Was thinking about how Howard Dean once went “YEAHHHHH!!!!” really loud and lost the nomination. That was it. He just said yeah loud and the media was like: oh hell no that’s not Presidential
When white people are hired in any position, the automatic assumption is they were the best person. When Black people are hired, it’s assumed we got there because of affirmative action — which by the way doesn’t mean under-qualified. If affirmative action never existed, a lot of white people would still believe deeply in their own superiority because that is what they’ve been taught.
Considering there have been 30 presidents at Harvard and Claudine Gay was the only Black one in history, she had to be extremely qualified to even be in that position.
But don’t let me interfere with your racism. Go off.
I couldn’t get my Uber because of “connectivity issues” so I just started walking down La Cienega until I had more than one bar.
A tiny little elderly woman was struggling with two grocery bags.
I wondered who let Grandma out with errands to run but no ride. I offered to carry
On the push to ban some children’s books, @levarburton tells #TheView, “I’ll be absolutely candid and honest. It’s embarrassing that we are banning books in this country; in this culture; in this day and age.”
“Read the books they’re banning. That’s where the good stuff is!”
The United States we know today was built with the labor of enslaved Black Americans. The last were not freed (officially) until 19 June 1865. Let us celebrate— and never forget.
Here goes @NPR and @KCRW again, tracking the price of gas like they should be tracking the prices of rent, insulin, epi-pens, student loan interest rates, college textbooks etc etc
A quick story. I’m on ambulatory medicine at the VA. Yesterday I went to get a patient from the waiting room. A Black man who served in Vietnam. When I introduced myself as Dr. Igwe, he gave me a very strange look. I asked if I had the wrong person, but he said “no, that’s me”.
Three police officers went to an *elementary* school in Tennessee & arrested four Black girls.
One girl fell to her knees. Another threw up. Police handcuffed the youngest, an 8 yo with pigtails.
Their supposed crime? Watching some boys fight — and not stopping them. (THREAD)