Jason Alexander Holmes

Learner. Teacher. Conductor. Singer. Pianist.

[Emma Green @emmaogreen]

Matt Hawn believed students in his nearly all-white high school in northeast TN needed to discuss racism + white privilege. But his county is deep red. His state just passed an anti-CRT law. Hawn got fired.

I talked with him about the cost of teaching:

https://t.co/fV6MLSSowo

[Jason Alexander Holmes @HolmesAlexJay]

Not this. Please tell me not this. 🙄

[Bloomington Police @BPD_MN]

After some thefts from little libraries in our city, officers and staff came together to donate a bunch of books to the libraries. Now people can use and enjoy them again! 📚📖

[Jason Alexander Holmes @HolmesAlexJay]

I just made the fluffiest, most flavorful biscuits. That’s the tweet.

[Jason Alexander Holmes @HolmesAlexJay]

@theferocity After the past year, my eyes are considerably deader. Dead enough? Who knows? Quite dead? Certainly.

[John Pavlovitz Official @johnpavlovitz]

There are people right now in this nation with plastic shopping bags filled with gasoline in their houses, who won't take a vaccine because it's unsafe.

[Jason Alexander Holmes @HolmesAlexJay]

@RebeccaBromels Amen

[Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey]

Columbus police have killed more than 40 people since 2013. Black people were killed at 5x higher rate than white people. Data shows 6% of Columbus officers do 50% of all use of force. But when one finally gets fired the police union contract-mandated arbitrator reinstates them.

[Jason Alexander Holmes @HolmesAlexJay]

I just sent an email that took two weeks to write. It should have taken two hours, max. #imtired

[Jason Alexander Holmes @HolmesAlexJay]

@farai These folk stay forgetting that white people are the OG imported group that killed and dislocated and enslaved so that they could be the sole proprietors of “one [white, wealthy] man, one vote.”

[Jason Alexander Holmes @HolmesAlexJay]

@GarrettMcQueen Violence indeed.

[Jason Alexander Holmes @HolmesAlexJay]

@GarrettMcQueen https://t.co/aAE7PK7LJd

[Jason Alexander Holmes @HolmesAlexJay]

I’m starting to think that #deia work has become more about big, shiny plans and less about actual work. Why is the discourse still so basic? Why do I feel as if I can’t ask honest, hard questions during these presentations?

[Jason Alexander Holmes @HolmesAlexJay]

I’ve been watching Scandal every night before bed as a mind clearing thing. My mind don’t be clear until I start the next episode.

[ACLU @ACLU]

Today is Equal Pay Day.

Women make $0.86 for every dollar made by white men, but the gender wage gap is even worse for women of color — Black women make $0.77, Latina women make $0.76, and Indigenous women make $0.69.

[Jason Alexander Holmes @HolmesAlexJay]

@crissles I didn’t write papers pre-jstor. I wrote trash. Absolute trash.

[Jason Alexander Holmes @HolmesAlexJay]

@XavierDLeau Not from reading scholarly work nor from listening to Black people. So annoying.

[NPR Politics @nprpolitics]

There is little difference between white and Black Americans on reluctance to take the coronavirus vaccine, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds.

73% of Black people and 70% of white people say they plan to get the vaccine or have done so already. https://t.co/OsrYzJMoD4

[Jason Alexander Holmes @HolmesAlexJay]

@HUComposer Yessssss! Okay, now I need to watch the whole series again!

[Jason Alexander Holmes @HolmesAlexJay]

@tressiemcphd Bless his heart, as they say ...