 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

WHEN the administration racially weaponizes ICE,

deploys the Nat. Guard from the South to the North like slave patrols cruising for runaways,

& the Coast Guard offers language cover for hate groups,

THIS is the militarization of hate. The facts demand we not be naive.

21.11.2025 14:09 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

“Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it is raining.”
I heard an older Jewish woman use this colorful & morally blunt expression. Seems liking a fitting response to this Coast Guard nonsense…

21.11.2025 14:10 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

“Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it is raining.”
I heard an older Jewish woman use this colorful & morally blunt expression. Seems liking a fitting response to this Coast Guard nonsense…

21.11.2025 14:10 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

WHEN the administration racially weaponizes ICE,

deploys the Nat. Guard from the South to the North like slave patrols cruising for runaways,

& the Coast Guard offers language cover for hate groups,

THIS is the militarization of hate. The facts demand we not be naive.

21.11.2025 14:09 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

The moral downgrade in vocabulary is an open invitation for hate groups to continue to embed in our military. Read previous gov. reports on hate groups in the military. Did Black, Jewish & other American vets die for this? @ap congress.gov/116/chrg/CHRG-…

21.11.2025 14:09 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

The moral downgrade in vocabulary is an open invitation for hate groups to continue to embed in our military. Read previous gov. reports on hate groups in the military. Did Black, Jewish & other American vets die for this? @ap congress.gov/116/chrg/CHRG-…

21.11.2025 14:09 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Just HOW ignorant and immoral do these people think Americans are?

21.11.2025 04:04 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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A noose is not a necklace. Hate symbols aren’t “divisive.” This *is the vocabulary of moral trivialization and historical erasure. These men liberated Jews from concentration camps abroad —while evading KKK racism at home. 6 million Jews weren’t killed by “divisiveness.” #racism #antisemitism

21.11.2025 10:03 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A noose is not a necklace. Hate symbols aren’t “divisive.” This *is the vocabulary of moral trivialization and historical erasure. These men liberated Jews from concentration camps abroad —while evading KKK racism at home. 6 million Jews weren’t killed by “divisiveness.” #racism #antisemitism

21.11.2025 10:03 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A noose is not a necklace. Hate symbols aren’t “divisive.” This the vocabulary of moral trivialization and historical erasure. These men liberated Jews from concentration camps abroad —while evading KKK racism at home. 6 million Jews weren’t killed by “divisiveness.” #racism

21.11.2025 03:51 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

Just HOW ignorant and immoral do these people think Americans are?

21.11.2025 04:04 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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A noose is not a necklace. Hate symbols aren’t “divisive.” This the vocabulary of moral trivialization and historical erasure. These men liberated Jews from concentration camps abroad —while evading KKK racism at home. 6 million Jews weren’t killed by “divisiveness.” #racism

21.11.2025 03:51 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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Coast Guard Says Swastika and Noose Displays Are No Longer Hate Incidents

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The #CoastGuard describing swastikas as “potentially divisive” is as asinine evil as describing Nazi soldiers firing the ovens as “potentially rude.” Watch the White House say “oops” we didn’t mean to say what we do & mean. #Antisemitism
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

21.11.2025 03:49 — 👍 12    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 1

“Us” against “them” invariably means “we the people” being racially segregated to be politically subjugated—with few even noticing we are being played. #racism #xenophobia #Antisemitism #Islamophobia

18.11.2025 10:23 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

“Us” against “them” invariably means “we the people” being racially segregated to be politically subjugated—with few even noticing we are being played. #racism #xenophobia #Antisemitism #Islamophobia

18.11.2025 10:23 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | The Lesson We Teach Schoolchildren About the Holocaust Is Wrong

Yet another reason to stand together against hate weaponized for autocracy…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...

18.11.2025 02:32 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Opinion | The Lesson We Teach Schoolchildren About the Holocaust Is Wrong

Yet another reason to stand together against hate weaponized for autocracy…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...

18.11.2025 02:32 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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NOT GIVING UP

Had Harriet Tubman compared the 70 slaves she freed to the 4 million enslaved, she might have given up. Her hope and leadership were not based on the dire math of reality, but on a calculation of faith. Hope is not empirically demonstrated, it is morally chosen. #AddToBlackSky

17.11.2024 18:26 — 👍 92    🔁 27    💬 5    📌 1
Man films Border Patrol agents smashing his car window in Charlotte
YouTube video by Associated Press Man films Border Patrol agents smashing his car window in Charlotte

ICE is practicing on ”them” before they get to “you”—wherever and whoever you are as an American citizen, resident, or immigrant. To assume so in this dangerous moment is not a matter of paranoia, but history and autocracy.
youtu.be/XkWcibsWD8g

16.11.2025 12:56 — 👍 6    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

THE AUTOCRACY
CON GAME

This administration is deporting nonwhite immigrants,

intimidating nonwhite citizens,

to lull all white citizens into accepting a #whitesupremacist #autocracy

—with ALL OF US paying sky high prices for food AND their corruption all at the same time. SMH

16.11.2025 13:06 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Man films Border Patrol agents smashing his car window in Charlotte
YouTube video by Associated Press Man films Border Patrol agents smashing his car window in Charlotte

ICE is practicing on ”them” before they get to “you”—wherever and whoever you are as an American citizen, resident, or immigrant. To assume so in this dangerous moment is not a matter of paranoia, but history and autocracy.
youtu.be/XkWcibsWD8g

16.11.2025 12:56 — 👍 6    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

First this administration, disrespects & desecrates the memory of Black World War II vets like Medgar Evers at Arlington National Cemetery. THEN they export hate abroad by disrespecting Black vets at a cemetery in the Netherlands.

As someone once said, “OUT-DAMN-RAGEOUS.”

09.11.2025 15:40 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

First this administration, disrespects & desecrates the memory of Black World War II vets like Medgar Evers at Arlington National Cemetery. THEN they export hate abroad by disrespecting Black vets at a cemetery in the Netherlands.

As someone once said, “OUT-DAMN-RAGEOUS.”

09.11.2025 15:40 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

VET GRAVES DESECRATED AT HOME & ABROAD.

During the 1st Trump administration, as NAACP president, I spoke in the Netherlands about the dangers of autocracy. I never imagined a 2nd administration would rob veteran graves of Black history & heroism—in the U.S. AND the Netherlands.

09.11.2025 15:39 — 👍 3    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

VET GRAVES DESECRATED AT HOME & ABROAD.

During the 1st Trump administration, as NAACP president, I spoke in the Netherlands about the dangers of autocracy. I never imagined a 2nd administration would rob veteran graves of Black history & heroism—in the U.S. AND the Netherlands.

09.11.2025 15:39 — 👍 3    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

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