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Inbox: Lessie Benningfield Randle, one of the last known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, cast her ballot for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race. She turns 110 on Nov. 10.
@amandacarpenter Unfortunately every police dept and sheriff’s office (not to mention all the militias) have a lot of military-type equipment and capacity. They’ve been building it for years. The military isn’t necessary in the same way it would have been in days past.
Black men vote overwhelmingly Democratic and have overwhelmingly supported both women who have run for President.
Black male voters should be held up as a standard by the Democratic Party of what it looks like for men to support women electorally.
Black men are socialized in the same patriarchal society as all men, yet have overwhelmingly supported women running for President.
If Democrats want to discuss misogynistic voting patterns, Black men should be the last on the list.
@Bails1717 @jneely77 @Brett_A_Taylor Have more courage than to hide behind the rhetorical trick of “I’m simply asking a question”. Just say, “I think there’s a chance he’s right” and be done with it.
@jodyavirgan As an autistic person who already hates the word weird because it’s used against me as a socially acceptable slur, I’m not loving this moment. Which, to your second point, sucks. Because being weird is awesome.
In @time, Trump’s nephew recounts a conversation w/ then-president Trump after 2020 White House meeting with disability advocates.
“Those people…” Trump said of people w/ complex care needs. “The shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die.”