Symone Dawes

Romance writer - “Ask Me”is currently 726 pages of chaos and questionable decisions. Trust me. You’ll thank me for the delay. 😉

[Symone Dawes @SymoneDawes]

Absolutely feed the trolls! Otherwise they’re the only ones talking.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

My father showed us that nonviolence is not passive and it is not weak. It is love organized into action. It is courage disciplined enough to confront injustice without surrendering our humanity.

That truth still matters now. In this season of ongoing attacks on voting rights and efforts to turn us against one another, we are called to do more than react. We are called to organize, build, and move with the kind of moral force that can challenge systems and transform society.

My father did not just dream of a better world. He helped build the power to bring change, and that same work is still before us.

#MLK #VotingRights #Montgomery #Nonviolence365

[Priya Satia @PriyaSatia]

Instead of worrying that humanities degrees don’t prepare students for jobs in today’s world [product managers finance consultants startups], we should worry that we’ve created a world with such little value for literature, art, philosophy—anything that expresses the human soul

[Symone Dawes @SymoneDawes]

@nickaturley I spent some time with 5.3, and I think it’s wonderful. The conversation felt natural, and the model actually has a sense of humor. Thanks for a great update.

[Ron Shillman @shillman1]

I don’t want a president who’s “just like me.” I want a president who’s smarter than me, more articulate than me, more well-read than me, and better educated than me with the confidence to surround themselves with people smarter, more educated and articulate than they are.

[NAACP Michigan @minaacp]

On this day, the NAACP was founded with one goal: to advance and protect civil rights and justice for all.

117 years later that mission still stands.

Happy NAACP Founders' Day!!!

[It's politics @uspolitics1111]

@PopCrave @suckling_adam Unity and Love shouldn’t be controversial ♥️💙

[Jasmine Crockett @JasmineForUS]

Bad Bunny understood the assignment…

[Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @RepJasmine]

This year marks 100 years of celebrating Black history.

Now more than ever, it is critical that we teach our history, preserve our history, and continue to make history.

Black history is American history.

Happy Black History Month.

[Everton Blair, Jr. @evertonblairjr]

When candidates focus on the cost of living, funding our schools, ensuring our people have health care, and true economic freedom, we win in places we’re not “supposed” to.

Congrats Rep-elect Eric Gisler – this is the momentum we’re taking into 2026.

[Symone Dawes @SymoneDawes]

@KlauriMom @LongTimeHistory Leviticus 19:34 says, “But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

One year ago, America broke my heart. She was made for the job. She was qualified, intelligent, courageous. She had the leadership skills to run the country and stand against autocracy. I miss the enthusiasm of her campaign. America made its biggest mistake. Do you agree?

[Symone Dawes @SymoneDawes]

@kalaelizabeth New(er) games? Banishers blew me away.

[Symone Dawes @SymoneDawes]

@LizzyBPhel @BattlingBud @BerniceKing Yes, roughly 25% of southerners owned slaves. Then consider Jim Crow, Redlining, GI bill disparities, land grant refusals, loan denials, lynchings, etc. That’s sufficient reason to be angry. But no one woke up saying LizzyB is responsible.

[Symone Dawes @SymoneDawes]

@LizzyBPhel @BattlingBud @BerniceKing In 1860 alone, the Census recorded nearly 4 million enslaved people. And slavery dated back to the 1600s. There were fewer than 500 Black slaveowners in 1860. ~4K in 1830. Many of them purchased family members to free them.

[Symone Dawes @SymoneDawes]

@BattlingBud @LizzyBPhel @BerniceKing Many Black people had to purchase their families. Slaveowners didn’t just let them go. But yes, a small minority of Black people owned slaves outright. The difference is that we don’t celebrate those people. We don’t erect statues of them.

[Symone Dawes @SymoneDawes]

@LizzyBPhel @LukithunderEWC @BerniceKing I agree that there is an agenda. But slavery and Jim Crow benefitted people in many non-obvious ways. Your grandfather could apply for jobs, loans, and housing that mine could not. That’s an advantage. I don’t blame you for that, but you can’t refute it.

[Symone Dawes @SymoneDawes]

@LizzyBPhel @LukithunderEWC @BerniceKing Despite the propaganda, most of us don’t hold current day white people responsible for slavery. The tension arises when the effects of slavery are diminished. You’re clearly younger than I am. Slavery and Jim Crow weren’t as distant as they seem to you.

[Symone Dawes @SymoneDawes]

@BattlingBud @LizzyBPhel @BerniceKing You’re counting the U.S. as a whole in that figure. The figure is much higher where slavery was legal. Your figure also doesn’t count people who had access to slaves but didn’t technically own them. A family of seven, all “using” the slave, counted as one.

[Symone Dawes @SymoneDawes]

@LizzyBPhel @LukithunderEWC @BerniceKing My grandfather was born in 1892. His father was born a slave in 1855. So actually, my great grandfather was a slave.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Breaking: Democrats flip two Public Service Commission seats in Georgia, the first victories in 25 years.