D Payton

Passions: Helping young people reach their potential, the ACT-SO program, Spain, & the Efik people of Nigeria. District Director of College & Career Readiness.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Economy is booming like a Trump Casino 👊 🇺🇸 🔥

[Lincs @x_facts_matter]

As Americans, we really need to stop letting the billionaires and media divide us.

We have more in common than we have differences.

Everyone believes in fairness and justice. Although there are disagreements on how to achieve that or get there.

It’s time for us as Americans to get into good trouble, restore trust in elections, restore the rule of law and constitutional government, and restore true patriotism while suppressing hate.

[D Payton @DPayton2]

@rolandsmartin Such a beautiful service! Thank you so much for broadcasting and sharing!!

[Politics Sloth 🧦🌐🇬🇷🇺🇸 (#1 reply guy) @SockDemFan]

@RonFilipkowski Republicans are not a fan of DEI but are a fan of putting unqualified people into the cabinet 🙃

[D Payton @DPayton2]

We are watching you, Anthony Herron! Great to see you calling the Indiana vs. Northwestern game! ⁦@BigAntHerron⁩ #BHSRAIDERS alum

[D Payton @DPayton2]

@DorlandRon @kylegriffin1 Like the electoral college!

[D Payton @DPayton2]

Donkeyball at Bolingbrook HS⁩ with a real donkey? ⁦⁦@BigAntHerron⁩ - BHS alum ⁦⁦⁩Anthony Herron) shares the story …. ⁦@HonortheRaiders⁩

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

Over the course of my grandfather's lifetime, he gifted and "loaned" Donald $413 million. And Donald still declared bankruptcy 6 times. He failed so badly that the banks needed to put him on a $425,000-a-month allowance.

[D Payton @DPayton2]

We need to stop criminalizing those who are perceived as different! When lies are told, try to get the truth/data

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Trump just claimed that immigrants have the "highest level of criminality". Actually, the opposite is true.

[D Payton @DPayton2]

@JoyceWhiteVance Agree! He not only interrupts, but also gets to do a rebuttal multiple times!
Also, let’s not forget that he can’t answer a question save his life!

[D Payton @DPayton2]

@gtconway3d It was awesome! Like a party!

[D Payton @DPayton2]

It’s that time of year again!

If you are (or are the parent of) a high school student of African descent looking to explore and/or develop your talents, you should be in ACT-SO!

Enrollment OPENS for the '24 -'25 DuPage ACT-SO Program Year https://t.co/UYS2MqPBXC

[D Payton @DPayton2]

@FBraidernation @DashaunMallory As a 30-year Bolingbrook resident and Valley View School District staff, I am so happy to see another former Bolingbrook High School Raider, @DashaunMallory going on to have success in college and now - in the pros with the Hometown Team - The Chicago Bears!

#TheBrook

[D Payton @DPayton2]

@ACTIdgit @keithboykin Look at the toes too!

[D Payton @DPayton2]

@antiant29070815 @keithboykin Look at the toes too!

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

I am seeing people question whether Kamala Harris is “really Black.” I don’t think these people know the origins of judgements of who’s “really Black.” Let’s dive into history.

Beginning in the 15th century, human traders not only constructed what we now call Blackness—combining the different peoples of Africa into one race, one inferior race, worthy of enslavement. These human traders also judged who was “really Black“ based on whatever ethnic groups in West Africa they imagined made the best “slaves.” Different human traders from Portugal, France, Holland, and England expressed various ideas about who were “really Black,” meaning who made the best “slaves.”

Human traders created a hierarchy of peoples of African descent, what I call ethnic racist ideas in my work, where ethnic groups from regions like Senegambia were imagined to be superior (“slaves”) than ethnic groups from regions like Angola. These ethnic racist ideas contributed to different ethnic groups across West Africa being priced differently in the transatlantic human trade. So, originally, to be considered “really Black” was to be considered really servile.

By contrast, racist theorists constructed White people as the “free” race. These racist ideas became so widespread the anti-slavery resistance of biracial people were attributed to their “partial” Whiteness, including in books like Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tim’s Cabin. Which is to say, both White enslavers and White abolitionists suggested biracial abolitionists, like Frederick Douglass, were not “really Black” because biracial people were not completely servile.

Today, these racist ideas of Black people as servile justifies Black people disproportionately still having to work in service jobs. When Black people become leaders and have the audacity to give direction, the attacks are regular and toxic and personal since racist ideas socialize people of all races, including Black people, to resist taking direction from Black leaders. Today, like two centuries ago, the servant, not the leader, is “really Black.”

Over the last few centuries, antiracist Black people have reconstructed Blackness by eradicating the “slave,” by decolonizing the mind, by making Blackness equal to Whiteness (and other racial identities), by making Blackness a global identity of solidarity, of cultural diversity, of resistance that includes biracial people who identify as Black. After these radical reconstructions of Blackness, it is easy to not know that human traders were the first group to judge who was “really Black.”

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Wow great!

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

President @JoeBiden is the jobs president.

[D Payton @DPayton2]

Do you really know what Project 2025 is?
Make sure you know before you decide how to cast your vote in this year’s election!

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Only 1 in 4 Americans know about the Republican Party's plan for a Christofascist takeover of America called Project 2025. Here's a quick primer. Y'all know what to do.

[African Hub @AfricanHub_]

2 Million Jews (White people) killed by Hitler and Hitler is the most horrible man. Jews are encouraged never to forget.

King Leopold II of Belgium kills 20 Million Africans and he is still not the worst man that ever lived. Africans are told to forget and move on.

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