There’s something quite uncomfortable this week as Julius Jones waits to see if he’ll be executed, a white nationalist receiving sympathy from the judge in his murder trial in WI, and the Arbery family in GA criticized for the clergy support they receive while seeking justice.
The death penalty does not bring healing to anyone. It breeds more trauma. This administration’s adamant prioritization of killing Oklahomans for political gain is disgusting. It is a dark and sad day for our state. This is not justice. May God have mercy on Mr. Grant’s family.
John Grant was first incarcerated at the age of 12. He has been in prison since he was 17, on death row for more than 20 years. He was denied clemency by a single vote. His stay of execution was overturned by a partisan Supreme Court vote. Oklahoma is killing him right now.
Oh, just up watching @KOCOdamonlane thanks to a very loud tornado warning from my phone. We’re safe now, but we definitely needed to take cover for a moment.
Technology really is kind of amazing.
Tomorrow I’m opening my first grocery store in a Title One school. I doubt I sleep tonight - imagine a parent between checks who can order dinner and breakfast for their family thru our app and their child bring it home. I’m changing lives man, no one does it like me. Just wait!
When someone tells me they don’t trust COVID vaccines bc they’re “rushed”, I use this analogy:
If I order a dress and choose Next Day Delivery instead of Standard Delivery, the dress hasn’t suddenly diminished in quality. The process for it to get to me is what’s streamlined.
Today I lamented that it was unfair that @Simone_Biles has not been rewarded with the scores she deserves and that I’d read it’s to discourage others from attempting moves that could be dangerous.
A young woman responded “And now she has to sit out because she’s hurt.”
The only Tulsa commemoration I’m interested in right now is the one where the state of Oklahoma pays the victims and their descendants the reparation the state’s own commission said it owed 20 years ago. How do you commemorate a crime that’s not over? https://t.co/rBiWHuSjLh
Many in old Greenwood, including Dr. Key, sued their insurance companies to get claims paid out. Insurance companies largely fell back on an exclusionary clause that prevented payouts for a "riot."
Read more about that in @JaredCouncil story here:
https://t.co/TaCJ7fCxlp