Jermaine Fowler

NY TIMES Bestselling Author, Podcaster, Intellectual Adventurer —listen to my podcast 👇🏾

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Excited to announce that my debut history book is now available for pre-order. It's due out February 28, 2023, but how great would it be to order now, forget about it and then get it as a suprise later. Check it out.

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There are the stories that made America, and the stories that America made up.

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“We’re not outnumbered. We’re out organized.”

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But US government documents admitted that Japan was already on the verge of surrender before the nuclear strikes in 1945. And it wasn't necessary to use the atomic bomb.

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A third atomic bomb was scheduled to be detonated over an undisclosed location in Japan.

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But after learning about the number of casualties in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, president Truman delayed the attack. Japan surrendered weeks later.

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5/ But, at least we've got lots of tanks the Army didn't ask for.

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"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." - Eisenhower, 1961
I wonder if he knew just how prophetic those words would be...

A thread

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5/ While we're dumping nearly a trillion dollars into defense:

- 1 in 6 American children live in poverty
- Our infrastructure is crumbling
- Teachers are buying school supplies out of pocket

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I’m not naive to the depths of human cruelty—but the embrace of inhumanity and justification for callousness is astonishing right now.

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@SILVERCHAIRFAN2 Can’t thank you enough!

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Without the Haitian revolution, the French might still own much of the American South. The rebellion made France sell off its American land. It reshaped world history, and most of us learned nothing of it in school.

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Whitney Plantation in Louisiana was the first U.S. museum and memorial to slavery. Shouldn't all plantations highlight their brutal past instead of hosting weddings?

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A couple of the many books I ordered to research for my next podcast episode. We are going to Hawaii.

Join me as I dive into the rich and fascinating story of King Kamehameha I and bring his extraordinary journey to life.

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A curtailing of critical conversations on race is rewriting American history, replacing authenticity with avoidance.

We are, in effect, fostering falsehoods, whitewashing our past to the detriment of our future.

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1. In 2018, a gallery owner was arrested after leaving a 10-foot heroin spoon sculpture outside OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma.

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11. I want to live in a society that supports, rather than stigmatizes, those struggling with addiction. How about you?

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