Betty GR

Board Member,#SNCC Legacy, Member #SURJBaltimore

[Betty GR @bettygr70]

WE NEED TO DO THIS WITH EVERY CEO. THIS IS EXCELLENT!

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

Oh my god, Katie Porter.

[Lester Spence @LesterSpence]

Seems to me the first qualification of anyone who runs for office should be to do this. You want my vote? Can you do this? No? Next.

[Hasan Kwame Jeffries @ProfJeffries]

I know what you're thinking, because i'm thinking it too.

2020 keeps taking the WRONG DAMN PEOPLE!

There, I said it for us.

#RIPRGB
#RIPJohnLewis
#RIPChadwickboseman
#RIPKobeBryant

To name just a few.

[Betty GR @bettygr70]

@LesterSpence LMAO.

[Betty GR @bettygr70]

A powerful speech by Ella Baker in 1974. Biden called her name - wonder if he knew if she was alive today what she would be organizing for?

[Betty GR @bettygr70]

Dear @SpeakerAJones, @SenBillFerg & @DelDBarnes
Marylanders need your help to ensure every voter has safe access to the ballot.
Join us in demanding that @GovLaryHogan mail voters their ballots. Otherwise, 1.6 million people could be forced to vote in person in MD #Mailtheballots

[Betty GR @bettygr70]

Don't let any white person, especially Bill Clinton, define the history of the Black Freedom Movement.

[Karen @Karen83827794]

That bond was never broken between them, even though SNCC folks took many paths to Freedom.
The remarks you made at John’s funeral were way out of line & in poor taste. Here’s a lesson of the Black Power movement: WE will ALWAYS define our own terms and shape *our own* destiny.

[Betty GR @bettygr70]

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[Betty GR @bettygr70]

@patrickgaspard https://t.co/wqDkagKwko

[Betty GR @bettygr70]

@bikebrh @patrickgaspard History also gets that quote from Stokely wrong. Here’s where the interpretations of scholars take on a life of their own.

[Greg Carr @AfricanaCarr]

Today, 1 p.m. EST, @WPFWDC : Some of #CTVivian and #JohnLewis 's closest comrades, @SNCC60th veteran warriors for social transformation, Courtland Cox, Tim Jenkins, Dorie Ladner and Frank Smith, reflect on their lives and legacies. Priceless. Listen here: https://t.co/CI1812plB3

[The SNCC Legacy Project @SNCCLegacy]

What really counts is a life-long commitment to work with others to build a more just world. Clearer now than ever, the great lesson of John’s life is that we need to take on the unfinished business of change.

[The SNCC Legacy Project @SNCCLegacy]

John joined the board of King’s organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1962. In this we find another lesson of John’s life: While organized effort is necessary, organizations come, go, transform themselves, and leave legacies.

[The SNCC Legacy Project @SNCCLegacy]

“Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.”
~ John Lewis

[The SNCC Legacy Project @SNCCLegacy]

There is urgency to this and we could sometimes hear it in John’s voice. There is a reason thousands of mostly young people have been in the streets for months. There is a reason to listen to them; John understood that and welcomed it. Let that not be lost.

[The SNCC Legacy Project @SNCCLegacy]

Claiming John Lewis: A Statement from the SNCC Legacy Project [THREAD]

[The SNCC Legacy Project @SNCCLegacy]

The SNCC 60th Anniversary Convening: a thread

[Free Kamau Sadiki @smilectics]

confused why nonBlack leftists are tweeting their criticisms of John Lewis tonight... SNCC had better praxis than many leftist orgs and parties in north america have today and if we spent more time studying them we would currently be in a better place

[Betty GR @bettygr70]

And watch they will leave SNCC and Black Power out of John Lewis’ story every chsnce they get.

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

There’s going to be a lot of politicians lifting up John Lewis’ legacy in one hand while still upholding structural racism with the other. And as soon as they’re able, they’ll return to upholding racism with both hands. We see this every MLK holiday. Sad but not surprising.