Neil Williams

Lecturer Political Science @GSUPoliSci. Political behavior, race, democracy, and more. Love reading, music, and the comedic rule of three.🇧🇧🇺🇸🌎

[Neil Williams @NeilSPWilliams]

Thrilled that my article, "From plantation sugar to a bittersweet democracy: Black democratic attitudes in the English-speaking Caribbean", is now available online to read at Politics, Groups, and Identities. https://t.co/nW3l6DnnRK

[Miss Kawhi👑 @HKuriah]

This is where I hate NBA twitter the most. One or two bad games negates all the hardwork and impact he has brought to the game and his team? dpmo

[Sydney Battle @SydneyBattle]

they cannot trick me… i know carter bryant is a 6yo who made a wish to get BIGged like tom hanks in the movie

[kenya the podcaster ✨ @KenyaTheHunter]

I wrote a story about this! Many of ATL’s historically redlined neighborhoods are hotter and more likely to flood bc of a decimated tree canopy.

[Blackish Press @blackishpress]

Colman Domingo spoke to Men's Health about his experience coming out as gay to his family in the 1990s. The first person he told was his older brother:

"I told him that I was gay. He looked at me and was just like, 'What?' He just couldn’t believe it. Eventually, he said, 'I don’t care, man. I love you anyway.' And he just hugged me. Then he said, 'Have you told anyone else?' I said, no. He said, 'Alright, this stays between you and me.”’

Her sister found out two days later:

"She was pissed off. I said, 'Look, yes, it was really hard for me to tell him.' She said, 'No, no, no. Why didn’t you tell me first?' She was pissed off because she didn’t get the information first.’

Some time later, he told his mother—who accepted it calmly. Twenty minutes later, the phone rings and she says:

“I talked to your stepfather.” She puts him on and he says, in his blue-collar masculine way, “You’re a good boy and there’s nothing you can tell me that would make me stop loving you.”’

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[Lil Mabele @_plamz]

5 men used all their body weight to restraint one black man. As he was faced down, one continuously pressed his knee on his neck until he stopped breathing.

Happened in Dublin, Ireland. They’re under every post laughing and calling it the Irish George Floyd. Rest in Peace Yves Sakila.

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

The Nakba never ended. The Israeli apartheid regime is still committing genocide in Gaza and violently erasing entire communities across Palestine and Lebanon. I'm leading a resolution to recognize the 78th anniversary of Nakba and reaffirm Palestinian refugees' right of return.

[Issa Amro عيسى عمرو 🇵🇸 @Issaamro]

Okay , I am in the story , let us go to court even in Israel . You will find hundreds of cases .
I am ready to testify and bring many many victims with me .

[J’Moul Francis 🇦🇬 @jmoulfrancis]

Interesting how the world often treats the French Revolution as the only great symbol of freedom and rights, while the Haitian Revolution is treated like a footnote. Yet, Haiti did what many abolitionists elsewhere only preached, i.e., enslaved people rising up and defeating an empire, abolishing slavery, and claiming freedom by force. Haiti’s history deserves equal, and maybe greater, reverence.

Brilliant documentary by @AJEnglish 👌🏽

[Variety @Variety]

Ms. Rachel is fighting to close an ICE facility in Texas that's detaining children. She wants to "make sure that kids and their parents are back in their communities where they belong."

"I am political. It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love and care, and that every child is equal, and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border," she told NBC News.

Ms. Rachel recently had a video call with nine-year-old Deiver Henao Jimenez, who is detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas. The boy told her he "wants to leave and go to the spelling bee."

"It was unbelievably surreal to see this sweet little face and feel like I was on a call with somebody who’s in jail. It broke me, and it was something I never thought I’d encounter in life," she told the news outlet. "We’re trying to get a child out of a jail to do a spelling bee. I just never thought those words would go together."

https://t.co/AoqJZ29BTa

[Neil Williams @NeilSPWilliams]

So sad to see. Folks are making fun when this man doesn’t know how to feed his dog.

His dog is starving because of trans and we laugh

[NW Country @NWcountrymusic1]

We’re going to be making fun of this for a long time

[fico @fico_chu]

so happy for my papasito benito but i really need well-intentioned liberals to understand that his story is not about immigration and the american dream. it’s about success DESPITE american colonization. it’s about making it big, and still being able to call puerto rico home.

[Carolyn Hinds 🇧🇧 #FreePalestine #CongoInCrisis @CarrieCnh12]

They're not really talking about looking for a lost pet. They're talking about making every house a surveillance outpost and neighbours informants spying on eachother.
They're talking about the same technology ICE and DHS are using to triangulate neighborhoods to find people.

[🇵🇹 Chev B. @damnthatschev]

The vibe of the performance felt Caribbean af. Didn’t have to speak Spanish to connect with it

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

According to the white men at the IOC, the picture of the Haitian Revolution's leader is apparently a "banned political symbol."

This would be like making George Washington's picture a "banned symbol."

Once again, the minute you peel back the façade half an inch, the world and your African place in it have not moved an inch from 1700. Always remember that and never get lost in the sauce.

[carlos buburrón @CBuburron]

BAD BUNNY LOGRÓ LO QUE BOLÍVAR SÓLO PODÍA SOÑAR !!!

[Natasha Lightfoot 🇦🇬 @njlightfoot]

Like when have we ever seen a Vincy flag ? A St Kitts flag? a Bahamas flag? A Belize flag? an Aruba flag? And again, an Antigua flag?? At the Super Bowl?? I was undone by the last 1.5 mins of that show.

[Elmo @elmo]

That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❤️🎶🐰

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

Bringing back institutions makes sense when you consider they also put suffragettes, unruly wives, queer people, antiwar and civil rights protesters in them too.

“Crazy” just means “not normal” and only people in power decides what “normal” is.

[Natasha Lightfoot 🇦🇬 @njlightfoot]

“The reproduction of human property, and the social relations of racial slavery were predicated upon the belly. Plainly put, subjection was anchored in black women’s reproductive capacities.” -Saidiya Hartman, “The Belly of the World” (2016)

[Laura Jedeed @LauraJedeed]

You sure about that?