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Your last words should have been “no, I didn’t read the article.” Bye.

I don’t ascribe to ethnic nationalist bullshit or see any in the tweet at issue. Your post-Reagan qualification and framing of this as bitterness makes me wonder if you’re really grasping MLK’s very pre-Reagan sentiment.

I’m not here to cape for this poster. I’m only speaking about this tweet. I’ve seen numerous other Black people try to explain what’s really being said. Do understand them at least? Is it that shocking that Black communities would prefer economic parity and to exist outside this racist hellscape?

Nobody, including OP, was advocating for a return to Jim Crow.

His sentiment, and Bell’s, seem to me
more like MLK’s when he said he feared he was “integrating his people into a burning house.”

It’s a critique of the persistent structural racism and economic exploitation at America’s core.

The original post wasn’t saying that either.

Excerpt of Derrick Bell interview with highlighted quote: “it is painful to realize at this late date that, for the following reasons, black children would have gained better educations had the Court required strict enforcement of the “equal" part of the separate-but-equal standard.”

From YOUR EMPLOYER’s 2004 interview of Derrick Bell. Someone else posted this yesterday. Checking to see if you’ve read it yet.

prospect.org/2004/05/14/d...

Need this to send the strongest possible message to racists islamophobes genocide worshippers sex predators and politicians who stand for absolutely nothing to get the fuck out of here

Hasan Piker was detained by ICE and chose to talk to cops instead of shutting the fuck up.

Do not be like Hasan Piker. Be way smarter.

Never. Talk. To. Cops.

A big part of the problem with the Election Takes is the infantalization of idealism and the adultification of moderation.

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.