Ida Bae Wells

I left X last year and am now on Bluesky: [email protected]. Do not obey in advance.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

I am very excited to announce the initial schedule for the 1619 Project: A Visual Experience book tour — and especially to announce what is going to be a magnificent launch event at the @BKLYNlibrary where we will exhibit original art works from the book and where you will get to meet some of the artists. Secure your tickets here!
https://t.co/iSLruN7lsc

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

@briebriejoy I actually did write about precisely that. But don’t let facts get in the way. You never do. https://t.co/I2EN61fHbY

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

@jamesetta_w *racism

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

@daveweigel You can’t be serious.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

@lhfang @razibkhan I was raised by white parents? My dad was white? Do you even bother to pretend to do journalism anymore?

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

@BigMeanInternet The race being defined solely by voting is a strange argument and because there was not at the revolution universal white male suffrage.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

@gregorbkny @samhaselby You are correct in that I didn’t use Ignatiev to make the argument he is claiming, which calls into question the integrity of HIS argument because why mislead.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

@samhaselby @veidt_comrade Can you give a citation where the single determining of whiteness is the ability to cast a ballot? I guess no women were white then.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

@samhaselby @patrickberzai I’m sorry. Where have I treated competence as whiteness? Citation?

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

I mean, this is a bit of a sleight of hand, no? Race was constructed and elite Europeans determined which one you became — just like they could determine a child born to a European father and an African mother was Black and not white. Cedric Robinson does I think an excellent job showing how the British created racial groups in Europe that put the Irish and others outside of whiteness but the identity was changeable as happened in the US.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

@emmanuelfelton Oh, Emmanuel, I am so sorry.

[Emmanuel Felton @emmanuelfelton]

The other reporter on my team covering race was also laid off as well as the editor in charge of race coverage across national. The team covering America beyond DC is now 90% white.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

@donaldlwray @mattyglesias Why would I delete something that I stand behind.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

@realJeremyCarl Data? Citation?

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

Do you intend to provide any evidence of the factual reality of this “understanding” because I could certainly show you plenty of evidence of the actual disadvantage and workplace discrimination that Black Americans faced in the 1990s and 2000s and still do. I’m also curious what you mean by “the culture.” White culture?

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

“Electric car maker Tesla, Inc., violated federal law by tolerating widespread and ongoing racial harassment of its Black employees and by subjecting some of these workers to retaliation for opposing the harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.”
https://t.co/rRpwQ8Bidc

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Anti-White, anti-male discrimination ends now

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

@shipwreckedcrew Answer me this. Why did he make the comment about their brain processing power and what did he mean by it?

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

@JerryDunleavy You highlighted me writing…exactly the four women’s names that he mentioned? Yeah, you got me. Lol.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

@mattwr @JerryDunleavy It’s literally all right there, friend: https://t.co/5A5nQ7DtTf

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

@sassermac99706 @JerryDunleavy This is my point. This is what you all believe, so say it directly and stop trying to pretend to be outraged when people call out that intention.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

@JerryDunleavy I listed the specific women he discussed and then quoted him directly. The quote is exact and you know it. Durant extrapolated what he felt from that. His feeling is also not false. Nice try tho.